www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/04/business/LA-FIN-Mexico-Auto-Advantage.php http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/04/business/LA-FIN-Mexico-Auto-Advantage.php (Keep reading…)

TruthOut June 15, 2008 http://www.truthout.org/article/how-do-you-say-justice-mixteco

FRESNO, CA (6/15/08) — Erasto Vasquez was surprised to see a forklift appear one morning outside his trailer near the corner of East and Springfield, two small rural roads deep in the grapevines ten miles southwest of Fresno. He and his neighbors pleaded with the driver, but to no avail. The machine uprooted the fence Vasquez had built around his home, and left it smashed in the dirt. Then the forklift’s metal tines lifted the side of one trailer high into the air. It groaned and tipped over, with a family’s possessions still inside. (Keep reading…)

Open World Conference in Defense of Trade Union Independence & Democratic Rights www.owcinfo.org April 18, 2008 (Keep reading…)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(((( T h e B u l l e t ))))~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Socialist Project e-bulletin …. No. 99 …. April 23, 2008 ______________________________________________________________ (Keep reading…)

The Dominion January 17, 2008

A mural in Ixlán, in Oaxaca, Mexico. PHOTO: DAWN PALEY CAPULÁLPAM DE MENDEZ, OAXACA — It is an open secret that throughout the Americas and the world, people are struggling against the intrusion of Canadian mining companies and their short term “get the gold and get out” strategies. The backlash against Canadian mining companies has, in some cases (particularly in Guatemala and Peru), strengthened broader social and political movements re-vindicating local control over land. In Oaxaca, Mexico, the struggle against a Vancouver based mining company is unifying an isolated Zapotec community, and bringing their struggles to state and nation-wide attention. (Keep reading…)

The Nation, web edition, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070827/bacon

OAKLAND, CA (8/23/07) - A year ago, in the middle of the nation’s most bitterly fought union organizing drive, management at the Smithfield Foods pork slaughterhouse in Tar Heel, North Carolina, sent a letter to 300 workers. The company, Smithfield claimed, had been notified by the Social Security Administration that the workers’ numbers didn’t match the SSA database. Come up with new numbers, the company ordered, that could pass the “no-match check,” or they’d be fired within two weeks. (Keep reading…)

A Preliminary Evaluation of the Impact of NAFTA on the Manufacturing Sector

Dissident Voice August 10th, 2007 (Keep reading…)

At six AM, on June 15, 2000, a man noticed our TV camera and pointed across the street. In this residential section of Ciudad Juarez, a woman lay motionless in the street. As we filmed her inert form the local police and the judiciales (federal investigative authority) also arrived. Flies had already begun to feast around her eyes, nose and in the blood caked on her cheeks. She had blue-black bruises around her eyes and red marks on her throat. (Keep reading…)

SPECIAL TO CANADIAN DIMENSION, 5 May 2007

NAFTA from Below is an important book. The full impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on the working people of Mexico, the U.S. and Canada has yet to be assessed, but this slender volume makes a major contribution to our overall understanding of this disastrous economic treaty that was imposed on the people of all three nations by governments which routinely subvert democracy in the service of big capital. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension Magazine, May/June 2007 issue

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blockquote>Our action will be guided by shared principles. We’ll take concrete steps in the coming 24 months to improve security at our borders and to ensure the smooth and efficient flow of goods and people, particularly with particular discussions with President Bush on the Windsor-Detroit Corridor. (Keep reading…)