Anti-Corporate Globalization Campaign

Each month the People's Alliance will select a new corporation or issue that represents an aspect of the problem with corporate globalization. For example, the group might focus on Nike one month for their use of sweatshop labor, while the next month we might address the World Trade Organization (WTO) as an example of the system that allows for corporate globalization. Wherever possible we will plug-in to existing movements, while building links between global and local struggles, as well as between diverse movements.

Current and Past Targets:

• March 2004 - Congress to Debate CAFTA This Spring
  Over the last year Michigan has lost more manufacturing jobs than any other state in the union. Many of these jobs have been moved by corporations from Michigan to "free trade zones" in Mexico. Because of the impact on workers...
• February 2004 - Fair Trade Coffee
  The People's Alliance Anti-corporate globalization campaign focus for February is fair trade coffee. For many of use, coffee is not so much a luxury item, but rather al essential part of our morning routine. Unfortunately, due to "free market reforms"...
• December 2003 - Christmas Toys and Child Labor
  It's Christmas time of year here in the United States which means Americans will be spending billions of dollars on toys. One of the ugliest aspects of globalization is that the plastic playthings Americans buy for their children are often...
• November 2003 - FTAA in Miami
  On Nov. 17 -22, the leaders of North and South America (with the exception of Cuba) will be meeting in Miami for the second round of talks on the Free trade Area of the Americas. Thousands of activists are planning...
• October 2003 - War Profiteers and Iraq
  This month's campaign focuses on war profiteering in Iraq. Several companies with connections to the Bush administration are being awarded lucrative contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq.
• September 2003 - Coca-Cola and Colombia
  Coca-Cola has a longstanding relationships with paramilitary groups in Colombia that have engaged in a campaign of intimidation against workers trying to organize unions. Stories of harassment, kidnapping, torture, and murder of union organizers are common.