Our values should shape our economy. And they can. The message is echoing across Maine. New Clean Clothes Campaigns in southern Maine, the state AFL-CIO, the Maine Catholic Diocese and state Council of Churches have joined forces to develop a new state purchasing and investment law. Clean Clothes activists sit on the state commission which is drafting it.
Family farmers are front-line victims of corporate globalization.
In the process, they're turning family farmers into contingent contractors or forcing them off the land entirely. But in the early 1980s, many Iowa farmers couldn't see the process clearly through the fog of government propaganda which blamed foreign farmers. To cut through the fog, they went abroad. A series of cross-border exchanges took family farmers first to France, then Canada and Mexico. Those French farmers that our government told us were highly subsidized were in fact losing their farms.