Building a People's Hemispheric Agreement. This workshop describes the FTAA and how it fits into the global economy. Educate, helping participants to form coherent arguments against corporate-centered globalization and in favor of alternatives. Formulate, helping participants to develop effective strategies for broadening the movement and envisioning alternatives to corporate-centered globalization. The workshops use the US-Mexico relationship as a laboratory that for decades has defined the process of globalization.
Workshops end with practical discussions around strategy and movement-building.
Workshops can be tailored for various timeframes, with the most comprehensive workshops requiring a day. Rights Action US-Canada tour March to April 15 with community human rights and development activists from Honduras, Guatemala, and Chiapas. The Maquiladora Reader Case studies on all aspects of the sweatshops on the US-Mexico border, 1999. Nine women laid off from their jobs in Tennessee decide to visit factories on the Mexico-US border and check up on General Motors, Converse, Levi, and General Electric. Examines repressive labor practices, horrendous living conditions, and the lack of any environmental regulations.