5.05.02 countering exploitive world trade

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Winning the right to decide if resource extraction should take place.

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On February 22, 2007, the unionized BJ&B garment factory in the Dominican Republic suddenly announced that it was closing and would lay off all workers. The owners of the factory are shifting the work to Vietnam, where independent unions are banned, and possibly to Bangladesh, where unions are banned in "export processing zones."

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Summary:Events, Gatherings, Opportunities, Resources, Campaigns

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The worker-owners of a Nicaraguan sewing cooperative have faced Hurricane Mitch, homelessness, unemployment, power outages, mistrust, professional disputes, and global capitalism. The cooperative thrives.

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Peacework asked activists across the country to fill in the blank, "If I could show one under-appreciated film or video to a room full of potential organizers, I'd show..." and explain why or how they'd use that film.

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After having lived in Madagascar for two years, I was startled, the first time I attended a meeting of the Direct Action Network, by how familiar it all seemed.

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When the Salvadoran workers tried to unionize, Tainan, a Taiwanese company, closed the factory. Union workers took over the factory themselves.