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Labor Day protestors demand jobs and fair trade deals
9-Sep-2011     People's World
Jim Robinson, president of the United Steelworkers of America District 7, joined his fellow steelworkers and 1,000 others to protest in Chicago on Labor Day against a new free trade agreement being negotiated for the Pacific Rim countries.
Guatemala says it will win US labor challenge
9-Sep-2011     Reuters
Guatemala is confident it will defeat a US challenge to its record on labor rights, the country's economy minister said on Wednesday, and he linked the challenge to White House efforts to win domestic support for several free trade deals.
Private sector ‘to play’ role in the future of free trade
9-Sep-2011    
An attempt by the private sector to expand business activities worldwide will determine the implementation of free trade agreements in the globalization era, an economist said Thursday.
WIKILEAKS: AIT doubts ECFA impact: cable says
9-Sep-2011    
Former American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) director Stephen Young was skeptical of President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) position that signing the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) would open the door for Taiwan to pursue free-trade agreements (FTA) with other partners, a US cable recently released by WikiLeaks showed.
Africa still the odd one out
8-Sep-2011     IPS
While globally trade agreements are more and more about linking production chains between countries and continents, Africa remains locked in a struggle to overcome the colonial legacy of fragmentation, trade experts say.
The Activist Beat
7-Sep-2011     Uprising Radio
On Labor Day, 500 activists took to the streets of Chicago to speak out against the US free trade agreement with Pacific Rim countries, including Peru, Chile, and Vietnam. Advocates from labor, environmental, public health, and consumer rights groups took part to demand a “Fair Deal or No Deal.”
Labour Day Rally in Chicago Kicks Off Challenge to TPPA Negotiating Round
7-Sep-2011    
A rally of around a thousand unionists, HIV-Aids activists and social justice campaigners in Chicago sent a clear message to negotiators the day before the latest round of Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations began in Chicago.
International forum on BITs and alternative investment regime: 5-6 November 2011
6-Sep-2011     TNI
This event aims to bring together social activists and campaigners from all over the world with accumulated experience of critical engagement with the current investment regime and the power of TNCs to Brussels in order to articulate common strategies for campaigning and discuss alternatives.
Labor unions rally at Grant Park
6-Sep-2011     ABC
Chicago labor unions say a looming free trade agreement, the "Trans Pacific Partnership," will lead to the loss of good-paying US jobs. They compare it to NAFTA.
Pro-labor activists in Chicago protest Trans-Pacific Partnership pact
6-Sep-2011     Chicago Tribune
Politicians, labor activists and ice cream makers gather to influence free-trade agreement