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Oppose the FTAA & Corporate Globalization

In recent years, representatives from 34 countries have been working to expand the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to Central America, South America and the Caribbean. The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is another example of the free-market fundamentalism that has created a global race-to-the-bottom that threatens workers' rights, the environment, families' livelihoods, human rights, and democracy. Once again, a sweeping "free trade" agreement is in the works that puts commercial interests above all other values.

Take Action:
Vote "No More NAFTAs!" Tell the Trade Ministers that the Free Trade Area of the Americas is the wrong choice for jobs, workers’ rights, the environment and democracy. (May 7, 2003)

Fax Congress to Say No to Secretive FTAA Mini-Ministerial (June 14, 2003)

Support the Peoples Consultation on the FTAA, the U.S. component of a hemisphere-wide campaign against the Free Trade Area of the Americas. The campaign includes workshops, public hearings, resolutions, and a national survey.

Download the Organizer's Manual.

Get your FTAA Workplace Flyer.

Learn More:

• Background and History of the FTAA
• Alternatives to the FTAA
• Why Immigrant Workers Should Care About the FTAA
• Open World Conference of Workers: Stop Fast Track for FTAA. Good source of analysis of dangers of the FTAA
• Top Ten Reasons to Oppose the Free Trade Area of the Americas by Global Exchange
• CAFTA: A Perspective from Costa Rica: A Treaty Tied by Chains (22 Feb. 2003)
• People's Consultation education resources
• AFL-CIO comments of the FTAA (posted Jan 23, 2003)
• Fliers about Taco Bell, Exxon Mobil, and Alcoa (Nov 13, 2002)

FTAA and Globalization News and Analysis:

• Civil Society Comments on FTAA (Posted June 3, 2003)
• Miami FTAA Meeting Call to Action (Posted May 24, 2003)
• CAFTA and Labor Standards (Posted May 24, 2003)
• Carnegie says CAFTA could worsen labor/enviro conditions in Central America (Posted May 4, 2003)
• Farmers, Workers, Local Government to Bear Brunt of Negative Effects; Deadline for CAFTA Negotiations Should Be Extended (April 15, 2003)
• Update from the CLR March Index (Posted March 29, 2003)
• Deconstructing Market Access: Whose Market, Whose Access? by Vandana Shiva (posted March 23, 2003)
• United For a Fair Econonomy March FTAA update (March 15, 2003)
• March FTAA Update from CWA (Posted March 9, 2003)
• February FTAA Update from CWA (posted Feb. 22)
• February FTAA Update (posted Feb 15)
• Unions back new agenda for global development (posted Feb. 2, 2003)
• Global Unions at Porto Alegre and Davos: "Democratise Globalisation" (January 22, 2003)
• January FTAA Update: Communication Workers of America (January 20, 2003)
• AFSCME Resolution Continuing the fight against privatization (January 14, 2003)
• CAFTA: it's FTAA but worse (January 10, 2003)
• On NAFTA and the Killing of Farmers: Declaration from Ciudad Juarez To the People of Mexico (January 9, 2003)
• People's Consultation on the FTAA: Campaign Update (January 2003)
• December FTAA Update: Communication Workers of America (posted January 2003)
• Ecuadorian: joining FTAA is "suicide" (January 2003)

Useful Resources

• Ten Plagues of Globilization: a new book from EPICA (posted January 20, 2003)