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Archive for August, 2008
The Maquiladora Reader: Cross-Border Organizing Since NAFTA
The Maquiladora Reader: Cross-Border Organizing Since NAFTA
Cross-Border Organizing Since NAFTA Globalization is one of the most talked-about phenomena - but little information is available on how those who are most involved - the communities and working people affected by globe-trotting corporations - are responding to its challenges. The Maquiladora Reader explores how grassroots activists are facing one of the most important trends in the globalization of production: the proliferation of maquiladoras - the foreign-owned (mainly by US corporations) assembly plants along the Mexico-U.S. border. Through more than two dozen readings culled from a variety of sources - The Maquiladora Reader reveals the determination and creativity of maquiladora workers as they seek to improve their wages and working conditions - protect their communities from health and environmental hazards - and build cross-border relationships with unions - religious groups - community organizations - and others. ”We are not here for people to say - ‘look at these poor Mexican workers - their wages are so low.’ Or - ‘look at those poor US workers - all their jobs are going to Mexico.’ We are here to develop effective international strategies so we can overcome these problems.” — Julia Quíonez - quoted in The Maquiladora Reader ”This extraordinary book tells the little-known but heroic story of how workers in the maquiladoras have organized themselves to change conditions in their workplaces and communities - and how they have forged alliances on both sides of the border. Their grassroots yet transnational movement teaches the lessons we need to start taking on the destructive aspects of globalization everywhere.” — Jeremy Brecher - author - Global Village or Global Pillage: Economic Reconstruction from the Bottom Up ”The Maquiladora Reader brings us all up to speed on the complex realities of life on the Mexico-U.S. border - never reducing women workers to mere victims - revealing them to be analyzing - strategizing agents - whose actions will play a major part in determining the future direction of globalization.” — Cynthia Enloe - author - Bananas - Beaches - and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics For more information - visit Global Exchange’s California Human Rights Program.
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Plan Puebla Panama: Battle Over the Future of Southern Mexico and Central America: Tambien en Español:
Plan Puebla Panamá: Batalla por el Futuro de Mesoamérica Este libreto fue dise??ado como un recurso educativo para la movilización popular en contra de un plan masivo de desarrollo industrial que se extiende por todo el sur de México y Centroamérica - el Plan Puebla Panamá o PPP. El libreto contiene 18 artículos breves recopilados por la red norteameriacana en oposición al PPP (NoPPP) y escritos por organismos civiles y de base de cinco países. Los artículos introducen al lector a los diferentes aspectos del plan y sus posibles impactos sociales y ambientales - y presentan las alternativas a nivel comunitario.
