Trade

ALBA marks fifth anniversary at Havana summit

December 20, 2009 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

Cuban President Raul Castro welcomed representatives of ALBA nations to Havana Dec. 11-14 for their eighth summit meeting.

10 years after the ‘Battle in Seattle’

November 20, 2009 By Don McIntosh

SEATTLE (PAI)—Ten years ago on Nov. 30, 1999, 50,000 people protested a meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle.

Free trade, jobs and democracy—a look at Singapore

February 18, 2009 By Tim Mills

Given the evaporation of 533,000 American jobs last November, the largest downturn in thirty-four years and the prospects for even greater losses, it is vital that we have a public discourse on the cost of free...

Trade conference focus is food sovereignty

May 25, 2002 By Babette Grunow And Gary Grass

MADISON, Wisc. – Long before Food First author Frances Moore Lappé took the stage to contribute her expertise, food policy had emerged as a central theme of the grassroots trade policy conference held here April 26-27....