ACTIVIST TOOL KIT

Most of the resources you see on this Trade Matters web site are available in a very attractive activist toolkit. Order a complimentary toolkit for yourself or additional copies for only $5 each to distribute in your community. 
REGIONAL ACTIVITIES
By Josefina Castillo, AFSC -Austin office. I am here today as a community leader to testify to a concern many people living in Texas have around the impact that trade agreements such as NAFTA & CAFTA have created on the job market and why it is necessary to review agreements such as these.
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The Bush Administration continues to use “national security” arguments to try and persuade Congress to vote on the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) before the 110th Congress Adjourns. Call your members of Congress, ask them to publicly oppose the FTA and tell Congressional leadership not to consent to a vote. 
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Economic and military systems are closely linked. In AFSC's Trade and War web feature, you'll get details about those links, with Colombia as a case-in-point. A new publication full of analysis, a slideshow on the situation in Colombia, along with a popular education piece, illustrate how trade agreements—and, more generally, the increasingly global economy-can spur violence and war. Visit www.tradeandwar.org
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