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- Challenging relations: a labour-NGO coalition to oppose the Canada-US and North American Free Trade Agreements (NAFTA), 1985-1993
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In 1987-1988, a national debate erupted in Canada on the desirability of entering into a free trade agreement with the USA and its potential effect on Canadian culture, society, and national sovereignty - as well as its economy. A national coalition of la ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:11
- Neither silent nor invisible’: anti-poverty communication in the San Francisco Bay Area
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The communication practices of three US anti-poverty groups in the San Francisco Bay Area – Coalition on Homelessness, Poor News Network, and Media Alliance – are discussed whose communication strategies work for the recognition and rights o ...
Abstract - anna - 2009-10-01 16:47
- Let the Good Times Roll: Prostitution and the US Military in Asia
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Author: Pollock Sturdevant, Sandra and Brenda Stolfuz Issue: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-22 08:44
- Thinking and acting outside the charitable food box: hunger and the right to food in rich societies
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From a food-supply standpoint, the 30 member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) – the world's rich club – can reasonably claim to be self-sufficient. Issues of food access are met through publicly fund ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-16 10:32
- Organising citizenship at Local 890's Citizenship Project: unleashing innovation through an affiliate organisation
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This article considers the problems of organisational survival, innovation, and inter-organisational partnerships for unions and for immigrant community-based organisations. The analysis focuses on the Citizenship Project, a project for assisting and orga ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01
- Hearing silenced voices: developing community with an advisory committee
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This article focuses on the challenge and effects of adhering to community participation as a principle of community development and the related issue of reflecting diverse representation in prevention and health promotion planning. As a requirement of fu ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:00
- The Dominican Republic and Central America Free Trade Agreement with the USA: some concerns
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This article examines the role of free-trade agreements that integrate profoundly asymmetrical economies in simultaneously benefiting the more powerful nation and exacerbating inequalities within and between the countries involved. The latest in a serie ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:52
- Globalisation and homelessness in the USA: building a social movement to end poverty
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The authors explore the deleterious effects of economic globalisation on people in the USA, and explain the rise of poor people's organisations as a response to these conditions. They look at the impact of economic changes in terms of public policy and ar ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01
- Free Trade and Uneven Development: The North American Apparel Industry after NAFTA
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Reviewed by Luz María de la Mora, Trade Representative of the Mexican Ministry of Economy at the EU, Brussels Author: Bair, Jennifer ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- Building bridges across a double divide: alliances between US and Latin American labour and NGOs
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Full-text sample article FREE from Taylor & Francis. Trying to build alliances that span the divide between trade unions and NGOs as well as the divide between the North and the South might seem a utopian task. But this is exactly what an imagina ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:11
