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An interview with Santiago Paz of a Peruvian cooperative producing coffee, cacao, sugar, and more for fair trade. Read more

Sanho Tree, Director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, discusses free trade and the political economy of illicit drugs. Read more

Gerardo Cajamarca, of the Colombian union Sinaltrainal, talks about the proposed free trade agreement.  This is an edited translation of the interview in Spanish also posted here. Read more

Marino Córdoba, an Afrocolombian activist displaced from his hometown and now in exile in the U.S., talks about the situation of Afrocolombian and indigenous communities in the shadow of free trade. Read more

On Monday, May 2nd, a group of University of California graduate students began a sit-in at their own union hall, UAW Local 2865.  The students are demanding the completion of an interrupted vote count in a closely contested race between two slates for union leadership. ... Read more

On Monday, May 2nd, a group of University of California graduate students began a sit-in at their own union hall, UAW Local 2865.  The students are demanding the completion of an interrupted vote count in a closely contested race between two slates for union leadership... Read more

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Jose Fraybel Melo of the Colombian union Sinaltrainal visits the U.S. to denounce labor abuses by transnational corporations Sodexo and Kraft Food.  This is the English translation of the original interview in Spanish. Read more

Two custodians at Beaverton public schools, Mason Young and Steve Specht, talk with host Jamie Partridge about their struggle to prevent possible  layoffs or pay cuts of 30% to 50%  for over a hundred of their fellow custodians, members of the Oregon School Employees Ass... Read more

Workers Feeding Workers  Labor troubador George Mann talks about his friend Anne Feeney and an upoming concert in her honor. On May 14th, letter carriers and their customers across the country participate in the largest, 1-day food drive of the year. Jean Kemp-Ware from ... Read more