The Obama administration faces great challenges as well as great opportunities in our future relationship with Latin America. UFE believes he should develop a new comprehensive foreign policy that will support Latin American social movements and governments that aim to advance the rights of workers, women, the indigenous, small farmers, and other historically oppressed majority populations as they struggle for social, economic, cultural, and environmental justice.
April 1, 2009
To help voters understand where candidates stand on trade agreements, the Iowa Fair Trade Campaign (IFTC) extracted statements from responses to its set of principles (PDF) by major Democratic* candidates on the following topics:
This document summarizes ideas on what new trade models should
entail. It is the result of open dialogues with UFE friends and
partners involved in various aspects of social justice organizing.
January 30, 2008
The original intent of free trade agreements was to maintain policies in which governments do not discriminate against imports or interfere with exports, but do not necessarily abandon all control or taxation of these.
UFE's mission is to support social movements that work to change the "rules" and mechanisms behind economic injustice and gross wealth inequality in the U.S. To achieve this, we provide analysis, information, and educational resources around critical domestic economic justice issues. July 20, 2007
Unidos
por una Economía Justa es una organización nacional, independiente, no
partidaria y sin fines de lucro. Unidos por una Economía Justa
concientiza y educa sobre que la riqueza concentrada y el poder
debilitan la economía, corrompen la democracia, profundizan la division
racial y destruyen las comunidades. Nosotros apoyamos y ayudamos a
construir movimientos sociales por una mayor igualdad.
UFE's mission is to support social movements that work to change the "rules" and mechanisms behind economic injustice and gross wealth inequality in the U.S. To achieve this, we provide analysis, information, and educational resources around critical domestic economic justice issues. 