Economic Justice and Community Development

MADRE supports our sister organizations' initiatives to provide basic services in their communities, including potable water, health care, primary education, job training, and income-generating and sustainable development projects. At the same time, MADRE equips our sister organizations to develop and demand alternatives to neo-liberal economic policies that have made it nearly impossible for governments of the global South to finance basic services.

MADRE Articles

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• G8 to Poor Women: Let Them Eat Dirt

• The US-Colombia Unfair Trade Agreement: Just Say No!

• New Year, No Resolutions on Climate Change

• The Globalization of Hunger

• Neoliberal Jihadist at the World Bank

• US in Africa: Partnership or Pillage?

• What's So Liberal About Neoliberalism?

• MADRE Stands with Immigrants' Call for Justice

• State of the Union 2006: George's Big Nothing

• Women Say "No" to the WTO: A MADRE Statement on the Sixth Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization

• Top 10 Reasons Why Latin American Women Oppose Bush's Free Trade Agenda

• What the G8 Said/What Women Demand

• Bombings in London, Misery in Africa: Progressive Alternatives for a World in Crisis

• MADRE Critiques the UN Millennium Development Goals

• Economic Justice and Women's Human Rights

• Bush's War: The Fall-Out on Women and Families

• The Many Faces of "Free" Trade

• New US-Cuba Policies

Additional Resources

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NAFTA

• Fact sheet on NAFTA (by Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies)
• Dumping Without Borders: How US agricultural policies are destroying the livelihoods of Mexican corn farmers (OXFAM)
• NAFTA, Corn, and Mexico’s Agricultural Trade Liberalization (Gisele Henriques and Raj Patel, Americas Program, Interhemispheric Resource Center)
• Fields of Free Trade: Mexico’s Small Farmers in a Global Economy (Timothy A. Wise, Dollars & Sense)

CAFTA

• Fair Trade or Free Trade? Understanding CAFTA (WOLA)
• Women, Just Trade and the Central American Free Trade Agreement (Center Focus, Global Policy Forum)

FTAA

• BREAKING BOUNDARIES II, The Free Trade Area of the Americas and Women: Understanding the Connections (US Gender and Trade Network)

Plan Puebla Panama

• Last Harvest? Industrialization Plan Threatens Central America’s Indigenous (Americas.org)

AFRICA

• Women Standing up to Adjustment in Africa (Development Group for Alternative Policies)

MIDDLE EAST

• Backs to the Wall: Israel’s Stranglehold on the Palestinian Economy Is Consolidated By a Massive Wall (Lucy Mair and Robyn Long, Dollars & Sense)