2017 Global Economic Justice Workshops

Large-scale land investments, driven by the products in our pantries, the fuel in our gas tank, and the money in our retirement accounts, are causing deforestation and conflict in indigenous communities. Learn about a grassroots campaign targeting TIAA-CREF retirement funds that fuel illegal land grabs in Brazil, palm oil plantations in Guatemala, and soaring land prices in the United States…. 

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While much of the narrative in the media on the impacts of trade agreement has focused on the devastating harm on white, working class industrial workers, trade has also harmed people of color in the U.S., our neighbors in the global south, and creation. As President Trump seeks a renegotiation of NAFTA, who stands to benefit and who stands to… 

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For centuries, countless communities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America have suffered the consequences of top down development driven by colonialism and the energy and resource needs of developed countries. These consequences include theft of territory, destruction of livelihoods, human rights violations, and extermination. How can we change this broken development model to both address energy poverty in poor communities… 

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Puerto Rico is home to 3.5 million American citizens and a deepening debt and humanitarian crisis with profound implications for its people and for who we are as a country. Nearly 60% of Puerto Rico’s kids live in poverty. Thousands of Puerto Ricans flee for the mainland each year in search of a better life, breaking apart communities and families… 

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In conventional trade and commerce, small handicraft producers sell their crafts for peanuts to aggregators who supply tourist or foreign markets and turn carefully crafted products into commodities. Similarly, small farmers, who produce coffee, cacao, or other cash crops, have traditionally been victimized by commercial buyers who monopolize purchasing and pricing in a “take it, or leave it” world. Alternative… 

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