November 13, 2008 Rolling Stone [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	The War Next Door -- The dead policeman is found propped against a tree off a dirt road on the outskirts of the city. He is dressed like a cartoon version of a Mexican cowboy, wearing a sombrero and wrapped in a heavy woolen blanket.
November 12, 2008 AlterNet [War, Peace & Democracy > Freedom from Oil]
	How Closing Manufacturing Plants Can Be Transformed into Community-Saving Business Ventures -- Something unusual is in the works that could change the future of this 140-acre manufacturing site and convert it into a model for green manufacturing.
November 11, 2008 Associated Press [The Latest News]
	Ending 4-year battle, Costa Rica approves CAFTA -- Costa Rica is finally ready to join the Central American Free Trade Agreement.
November 05, 2008 Campaign for America's Future [The Latest News]
	Hallelujah! And Now, The Work Begins -- Americans wake today to a new dawn, a new possibility. And now the work begins. Obama inherits the desert—with the situation far more dire than many, even now, understand.
October 27, 2008 Edgardo Vinicio Araya Sibaja [Regions > Americas > Costa Rica]
	Does Costa Rica deserve this "green devil"? -- Hundreds of trees and living creatures are being obliterated in Las Crucitas, the Northern Lands of Costa Rica. Local men and women are in shock to see their country's beautiful land being torn apart huge regions at a time. Spread the word of the tremendous degradation of Costa Rica's environment to help find a solution that will end this travesty.
October 15, 2008 Global Exchange FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [The Latest News > Press Room]
	Reverse-Trick-or-Treating: Trick or Treaters Give Back on Halloween to Their Neighborhoods and the World -- Thousands of costumed trick-or-treaters across all fifty states in the US, as well as Canada, are turning the traditional Halloween ritual on its head; for the second year in a row, it is the trick-or-treaters who are handing out chocolate…hundreds of thousands of Fair Trade Certified™ chocolate samples to raise awareness of: the persistent problems of poverty in cocoa-growing communities; the use of exploited child labor in the cocoa fields of countries like Cote D’Ivoire, which produces 40 percent of the world’s cocoa; and environmental damage from unsustainable farming practices.
October 10, 2008 Sacramento Bee [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	Candidates' silence on immigration irks Latinos -- Two presidential debates later, and still no comment from John McCain or Barack Obama on the issue of illegal immigration.
October 09, 2008 BlackCommentator.com [Regions > Africa > South Africa]
	The Fall of Thabo Mbeki and the Future of South Africa -- The Fall of Thabo Mbeki and the Future of South Africa
October 03, 2008 La Jornada [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	Rethinking NAFTA After the Wall Street Meltdown -- Competing for the votes of industrial workers during last Spring’s Democratic Party primary, both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton pledged to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement in order to add protections for workers and the environment.
September 29, 2008 The Nation [The Latest News]
	The Iraq War as a Financial Sinkhole -- Let's start with the money the Bush administration has already thrown at the war in Iraq. According to the June congressional testimony of William Beach, director of the Center for Data Analysis, the war has cost $646 billion so far.
September 28, 2008 Global Exchange FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [The Latest News > Press Room]
	Ecuador Constitutional Assembly Approves Rights of Nature In New Constitution -- California—Today, the people of Ecuador voted to recognize the inalienable rights belonging to ecosystems in their new constitution. A set of groundbreaking articles that transform the status of nature from mere property to a rights-bearing entity are now incorporated into the national charter.
September 25, 2008 Global Exchange [The Latest News > Publications]
	Twenty Years of Fun and Struggle with Global Exchange -- As the two police officers dragged my wife, Medea Benjamin, out the front doors of the Seattle Convention Center, I was stumbling along right behind them with an officer on either side of me vice-gripping my arms. We had taken the stage at the opening session of the World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Seattle on November 30, 1999, and the authorities didn’t like the appeal we were making for more diverse representation in international trade negotiations.
September 25, 2008 Global Exchange [The Latest News > Publications]
	Who Makes the Rules Where You Live—Communities or Corporations? -- On a hot, sticky night in August 2006, more than 200 residents of the rural township of East Brunswick, PA (population 1300) squeezed into local physician, Dr. Glenn Freed’s skeletal frame barn to talk about…sludge. Despite sewage sludge’s high toxicity, waste corporations have spun it as an environmentally friendly fertilizer, that they are paid handsomely to “gift” to farmers.
September 25, 2008 Global Exchange [The Latest News > Publications]
	Free Public Transit For All -- Global Exchange’s Freedom From Oil campaign is delighted to highlight the following article in which award-winning author and activist, Bill McKibben, explores a bold move communities can take to meet the climate challenge locally. Following McKibben’s article, Global Exchange shares a brief report on our current exciting campaign in San Francisco to address global warming and strengthen the local economy.
September 24, 2008 The Guardian [The Latest News]
	A New Law of Nature -- People will be asked to vote on Sunday on a new constitution that would give Ecuador's tropical forests, islands, rivers and air similar legal rights to those normally granted to humans.
September 20, 2008 Common Dreams [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	A Violent Mexican “Independence” Day -- Throughout Mexican modern history, millions have gathered in the country's central squares every year on the eve of our Independence Day, September 16, to give out the traditional "shout" of independence. This year, the celebration turned into tragedy in the city of Morelia...
September 15, 2008 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [The Latest News > Press Room]
	Humanitarian Aid Workers Release Abuse Report before Congress -- A delegation of volunteers from No More Deaths, a humanitarian aid group based in Tucson, Arizona, will participate in a Congressional briefing in Washington, D.C., on September 17, 1:00 PM. Their new report, "Human Rights Abuses of Migrants in Short-Term Custody on the Arizona/Sonora Border," will be released at that time.
September 11, 2008 The Christian Science Monitor [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	Is Mexico the new China? -- Mexico City - Just as Mexico was becoming the rising star of global manufacturing in the 1990s, China's even cheaper wages turned that country into the world's factory.
September 10, 2008 For Immediate Release [The Latest News > Press Room]
	Power Vote Kicks Off Nationwide Effort To Mobilize One Million Young -- Spearheaded by the Energy Action Coalition, "Power Vote" is a national non-partisan initiative to elevate the issue of the climate crisis this election season. Power Vote aims to unite one million young "climate voters" behind a platform centered on...
September 03, 2008 The Guardian [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	Competing for America's business -- Even before the Olympics, China struck fear across the world. To westerners, China steals our shirts and jobs, pirates our technologies and pollutes "our" atmosphere. Developing countries are no stranger to such concern - particularly Mexico.
August 27, 2008 Twin Cities Daily Planet [War, Peace & Democracy > Freedom from Oil]
	Music to ripple through Twin Cities during RNC -- Those who plan to skip town during the Republican National Convention will miss a lot of great music. One of the locally-grown events taking place during the RNC is Ripple Effect, which will be held on the Capital Mall, within earshot of the Xcel Energy Center, on Sept. 2 from 12:30 to 7:00 p.m.
August 25, 2008 Global Exchange [The Latest News > Publications]
	Elections, Migration, and North America’s Jobs -- In January 2009, the new president will take office with the hopes and expectations of the American people behind him, and an array of messy unfinished business left by the departing Bush Administration in front.
August 23, 2008 Common Dreams [Regions > Middle East & Central Asia > Iran]
	Mr. Future President: This is Iran -- As the hawkish debate on the “Iran Question” continues to possess Washington, most Americans’ exposure to the country is limited to photos of a bespectacled, bearded Supreme Leader and an unshaven,uncouth firebrand of a President. But one American, Tom Loughlin, is adamant that the next President of America knows that Iran is a vibrant society of millions of people. Loughlin, an American-born lawyer-turned-photographer, has visited Iran three times to capture Iranian life for his installation, “Pictures of you: Images of Iran.”Photos of sepia-eyed young women, downy-haired scholars, and dimpled-cheeked adolescents are part of Loughlin’s innovative effort to humanize “the other,” the Iranian people.
August 21, 2008 Alternet [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	Impasse: Are We Nearing the End of the Corporate Globalization Era? -- When the history of the seismic shifts occurring today in the global economy is written, the failure in July 2008 of corporate interests and some governments to expand the World Trade Organization (WTO) through the Doha Round will stand as a watershed moment.
August 19, 2008 Creators Syndicate [The Latest News]
	Who Started Cold War II? -- If the Russia-Georgia war proves nothing else, it is the insanity of giving erratic hotheads in volatile nations the power to drag the United States into war.
August 15, 2008 VNet [Regions > Americas > Venezuela]
	Which Way Venezuela? -- Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution is exciting and exemplary, yet few people know much about where Venezuela is headed.
August 14, 2008 Foreign Policy in Focus [The Latest News]
	U.S. Role in Georgia Crisis -- The international condemnation of Russian aggression against Georgia – and the concomitant assaults by Abkhazians and South Ossetians against ethnic Georgians within their territories – is in large part appropriate. But the self-righteous posturing coming out of Washington should be tempered by a sober recognition of the ways in which the United States has contributed to the crisis.
August 13, 2008 Haaretz [Regions > Middle East & Central Asia > Iran]
	U.S. experts: Military strike on Iran won't derail nuclear program -- A report published last week by the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) states that military strikes are unlikely to destroy Iran's centrifuge program for enriching uranium.
August 03, 2008 The New York Times [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	Immigrants Facing Deportation by U.S. Hospitals -- JOLOMCÚ, Guatemala — High in the hills of Guatemala, shut inside the one-room house where he spends day and night on a twin bed beneath a seriously outdated calendar, Luis Alberto Jiménez has no idea of the legal battle that swirls around him in the lowlands of Florida.
July 31, 2008 Democracy Now! [Regions > Americas > Mexico > Dispatches From Mexico]
	Plan Mexico and the US-Funded Militarization of Mexico -- Listen to Democracy Now's War and Peace report featuring John Gibler on the US role in Mexico's growing drug war.