November 15, 2008 New York Times [The Latest News > In the News]
	Ejected at ’04 Convention, a Protester Gets $55,000 -- During President Bush’s acceptance speech in Madison Square Garden at the 2004 Republican National Convention, a San Francisco woman briefly interrupted the proceedings by standing on a chair and unfurling a banner that accused the president of lying.
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 12, 2008 The Washington Times [The Latest News > In the News]
	Online Chat with CODEPINK Founder Medea Benjamin -- We are trying to move into the "yes we can" mode, putting a positive spin on our activism.
November 10, 2008 Global Exchange [The Latest News > Press Room]
	SF High School Students Seek Role in Green Economy -- This Friday Nov, 14, 2008, 100 students from the new SF Environmental Service Learning Initiative (ESLI) will gather at the 7th Annual Green Festival for a comprehensive day of hands-on experience featuring a variety of lectures, activities, workshops, music, dance and art focused on the important role of youth in the emerging green economy.
October 09, 2008 CommonDreams.org [The Latest News > In the News]
	Should Henry “The Fox” Paulson Guard the Henhouse? -- On October 3, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, smiling ear to ear, congratulated Congress for passing a bill that gave Secretary Paulson unprecedented control over our nation’s economic future.
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 11, 2008 Bretton Woods Project [The Latest News > In the News]
	Civil Society letter on IMF review of lending instruments, facilities, and policies -- It is time to seriously re-think the role that the IMF should be playing in low-income countries.
September 09, 2008 USA Today Opinion Blog [War, Peace & Democracy > Freedom from Oil]
	GM could do better -- General Motors again really misses the mark on what it needs to be doing to help fight climate change and revive a struggling industry.
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 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.
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.
July 10, 2008 YES! Magazine [Reality Tours > Reality Tours in the News]
	DIY Foreign Policy Heroes -- Global Exchange Reality Tours receive recognition as a foreign policy hero, promoting person-to-person ties and intercultural understanding abroad by taking delegations beyond the mainstream media and giving them an in-depth view of social justice issues around the world.
July 03, 2008 The Mercury News [Regions > Americas > Mexico > Mexico Program in the News]
	Trade deals' effect on U.S. immigration a problem for McCain -- This week John McCain is visiting Mexico and Colombia to burnish his foreign policy credentials by meeting with top Bush administration allies, Presidents Álvaro Uribe of Colombia and Felipe Calderón of Mexico.
June 27, 2008 CommonDreams.org [The Global Economy > Fair Trade > Chocolate]
	Tainted Love? -- Even though the chocolate industry committed to ending the worst forms of child labor in cocoa production by today — July 1, 2008 — the slave-free label is still missing from lots of chocolate boxes…and chocolate bars and ice cream and syrup and other products made with cocoa.
June 04, 2008 CommonDreams.org [The Latest News > In the News]
	War Resisters May Yet Find Sanctuary in Canada -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper may be set on embracing George Bush and his occupation of Iraq, but on Tuesday, June 3, the Canadian members of Parliament extended their embrace to the war resisters.
May 29, 2008 In These Times [Regions > Americas > Mexico > Dispatches From Mexico]
	Mexico’s Ghost Towns -- Cerrito del Agua, population 3,000, has no paved roads -- either leading to it or within it. No restaurants, no movie theaters, no shopping malls.
May 27, 2008 OneWorld U.S. [The Global Economy > Fair Trade > Chocolate]
	Fair Trade: Spreading the Wealth -- Before the advent of the Fair Trade system some 60 years ago, an average farmer in Ecuador could expect to receive only a few cents per pound for his crops -- barely enough to sustain himself, his family, and his farm.
May 02, 2008 Huffington Post [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	Two Years After the Big Immigrants Rights Marches, Where Do Things Stand? -- On May 1, 2006 millions of immigrants and their supporters took to the streets in 140 cities in 39 states across the United States as part of a wave of mass marches that spring in repudiation of extreme anti-immigrant legislation, passed by Republicans in the House of Representatives.
May 01, 2008 SOLAR TODAY [The Latest News > In the News]
	Changing the World, One Campus at a Time -- Driven by an urgent desire to be part of the climate change solution, the generation that first taught its parents how to recycle is leading a revolution. Savvy and skilled in social networking and communications, young people are demanding a transition from polluting conventional energy to the new, renewable energy economy.
May 01, 2008 USA Today [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	North American trade deal has not helped Mexico's poor -- The spirited defense of the North American Free Trade Agreement by President Bush and his Mexican counterpart in New Orleans recently ignored an inconvenient fact — the annual number of undocumented immigrants arriving in the USA from Mexico has risen dramatically since that trade agreement's inception
April 25, 2008 Chicago Tribune [The Global Economy]
	Fertile ground -- The Green Festival, which drew some 35,000 attendees to some 500 speakers and exhibitors last week at Navy Pier, had all that and more, covering topics from green building and renewable energy, to clean technology, natural foods and socially responsible investing.
April 25, 2008 Chicago Tribune [The Global Economy]
	Fertile ground -- The Green Festival, which drew some 35,000 attendees to some 500 speakers and exhibitors last week at Navy Pier, had all that and more, covering topics from green building and renewable energy, to clean technology, natural foods and socially responsible investing.
April 17, 2008 Environment News Service [The Global Economy]
	Seattle's First Green Festival Proves Popular -- Global Exchange Co-Founder Kevin Danaher said, "With something for everyone, the green in Green Festival encompasses it all - environmental and community health, social and economic justice, fair trade, education and inspiration."
April 14, 2008 OneWorld US [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	Rights Groups Applaud Trade Deal's Tabling -- SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 14 (OneWorld) - Long-time critics of corporate-friendly free trade agreements are applauding House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for effectively putting the brakes on a deal with the South American nation of Colombia.
April 13, 2008 The Seattle Times [The Global Economy]
	Finding out what green means at Green Festival in Seattle -- Nearly 38 years after the first Earth Day, what does it mean to be green?
April 11, 2008 Seattle Post Intelligencer [The Latest News > In the News]
	Go (with your) green at environmental fest -- Congratulations, Seattle. You were deemed bright and enviro-savvy enough to play host this weekend to the Green Festival.
April 07, 2008 New America Media [The Global Economy]
	Buy Wind and Lessen Carbon Footprints -- Investing in green projects can also be financially profitable, says Kevin Danaher who, with Shannon Biggs and Jason Mark, compiled the book, Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots.
April 04, 2008 VOV News [The Latest News > In the News]
	Global Exchange visits AO victims -- A representative from California-based organisation Global Exchange arrived in Vietnam on April 3 to collect information about Agent Orange (AO) victims in central Da Nang City.
March 29, 2008 Common Dreams [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	Forming a More Perfect Union: Beyond Black and White -- Barack Obama’s complex meditation on race in America opened a window for national reflection. Irrespective of how it impacts his quest for the presidency, his words became a catalyst in moving us to think about where we fit in the effort to narrow the gap between the ideals embodied in the U.S. Constitution and the realities we live in today. While Obama’s speech focused understandably on the historic divide between white and black Americans, it holds great resonance for all Americans, including our own Latino community.
March 27, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle [War, Peace & Democracy > Freedom from Oil]
	California air board should stand by zero-emission vehicle mandate -- The California Air Resources Board, the same agency that relentlessly pushed through the groundbreaking Pavley law to clean up tailpipe emissions, is now considering backing off - and allowing automakers to produce only 10 percent of the original zero emissions vehicles. This would mean that only 2,500 of the vehicles, not 25,000, make it onto California roads.