Global Exchange in the News

Mt. Shasta, a small northern California town of 3,500 residents nestled in the foothills of magnificent Mount Shasta, is taking on corporate power through an unusual process -- democracy.

The citizens of Mt. Shasta have developed an extraordinary ordinance, set to be voted on in the next...

By Allen D. Kanner
December 20, 2010

 

December 6, 2010, Cancun, Mexico – As the COP16 climate talks entered their second week, three civil society groups released a report entitled, “Does Nature Have Rights: Transforming Grassroots Organizing to Protect the People and the Planet.” The report, compiled by...

December 6, 2010

Antonia Juhasz on Sirius Radio's Stand Up! with Pete Dominick discussing new reports issued today by the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and...

October 6, 2010

Large corporations don’t depend on China only for cheap labor; they also seem to be adopting the practices of that country’s repressive government in the treatment of dissidents. It has just come to light that oil giant Chevron is working with Houston authorities in the...

Phil Mattera
October 1, 2010

As the nation's second-largest oil company, Chevron Corp. is accustomed to activists at its annual shareholder meetings. But Chevron is working with authorities prosecuting a shareholder activist who harangued executives at its annual meeting in May.

Antonia Juhasz...

John Letzing
September 29, 2010

As the nation's second-largest oil company, Chevron Corp. is accustomed to activists at its annual shareholder meetings. But Chevron is working with authorities prosecuting a shareholder activist who harangued executives at its annual meeting in May. Antonia Juhasz was...

John Letzing
September 29, 2010

Antonia Juhasz gives update on the Gulf of Mexico on KGO NewsTalk AM 810. Interview begins at 19:45.

September 7, 2010

 

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Fifteen people were arrested Monday in a roving protest against big oil companies in San Francisco. Protesters marched from Justin Herman Plaza, to the chevron offices, to the BP office at Mission and New Montgomery streets. A group of demonstrators blocked...

August 30, 2010

President Barack Obama may ease travel restrictions on Cuba, allowing more Americans to visit the island on educational and cultural trips, said a U.S. official who declined to be named because he isn’t authorized to speak on the subject.

Obama first loosened...

By Jens Erik Gould and Nicole Gaouette
August 6, 2010

Ted Lewis es el director del Programa de Derechos Humanos de Global Exchange, una ONG estadounidense que nació en 1988 para la defensa de los derechos de los trabajadores y el respeto al Medio Ambiente. En la actualidad uno de sus pilares es el acompañamiento en procesos...

Por Patricia Simón
June 18, 2010