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Erminia Osorio-Perez of Achuapa, Nicaragua grows corn to feed her family, selecting and saving her own seeds. But with Nicaragua and Central America adopting the CAFTA "free" trade pact, her way of life may vanish. In Mexico, the entrance of cheap, subsidized U.S. corn under NAFTA resulted in more than 2 million small corn producers losing their livelihoods in the last 12 years.
Latest signers
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signers as of Oct 11
- Andrew LakenTakoma Park, MD
- Jeffrey M. Dickemann Ph.Richmond, CA
- Frances&Peter Marcusewaterbury, CT
- Gerald and Rose BlumeClermont, GA
- F A de CaroNew Orleans, LA
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Today's Reason to reject Fast Track
Big agri-business subsidies have destroyed small family farm production in the United States and driven over 2 million Mexican corn farmers off their lands as a result of the inflow of subsidized U.S. corn. Additionally, irreplaceable varieties of Indigenous corn are being lost due to the indiscriminate introduction of GMO corn in the Mexican countryside.
Campaign Coordinated by:
Individual Presigners
- Howard Zinn
- Noam Chomsky
Sponsoring Organizations
Major Co-sponsors
- Atlanta DSA
- Global Exchange
- Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
- Pax Christi USA: National Catholic
- United Church of Christ, Justice & Witness Ministries
- Witness for Peace
Co-sponsoring Organizations
- Agricultural Missions
- Association for the Sovereignty of Colombia
- Border Agricultural Workers Project
- Campaign for Labor Rights
- Chicago Religious Leadership Network on LA
- CISPES
- CITCA
- Development GAP
- Equal Exchange
- Howard County Friends of Latin America
- Human Rights for Workers
- IATP Institute for Ag and Trade Policy
- International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF)
- Just Foreign Policy
- Korean Americans for Fair Trade
- Labor Council for Latin American Advancement
- Latin American Solidarity Comm.
- LCLAA
- Marianist Province Office of Peace
- Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas
- New Ways Ministry
- Nicaragua Network
- Nicaragua U.S. Friendship Office
- Nicaraguan Cultural Alliance
- Pax Christi
- Peaceworks
- SHARE Foundation
- Sisters of Mercy Institute Justice
- Sisters of the Holy Names U.S./Ontario Province Justice Network
- Srs of Charity of Cincinnati
- Student Trade Justice Campaign
- United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE)
- US LEAP
- US-El Salvador Sister Cities
- Voices on the Border
- Washington Office on Latin America
- WILPF