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Immigration
Advocates Face Challenges
By Tom Barry | August 24, 2005
Daunting challenges face pro-immigration groups and immigrant advocates
as they seek to establish a framework for discussing immigration.
The
Immigration Debate—Politics of Class and Corporations
By Tom Barry | August
9, 2005
In the immigration debate, the politics of class and corporations has
muddled traditional political lines.
Politics,
Ideologies of Anti-Immigration Forces
By Tom Barry | June
17, 2005
Although immigration
restrictionists share a common agenda, they do not operate as a unified
political bloc. Anti-immigration forces include partisans of the two main
political parties as well as adherents of parties and movements of the
political left and right that fall outside mainstream political thinking.
Trinational
Elites Map North American Future in "NAFTA Plus"
By Miguel Pickard
| August 24, 2005
Moves toward a NAFTA Plus pull security, sovereignty, and natural resources
under U.S. control.
CAFTA:
A Losing Proposition for the Hemisphere
By Laura Carlsen |
July 6, 20052005
CAFTA will hurt U.S. and Central American long-term interests as neighbors.
After
the FTAA: Lessons from Europe for the Americas
By Sarah Anderson
and John Cavanagh, FPIF| June 2005
Lessons from Europe for the Americas.
China’s
Entrance into Latin America: A Cause for Worry?
Sam Logan in Buenos Aires and Ben Bain in Washington,
DC | August 24, 2005
Asian
promises of foreign trade and investment in the Western Hemisphere
have set off the "red alarm" on Capitol Hill, but slow development
of mutually beneficial agreements is the most likely scenario.
Plan
Colombia’s Drug Eradication Program Misses the Mark
By Adam Isacson
and John Myers | July 18, 2005
If reducing drug use at home and fighting terrorists abroad are vital U.S. interests
in the Americas, our current policy in Colombia is failing.
South
America’s New Militarism
By Raúl Zibechi |
July 18, 2005
U.S. strategies of dominance and
control of natural resources in the region fuel martial response mentality.
Cross-Border
Joint-Management Tool Could Set Trend—
Paso del Norte Water Task Force Fills Void
By Rachel McHugh |
August 15, 2005
Mechanisms for ensuring participation of both officials and the general
public already have resulted in the cooperation necessary for achieving
crucial water conservation measures.
Discovery
of Radioactive Scrap near Border Begs Proper Burial
By Talli Nauman
| August 5, 2005
On the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombs' destruction of Japan, another
tragic saga of radiation damage also continues, linking New Mexico and
Old Mexico in what has been dubbed the hemisphere's worst nuclear disaster.
Sink
or Swim:
Environment, Health Sectors Part of the Water Solution
By Urinda Alamo and
Enrique Cifuentes | July11, 2005
Environmental justice and sustainability depend on training the sights
of managers in water, health, and environment sectors on the same goals.
Zapatista "Red Alert" Shakes up Mexican Politics
By Laura Carlsen| June 24, 2005
The announcement of a “general red alert” by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) has once again turned Mexican politics on its head.
Citizen complaints reflect environment's decline under NAFTA
By Talli Nauman | June 21, 2005
Trinational environmental administrators need to go as far as they can toward promoting the public’s demands for pollution control.
Latin
America's Social Movements Gain New Ground
By Raúl Zibechi
| June 14, 2005
The impact
of social movements throughout the hemisphere is overtaking political
parties. (en español)
Mexican Right-to-Know Boosters Should Build Bridges to Environmental Disclosure Law
By Talli Nauman | April 13, 2005
Promoters of improved information access should include support of environmental pollutant registers on their agendas.
Local Transparency
Still Opaque for Many Mexican Communities
By Denise McVea | March 15, 2005
Local-level case studies show more support necessary to overcome difficulties encountered in the wide-ranging right-to-know movement in Latin America. (en español)
