Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...global economic integration, led by multinational companies, gathers momentum, a popular backlash is building. Protesters aren't against trade, but they want corporation-friendly rules to include social concerns--the environment, labor rights, Third World poverty. And they want it now. More than 775 nongovernment organizations have registered with the WTO, bringing some 2,100 observers. "The WTO is an octopus with an arm into every little crevice of democracy," says Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch lobby. "It trumps domestic laws and international treaties and imposes one-size-fits-all rules...
...very least, it could be good theater. Earlier this month, U.S. Labor Secretary Alexis Herman, in Seattle to drum up support for free trade, was picketed by steelworkers, antinuclear activists, Free Burma advocates--and Anne Kirkham, 26, of the Bicycle Alliance of Washington. "I'm a bicycle activist, but it's all one big thing--globalism, urban sprawl, pollution," she explained. "It's about corporate greed...
...Personify about $6.2 million--and demanding more and different kinds of services than the company's 60 employees could supply. CEO Eileen Gittins decided the best way to get additional talented and experienced workers fast was to buy another company--a motivation driving many other little mergers, even in labor markets not quite as supertight as Silicon Valley...
...that goes for kids too, which is why the Arizona Bar Foundation is pioneering a website designed to teach youngsters about the justice system. The site, www.lawforkids.org offers kid-friendly explanations, personal stories from youngsters in trouble, answers to questions ranging from state graffiti laws to federal child labor laws, and links for help and information. The site already averages 38,000 hits a month from across the country, and will soon add audio testimony from kids about their experiences with...
...Offner '01 is a history concentrator in Lowell House. She is a member of the Progressive Student Labor Movement...