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.
March 26, 2008 MySA.com [War, Peace & Democracy > Freedom from Oil]
	Toyota gives $20 million for conservation -- Nick Magel, director of the Freedom from Oil campaign, called Wednesday's announcement “green washing.” “It's great that Toyota wants to save the birds,” Magel said. “But there aren't going to be any habitats left if they continue to create vehicles that destroy the environment.”
March 16, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle [War, Peace & Democracy > Freedom from Oil]
	Protest against oil profits and war at Chevron's gate -- (03-15) 17:46 PST RICHMOND -- More than 300 people marched from downtown Point Richmond to the Chevron refinery Saturday to protest the company they say is profiting from the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
March 11, 2008 Brown Daily Herald [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	Speakers attack NAFTA at 'Better Neighbors' event -- Speakers attacked the North American Free Trade Agreement at a panel held at the Kassar-Foxboro Auditorium Monday night, saying it and other international pacts are good for corporations, destructive to workers and promote American hegemony over its neighbors.
March 01, 2008 E, The Environmental Magazine [War, Peace & Democracy > Freedom from Oil]
	CLEANER, GREENER U. -- Nina Rizzo, the California Freedom from Oil campus organizer for Global Exchange, is encouraged by the progress students are making, and the university system in California is a leader in environmental initiatives from LEED-certified buildings to bicycle lanes, but she has yet to see “radical action” that parallels the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. “The movement is potent, but we’re not there yet,” Rizzo says. “I don’t think people are angry enough yet.”
February 29, 2008 The San Diego Union-Tribune [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	Linking NAFTA and immigration -- As Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama slug out the Ohio round of their Democratic primary fight, the issue of NAFTA has returned to the center of debate, revealing deep, unresolved tension in the Democratic Party 15 years after the passage of the landmark trade agreement.
February 24, 2008 The Sacramento Bee [Regions > Americas > Cuba]
	Travel to Cuba remains a challenge -- San Francisco-based Global Exchange is one organization playing strictly by the rules. In the 1990s and up until 2004, it sent six to eight groups to Cuba on "reality tours" every month, some with as many as 200 people, said Leslie Baylog, the organization's Cuba coordinator.
February 21, 2008 Fort Bragg Advocate-News [Regions > Middle East & Central Asia > Iran]
	Four of five council members approve anti-war resolution -- "The initial request was made by Global Exchange, a membership-based, international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world," said staff reports.
February 14, 2008 Democracy Now! [The Global Economy > Fair Trade]
	Theo Chocolate Founder, CEO Joe Whinney on Fair Trade Cocoa -- ...Global Exchange is sending the CEOs of major chocolate companies bouquets of Fair Trade certified flowers with a note attached calling on them to make a real commitment to ending child labor on cocoa farms in West Africa.
February 14, 2008 expatica.com [The Global Economy > Fair Trade]
	Valentine's Day chocolates - product of slave labour? -- Child slaves on the farm face appalling working conditions with 12 to 14 hours of severe manual labour, cutting down cocoa pods using big knives or machetes, thereby risking severe injuries which can often maim them permanently, Global Exchange, a fair trade organisation said. Some are also killed and many are beaten or abused.
February 12, 2008 The New York Times [Regions > Middle East & Central Asia > Iraq]
	Where Marines Are Called ‘Intruders’ and Recruiting Office Is Unwelcome -- The Council, with its staff’s concurrence, apparently, also set aside a parking spot one day a week in front of the office for Code Pink, an antiwar group that aims to disrupt the recruiters and, like all Californians, loves a good parking spot.