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(Zimbabwe, Harare, April 17, 2015) Today thousands of women and men farmers of the international peasant movement La Via Campesina mobilize worldwide against Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) which affect peasant and small-scale agriculture and national food sovereignty. Since April 17, 1996[1] La Via Campesina celebrates this day as a global day of action with allies and friends. 
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You are one of many readers who equate British-made consumer goods with a superior social and environmental-justice pedigree. Is this justified? To a degree, yes. Production closer to home should be more controlled and provide a bulwark against the fickle global marketplace and the many ethical abuses associated with globalisation. In the garment industry, for example, while it would be naive to suggest that the UK doesn’t have any sweatshops, onshoring production could have avoided the chaos we saw with the Rana Plaza disaster.
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The Trade in Services Agreement would make it easier for corporations to make profits and operate with impunity.
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This report compiles all publicly available data on investor-state dispute settlement cases taken against EU member states since 1994. It highlights the irrefutable attack on recent EU accession count
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WikiLeaks shows that big corporations and the billionaires behind them consider themselves powerful enough to just ignore governments.
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