Gallery Guide for "Globalize THIS! International Graphics of Resistance"

              14 | P a g e
ongoing violence against workers in Colombia. Since 1996, eight union leaders at Coke's
Colombian bottling plants have been murdered and hundreds of other workers have been
tortured, kidnapped and/or illegally detained by paramilitaries that are often working closely
with plant management. Many unions and student groups support the boycott.
Internal Pentagon records revealed that Colombian troops connected with Coca‐Cola's
paramilitary forces were also being trained at the U.S. Army's School of the Americas (SOA) in
Fort Benning, Georgia, to torture and murder those who conduct "union organizing and
recruiting," distribute “propaganda in favor of workers", and "sympathize with demonstrators
or strikes."
49
"What Now?!!" The Current State of Labor in America
Keith Tucker
Digital Print, 2007 / United States
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a trade agreement between Canada, the
United States and Mexico that phased out tariffs and eliminated a variety of fees in order to
encourage free trade between the three North American countries.
Although this poster focuses on the negative effect of NAFTA on U.S. workers through the
creation of low paying and dangerous jobs, in Mexico, the protest was immediate and violent.
On January 1, 1994, the day NAFTA went into effect, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
(Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) dramatically announced itself to the world.
Taking their name and inspiration from Emiliano Zapata, hero of the 1910 Mexican Revolution,
the Zapatistas oppose economic globalization, epitomized by NAFTA, arguing that it would
severely and negatively affect the peasant way of life of its indigenous support base and
oppressed people worldwide. Apart from opening the Mexican market to cheap mass‐produced
U.S. agricultural products, NAFTA spelled an end to Mexican crop subsidies without a
corresponding end to U.S. ones, and drastically reduced the income and living standards of
many southern Mexican farmers who could not compete with the subsidized, artificially
fertilized, mechanically harvested and genetically modified imports from the U.S. The signing of
NAFTA also resulted in the removal of Article 27 Section VII in the Mexican Constitution which
previously had guaranteed land reparations to indigenous groups throughout Mexico.
Displaced farmers were forced to immigrate to the United States in search of work to support
their families.
50
ALCA Libre Comercio
Free Trade?
Leonid Prado
TRIcontinental
Offset, 2002 / Cuba
ALCA [Área de Libre Comercio de las Américas] also called FTAA [Free Trade Area of the
Americas] was a proposed agreement to eliminate or reduce the trade barriers among all
countries in the Americas but Cuba. The proposed agreement was an extension of the North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Canada, Mexico and the United States. It
was opposed by Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua
and Venezuela, and was not enacted.