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Letter to USTR Greer from 11 orgs on digital trade rules on upcoming USMCA review

We write today to urge you to oppose efforts by the largest Big Tech monopolists to use trade agreements and trade policy actions to internationally preempt and derail domestic policies that safeguard consumers, workers, farmers and competing businesses against Big Tech abuses here and in other countries.

Supporting Honduran communities affected by corporate assault on Honduras: New data reveals gravity of ISDS claims against Honduras

From July 14 to 16, the following meeting will be held in Honduras: Without Human Rights, There Is No Energy Sovereignty: A meeting of communities affected by energy projects in southern Honduras, a country facing an avalanche of international arbitration claims in secretive corporate courts, more than a third of which come from the renewable energy sector.
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Farmer groups to step up campaign against FTA with US

The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) will observe August 13 as ‘Corporations Quit India Day’; the SKM said that the general body has called for nationwide protests against the deal as it could act against the interests of farmers.

One small country, nearly $20 billion in corporate claims

Using a secretive arbitration system, multinational companies could bankrupt Honduras, one of the poorest countries in the world. A recent advisory opinion from a human-rights court calls for an overhaul.
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