Global Justice Committee

We are bringing a diverse group of labor, community, faith-based, student, and immigrants rights advocates together to build a vision and create organizing strategies to fight for fair immigration policies, fair trade policies, and a world free of war and terror.

Excerpt from the Los Angeles Times 11/20/03

"In Guatemala, people now live in cardboard huts, without water or light," said Juan Garcia, a Guatemalan who works with Jobs With Justice, an activist organization, in Providence, R.I. "They have to pick in the garbage in garbage bins to find something to eat."

Driven to despair, Garcia said, entire families from his Central American homeland are entering the United States illegally.

"When they come here, they think they will be coming to a different life, but they come to the same life, to live under bridges, because what free trade does is push immigrants toward here," Garcia said. "It creates a surplus of workers, it creates poverty, creates crime, creates drug addiction, creates prostitution."

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