Structural adjustment policies (SAPs) are imposed on more than 100 countries and force nations to focus on the development of export-based sweatshop economies at the expense of social and environmental considerations. At the same time, these SAPs help create the pool of desperately poor unemployed people that transnational companies seek when they look to move production facilities out of countries like the United States in order to maximize profits.

38. Medea Benjamin of the San Francisco-based group Global Exchange was one of a number of speakers at a rally for the Fair Trade Certified Coffee Campaign - April 13, 2000.

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