California Trade Justice Coalition

03/25/2026

10/15/2025

The California Trade Justice Coalition was honored to present the Trade Justice Champion Award to Representative Lateefah Simon at the Alameda Central Labor Council.

The award recognizes her long-standing commitment to advancing fair trade, economic equity, and workers rights. Presented on behalf of our coalition members and allies who continue to push for trade policies that uphold dignity, sustainability, and justice for all.

08/31/2025

Whose land is powering the clean energy transition? 🌎⚡️

06/19/2025

Where do the minerals in your phone come from?

Communities in places like the Democratic Republic of the Congo are closely tied to global tech — yet too often excluded from its benefits.

We need a just transition that works for people and the planet.

Watch the full video + learn more at criticalmineralsjustice.org

12/09/2024

(View the letter in our bio!)📢 Exciting Update! 🌟
We are thrilled to share that on Friday, November 15, our collective efforts reached an important milestone. We submitted a digital trade letter to Senator Padilla with endorsements from numerous environmental, labor, and consumer rights organizations. Our aim is to advocate for the enactment and protection of three crucial pieces of legislation:
1️⃣ Automated Decision Systems Accountability Act of 2024 (AB 2930): Ensuring transparency and accountability in automated decision-making processes.
2️⃣ Artificial Intelligence: Training Data Transparency (AB 2013): Promoting openness about the data used in AI development to foster ethical and responsible innovation.
3️⃣ Right to Repair Act (SB 244): Empowering consumers and independent repair businesses by granting access to necessary tools and information for fixing electronic devices.
Thank you to the organizations who contributed their support and signatures. We’ve taken an important step toward a more transparent, equitable, and innovative future! 🚀

08/07/2023

MONDAY: Join Rep. Jayapal and other experts for a discussion of Big Tech's "digital trade" agenda and its implications for worker rights, consumer privacy, A.I. accountability, anti-monopoly and more.

Register to participate online via Zoom at: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GAaTt3e7SAGqzdm4tJJ6cA

02/14/2023

Climate activists, labor leaders and other civil society organizations held a rally at the start of to call for all trade pacts being negotiated to benefit working people and the planet. We can’t let turn into another corporate power grab like the .

02/09/2023

Join us next Tuesday!

➡️ Register here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/palm-springs-rally-to-put-working-people-the-planet-first-in-asia-pacific-trade

Tuesday, February 14, 2023 • 12:00 PM
Outside the Palm Springs Convention Center• N Calle Alvarado & E Amado Rd, Palm Springs, CA 92262

As senior officials representing countries across the Pacific Rim gather in Palm Springs for an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum this month, please join labor, human rights, environmental and community organizations for a press event and rally calling for the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) and any other Asia-Pacific trade deals to prioritize the interests of working people and the planet over corporate profits.

Background: The United States is hosting the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forums for the first time in a dozen years, and a main item on the agenda is the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) — a massive new trade deal that would set rules governing approximately 40% of the global economy.

Lobbyists for Big Tech and other corporate interests are working behind closed doors to insert rules into IPEF that increase their power and profits. To get a trade deal that benefits working people and the planet, we need to ensure negotiators are hearing our voices, too.

Upcoming APEC meetings in Palm Springs in February, Detroit in May, Seattle in August and and San Francisco in November are important opportunities to make our movements heard.

For more info, please contact Will Jamil Wiltschko of the California Trade Justice Coalition at [email protected] or (213) 254-5349.

10/07/2022

10/06/2022

Students at and across the country are asking to support calls to lift barriers to Covid tests and treatments access across the globe.