The new NAFTA just went into effect, and right-wing Mexican politicians and U.S. corporations are conspiring to gut the deal’s improved labor rules. It is critical that we fight back now to ensure these rules actually benefit workers.

Susana Prieto Terrazas is a leading labor lawyer for border maquila workers just released after imprisonment on trumped up charges and currently under threat of re-arrest. Oscar Alzaga is the legal advisor to one of Mexico’s few independent unions – Los Mineros – which has long been the target of violent repression.