The United States will be hosting the 12th major round of behind-closed-door negotiations on the new Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement in Dallas this May.
Despite having reportedly introduced text for some 26 different chapters, the U.S. Trade Representative has barred ordinary Americans from reviewing any of its proposals. Meanwhile, approximately 600 corporate lobbyists have regular access to the negotiating texts as so-called “cleared advisors.” This sort of back-room dealmaking only benefits the 1%.
TAKE ACTION NOW: Tell U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk that you deserve the right to know what U.S. trade negotiators are proposing in your name.
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Many offshorers, deregulators and other proponents of business-as-usual trade policy claim that those who oppose NAFTA-style trade pacts somehow “oppose trade,” as if there’s only one way of doing things. This tired old myth is easy to disprove.
As part of the global days of action against the new World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial, thousands of people from across the Pacific Northwest converged in downtown Portland on December 5th to speak out against the proposed expansion of failed “free trade” policies within the World Trade Organization (WTO). The Oregon Fair Trade Campaign led a coalition of more than 75 labor, environmental, immigrant rights, faith and social justice groups in organizing the mass march and rally.
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In March 2009, the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign and Cross Border Labor Organizing Commission led a delegation of trade activists to Mexico to examine the topic of cross-border opposition to NAFTA.