{"id":102,"date":"2011-12-20T10:13:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T18:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/oregon\/?p=102"},"modified":"2012-01-09T13:56:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T21:56:51","slug":"oppose-bushs-hangover-trade-deal-with-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/oregon\/2011\/12\/20\/oppose-bushs-hangover-trade-deal-with-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Passes Job-Killing Trade Package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/world\/2006-04\/16\/xin_5704031609456212096613.jpg\" alt=\"Stop the Korea FTA!\" width=\"100\" height=\"134\" align=\"right\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>Despite\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/trade-policies\/us-korea-free-trade-agreement\/oppose-the-korea-free-trade-agreement\/\">overwhelming opposition<\/a>\u00a0by a wide range of labor, environmental, family farm, consumer, faith and human rights organizations in the United States and abroad, Congress passed the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/trade-policies\/us-korea-free-trade-agreement\/\">Korea<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/trade-policies\/panama-free-trade-agreement\/\">Panama<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/trade-policies\/colombia-free-trade-agreement\/\">Colombia<\/a>\u00a0Free Trade Agreements on October 12 \u2014 and the pacts were quietly signed by President Obama on October 21.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to everyone who made calls, sent emails, attended rallies, phonebanked and generally worked their butts off to try to stop these NAFTA-style pacts. \u00a0The one silver lining is that a greater percentage of Congressional Democrats opposed these FTAs than opposed the Peru FTA, NAFTA, the WTO, China PNTR \u2014 or <em>any<\/em>\u00a0negative bill offered up by President Obama.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/oregon\/orftc-campaigns\/voting-records-of-oregon-senators-and-representatives\/\">Find out how your Member of Congress voted<\/a>, and check out our\u00a0<a title=\"The Korea Free Trade Agreement\" href=\"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/oregon\/orftc-campaigns\/korea-free-trade-agreement\/\">online toolkit<\/a> for further information about why these trade deals are so bad for Oregon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite\u00a0overwhelming opposition\u00a0by a wide range of labor, environmental, family farm, consumer, faith and human rights organizations in the United States and abroad, Congress passed the\u00a0Korea,\u00a0Panama\u00a0and\u00a0Colombia\u00a0Free Trade Agreements on October 12 \u2014 and the pacts were quietly signed by President Obama &hellip; 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