{"id":5473,"date":"2017-06-12T14:55:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T18:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/?p=5473"},"modified":"2017-06-13T15:32:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T19:32:05","slug":"50000-americans-speak-out-on-nafta-renegotiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/blog\/2017\/06\/12\/50000-americans-speak-out-on-nafta-renegotiation\/","title":{"rendered":"50,000 Americans Speak Out on NAFTA Renegotiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">Over\u00a050,000 Americans submitted public comments to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) prior to the original June 12th deadline calling for the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to put working families and healthy communities ahead of corporate interests. \u00a0Most also urged that NAFTA\u2019s renegotiation take place in a transparent process that gives the public access to negotiating texts, rather than privileging corporate advisors.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u00a0.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cNAFTA has been a disaster for working people and the environment across the United States, Mexico and Canada,\u201d said Arthur Stamoulis, executive director of Citizens Trade Campaign. \u00a0\u201cAmericans are demanding that NAFTA\u2019s forthcoming renegotiation be used as an opportunity to halt the pact\u2019s ongoing damage and to create a replacement deal that actually prioritizes the needs of people and the planet, instead of just big corporations.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u00a0.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Hours before the deadline, civil society groups representing labor, environmental, consumer, human rights and faith organizations announced\u00a0that their supporters had generated a combined 50,214\u00a0written submissions into the USTR in response to the official request for comments on \u201cNegotiating Objectives Regarding Modernization of North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u00a0.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Comments were collected by groups including the AFL-CIO, Citizens Trade Campaign, Communications Workers of America, Friends of the Earth, Popular Resistance, Presbyterian Church USA, Public Citizen, Sierra Club, Teamsters, United Steelworkers and Witness for Peace.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u00a0.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&#8220;CWA members know that trade deals like NAFTA have been a string of one broken promise after another, and they are determined to make sure that their concerns are heard during the renegotiation process. We will no longer tolerate bad trade deals negotiated in back rooms and behind closed doors by multinational corporations, with no transparency and no public input,\u201d said Communications Workers of America (CWA) President Chris Shelton.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u00a0.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cTrump\u2019s renegotiation of NAFTA, like the Trans Pacific Partnership deal, will encourage corporations to pollute our air and water, poison our food and accelerate climate change,\u201d said Doug Norlen, Director of Economic Policy at Friends of the Earth.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u00a0.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&#8220;NAFTA has harmed communities across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico for more than two decades by undermining environmental protections, eliminating jobs, increasing pollution, eroding wages, and facilitating climate change. The people are speaking out and demanding a fundamentally different approach to trade, putting the needs of the people and our planet first, not corporate profits. These comments show that any deal that falls short of supporting a stable climate, healthy communities, and good jobs will face the vigorous opposition that defeated the Trans-Pacific Partnership,\u201d said Anthony Torres, Associate Campaign Representative at the Sierra Club&#8217;s Responsible Trade Program.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u00a0.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Civil society groups are planning to deliver additional petition signatures to USTR pertaining to NAFTA\u2019s renegotiation\u00a0shortly. <a href=\"https:\/\/petitions.signforgood.com\/ReplaceNAFTA\/?code=CTC\">\u00a0You can sign the petition\u00a0demanding that NAFTA renegotiations benefit working people, not corporate power, online here.<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over\u00a050,000 Americans submitted public comments to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) prior to the original June 12th deadline calling for the renegotiation of the North American Free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[108,66],"tags":[105],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - 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