NAFTA

Democrats Hurt Their Own Base With Trade Pacts

January 2, 2015 Richard Brenneman, www.prorevnews.blogspot.com Educate! Democracy, Finance and the Economy, NAFTA, TPP

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a disastrous trade agreement designed to protect the interests of the largest multi-national corporations at the expense of workers, consumers, the environment and the foundations of American democracy. It will also negatively impact some of the poorest people in the world. The TPP is a treaty that has been written behind closed doors by the corporate world. Incredibly, while Wall Street, the pharmaceutical industry and major media companies have full knowledge as to what is in this treaty, the American people and members of Congress do not. They have been locked out of the process. Further, all Americans, regardless of political ideology, should be opposed to the 'fast track' process which would deny Congress the right to amend the treaty and represent their constituents' interests.

NAFTA Challenge Looms Over New Brunswick Fracking Moratorium

October 7, 2014 Brent Patterson, www.commondreams.com Educate! Canada, Fracking, NAFTA

On September 22 the people of New Brunswick voted clearly and decisively against fracking. They defeated the incumbent government that was backing (and was backed by) the fracking industry and elected a government that promises to implement a moratorium against fracking. But the fracking industry isn't likely to give up easily. CBC reports, "Andrea Bjorklund, a professor of international commercial law at McGill University in Montreal, said the Liberals have to be careful about how the moratorium will be instituted. ...Bjorklund, who was a part of the U.S. State Department's NAFTA arbitration team, said provinces have the right to change laws under NAFTA, especially to protect people or the environment. But Bjorklund said they also have to respect the rights of investors. ...She said the Liberals will have to review what kind of promises were made to the 10 companies who have leases or licences for shale gas in the province."

Clinton Global Initiative For Rigged Corporate Trade

July 3, 2014 Michele Swenson, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Free Trade Agreements, Hillary Clinton, Inequality, NAFTA, TPP

NAFTA promoters in the '90s promised increased U.S. exports and jobs, with shrinking trade deficits. Senior Fellows of the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), projected a NAFTA-induced trade surplus with Mexico, in turn, creating 170,000 new U.S. jobs by 1995. Within two years of NAFTA's passage, PIIE prognosticators readjusted their projection of new NAFTA-created jobs downward to "zero." The same group, created by billionaire corporate cheerleader Pete Peterson, is again forecasting increased exports and jobs if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is passed. Referencing 19 serious pre-NAFTA economic studies projecting zero net job loss if NAFTA were to pass, President Bill Clinton estimated the creation of 200,000 U.S. jobs within two years, and 1 million within five years, based on a projected export boom to Mexico. Twenty years after Clinton signed NAFTA into law, Global Trade Watch reports a 450 percent increase in the U.S. trade deficit, resulting in the export of almost one million jobs, and downward pressure on wages. In fact, the average annual U.S. agricultural trade deficit with Mexico and Canada ballooned to almost three times the pre-NAFTA level, to $975 million within two decades of NAFTA's passage, eliminating an estimated one million net U.S. jobs by 2004, reports the Economic Policy Institute.

Ottawa Mulls Keystone XL Challenge Under NAFTA

May 7, 2014 Claudia Cattaneo, www.business.financialpost.com Educate! Canada, Keystone XL, NAFTA

The federal government, acting alone or with Keystone XL proponent TransCanada Corp. and perhaps pipeline shippers, has legal grounds to challenge the U.S. administration’s handling of the pipeline, legal and trade experts said. While U.S. President Barack Obama hoped to kick Keystone XL out of the way by delaying a decision ahead of mid-term elections, Ottawa is considering launching a challenge under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). As Ottawa’s new streamlined regulatory process for pipelines plays out with reviews of the TransMountain and Energy East projects, critics are fuming it has been gutted by Stephen Harper’s Conservative government. Keep reading. The federal government, acting alone or with KXL proponent TransCanada Corp. and perhaps pipeline shippers, has legal grounds to challenge the U.S. administration’s handling of the pipeline, legal and trade experts said. The option is being discussed and could be prepared as a contingency, but a decision hasn’t been made, according to Ottawa sources. Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and his former chief of staff, Derek Burney, who played central roles in negotiations that led to the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and subsequently NAFTA, suggested in separate speeches in recent days that Obama’s persistent delays are offside the spirit of the agreement.

NAFTA Origins: The Architects Of Free Trade Really Did Want A Corporate World Government

February 25, 2014 Matt Stoller www.crooksandliars.com Educate! NAFTA

Our trade policies derive from Streit’s geopolitical utopian vision. I’ll get to that in a later post, specifically on liberal internationalist George Ball’s comments in this hearing. Ball argued that our trade policy was key to getting rid of nation-states altogether, and for allowing multinationals to rule the world. He saw the multinational corporation as the ideal resource management vehicle, the very pinnacle of progress and perfection.

No Fast Track To TPP: Fix NAFTA First

February 17, 2014 Dave Johnson, www.ourfuture.org Organize! Free Trade Agreements, NAFTA

There has been a lot of news about the upcoming TPP trade agreement. The agreement is being negotiated in extreme secrecy in a corporate-dominated process that appears to be leading to an agreement that would give corporations even more power than they already have. Now there is a push to pass a process called fast track through Congress in order to enable the large corporations to strong-arm TPP into law mobilized organizations around the country to sound the alarm. Those resisting this TPP/Fast Track effort have put out a lot of good, solid information detailing the problems that previous trade agreements have caused. For example Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch issued a report, “NAFTA at 20: One Million U.S. Jobs Lost, Mass Displacement and Instability in Mexico, Record Income Inequality, Scores of Corporate Attacks on Environmental and Health Laws"

Is the TPP Dead? Have We Won?

February 3, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Corporate Personhood, Finance and Economy, Free Trade Agreements, NAFTA, TPP, Video

An interview with Kevin Zeese, organizer with Flush the TPP and Popular Resistance.

It has been 20 years since NAFTA, (North American free Trade agreement) went into effect with the promise of more equality, more jobs, and a better, more prosperous and peaceful world for all of us. Given that NAFTA has contributed to a world that is a negative image of what was sold to us, it is no surprise that the global elite and the Obama administration have been negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership in secret.

65,000 Protest TPP In Mexico, See Repeat Of NAFTA Mistakes

February 3, 2014 Karen Hansen-Kuhn, , www.iatp.org Resist! Mexico, NAFTA, TPP, Video

More than 65,000 people rallied at Mexico’s Monument to the Revolution and marched to the historic Zocalo Square to demand a new economy that puts equality, justice and human rights first. Farmers, union, environmental and women’s activists gathered in Mexico City last week to take stock of the lessons from NAFTA and plan strategies to confront the next big threat: the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). One of the earliest lessons from the NAFTA experience was that people and environments in all three countries were affected. The stories from Mexico, Canada and the U.S. were remarkably similar: environmental destruction, threats to union and community organizing, and, in all sectors, a marked increase in corporate concentration as companies gained new abilities to move different aspects of production across borders in search of lower costs and higher profits.

People Unite In Protest Across The Continent To Stop TPP

January 29, 2014 Benjamin Gerritz, www.labornotes.org Resist! NAFTA, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs, WTO

Workers across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico will unite in an Inter-Continental Day of Action Friday to stop a massive new trade agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership—commonly referred to as “NAFTA on steroids.” In the U.S., the immediate fight is to block a bill that would grant the president “fast track” authority to sign off on the TPP. Defeating fast track would likely stop the TPP. Fast track is designed to swiftly pass trade deals, circumventing the standard Congressional procedures of hearings, debates, and resolutions. But there has been considerable backlash against the undemocratic concept. In November, anticipating its introduction, 151 Democratic Representatives signed a letter to the president stating they were opposed and would vote no on fast track; 21 Republican Representatives also submitted an opposition letter.

Students Rally To Topple The TPP

January 22, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Barack Obama, Corporatism, Free Trade Agreements, NAFTA, TPP

Click here to stop Fast Track of the TPP: http://www.stopfasttrack.com Former US Trade Representative Ron Kirk said that if the people knew what was in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, it would be impossible to get it signed. The Obama administration is going to great lengths to make sure that people do not know what is in the TPP before it gets signed into law, and have made “fast tracking” the TPP bill a top priority. January 22^nd marks the beginning of a ten-day push by groups who work on a wide variety of issues to stop Congress from granting the President Fast Track for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The push culminates in an Intercontinental Day of Action against the TPP onJan 31- with events and actions being planned all around the world.

Farmers Block Bridge At US Border To Protest 20 Years Of NAFTA

January 3, 2014 Staff, www.sinembargo.mx Resist! Food and Agriculture, Mexico, NAFTA, TPP

The National Association of Producers' Enterprises (ANEC) makes this day a lock on the international bridge in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, to protest the plight of farmers live 20 years after the entry into force of the Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Through a statement read in mobilizing the peasant organization criticizes the consequences of two decades of neglect of the field by the federal government. "We are not poor, impoverished us NAFTA and policies of contempt, neglect, dispossession and exclusion", denounced the peasants. Moreover, ANEC said that organized "autonomous mobilizations and fair prices for our crops of corn, coffee, sugarcane, beans, rice, sorghum and wheat among others, in defense of our lands and our territory, and all struggling because we recognize that we are productive subjects and individual and collective subjects of law. " Farmers charge that NAFTA is "an ocean of lies and broken promises" because two decades ago the federal government promised that Mexico would be a first world country. "We reject NAFTA and now the Trans (TPP) Treaty being negotiated in secret, without our participation and equal or worse than NAFTA. Also know the call Energy Reform for not having consulted and therefore lack legitimacy, "said the peasant organization.

New Public Citizen Report Details NAFTA’s Broken Promises

January 1, 2014 Public Citizen, www.yubanet.com Educate! NAFTA, TPP

On the eve of the North American Free Trade Agreement's (NAFTA) 20th anniversary (Jan. 1), a new Public Citizen report shows that not only did promises made by proponents not materialize, but many results are exactly the opposite. Such outcomes include a staggering $181 billion U.S. trade deficit with NAFTA partners Mexico and Canada, one million net U.S. jobs lost because of NAFTA, a doubling of immigration from Mexico, larger agricultural trade deficits with Mexico and Canada, and more than $360 million paid to corporations after "investor-state" tribunal attacks on, and rollbacks of, domestic public interest policies.

The Roots Of Global Revolt: The 20th Anniversary Of NAFTA & Zapitistas

December 31, 2013 David Solnit, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! NAFTA, TPP, WTO, Zapatistas

January 1 is the 20th anniversary of the enactment of NAFTA and the beginning of the Zapatista movement in Mexico. One year later on January 1 1995, the WTO took effect. In this article, David Solnit looks at the many campaigns and movements that have developed as a result of corporate globalization and the organizing in response to it by a wide variety of movements and networks of people. We can see the roots of the ongoing struggle in the United States as well as the global revolt against neoliberalism, corporatization and big finance capitalism. Corporate globalization attempts to put forward but is faltering while the movements from below seem to be rising. Knowing that makes a commentary by one writer ever more valid: "[The] global corporate system isn't a triumphant monster, but a brittle, ungainly, jerry-rigged contraption whose managers are vainly scrambling to hold it together against a rising tide of crises. See the issues that engage your activism in that light, not as though you're desperate, but as though the system is."

NAFTA At 20: Legacy Of Lost Jobs, Lower Wages

December 17, 2013 Jeff Faux, fpif.org Educate! NAFTA, TPP

There is nothing in the current treaties being negotiated by President Obama that indicate any different result. Essentially, these laws will continue the trend of privatization of public goods to create profit for the wealthiest people in the US and other countries, will weaken workers and heighten the race to the bottom. Research on the impact of the TPP finds exactly this: the wealthiest will get richer while 90% of Americans get poorer and the economy will grow only by 1/10th or 1% annually. The race to the bottom in wages means an expanding wealth divide throughout the world. The US already has the largest wealth divide of any developed nation, and larger than many developing nations. If TPP becomes law we will look back 20 years after it has been enacted and see much the same. It is so obviously predictable that one wonders what political leadership is thinking? They must know they are empowering the wealthy, dis-empowering workers and weakening the economy. If they really cared about their people the lesson from 20 years of NAFTA is rigging the economy for big business is bad for the economy, the people and the planet and a new direction is needed. Rather than repeating the mistakes of NAFTA, they would be correcting them.

Zapatista’s On NAFTA And The TPP

September 15, 2013 OWS Zapatista, www.interoccupy.net Educate! NAFTA, TPP, Zapatistas

Negotiated in secret by the US, Japan, Vietnam and 12 other countries, TPP will subvert democracy by creating a system of international tribunals outside the jurisdiction of our court system where corporations can challenge current and future banking regulations (among other things making a Robin hood Tax illegal) and attack our environmental (including fracking bans), health, and food safety rules. They can also use these tribunals to undermine access to essential services and lifesaving medicines by claiming that our laws violate their “investor rights.” TPP will lower food safety standards, replace family farms with factory farms and force countries to enforce genetically modified foods. Described as the “Son of SOPA”, TPP will attack our internet freedom and privacy.

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