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Sat, 3/3: Teach-in on Free Trade
Mar 2, 2007
Focus: Human Rights
Action Request: Visit - in person
Location: New York, United States
Teach-in on Trade
Opposed to extending Fast Track?
Opposed to the Colombian, the Korean, or the Peru Free Trade Agreement?

If you’re concerned with U.S. international trade policy and its effect on both workers in this country and in Korea and the nations of South America you should come to the Teach-in on Trade for more detailed information on these agreements and a tool kit to help you work for their defeat. At the Teach-in we’ll prepare for a lobbying trip to Washington on Wednesday March 7.

Saturday, March 3
1 to 3:30 pm
NYU Kimmel Center
60 Washington Sq. South, Room 910
Take the A,B,C,D,E,F,Q/W. 4; 1,9/Christopher; N,R/8th St.; 6/Astor Place
For more info, contact: Leonard Morin @ <mailto:leonard.morin@gmail.com>leonard.morin@gmail.comwww.ftaareferendum.org

Hosted and Co-Sponsored by Oxfam@NYU

Co-Sponsored by NYC People’s Referendum on Free Trade, Wetlands Activism Collective, Global Justice for Animals, Koreans Against War and Neoliberalism, New York Committee in  Solidarity with the People of El Salvador,  Movement Against the FTAs, Polo Democratico, Health GAP (Global Access Project) and others.


The Teach-in on Trade will bring you information on what’s happening in Washington, information not generally
covered in the popular media. We also bring you:

• History of NAFTA & CAFTA & the lessons it has to offer.
• Fast Track – what does it mean and why does it matter.
• Briefing on agreements in the works: Columbia, Korea & Peru
• Another path to Fair Trade Agreements - voices from the South
• Sustainable localism – an alternative to Globalism

And we’ll talk about what we would like to see coming out of Washington: No to Fast Track. No to the Columbia, Korea & Peru Free Trade Agreements.

The Neoliberal agenda has produced the greatest disparity of incomes since the Great Depression; American wages have stagnated and poverty is rife throughout the hemisphere. U.S. “free” trade agreements – anything but free – seek to lock up economies for the benefit of Transnational Corporations, mostly owned by interests of the global north, and leave the rest of the world in peonage. We are now at a junction point. The overwhelming incompetence
of the Bush administration as evidenced by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and domestically by its failures in dealing with the aftermath of Katrina in New Orleans, brought about major changes in the 2006 elections results. People felt the effects of the Corporate agenda and their votes refl ected this. We are presented with an opportunity and a challenge, as the mixed record of the Democratic Party shows. (They did bring us NAFTA & CAFTA, after all.)
But popular outrage, both in this country and in the Global South, is sending a message to our representatives in Washington, that enough is enough, no more of these Corporate-flavored agreements, it’s time to roll them back in favor of the rights of workers and the rights of the environment. , call 718-505-9762, or visit


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