CAFTA... a "free trade" agreement between the US, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, and (possibly) the Dominican Republic.
CAFTA...
- will increase inequality between the common worker and the corporation that will buy him out.
- will privatize essential public services such as water, health care, education, and energy.
- will support even more outsourcing while undercutting human rights for the workers who will work.
- will facilitate pollution by favoring mass, corporate farms.
- is anti-democratic in its implementation-- it does leave room for public forum and forces countries to abide by US corporately-designed laws.
- is anti-democratic in its form-- it was written in highly technical writing and will be voted on without being read.
- will destroy our environment.
- ties the hands of poor countries.
- is being actively opposed in north, central, and latin america.
- NY
- Texas
- Guatemala
- El Salvador (Excellent economic analysis!)
- Catholics
- Oxfam
- AIDS advocates
- Rep. Earl Pomeroy (ND)
No comments:
Post a Comment