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Free trade Area of the Americas: Who Would Benefit?
March 28, 2001
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There's been widespread opposition to free trade agreements around the world. In April 2001, high-level negotiators from dozens of countries will meet to discuss one of the largest free trade compacts ever proposed. On this program, we take a look at the Free Trade Area of the Americas agreement, and efforts to derail it.
Featuring:
Chuck Mack, International Brotherhood of Teamsters Western Region; Carlos Beas, Union of Indigenous Committees in the Northern Zone of the Isthmus of Oaxaca (UCIZONI); Lori Wallach; Public Citizen - Global Trade Watch; Clemente "Ibe" Wilson; Kuna Youth Movement; Marcella Olivera, Coalition for the Defense of Water and Life; Antonia Juhasz, International Forum on Globalization; Richard Langlois, Centrale des Syndicats du Québec; Hector De La Cueva, Red Mexicana de Acción Frente al Libre Comercio; Jaggi Singh, CLAC Anti-Capitalist Convergence.
For more information:
International Brotherhood of Teamsters Western Region
P.O. Box 2270
Oakland, California 94621-0170
510-569-9317;
fax: 510-430-1953
Union of Indigenous Committees in the Northern Zone
of the Isthmus of Oaxaca (UCIZONI)
APTO Postal 81
Matias Romero Oaxaca 70300
ucizoni@laneta.apc.org
Public Citizen - Global Trade Watch
215 Pennsylvania Ave., SE
Washington, DC 20003
800-289-3787
www.tradewatch.org
Kuna Youth Movement
P.O. Box 98
Panamá Zone 1, Repúblic de Panamá
011-507-267-4792
fax: 011-507-274-0854
mjkuna@hotmail.com
Coalition for the Defense of Water and Life
www.americas.org/country/Bolivia/bolivia_noticias.htm
International Forum on Globalization
1062 Fort Cronkhite
Sausalito, California 94965
415-229-9357;
fax: 415-229-9340;ifg@ifg.org
www.ifg.org
Centrale des Syndicats du Québec
www.ceq.qc.ca/
Red Mexicana de Acción Frente al Libre Comercio RMALC
Godard 20, Col. Guadalupe Victoria
México, D.F., CP 07790 MEXICO
tel/fax : 011-52-5-355-1177;rmalc@laneta.apc.org
www.rmalc.org.mx
CLAC Anti-Capitalist Convergence
www.agp.org