Salmon and crab fisher Pietro Parravano on his vessel, the Anne B., in Half Moon Bay, California.
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Empty Promises? NAFTA at 10
January 28, 2004
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It's been ten years since the North American Free Trade Agreement was implemented. Proponents claimed that NAFTA would be a solution for poverty and sluggish economic growth in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Opponents warned that NAFTA would spark a race to the bottom in wages, labor rights, and environmental standards. On this edition of Making Contact, we hear from people who are working on the front lines of so-called free trade-farmers and a fisherman-and get their perspectives on corporate-led economic globalization. We also have a report from Chiapas, Mexico, where indigenous communities celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Zapatista uprising.
Featuring:
Pietro Parravano, president, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations; Dena Hoff, farmer in eastern Montana, member of the National Family Farm Coalition; Congressman Dennis Kucinich, co-chair, Congressional Progressive Caucus and candidate for the Democratic nomination for President; Lori Wallach, director, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch; Lucas Benitez, Coalition of Immokalee Workers; John Ross, author and journalist who has been covering Mexican Politics over the last 30 years; Marceline White, director, Global Trade Program with Women's Edge; Zapatista Comandante Zebedeo; Alicia, Tzeltal indigenous woman and coordinatior in a Zapatista Autonomous Communities; Jennifer Whitney, member of the collective Notes from Nowhere.
For more information :
Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's
Associations
PO Box 29370
San Francisco, CA 94129-0370
415-561-5080
www.pcffa.org
National Family Farm Coalition
110 Maryland Ave., NE 307
Washington, DC 20002
800-639-3276
Public Citizen
Global Trade Watch
1600 20th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
202-588-1000
www.citizen.org/trade
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
PO Box 603
Immokalee, FL 34143
239-657-8311
www.ciw-online.org
Women's Edge Coalition
1825 Connecticut Avenue NW,
Suite 800
Washington, D.C. 20009
edge@womensedge.org
www.womensedge.org
Notes from Nowhere
info@weareeverywhere.org
www.WeAreEverywhere.org