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What""s Behind the Global Backlash--A Business Week Poll on Globalization

In an era of unprecedented prosperity, why is there a growing backlash in America against globalization? The benefits of free trade may appear obvious to CEOs, policymakers, and pundits, but denial of a rising wave of public anger against trade could prove dangerous.

US Labor Intensifies Fight Against China Pact

By Adam Entous WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Opponents of President Clinton's landmark trade pact with China will intensify their lobbying campaign on Tuesday, with "fair trade" caravans through Texas and Massachusetts and television ads featuring grim footage of Chinese sweatshop workers.

Unions Deny Stand Over Trade Policy Is Protectionism

By STEVEN GREENHOUSE WASHINGTON, April 22 -- The American labor movement, while waging its biggest battle ever against trade liberalization, is trying to fend off charges from many economists, business executives and members of Congress that it has re-embraced protectionism.

Less Bank -- More World

Marc Cooper, LA Weekly WASHINGTON -- "Brothers and sisters! We've already won the Battle of Washington," said Lori Wallach, head of Ralph Nader's Global Trade Watch, to a teach-in of 1,500 people last Friday night -- two days before the street skirmishes began. "Now, all that is left is the mopping-up operation."

After A16: A Mobilization That Mattered

The Beat / The Nation WASHINGTON -- There are no easy measures of success of failure for protest demonstrations. Concessions by entrenched powers are seldom choreographed to illustrate the precise impact of street-level challenges to the status quo.

Antiglobalization""s Many Groups Find Common Ground

Business Week / NEWS ANALYSIS / APRIL 17, 2000 The Washington protests could be a turning point in getting the disparate factions to work in concert -- and more effectively

Who""s Afraid of Globalization?

Editorial Page / Wall Street Journal By Gregg Easterbrook, a senior editor of the New Republic and author of "Beside Still Waters: Searching for Meaning in an Age of Doubt" (Quill, 1999).

U.S. Unions Rally Thousands Against China Trade Deal

Agence France Presse / Olivier Knox WASHINGTON, April 12 (AFP) - Major US unions and other foes of granting China permanent trade privileges rallied thousands of protesters at the US Congress Wednesday before deploying them to win over lawmakers.

Workers Rally to Protest China Trade Deal

By ASHLEY BAKER WASHINGTON, April 12 (UPI) -- Thousands of blue-collar workers massed on Capitol Hill Wednesday to protest a possible trade deal with China that they fear will eliminate their jobs as corporations move to exploit cheap overseas wages and weak environmental standards.

Daley Urges Support of China Trade Deal

By ASHLEY BAKER WASHINGTON, April 11 (UPI) -- Acknowledging that trade alone was not likely to deter government-sponsored human rights abuses within China, Commerce Secretary William Daley told lawmakers on Tuesday that including Beijing in the world trading system would nevertheless create a better, more stable and safer world.