NAFTA

Democracy Is In The Streets

The Nation | By Daniel Wilkinson | April 8, 2004 OPENING MEXICO: The Making of a Democracy. By Julia Preston and Samuel Dillon. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 592 pp. $ 30.

Ten Years Later; Was NAFTA Oversold?

Grand Forks Herald | By Mikkel Pates | April 6, 2004 The North American Free Trade Agreement is 10 years old. That's something for agriculture to note - even celebrate - but the free trade agreement and others like it have been oversold, said Gene Hugoson, Minnesota commissioner of agriculture.

Foresters Decry Trade Encounter; Possible Option: Selling Off Land

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | By PERALTE C. PAUL | April 6, 2004 As a forester in the northeast Georgia town of Washington, Jenny Brown is tied to the Southern yellow pine forests she and her father manage for clients.

Three Strikes, Is FTAA NAFTA-Expansion Out?

Public Citizen | April 1, 2004 Statement by Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch This is the third "save-the-Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) emergency meeting" that has collapsed since the Miami FTAA Ministerial, which itself narrowly escaped a full public implosion.

Movie About Hollywood Madame Heidi Fleiss

The Miami Herald | BY GLENN GARVIN | March 29, 2004 As the soothing strains of Don't Worry, Be Happyfloat in the background, convicted Hollywood madame Heidi Fleiss delivers the Zen core of her philosophy:

The Imbalance of Trade

U.S. News & World Report | By Lou Dobbs | April 5, 2004 The President, many of his cabinet members, and more than a few of the administration's surrogates are desperately trying to alter the national debate on the cost of free trade, outsourcing of American jobs to cheap overseas labor markets, and responsible trade policies.

Water and NAFTA: A Sweetheart Message from Canada""s Farmers

Country Life in BC | By Wendy Holm | March 18, 2004

A Mexican Worker Dies Each Day

Associated Press | By JUSTIN PRITCHARD | March 14, 2004 The jobs that lure Mexican workers to the United States are killing them in a worsening epidemic that is now claiming a victim a day, an Associated Press investigation has found. Though Mexicans often take the most hazardous jobs, they are more likely than others to be killed even when doing similarly risky work.

It""s Back To The Dark Ages On Trade

Chicago Tribune | By Amity Shlaes | February 24, 2004 It is Feb. 24 2005, and President John Kerry and his economic team--Roger Altman and Alan Blinder from the U.S. Treasury and U.S. trade representative Clyde Prestowitz--are busy converting the U.S. into a protectionist fortress. - The North American Free Trade Agreement? Rewrite it to force Mexican wages upward.

Trading Down In a Steel Town

Newsday (New York) | By Deborah Barfield Berry | February 2, 2004 Georgetown, S.C. - James Sanderson's cell phone rang just after noon. A local reporter was calling to find out if he had heard about a potential buyer for the closed steel mill.