Guest guest Posted July 17, 2002 Report Share Posted July 17, 2002 ****ACTION ALERT**ACTION ALERT**** Please distribute widely JULY 17 FLORIDA ALL STATE CALL DAY AGAINST FAST TRACK: NO BLANK CHECK FOR CORPORATE INTERESTS! AFL-CIO SPONSORED TOLL FREE #: 877-611-0063 Join workers, environmentalists, family farmers and concerned citizens everywhere in telling the Congress to say NO to Fast Track! Fast Track is a sneaky maneuver that gives corporations and their government cronies a free ride to go over the heads of the American people and devise trade agreements in their own best interests. Under Fast Track, trade agreements (like NAFTA, the WTO and the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas/FTAA) are delivered signed and sealed to Congress AFTER they have been negotiated for an up or down vote by Congress with no amendments allowed and only 20 hours of debate. Fast-tracked agreements like NAFTA and the WTO brought us lost jobs, attacks on local environmental laws, the " race to the bottom " in labor and environmental standards here and abroad and the destruction of more than 33,000 family farms. Bush-appointed U.S. trade negotiators are " advised " by more than 500 multinational corporations. Before its recent blowup, Enron was a key advisor to U.S. negotiators promoting trade in " services " - including energy deregulation - at the WTO! Under NAFTA, foreign corporations have sued for billions of dollars in compensation when public interest laws, like bans on chemicals or Buy America requirements, cut into their profit margin. Fast Track is a way to make sure that the public remains uninformed of these corporate boondoggles. When an agreement is " Fast-Tracked, " the final product of these corporate-driven negotiations is steamrolled through Congress without any chance for debate or changes. CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE AND SAY YOU WANT DEMOCRACY, NOT FAST TRACK! Call the DC Capitol switchboard and ask to be connected to your Rep: AFL-CIO Toll Free #: 877-611-0063 OR Capitol direct line: 202-224-3121 Don’t know who your rep is? Click this icon. Contact THE Florida Fair Trade Campaign at (727) 896-8224 or oneworldnow . For more info on the web please go to Tampa Bay Contingent- Fair Trade Campaign or www.tradewatch.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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