PAM Opposes CAFTA Before Citizen Trade Policy Commission

Mothers and Women Against CAFTA held a press conference in front of Sen. Susan Collins office in Lewiston asking her to vote no on CAFTA. Photo: Martha Spiees

Testifying before the Citizen Trade Policy Commission in April, PAM executive director Greg Field noted that corporate globalization and free trade policies promote the conditions for war. They limit public investment in social programs. They have caused popular unrest in many countries, and American taxpapers are being asked to foot the bill for training the militaries in those countries to put down the unrest. In Maine, Field said, manufacturing jobs that pay a living wage have been lost. He concluded that fast track authority on these agreements has taken decision-making away from Congress and placed it in the hands of a few trade bureaucrats

 

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