(From my email sent from Public Citizen)
June 16, 2011
Only the House of Representatives can stop the Obama administration’s horror-show plan to implement Bush’s NAFTA-style job-killing Korea Free Trade Agreement. The vote on this deal could literally happen at any moment. That’s why we need you to put pressure on Congress now to make sure this deal does not get passed.
Stopping NAFTA with Korea is key because, shockingly, it is but one of three summertime blockbuster flops that the Obama administration plans to release. If the Korea deal passes, next up are NAFTA-style deals with Colombia, the unionist murder capital of the world, and Panama, a notorious tax haven. Now more than ever we need to raise our voices and show our opposition to these NAFTA clones.
We know it’s not so simple to boil down all of the problems in these 900-page nightmare deals with such diversely devastating impacts. So, we’ve taken a stab with this 2 minute film.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tCjItv8%2BxBrD84NOmMfeKI2V2g8Gzfil">Watch our video on the job-killing Korea trade deal, and then help make it go viral. Email it to friends and family, share it on Facebook and Twitter, or post it on your blog.
Raise the profile on an issue bigger than any fight this year! And, don’t forget to tell Congress to vote NO on the NAFTA deal with Korea.
Thanks for all you do!
Beatriz Lopez and James Ploeser
Senior Field Organizers
Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch
Related:
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/may/15/study-says-free-trade-pacts-cost-jobs/Study says NAFTA free-trade pacts cost jobsAnalysis finds net loss of 27,500 in Mid-SouthPosted May 15, 2011
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk told members of the House Agriculture Committee last week that a proposed free-trade agreement with South Korea would deliver 70,000 American jobs.
But a report by the Economic Policy Institute earlier this month analyzed the terms of the agreement and concluded it would lead to displacing 159,000 American jobs in its first seven years.
The same report, "Heading South: U.S.-Mexico Trade and job displacement after NAFTA," makes the case that the free-trade agreement with Mexico and Canada that went into effect in 1994 has cost 682,900 American jobs, three-fifths of them in the manufacturing sector.
In the three states of the Mid-South, while some jobs were created from increased exports, far more were lost when manufacturing production lines left the region as tariff barriers fell. Tennessee, which picked up 18,600 export-related jobs from 1994 to 2010, lost 35,100, for a net job loss of 16,400.
Related:
Starting my first year in office, I will convene annual meetings with Mr. Calderón and the prime minister of Canada. Unlike similar summits under President Bush, these will be conducted with a level of transparency that represents the close ties among our three countries. We will seek the active and open involvement of citizens, labor, the private sector and non-governmental organizations in setting the agenda and making progress.- Barack Obama, in a February 20, 2008 Dallas Morning News
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/viewpoints/stories/DN-obama_20edi.ART.State.Edition1.464da8e.html">op-ed
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