NAFTA 2: DEMOCRACY OR CORPORATE RULE?

January 27, 2019
TRADE JUSTICE ALLIANCE SUNDAY NIGHT WEBINAR
NAFTA 2: DEMOCRACY OR CORPORATE RULE?



In our continuing efforts to educate about the realities of corporate-designed trade deals, we are pleased to welcome Sharon Anglin Treat, Senior Trade Attorney with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) and Stan Sorscher, Labor Representative at the Society for Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace.

An 11-term Maine State legislator, Sharon Treat has been a member of the Intergovernmental Policy Advisory Committee (IGPAC) to the U.S. Trade Representative and of the Maine Citizen Trade Policy Commission. Sharon Treat has presented many times to trade negotiators concerning access to health care, tobacco policy, and environmental protections. She has practiced law with environmental organizations, in state government and in private practice, and has taught environmental law at Maine Law School and several colleges.
Sharon Treat will educate us on the Regulatory Cooperation Chapter (28) and other egregious provisions that are included in NAFTA 2 / USMCA that, if passed intact, will give unelected corporate interests enforceable rights to alter all of our regulatory bodies long after Donald Trump leaves the White House, even if they don’t relate to trade! Many of us can’t help but believe these provisions open up the country to dangerous attacks on our air, water and food safety by those who will profit from deregulations. And Congress will be helpless to change this part of NAFTA 2 once it goes into effect. We can’t let that happen!
We also look forward to hearing from Stan Sorscher, Labor Representative at the Society for Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA), a union representing scientists, engineers, pilots, technical and professional employees in the Aerospace industry. Stan Sorscher is a delegate to the Labor Advisory Committee for the US Trade Representative, and serves on the board of the Washington Fair Trade Coalition. Stan will discuss the questionable logic behind the neoliberal model and free trade that has decimated his hometown of Flint, Michigan and numerous other communities, as he and the Washington Fair Trade Coalition call for trade policy that works towards the well-being of people and planet.
The big question in this era of unbridled corporate rule is whether we continue to blindly follow the neoliberal, free trade model into climate chaos, growing inequality and political instability, or do we demand democracy over corporate rule.


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