[Imc] Trading Democracy on PBS--Feb. 5

[Peter Miller]

Chapter 11 on trial!!!  Should corporations be allowed to sue 
governments?  Tune in to WILL-TV at 9 p.m. on Tuesday Feb. 5.  The program 
will be re-broadcast in the middle of the night a couple times, too.

Make sure you thank program manager Dave Thiel at WILL 
(333-1070/d-thiel at uiuc.edu) for airing this program.  Some stations (not 
WILL) are having on-air community discussions about the program, as well.

-Peter

Bill Moyers takes an investigative look at the way corporate
investors are using an obscure provision in the North American
Free Trade Agreement to secretly challenge laws, regulations
and jury verdicts before an international trade tribunal. Allowed
by chapter 11 of NAFTA, multinational corporations have been
able to argue that certain laws aimed at protecting the
environment are harmful to them economically. These parties
are demanding compensation and getting it. Moyers goes
beyond public record to discover how this provision got into
NAFTA and who lobbied for it.


Peter Miller, co-host
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