[Peace-discuss] not surprisingly - Clinton Announces Support for NAFTA Expansion

[Ricky Baldwin]

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> > BREAKING: Clinton Announces Support for NAFTA Expansion
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> >  By David Sirota
> > Campaign for America's Future, 11/8/07
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> > Under intense pressure from Sen. John Edwards (D) and a building
> > national fair trade movement, Sen. Hillary Clinton tonight finally
> > disclosed her position on a bill to expand the NAFTA trade model that
> > passed the U.S. House today and is moving to the Senate. Reuters is
> > reporting that Clinton says she will vote for the Peru Free Trade
> > Agreement - the first agreement in a package of agreements to vastly
> > expand the NAFTA trade model. Clinton is citing the Peru deal's labor
> > standards as justification for her support, despite the fact that the
> > U.S. Chamber of Commerce has told reporters it has recieved
> > "assurances" that those labor standards are "unenforceable."
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> > The announcement comes on the same day the New York Times reports
> > that Clinton is being endorsed by NAFTA architect Robert Rubin, the
> > CEO of Citigroup - a company that stands to benefit from the NAFTA
> > model. Rubin's announcement came with a promise to raise Clinton more
> > money from Wall Street.
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> > With Obama also supporting the lobbyist-written Peru agreement,
> > Clinton's announcement is a huge opening for Edwards, who has made
> > opposition to NAFTA-style trade agreements a centerpiece of his
> > campaign. As my nationally syndicated newspaper column out tomorrow
> > details, trade and globalization is taking center stage in the 2008
> > presidential campaign. Clinton's announcement will now specifically
> > make job-killing, wage-destroying NAFTA-style trade policy a
> > flashpoint in the race for the White House.
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