[Peace] Fwd: Tell Congress to Stop the Colombia Free Trade Agreement

[Belden Fields]

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> From: "Jobs with Justice National" <jwjnational at jwj.org>
> Date: September 15, 2008 6:26:09 PM CDT
> To: "Belden Fields" <a-fields at uiuc.edu>
> Subject: Tell Congress to Stop the Colombia Free Trade Agreement
> Reply-To: notice-reply-wis6dii29753neej at unionvoice.org
>
> Supporters of so-called "free trade" in Congress, together with
> their allies in the Colombian government, are putting on a full
> court press in Washington DC to try to get the Colombia Free
> Trade Agreement (FTA) passed in the US Congress this year. The
> Colombian government has sent more than 70 representatives to
> put maximum pressure on the US Congress to approve the FTA, and
> this weekend Colombian President Uribe will be in Washington to
> continue the lobbying. These proponents of the Colombia FTA fear
> that if the agreement doesn't pass this year while Bush is still
> in office it will never pass, so they are pushing to have it
> come to a vote during a possible "lame duck" congressional
> session at the end of this year.
>
> Act now to stop the Colombia FTA: http://www.unionvoice.org/ 
> campaign/colombia_fta2008/wis6dii29753neej?
>
> Hundreds of groups working for human rights and economic justice
> in the U.S. and Colombia - including trade unions, peasant
> groups, indigenous organizations and women?s organization -
> remain firmly opposed to the Colombia FTA. On September 10
> AFL-CIO President John Sweeney spoke out against the Colombia
> FTA, against the increasing violence in Colombia against trade
> unionists, and against the impunity for the murders of
> unionists. "It is unconscionable that the Colombian government
> is continuing to expend significant resources here in Washington
> to lobby for passage of the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
> as the violence facing trade unionists in Colombia escalates,"
> said Pres. Sweeney.
>
> The deal is wrong for workers in the U.S. and Colombia. The
> Colombia FTA is a desperate attempt by the Bush administration
> to expand the free trade model that has proven to have failed.
> This trade policy agenda has contributed to the loss of more
> than 3 million manufacturing jobs since 2000, skyrocketing trade
> deficits, and shrinking paychecks for US workers. Meanwhile,
> millions of small farmers in Mexico, Central America, and the
> U.S. are being forced off their land and out of their
> livelihoods by these agreements.
>
> Act now to stop the Colombian FTA and to put a halt to this
> attempt to further expand corporate power in the hemisphere
> before Bush leaves office.
>
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