Who Will Stop CAFTA Contest
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Quest for Peace of the Quixote Center will run a full-page, New York Times signature ad in opposition to CAFTA- the Central American Free Trade Agreement. The 44,000 dollars and 2,500 signatures it takes is being raised from engaged citizens like you, who wish to proudly and publicly say "No" to CAFTA. The state with the highest number of signers (as a percentage of the state's total population) will be specifically acknowledged in the New York Times Ad. Show the country and Mr. Bush that your state will not tolerate CAFTA! See ad text below.
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Democracy?
The environment?
Human Rights?
Family Farms?
- More people live in poverty...
- More farmers have lost their lands...
- More workers have lost their jobs...
- More environmental laws have been overturned...
Yet the bottom line for big business has improved.
Based on this track record, the Bush administration is moving quickly and quietly to secure an expansion of NAFTA to Central America. The Central American Free Trade Agreement is another NAFTA disaster.
- Expands corporate rights to sue governments over environmental laws if they lessen profit, while denying individual citizens the right to effectively petition for environmental and labor rights concerns.
- Expands failed agricultural policies that feed biotech firms and agribusiness at the expense of family farmers in the U.S. and Latin America.
- Expands the race to the bottom, for lower wages and lower environmental standards.
Cosponsored by: Campaign for Labor Rights, Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA), Nicaragua Network, Committe in Solidariy with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), U.S./El Salvador Sister Cities, Nicaragua/U.S. Friendship Office, Witness for Peace, Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America, U.S./Labor Education in the Americas Project (U.S. LEAP), The Share Foundation, Oxfam America, Resource Center of the Americas, International Labor Rights Fund