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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><I>Hi! Can I get this on the act-ma list? Thanks! Barbara Clancy, 978-562-1378<BR>
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NAFTA Failure and Alternatives for the Future: Stop SPP and the US Colombian<BR>
Trade Promotion Agreement<BR>
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Sunday, March 9<BR>
2 p.m.-5:30 p.m.<BR>
MIT Building 34, Room 101<BR>
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Learn about the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, a "super-NAFTA" package of trade and security initiatives being organized behind closed doors between corporate leadership and the Mexican, Canadian, and US governments, and the Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (Colombia FTA), a “free-trade” agreement built on a history of neoliberal repression of workers rights. How can we stop these pro-corporate giveaways, and support democratic, fair-trade alternatives? Local groups are working to stop these measures and promote democratic alternatives—find out how you can help!<BR>
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This two-part event is free and open to everyone. NAFTA/SPP speakers include<BR>
Carleen Picard of the Council of Canadians, Hector Sanchez, policy education coordinator for Global Exchange's Mexico Program, and Manuel Perez Rocha, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington. At 4:10 p.m., author Maria Clemencia Ramirez and Luis Fernando Castro of Colombia Vive will discuss Plan Colombia and the Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement.<BR>
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Directions: MIT's Building 34 is located at 50 Vassar St., off Mass. Ave. (see www.whereis/mit/edu)<BR>
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Co-sponsored by the Greater Boston Latin American and Caribbean Coalition, Boston/Cambridge Alliance for Democracy, North Bridge Alliance for Democracy, AFSC Project Voice, MIT Western Hemisphere Project, Colombia Vive, Jobs with Justice, Massachusetts Global Action, Global Exchange, and Grassroots International. For more information, please call Barbara at 781-894-1179, or email afd@thealliancefordemocracy.org.<BR>
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