Janet Eaton's Slide Show On The SPP [Info Session Boston State House, Mar 2008]

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New England Alliance for Democracy

Janet Eaton's Slide Show on SPP
By Dave Lewit, Boston-Cambridge Alliance for Democracy

Everything You Wanted to Know About Globalization, NAFTA, and the
"Security & Prosperity Partnership [SPP] of North America"

George Bush, with the Mexican president and the Canadian prime
minister, are quietly building a Fortress North America and
continental "free-trade" area under mega-corporate direction. Not
even many congress members know about this, because it was put
together in 2005 by the three nations' chief executives without any
legislative input or oversight. It's details and personnel are
secret. But you can inform Congress and your fellow citizens by
following these PowerPoint slides by one of Canada's foremost
academic-scholar-activists, Janet M. Eaton, PhD.*

The pictures, which you can click through while reading the
informative headlines and explanations, may take you an hour. Of
course you can focus on any of the parts you like:

    * Globalization and its decline

    * North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its failures

    * "Security & Prosperity Partnership" (SPP) and its Corporate
advisers

    * SPP "SuperCorridor" Network to Globalize North America

         1. How that will affect transportation, communities, local
businesses
         2. How that will contribute to pollution, global warming,
species extinction
         3. How that will threaten water security and prolong fossil
fuel dependency

    * Threats to Mexican oil, Canadian tar sands

    * Disempowerment of Labor and working people

    * Border security, surveillance, threats to civil rights

    * Leveling regulations concerning health and environment

    * Threats to national sovereignty and state and local government

    * Resisting Globalism in North America, in your state, and
locally

    * A valuable listing/linking of articles and other resources, for
and against SPP

This slide show is a revised version of Janet Eaton's presentations
at the Boston Public Library and the Massachusetts State House on
March 23 and 26, 2008. The latter was set up as an information
session for legislators and the public by Representative Byron
Rushing with the help of the Boston-Cambridge and North Bridge
chapters of the Alliance for Democracy. Rep. Rushing is principal
sponsor of the Massachusetts Globalization Impact Bill, H.374, which
the Boston-Cambridge Alliance helped write. It has been favorably
reported out of the Joint Committee on Economic Development and
Emerging Technologies, calling for a watchdog commission on
international trade agreements such as WTO, NAFTA, and SPP.

To download the presentation, click below. Note that this is a 4MB
file and will take some time to download on a slow internet
connection. If you prefer to get a copy snail-mailed on disk, please
email afd@thealliancefordemocracy.org.
SPP Slide Show click here.
http://www.newenglandalliance.org/boston_presentation.pdf

For further insights on the panel presentations at the State House
arranged by Representative Byron Rushing see the article "State House
info session builds support for H.374".
http://www.newenglandalliance.org/sn_display1.php?row_ID=26
For more background on SPP see the Alliance for Democracy's SPP page.
http://www.newenglandalliance.org/

*Dr. Janet M Eaton is an academic, researcher, activist, Sierra Club
of Canada's International Liaison to the Sierra Club's Corporate
Accountabilty Committee and a well-known critic of Corporate
Globalization, NAFTA and the SPP. jmeaton@ns.sympatico.ca