NAFTA Growing Resistance & Calls For Renegotiation By Janet M Eaton

A power point presentation by Janet M Eaton, PhD, academic, researcher, activist and free trade critic. June 8, 2008 (Click here to view a pdf version.)

This 60 slide power point with text, quotes, references and images chronicles the resistance to NAFTA that is rapidly emerging across North America. Civil Society groups, political parties, elected representatives, public policy centres and coalitions in Mexico, Canada and the US, as well as cross border coalitions, are all calling for the renegotiation of NAFTA.

It also  documents US State level free trade oversight legislation, federal level  promises that  have emerged in the Democratic Primaries, and US Federal legislation in the works,  including the June 4, 2008 T.R.A.D.E Act,  all of which  reflect growing public opinion to renegotiate NAFTA and free trade in general.

It is hoped by documenting and exposing the breadth and extent of this movement that citizens and politicians alike will recognize the imperative for action. With the significant evidence of failure of the present `free trade´ system and the extent of resistance highlighted herein, the recalcitrant and reactionary calls of elite proponents of NAFTA, to maintain the status quo, must be challenged.

Conclusions and links to other power points on the flaws and failures of NAFTA, and the SPP are found at the end of this power point.  http://www.stopthehogs.com/pdf/nafta-resistance.pdf