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The New York Times & Log In: Apr 9, 11:02am 1 review politics, trade, colombia
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Congress-Colombia.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin; Pelosi to Block Vote on Colombia Trade

From the page: "WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defying the White House, Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday the House will change its rules to avoid a required vote this year on a hotly disputed free-trade agreement with Colombia."

Trade and inequality, revisited | vox - Research-based policy analysis and comme…: Dec 31, 2007 8:35am 1 review economics, trade
http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/261; by Paul Krugman

From the page: "What all this comes down to is that it's no longer safe to assert, as we could a dozen years ago, that the effects of trade on income distribution in wealthy countries are fairly minor. There's now a good case that they are quite big, and getting bigger.

This doesnā€t mean that I'm endorsing protectionism. It does mean that free-traders need better answers to the anxieties of those who are likely to end up on the losing side from globalisation."

Behind the Edwards Surge: Right Message at the Right Time - Yahoo! News: Dec 29, 2007 9:48pm 1 review health, politics, jobs, trade
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20071226/cm_thenation/1263409; From the page: "Edwards summed up his increasingly aggressive and powerful anti-corporate themes with a declaration: "What makes America America is at stake: jobs, the middle class, health care, preserving the environment in the world for future generations.

"But all those things are at risk. And why are they at risk? Because of corporate power and corporate greed in Washington, D.C. And we have to take them on. You can't make a deal with them. You can't hope that they're going to go away. You have to actually be willing to fight. And I want every caucus-goer to know I've been fighting these people and winning my entire life. And if we do this together, rise up together, we can actually make absolutely certain, starting here in Iowa, that we make this country better than we left it."

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Turning a broad question about human rights toward the specific issue of trade policy, the former senator said that human rights, human needs and human values "should be central to our trade policy."

"But," he added, "if you look at what's happened with American trade policy, look at what America got: Big corporations made a lot of money, are continuing to make a lot of money in China. But what did America get in return? We got millions of dangerous Chinese toys. We lost millions of jobs.

"And right here in Iowa, the Maytag plant in Newton closed. A guy named Doug Bishop, who I got to know very well, had worked in that plant, and his family had worked in that plant literally for generations. And his job is now gone. The same thing, by the way, happened in the plant that my father worked in when I was growing up. It is so important that we stop allowing these corporate powers and corporate profits to run America's policy, whether it's trade policy, how we engage with China. This is not good for America. It's not good for American jobs. And it's not good for working people in this country.""

Economists View: Paul Krugman: Trouble With Trade: Dec 28, 2007 12:23pm 1 review economics, trade
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2007/12/paul-krugman-tr.html; Paul Krugman: Trouble With Trade

From the page: "The consequences of increased trade with countries that are much poorer than we are"

Daily Kos: Sweatshops, shark fins, labor abuse, over fishing &US politics: Dec 4, 2007 9:25am 1 review economics, humanitarianism, politics, economy, trade
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/4/113555/717; Excellent research! From the page: "Since 1999, I've been researching sweatshops, human trafficking, trade, globalization and a Culture of Corruption flourishing in Washington DC. My entry point into this study of human darkness was the sweatshops and labor abuse in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), a US Territory in the Western Pacific. I've documented this work in a long series of Diaries. The CNMI abuse has reached a new level of villainy in the face of Congressional Action: H.R. 3079 in the House and S. 1634 in the Senate. These bills have some flaws, but it is critical they pass as soon as possible. Every delay prolongs the abuse, but more on that in a moment."

Mystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World: Feb 19, 2007 2:22pm 5 reviews politics, jobs, poverty, trade, free-trade
http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0216-30.htm; From the page: "How is it that as corporate investments and foreign aid and international loans to poor countries have increased dramatically throughout the world over the last half century, so has poverty? The number of people living in poverty is growing at a faster rate than the world%u2019s population. What do we make of this? Over the last half century, U.S. industries and banks (and other western corporations) have invested heavily in those poorer regions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America known as the %u201CThird World.%u201D The transnationals are attracted by the rich natural resources, the high return that comes from low-paid labor, and the nearly complete absence of taxes, environmental regulations, worker benefits, and occupational safety costs. The U.S. government has subsidized this flight of capital by granting corporations tax concessions on their overseas investments, and even paying some of their relocation expenses---much to the outrage of labor unions here at home who see their jobs evaporating. The transnationals push out local businesses in the Third World and preempt their markets. American agribusiness cartels, heavily subsidized by U.S. taxpayers, dump surplus products in other countries at below cost and undersell local farmers. As Christopher Cook describes it in his Diet for a Dead Planet, they expropriate the best land in these countries for cash-crop exports, usually monoculture crops requiring large amounts of pesticides, leaving less and less acreage for the hundreds of varieties of organically grown foods that feed the local populations. By displacing local populations from their lands and robbing them of their self-sufficiency, corporations create overcrowded labor markets of desperate people who are forced into shanty towns to toil for poverty wages (when they can get work), often in violation of the countries%u2019 own minimum wage laws."