Action for Community and Ecology in the Regions of Central America GREEN PAPER 3: Freedoms That Are Abolished

Table of Contents Introduction 1) Trade and Investment: a little history 2) What is in the FTAA Agreement? Biotechnology and the FTAA Protecting Intellectual Property Free Flowing Capital What about Free Flow of People? Militarization and Globalization in the Americas Free Trade and Economic Developmen 3) Making the FTAA a Reality Corporate Globalization in the Americas Dry Canal Megaprojects and the FTAA Dry Canal Megaprojects and the FTAA 4) The FTAA and the Future of the Hemisphere Protecting Corporate Profits FTAA Attacks the Forests 5) Is THIS What Democracy Looks Like? The FTAA's Threat to Democracy North American First Nations: Going Corporate? Free Trade and the Proliferation of Sweatshops 6)THIS is What Democracy Looks Like Free Trade and the Proliferation of Sweatshops 7) What You Can Do Sources Acronym List download this document (488k). ACERCA

Acronyms - Alphabet Soup Anyone? ABF - American Business Forum ACERCA - Action for the Community and Ecology in the Regions of Central America AGJ - Alliance for Global Justice ALCA- Area de Libre Comercio de las Américas (FTAA in Spanish) ATL - Advanced Tariff Liberalization (also known as the Global Free Logging Agreement) CEO - Chief Executive Officer ECLAC - United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean FTAA - Free Trade Area of the Americas GATT - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (part of the WTO) GM - genetically modified GMO - genetically modified organisms IDB - Inter-American Development Bank IMF - International Monetary Fund INS - US Immigration and Naturalization Service MAI - Multilateral Agreement on Investments MMT - Methylcyclopentadienyl Manganese Tricarbonyl MNCs - multinational corporations (same as TNCs) NAFTA - North American Free Trade Agreement NGOs - Non-Governmental Organizations OAS - Organization of American States ORIT - Inter-American Regional Organization of Workers TLC(AN) - Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (NAFTA in Spanish) TNCs - transnational corporations (same as MNCs) TRIPS - Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (part of the WTO) USTR - United States Trade Representative WHO - World Health Organization WTO - World Trade Organization