GREEN PAPER 3: Freedoms
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Understanding the FTAA: a guide for activists
1 Barker, Debi and Jerry Mander. Invisible Government. International Forum on Globalization: San Francisco. October 1999.
2 www.ftaa-alca.org
3 Negotiating Groups: www.ftaa-alca.org
4 MAI Provisions and Proposals: An Analysis of the April 1998 Text, Public Citizen; www.citizen.org/pctrade/MAI/What%20is/ANALYSIS.htm
5 From Public Citizen's School of Real-Life Results: Report Card. December 1998.
6 OAS Website. www.sice.oas.org/tunit/econe.asp 12 December 2000
7 Organization for American States. "Economic Integration of the Hemisphere."
8 OAS Website. www.sice.oas.org/tunit/econe.asp 12 December 2000
9 IDB Website. www.iadb.org 16 December 2000
10 Public Citizen. "The MAI Shell Game." Fall 1998
11 Hemispheric Social Alliance and Common Frontiers-Canada. Investment, Finance and Debt in the Americas. Civil Society Forum. Toronto: November 1999.
12 Americas Business Forum. Official website: www.abfcanada.com
13 Scoffield, Heather. The Globe and Mail. "Americas Unite to Fight Europe." 5 Nov. 1999 B7
14 The Zapatistas. Zapatistas! Documents of the New Mexican Revolution. Autonomedia: New York 1994.
15 Barker, Debi and Jerry Mander. (1999) Invisible Government. San Francisco: The International Forum on Globalization. pp. 35.
16 Sforza, Michelle and Lori Wallach. (1999) Whose Trade Organization? Corporate Globalization and the Erosion of Democracy. Washington DC: Public Citizen. pp. 116.
17 Public Citizen. "Unveiling NAFTA for the Americas." November 2000.
18 MacKinnon, Mark. Globe and Mail. "Canada Seeks NAFTA Chapter 11 Review." 13 December 2000.
19 Public Citizen Global Trade Watch. www.citizen.org/pctrade/nafta/cases/metalcla.htm. 11 December 00
20 Ibid.
21 Scoffield, Heather. (2000) "NAFTA Ruling Raises Environmental Questions." Toronto Globe and Mail 1 September 2000
22 Ibid.
23 Public Citizen Global Trade Watch. Deals for NAFTA Votes II: Bait and Switch. November 1999.
24 Ibid.
25 Ibid.
26 Ibid.
27 Ibid.
28 Ibid.
29 Barshevsky, Charlene. "The Hemisphere United." Address to the United States Trade Representative. New York: October 1, 1998.
30 FTAA. "Overview: Chronology of the FTAA Process." Official FTAA website: www.ftaa-alca.org/view_e.asp
31 Hemispheric Social Alliance. Letter to Dr. Adalberto Rodriguez Giavarini, Chair of Trade Negotiations Committee. November 7, 2000.
Photo caption statistics taken from Public Citizen's School of Real-Life Results: Report Card. December 1998.
Free Trade and Economic Development
"The Emperor Has No Growth: Declining Economic Growth Rates in the Era of Globalization," Center for Economic and Policy Research, September 2000, www.cepr.net
Biotechnology and the FTAA
Genetically Modified Organisms: Implications for Mexico and Chiapas, Chiapas al Dia No. 165, CIEPAC, August 1999
Phil Stewart, Brazil ban on GM foods seen firm as divisions fester, Reuters, July 2000For a Brazil Free of Transgenics, Newsletter of the Centro Ecolgico/CAPA/ CETAP Consortium, June 2000
Silvia Ribeiro, Biopiracy Project in Chiapas, Mexico Denounced by Mayan Indigenous Groups, RAFI, Dec. 1999
Orin Langelle, "From Native Forest to Frankenforest," in Brian Tokar, ed., Redesigning Life? The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering, London: Zed Books, 2001
Lucy Sharratt, "No to Bovine Growth Hormone: A Story of Resistance from Canada," in Brian Tokar, ed., Redesigning Life? The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering, London: Zed Books, 2001
Dion Casey, Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, Public Citizen, Sept. 2000
Protecting Intellectual Property
Ref: "One Year After Seattle: Globalization Revisited," Center for Economic and Policy Research, www.cepr.net
Free Flowing Capital
"Recent Experiences with International Financial Markets: Lessons for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)," "The Feasibility of a Unilateral Speculation Tax in the United States," Center for Economic and Policy Research, www.cepr.net
What about Free Flow of People?
1 Instituto Nacional de Estadistica Geografia E Informatica (INEGI). "Industria Maquiladora de Exportacion." Junio 1998, p.8.
2 Imaz, Jose Maria. "NAFTA Damages Small Businesses," El Barzon (Mexico City), January 1997.
3 Seymour, Ann, and Gzesh, Susan. 2000. Greenpeace and Mexico-based ANEC Launch New Project to End the Importation of U.S. Genetically Engineered Corn. Mexico -U.S. Advocates Network News, Vol. 2, Issue 8, October 2000.
Militarization and Globalization in the Americas
1. United States Space Command. Vision for 2020. Peterson Air Force Base, CO. Feb. 1997
2. Thomas Friedman. "A Manifesto for the Fast World." New York TimesMagazine. March 28, 1999
4. "Chase Manhattan' Emerging Markets Group Memo" Mexico Political Report. January 13, 1995
5. "Fueling Global Conflict: U.S. Weapons Sales to Latin America." Washington, DC: Peace Action Education Fund, 1998.
6. Noam Chomsky. "The Colombia Plan: April 2000." Z Magazine. June 2000.
7. Michael Klare. "The Real Reason for US Aid to Colombia." MoJoWire. April 7, 2000
Mexican Labor and Free Trade
1 Mexican Labor News and Analysis, Vol. V, No. 9
2 www.igc.org/unitedelect/index.html
FTAA Attacks the Forests
1 Juhasz, Antonia. "The Free Trade Area of the Americas: Hemispheric Forest Threat." American Lands Alliance email. October 17, 2000.
2 Ibid.
3 quoted in Menotti, Victor. "Ten Threats: The World Trade Organization vs. Forest Conservation." International Forum on Globalization report. Fall 1999, p. 14.
4 Juhasz, Antonia. "The Free Trade Area of the Americas: Hemispheric Forest Threat." American Lands Alliance email. October 17, 2000.
5 Downes, David, David Kaimowitz, and Nigel Sizer. "Tree Trade, Liberalization of International Commerce in Forest Products: Risks and Opportunities." World Resources Institute's "Forest Notes," Nov. 1999.
6 Menotti, Victor. "Ten Threats: The World Trade Organization vs. Forest Conservation." International Forum on Globalization report. Fall 1999.
7 Downes, David, David Kaimowitz, and Nigel Sizer. "Tree Trade, Liberalization of International Commerce in Forest Products: Risks and Opportunities." World Resources Institute's "Forest Notes," Nov. 1999.
8 Juhasz, Antonia. "The Free Trade Area of the Americas: Hemispheric Forest Threat." American Lands Alliance email. October 17, 2000.
9 Jontz, Jim and Jimmy Langman, qtd. in Western Ancient Forest Campaign email. "Forest and the Free Trade Area of the Americas." April 1, 1998.
10 Ibid.
Indigenous North America: Going Corporate?
1 For further reading: Frank, Lois, and Tony Hall. Background from Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations for the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency Act Review 2000 and Mecredit Ovide, LLB; First Nations Primer On the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI).
Working Together to Create Alternatives
1 Exerpted from "NAFTA Takes Over the Hemisphere? An interview with Carlos Beas Torres on the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas" by Wendy Call in the March 1999 issue of Dollars and Sense; used with permission from the author.