The 5th Ministerial of the FTAA will occur in Miami November 20-21 and thousands are converging to voice their opposition to global corporate rule. The Free Trade Area of the Americas is described as "NAFTA on steroids" by
critics of globalization
Indymedia has posted a website on the issue: FTAA IMC
The FTAA will enhance and expand on the failures of NAFTA to encompass the entire Western Hemisphere and the Caribbean (excluding only Cuba). It would impact directly, the lives of 800 million people. Opposition to the FTAA is based on the fact that business interests are given powers to sweep away public interests such as human rights, labor laws, and environmental regulations in favor of the corportions' ''right to profit". Unacountable tribunals can put great pressure on individuals and entire governments to submit to their greedy and arrogant rulings or face criminal charges or exceedingly prohibitive fines. Thus enforcement of health, environmental, and labor codes are swept aside as "barriers to trade."
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and/or take part locally in an action against THE GAP.
Protesters Going to Miami to Stop the FTAA