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Expanding Free Trade Great For Business, Bad For People
By David Voelker | April 23I am writing to inform The Daily Tar Heel readers about a serious threat to political democracy, economic justice and environmental health. The threat comes from an impending international trade agreement called the Free Trade Area of the Americas, which would basically extend the North American Free Trade Agreement to 34 nations of the Americas. The FTAA must be recognized as an effort by multi-national corporations to impose upon us even more thoroughly a value system in which their profit is the only serious priority.
