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GLOBAL EXCHANGE

We are excited to invite you to an important meeting:


Lessons from NAFTA:

Building a New Fair Trade Agenda

October 22 and 23: Minneapolis, MN
Details and online registration at iatp



Participants -- including top experts from Canada, the U.S., and Mexico -- will address the contradictions and failures of the NAFTA economy and new opportunities for movement building to reverse the moribund Washington consensus on trade.

On the eve of the presidential primaries, the Global Exchange Mexico team invites you to join us in Minneapolis and to help put the brakes on the continental race to the bottom that is pushing millions of Mexicans and Central Americans to uproot themselves in search of opportunity they cannot find at home.

The meeting is hosted by our partners at the Minnesota-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, a bastion of progressive policy research. We hope you can make it, but if not, stay tuned for articles, interviews, and radio/video links to the event.

Best,

The Global Exchange Mexico Team

Ted Lewis, Director, San Francisco
Hector Sanchez, Policy Education Coordinator, DC
Dwight Dyer, Policy Liaison, Mexico DF
John Gibler, Human Rights Media Fellow, Mexico
Angela Walker, Program Associate, San Francisco


Objectives of the Conference


1. To bring together key groups from U.S., Mexico and Canada to review what was originally said about NAFTA, to share their experiences and to identify and understand the overall impacts of NAFTA as it relates to food and agriculture, including the link with the environment, energy, immigration and labor; and
2. To discuss alternatives that puts trade into a broader context of development

Questions include:

1. Has NAFTA fostered growth in the region and have the benefits outweighed the costs? Has it led to development? For whom?
2. What are NAFTA's impacts relative to farmers, migrant workers and communities?
3. What have been the impacts of NAFTA on commodity production and exports?
4. How has NAFTA impacted the food industry?
5. How has immigration shifted since NAFTA?
6. How has NAFTA impacted energy and the environment?
7. What is the Security and Prosperity Partnership?
8. What policy tools will be needed to protect domestic rural development, good jobs, farmers, food quality, food safety and rural livelihoods as well as an appropriate form of regional development? How do these tools differ among the three countries?
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