Nationwide Speaking Tour featuring key US, Canadian, and Mexican organizations.
Host a speaking event on how NAFTA has failed and why now is a key moment for citizens in all three countries to begin forging a different way forward for North America on economic, trade, immigration and security policy. For more information, please email Kate at speakers@globalexchange.org or call Angela at 415-575-5541.
As the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) turns fifteen it is time to get the facts out about how this defining agreement has failed. In late-winter 2008, Global Exchange - together with the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, The Council of Canadians, the Mexican Action Network on Free Trade, the Alliance for Responsible Trade and many other groups - is organizing a speaking tour across the United States to detail the indisputable yet seldom mentioned links between bad continental trade and economic policies and accelerated Mexican migration to the US. The team of experts representing Mexican, Canadian, and US organizations, will also take a critical look at the "NAFTA-plus" economic and security arrangements being forged behind closed doors between the leading corporations and executive branches of Canada, the US, and Mexico without genuine consultation with the legislatures or public in any of the three countries - otherwise known as the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP).
Speakers
 Hector Sanchez
US/Mexico Education Policy Coordinator, Global Exchange
Hector represents the program in Washington, D.C., where he coordinates efforts to inform and organize legislators and key organizations in support of new priorities on trade and immigration.
 Carleen Pickard
Regional Organizer, Council of Canadians
In August of 2007, Carleen worked with activists to oppose the third Summit on the SPP that took place in Montebello, Quebec, as part of the National Day of Action. She has also given presentations on the SPP to activists in Seattle, Washington, San Francisco and at the US Social Forum in Atlanta.
 Manuel Perez Rocha
Associate Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies
At IPS, Manuel directs an advocacy and research project on "the Security and Prosperity Partnership and the NAFTA Plus Agenda." Manuel has worked for more than a decade with Mexican and international civil society organizations and networks including the Hemispheric Social Alliance and Oxfam International doing advocacy work for fair economic relations among countries, particularly for trade with justice.
DATES
February 16 - 22: Mid-Atlantic Region
March 9 - 17: New England
March 31 - April 9: West Coast
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