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Prospect of NAFTA Expansion Sparks Cross-Border Action

December 14, 2012 / Blair Redlin

Several hundred activists raised the alarm about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, also known as “NAFTA on steroids,” December 1, as they rallied in the rain at the border crossing between Washington state and British Columbia.

The TPP, backed by the three NAFTA governments, would include 11 countries around the Pacific Rim. John Hively, a bus driver and Amalgamated Transit Union member from Portland, Oregon, called it “an income redistribution plan—to transfer income away from the 99% to the 1%.

“If a U.S. worker was once paid $50,000 a year to do a job which is now being done in Vietnam for $2,000 per year,” Hively said, “the difference of $48,000 per year goes directly into the pockets of the 1% through higher dividends and profits.”
Investor Rights

NAFTA gave corporations in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada the power to sue governments for legislation or policies, such as environmental regulations, that they claim harm their profits. These cases are decided not in regular courts but in secretive “investor rights” arbitrations.

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