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Atlantica: Myths and Realities
The following is a great, short explanation of what's driving economic integration along the northeast Canadian-US border, and how the corporate vision of superhighways and deepwater ports has very little to do with the real economic and environmental needs of New England, upstate New York, and the maritime provinces.
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Janet Eaton, Karen O'Donnell and Dave Lewit on SPP
Video interview with Janet Eaton, independent researcher--educator and the Sierra Club of Canada’s International Liaison to the Corporate Accountability Committee and Water Privatization Task Force, and Karen O'Donnell, labor activist and former Mass. state representative. Filmed in March, 2008, at Cambridge Community TV.
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Janet Eaton's Slide Show on SPP
George Bush, with the Mexican president and the Canadian prime minister, are quietly building a Fortress North America and continental "free-trade" area under mega-corporate direction. Not even many congress members know about this, because it was put together in 2005 by the three nations' chief executives without any legislative input or oversight. It's details and personnel are secret. But you can inform Congress and your fellow citizens by following these PowerPoint slides by one of Canada's foremost academic-scholar-activists, Janet M. Eaton, PhD.*
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SPP Challenges You
Some call it "Super-NAFTA". It is deliberately misnamed "Security and Prosperity Partnership"(SPP)---unless you happen to be one of the privileged executives or shareholders whose security and prosperity it enhances. Organized by the executive branches of the US, Canadian, and Mexican governments, with heavy input by 30 major corporations, it seeks to "harmonize" trade, labor, environmental and security regulations among the three countries, backed by police and military. The result will be a pro-corporate race to the bottom on workers' rights, resource protection, personal liberty, and local democracy and economies...
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