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Several Harvard students who were jailed in Miami two weeks ago at protests against the Fair Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) met with fellow activists and observers yesterday to discuss their experiences at the rallies and to allege that their civil rights were violated by the local police...
...would have gone to protests in Miami, stood on the sidelines, administered surveys to protesters, and gone home. The Institute of Politics (IOP), which covered airfare and the printing costs of 500 surveys, had planned on the trip to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) summit being a purely observational undertaking...
Export-processing zones in Central America have provided a laboratory for FTAA-style arrangements, and they are delivering union-smashing managements, vandalized public services, and a ravaged physical environment. Meanwhile, the apparel workers who came to Harvard have been denounced in the Honduran media as “terrorists,” as the ‘T-word’ replaces the ‘C-word’ (communist) as the primary means of discrediting agents of social change...
...past two decades, trade liberalization and privatization of public enterprise has carried the day under a banner known as the Washington Consensus. NAFTA, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the FTAA are among the institutions and frameworks designed to enshrine the Washington Consensus. Harold McGraw III, the chair of the Business Roundtable’s international trade and investment task force, cites World Bank estimates that the removal of trade barriers “could add $2,800 billion to the world economy by 2015, of which $1,500 billion would accrue to developing countries, lifting 320 million people...
...economic circles and among the Business Roundtable, the Washington Consensus remains inviolate. When it comes to Consensus, though, General George S. Patton may have been on to something as he paused to remark: “When everyone agrees, someone is not thinking.” In Miami, the FTAA failed to achieve the assent of many Latin American governments and, much to the chagrin of Friedman and Conrad Black, may have to undergo serious re-thinking...