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...North, Central and South American nations later met. Opponents of a key Summit proposal to create the world's biggest trading bloc say the agreement would empower multinationals at the expense of human rights and the environment. The plan would create a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) by the end of 2005, stretching from Canada to Chile and covering 800 million people - but excluding Cuba...
...activists drew parallels between the ongoing fight for a living wage and opposition to the FTAA...
...invited the rather eclectic group-from anti-FTAA protesters...
...brief speech that elicited cheers from the audience and the students in Mass. Hall, Reich did not address the FTAA issue but instead announced his support...
...would be able to send future agreements home for an up-and-down vote rather than face a potentially crippling Hill amendment-fest) that few of those folks share. And he got a good look at the intra-hemisphere divisions that will be the big stumbling block for FTAA negotiations in the next few years...