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Boston-area activists took advantage of the warm weather and the ongoing living wage sit-in in Mass. Hall to join an action organized by the Progressive Student Labor Movement(PSLM) in solidarity with the ongoing protests to denounce the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement (FTAA) Summit in Quebec this weekend...
...PSLM members said the FTAA, a treaty that attempts to extend the provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to all the Americas by 2003, would infringe upon the democratic self-government of developing countries...
...want to rally together because the FTAA would result in pushing down wages across all of the Americas," said Erica L. George, a volunteer with Boston Global Action Network. "This is a local struggle going on in our community that deals with the same issues...
...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...