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...OXFAM's Brody contacted Bar Am and offered his support in helping to hold a teach-in at Harvard, and said he would bring a Mexican coffee farmer to speak...
...About 60 people gathered in the Phillips brooks House Parlor room on Tuesday night to attend the teach-in. One of the speakers was Lorenzo Jose Jose, a Mexican farmer who recently finished his term as president of a cooperative of 23.000 indigenous workers in Oaxaca, Mexico...
...loser would likely be Asia. Larry Martin, president of the American Apparel and Footwear Association, says that since 1994, when NAFTA went into effect, "the Mexican and Caribbean share of our imports has risen from 24% to 38%, while China's share has dropped from 11% to 6%." Brazil's footwear industry is overwhelmed in the U.S. by China, where costs are 10% lower, but foresees a boom if it can eliminate the current 8.5% U.S. tariff...
...free-trade area could turn some of NAFTA's winners into losers. The Mexican auto-parts industry, for instance, exports more than 60% of its production to the U.S. But Enrique Zambrano Benitez, CEO of Proeza, a partsmaker that employs 5,000 in Monterrey, Mexico, is anxious about Brazil's big parts indus-try, which currently faces U.S. barriers that would fall in the proposed free-trade area...
...from the idyllic, pacific suburb that many of the adults in Santee imagined. "There's a lot of hate around here," says Gentry Robler, 16, a sophomore at Santana High. He reels off the high school cliques: the gothics, the freaks, the dorks, the jocks, the Mexican gangsters, the white supremacists. "This is a school that was waiting for something like this to happen." But who would have guessed that it would be the skinny, jug-eared, timid freshman wearing a silver necklace with the name MOUSE on it who would make this happen...