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...CANADA Summit Protesters stormed security barricades at the start of a three-day Summit of the Americas in Quebec City. Some of the thousands of demonstrators hurled missiles at police and tore down segments of a concrete and chain-link fence surrounding the conference venue, where leaders from 34 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...
...greeting that President Bush received at his first trade summit in Quebec--tear gas and rioters--was as much a reminder as those posters that trade has become an electric issue. Some of the points are legit: signing a country like Brazil to a trade pact could make it harder for Brazilians living with AIDS to get cheap counterfeit drugs. But there is also blind fury from parts of the world where trade is seen as a tool of imperialism, not modernization. It may be even harder to undo that perception than it is to ink agreements on trade. Unfortunately...
...local politics were holding that up. So instead of flying to Sao Paulo, Zoellick flew to Santiago, where he inked a deal with Chile. The result was like a chapter from The Rules: Brazil now wants to speed up talks. But not everyone--the mobs that raged in Quebec, say, or Congressmen from steelmaking districts--can be levered. Zoellick will have to break them or go around them. Some ideas...
...Fleischer certainly left open the possibility that the administration is indeed addicted to the up-Hill fight. Like tax cuts. Or "fast track," a battle Bush began in Quebec City with typical over-optimism. It's starting to look like a pattern: Take campaign promise. Assume mandate. Make menacing speeches in senators' home states, and then take whatever Trent Lott...
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...