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...event, entitled "Free Trade: Prosperity for all or Race to the Bottom?" brought together frequent opponents on the topic--Ira S. Shapiro, a chief U.S. trade negotiator, and Lori M. Wallach, chief counsel for the nonprofit organization Global Trade Watch--to talk more in-depth about an issue that has made international headlines in recent months...
...Wallach--a key organizer of the protests that interrupted WTO negotiations in Seattle late last year--said the WTO does not promote free trade...
...broad spectrum of the discussion, which touched on topics like prison labor in the U.S. and the Asian Monetary Fund, meant that Wallach and Shapiro did not clash frequently on specific subjects...
...Wallach repeated a motto that protesters chanted outside the Seattle talks, "No new round, turn around," and explained that the motto urged the WTO to change its existing policies before adopting new ones...
...friendly rules to include social concerns--the environment, labor rights, Third World poverty. And they want it now. More than 775 nongovernment organizations have registered with the WTO, bringing some 2,100 observers. "The WTO is an octopus with an arm into every little crevice of democracy," says Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch lobby. "It trumps domestic laws and international treaties and imposes one-size-fits-all rules...