| • Write your
members of Congress to demand that they not renew the
president's "fast track" authority on trade agreements, which
ties Congress's hands by allowing it only to approve or reject
trade agreements, not amend them. Fast track will expire this
June unless it's reauthorized.
• Ask Congress
to direct the U.S. Trade Representative's office to give
antipoverty, environmental, and religious groups at least as
much access to trade negotiations as corporations have; also ask
it to commission impact reports of how any proposed trade
agreement will affect the poor, women, and the environment, in
the U.S. and abroad.
• Ask
Congress to move its supervision of the U.S. Trade
Representative from the overworked people who are doing it now
(the Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means
Committee) to a select committee on globalization—one whose
members bring expertise in poverty fighting, the global AIDS
crisis, equity for women, labor rights, and the environment.
• Write a
letter to your local newspaper when it misuses the term
"free trade" and parrots the market-fundamentalist party line.
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