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Forget the Valentine's Day chocolates and roses, the handful of congressional lawmakers whose startling votes for CAFTA pushed this slimy deal through Congress appear to have received campaign cash as a reward for the corporate dangerous liaisons, and many of the voters whose hearts they broke are considering permanent separations from these congressional betrayers of their interests. - Lori Wallach Quotes

Forget the Valentine's Day chocolates and roses, the handful of congressional lawmakers whose startling votes for CAFTA pushed this slimy deal through Congress appear to have received campaign cash as a reward for the corporate dangerous liaisons, and many of the voters whose hearts they broke are considering permanent separations from these congressional betrayers of their interests.

They need to go back into the existing agreement and repair the rules that limit a country's ability to have environmental safety and human rights laws. - Lori Wallach Quotes

They need to go back into the existing agreement and repair the rules that limit a country's ability to have environmental safety and human rights laws.

It's a model that's very useful for a very narrow set of U.S. interests. - Lori Wallach Quotes

It's a model that's very useful for a very narrow set of U.S. interests.

Rep. Towns' alarming flip-flop on CAFTA was a shock. The Rep. Towns of November 2004 Ã¢â¬â who made a congressional floor speech passionately criticizing CAFTA Ã¢â¬â sounded like a leader of the global justice movement, so clear was his analysis of the problems with the NAFTA model of trade agreements. This leaves his constituents to angrily ask how he could have provided one of the deciding votes that passed CAFTA. - Lori Wallach Quotes

Rep. Towns' alarming flip-flop on CAFTA was a shock. The Rep. Towns of November 2004 Ã¢â¬â who made a congressional floor speech passionately criticizing CAFTA Ã¢â¬â sounded like a leader of the global justice movement, so clear was his analysis of the problems with the NAFTA model of trade agreements. This leaves his constituents to angrily ask how he could have provided one of the deciding votes that passed CAFTA.

By acquiring Costa Rican gaming operations, giant European firms now have a platform from which to launch attacks on federal, state and local gambling restrictions in an effort to secure an even greater share of the diverse and lucrativeÃÂ U.S. gambling market. This is a threat that was brought to the attention of all three Utah congressmen. - Lori Wallach Quotes

By acquiring Costa Rican gaming operations, giant European firms now have a platform from which to launch attacks on federal, state and local gambling restrictions in an effort to secure an even greater share of the diverse and lucrativeÃÂ U.S. gambling market. This is a threat that was brought to the attention of all three Utah congressmen.

[During back-room negotiations over NAFTA,] everything was up for sale, ... The president was the one signing the checks, but Daley was the one negotiating the amounts. - Lori Wallach Quotes

[During back-room negotiations over NAFTA,] everything was up for sale, ... The president was the one signing the checks, but Daley was the one negotiating the amounts.

History has been made in Seattle, as the allegedly irresistible forces of corporate economic globalization were stopped in their tracks. - Lori Wallach Quotes

History has been made in Seattle, as the allegedly irresistible forces of corporate economic globalization were stopped in their tracks.

That a member of Congress who is supposed to represent one of the U.S. states hardest hit by NAFTA job loss, and whose constituents care deeply about poverty in Central America, would become a deciding vote to expand NAFTA to six more nations is unimaginable, given the damage the NAFTA model has proven to cause to U.S. working people and Mexico's poor. - Lori Wallach Quotes

That a member of Congress who is supposed to represent one of the U.S. states hardest hit by NAFTA job loss, and whose constituents care deeply about poverty in Central America, would become a deciding vote to expand NAFTA to six more nations is unimaginable, given the damage the NAFTA model has proven to cause to U.S. working people and Mexico's poor.

It is very clear that if this document is going to determine the future course of the WTO, the majority of people in the world would be worse off. - Lori Wallach Quotes

It is very clear that if this document is going to determine the future course of the WTO, the majority of people in the world would be worse off.

There's nothing to it, ... The actual text of the [CAFTA] agreement is what's binding and the text of the agreement is a catastrophe. - Lori Wallach Quotes

There's nothing to it, ... The actual text of the [CAFTA] agreement is what's binding and the text of the agreement is a catastrophe.

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