Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch division, is co-author of Whose Trade Organization? Public Citizen, a leader in organizing the 1999 Seattle protests, has joined the Steelworkers and others to launch WTOturnaround.org, where activists can sign a petition to President Obama urging him to turn around the WTO.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would grant enormous new powers to corporations, is a massive assault on democracy.
Senator John Kerry has promised a revision of Clinton-era trade policies to insure that future agreements contain stronger, enforceable labor and environmental standards.