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Janet Eaton's Slide Show on SPP

Everything You Wanted to Know About Globalization,NAFTA, and the "Security & Prosperity Partnership"

George Bush, with the Mexican president and the Canadian prime minister, are quietly building a Fortress North America and continental "free-trade" area under mega-corporate direction. Not even many congress members know about this, because it was put together in 2005 by the three nations' chief executives without any legislative input or oversight. It's details and personnel are secret. But you can inform Congress and your fellow citizens by following these PowerPoint slides by one of Canada's foremost academic-scholar-activists, Janet M. Eaton, PhD.*

The pictures, which you can click through while reading the informative headlines and explanations, may take you an hour. Of course you can focus on any of the parts you like:

  • Globalization and its decline

  • North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its failures

  • "Security & Prosperity Partnership" (SPP) and its Corporate advisers

  • SPP "SuperCorridor" Network to Globalize North America

    1. How that will affect transportation, communities, local businesses
    2. How that will contribute to pollution, global warming, species extinction
    3. How that will threaten water security and prolong fossil fuel dependency

  • Threats to Mexican oil, Canadian tar sands

  • Disempowerment of Labor and working people

  • Border security, surveillance, threats to civil rights

  • Leveling regulations concerning health and environment

  • Threats to national sovereignty and state and local government

  • Resisting Globalism in North America, in your state, and locally

  • A valuable listing/linking of articles and other resources, for and against SPP

This slide show is a revised version of Janet Eaton's presentations at the Boston Public Library and the Massachusetts State House on March 23 and 26, 2008. The latter was set up as an information session for legislators and the public by Representative Byron Rushing with the help of the Boston-Cambridge and North Bridge chapters of the Alliance for Democracy. Rep. Rushing is principal sponsor of the Massachusetts Globalization Impact Bill, H.374, which the Boston-Cambridge Alliance helped write. It has been favorably reported out of the Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies, calling for a watchdog commission on international trade agreements such as WTO, NAFTA, and SPP.

To download the presentation, click below. Note that this is a 4MB file and will take some time to download on a slow internet connection. If you prefer to get a copy snail-mailed on disk, please email afd@thealliancefordemocracy.org.
SPP Slide Show click here.

For further insights on the panel presentations at the State House arranged by Representative Byron Rushing see the article "State House info session builds support for H.374". For more background on SPP see the Alliance for Democracy's SPP page.

*Dr. Janet M Eaton is an academic, researcher, activist, Sierra Club of Canada's International Liaison to the Sierra Club's Corporate Accountabilty Committee and a well-known critic of Corporate Globalization, NAFTA and the SPP. jmeaton@ns.sympatico.ca