Guest Elizabeth Swager is Asst Director of Oregon Fair Trade Campaign. She talks about her role in the enactment of Portland Oregon's sweat-free procurement ordinance, designed to protect foreign factory workers. She goes on to review past “free-trade agreements” (NAFTA, Panama, Columbia and So Korea) and their effects on American jobs losses, tax havens and challenges to laws and regulations as a result of investor protection clauses. The TransPacific Partnership is then discussed as as NAFTA on Steroids. Agreement is being negotiated in super secrecy and talks about the leaked chapter which give as a look at how corporate-driven the agreement is. Show includes a petition calling for transparency in the TPP negotiations.
