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January 29, 2021 This week, the city of Matamoros, Mexico is again seeing wildcat strikes as expected annual wage increases have been traded away by corrupt unions. Though the revised North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) includes improved labor rights terms and Mexico enacted significant labor law reforms in 2019 – both of which could help workers […]
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In Mexico, where real wages since NAFTA was enacted 25 years ago are 40% lower than manufacturing wages in China.
February 3rd, 2021 
Awake Goy Fact Check: Joe Biden Falsely Claims GOP Kept Obama from Renegotiating NAFTA
September 12th, 2020 Awake Goy CLAIM: Former Vice President Joe Biden argued on Thursday that during the Obama administration, Democrats were hampered in their promise to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) by Republicans in Congress. VERDICT: Mostly False. The Obama administration was in office less than four months when the White House announced they would not reopen […]
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No Comments »NAFTA Should Work For Everyone – Not Just Investors
April 10th, 2018 Awake Goy NAFTA Should Work For Everyone – Not Just Investors Above Photo: From Thestand.org (April 3, 2018) — In the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump all recognized that workers and communities have lost trust in the NAFTA approach to globalization. They all said we should manage globalization differently. Over the last few months, Canada, […]
How We Got To The Point That Hollywood Is Trying To Attack The Internet Via NAFTA
February 14th, 2018 Awake Goy Last week we announced our new site EveryoneCreates.org, featuring stories from many different creators of music, books, movies and more about how important the internet and fair use have been to their creations. As we noted, the reason for the site is that the legacy copyright gatekeepers at the MPAA and the RIAA have been using the Trump-requested NAFTA […]
Poll Shows Growing Public Opposition To NAFTA
January 13th, 2018 Awake Goy Poll Shows Growing Public Opposition To NAFTA Above Photo: From Prosperousamerica.org An independent public opinion poll published late last year shows growing public awareness of US job loss due to imports, as well as growing public support of the view that NAFTA has been bad for the US. The poll was carried out by the University […]
NAFTA Negotiations: A Clever Ploy to Resurrect the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
December 14th, 2017 Awake Goy December 14th, 2017 By Carolanne Wright Contributing writer for Wake Up World One of the key selling points of Donald Trump’s campaign, refusing to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (or TPP) once he was in office inspired a measure of confidence in the newly elected president. However, next up on the political chopping block is another contentious […]
Posted in World News Tags: clever, nafta, negotiations, pacific, partnership, resurrect, trans No Comments »NAFTA Talks Falter, Time To Increase Pressure
October 18th, 2017 Awake Goy Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us breakthrough. The NAFTA-2 negotiations seem to be faltering after the fourth round of talks recently held in the United States. The Trump administration is pushing Mexico and Canada aggressively to include provisions from the Trans-Pacific […]
Protesters Demand End To Corporate Courts, Transparency In NAFTA
October 13th, 2017 Awake Goy Above photo: Eleanor Goldfield On the inaugural day of the fourth round of the North American Free Trade Agreement’s (NAFTA) re-negotiations, protesters demand an end to corporate courts and the secrecy surrounding the deal’s proposals. Arlington, VA – Official negotiators were met by protesters demanding that the deal do away with the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), […]
Left And Right Have Nothing In Common On NAFTA
October 11th, 2017 Awake Goy Above photo: Peoples World/flickr Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us breakthrough. Contrary to popular belief. Washington, DC – Today, the fourth round of renegotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) are taking place in Washington, DC. […]
Canceling NAFTA Could Be The Best Way Forward
September 30th, 2017 Awake Goy Above photo: Adam Scotti/PMO. Canada – Have you ever wondered what would happen if you called the bully’s bluff? As Liberal members of Parliament return to their seats in the House of Commons, they need to consider the sometimes-veiled opportunities that political bullying provides. Are you listening, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland? More than 20 […]
Renegotiating NAFTA Is Putting Lipstick On A Pig
August 28th, 2017 Awake Goy Above photo: From Trade Union Freedom. The first round of the Trump administration’s NAFTA renegotiations began in Washington wrapped up on Saturday. The negotiators will meet again in September in Mexico City and then again in October in Canada. The United States has not yet proposed any specific measures on important issues such as labor rights, currency manipulation, […]
As First NAFTA Round Opens In Secrecy, Digital Rights Groups Fear Another TPP
August 22nd, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: From eff.org The opening round of a series of negotiations over a proposed revised North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) began this week in Washington, D.C. between trade representatives from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Already it is clear that the office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has ignored our specific recommendations (to say nothing of USTR […]
Thousands Of Mexicans Hold Protest Against NAFTA
August 11th, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: From bilaterals.org Mexican farmers and workers have staged a mass rally in the capital to voice their opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement, commonly known as NAFTA, with the United States and Canada. The protesters, who numbered up to 10,000 people, took to the streets in Mexico City on Monday, saying the […]
NAFTA Renegotiation Objectives Indicate Possible Stealth Attack On Public Health, Food, Agriculture
July 20th, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: Flickr/Tim & Selena Middleton WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer released the Trump Administration’s objectives for renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Trade promotion authority legislation requires the President to provide “a detailed summary” of the objectives of trade negotiations 30 days before negotiations begin. Friends of the Earth Senior […]
Posted in World News Tags: attack, indicate, nafta, objectives, possible, renegotiation, stealth No Comments »Stop Trump From Making NAFTA Even Worse
July 2nd, 2017 Awake Goy Many on the Left have been deeply critical of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) since before it was fast-tracked into law by former President Bill Clinton in 1994. Now, President Donald Trump’s current plan to renegotiate NAFTA is poised to make the massive trade deal even worse. In late May, a loose coalition […]
Trump’s NAFTA “Re-Do” Threatens People And The Planet
May 20th, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: Flickr/Tim & Selena Middleton WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trump Administration submitted notice to Congress today that it intends to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico, according to reports. Bill Waren, Friends of the Earth’s senior trade analyst, issued the following response: Donald Trump built his campaign by demonizing the North American […]
Trump Decides Not to Withdraw from Nafta
April 27th, 2017 Awake Goy Donald Trump has decided not to pull the US out of the North American Free Trade Agreement, agreeing instead with his Canadian and Mexican counterparts to “proceed swiftly” with negotiations to update the deal, according to the White House. According to the Financial Times, the move came in hastily arranged calls between the three leaders after […]
U-Turn: Trump has No Plan to Pull Out of NAFTA
April 27th, 2017 Awake Goy ZeigerDaily Stormer April 27, 2017 Remember when Trump said NAFTA was a disaster? I guess it goes well with the rest of his new policies, then. I hope you didn’t still have some faint glimmer of hope in your heart that Trump might sneak through one of his remaining promises. Forget about […]
