Free America - Trade Bush

San Diego--In order to ensure passage of NAFTA in the US Congress, President Clinton attached environmental and labor "side agreements" to the larger agreement. These were essentially fig leaves designed to attract the support of liberal constituencies. During the last seven years only a handful of union-busting and pollution complaints have been investigated under the side agreements' arbitration process, and none of the them have been settled. President Bush says his administration opposes even the inclusion of such watered down rules in the FTAA. Gracia Molina, an activist, Chicana, and feminist from San Diego, is protesting against the FTAA because she "firmly believe(s) that this trade agreement will be to the detriment of all the people in the Americas." (Saturday 21 April 2001 - David Hanks/Global Exchange)