[Januaryfirst] Fwd: nafta border action

[Dave Diewert]

Other actions on Jan 1st. Passing this along.
dave

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> Video: http://www.naftamemorial.info
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> The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a treaty between the
> United States, Mexico, and Canada, creating a trilateral free trade zone
> in North America. The signing of NAFTA on January 1, 1994 initiated the
> mass relocation of factories, plants and other forms of capital just south
> of the U.S.-Mexico border where few environmental regulations exist and
> where exploitative labor practices remain legal. The inauguration of NAFTA
> coincided with the militarization of the border, which has lead to an
> egregious rise in the deaths of migrants, who continue to cross the border
> as a result of the increasing economic inequality that exists between the
> global North and South. On the 20th anniversary of NAFTA, a group of
> anonymous activists and artists constructed a memorial at the border,
> marking the 20 years of death brought about by NAFTA and prefiguring the
> death of NAFTA itself.
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