Oppose NAFTA 2.0

 

Senator Dianne Feinstein

SF Office: (415) 393-0707
DC Office: (202) 224-3841
LA Office: (310) 914-7300
Fresno Office: (559) 485-7430
San Diego Office: (619) 231-9712

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Senator Kamala Harris

SF Office: (415) 981-9369
DC Office: (202) 224-3553
Sacramento Office: (916) 448-2787
LA Office: (213) 894-5000
San Diego Office: (619) 239-3884

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi

SF Office(415) 556-4862

DC Office: (202) 225-4965

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Rep. Jackie Speier

San Mateo Office(650) 342-0300

DC Office(202) 225-3531

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Call Script

My name is __________. I am a constituent, and my zip code is _______. I am a member of Indivisible SF.

I urge you to oppose NAFTA 2.0 (USMCA) until it is renegotiated to:

  1. Include strong, enforceable labor standards that raise wages, allow Mexican workers to form unions, and discourage corporations from exporting jobs so they can pay workers a pittance.

  2. Include strong, enforceable environmental standards and rules that discourage corporations from exporting jobs dump toxic poison into the environment.

  3. Eliminate the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system that empowers corporations to attack health, environmental, and other laws enacted by democratically elected governments through secret, appointed tribunals of corporate lawyers.

  4. Establish that net neutrality rules and privacy protections mandated by democratically elected governments are not subject to corporate overrule through the ISDS process.

  5. Eliminate the proposed expansion of international corporate copyright and patent powers that directly threatens the public interest, including lengthy pharmaceutical monopolies that keep prescription drug prices artificially high.



Context

In the years since the original NAFTA was implemented, hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs have been outsourced to Mexico by companies taking advantage of workers who do not enjoy the fundamental human rights to form their own free and independent unions, engage in meaningful collective bargaining, be free from discrimination and forced labor, and work in safe and healthy workplaces.

Now Trump and his Republican accomplices have signed a new NAFTA agreement (NAFTA 2.0) that they call the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA). This agreement is now before both houses of Congress for ratification under "Fast Track" rules that prohibit all amendments and prevent a Senate filibuster.

While NAFTA 2.0 includes some modest improvements in some areas it still elevates corporate profits over the public good, worker's human rights, consumer interests, environmental protection, and the democratic rights of voters and their elected representatives to enact laws that corporations oppose.

References

1,000+ Civil Society Groups Outline Shared NAFTA Demands Citizens Trade Campaign, 3/21/18

Why NAFTA’s 2.0 current labor provisions fall short, EPI 3/28/19

Trade Must Build an Inclusive Economy for All, AFL-CIO 3/14/19

Trump’s NAFTA 2.0 Puts Big Pharma First, America Second, New York Magazine, 3/29/19

NAFTA 2.0 Would Lock In High Medicine Prices, Citizens Trade Campaign 3/28/19

Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS): Extraordinary Corporate Power in "Trade" Deals, Public Citizen

 

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