philadelphia demonstrations against nafta superhighway/HLS

[philly_adl]

This past week, activists in Philadelphia once again took to the streets to protest against major targets who are profiting off of the rape of the earth and the death of its inhabitants: PricewaterhouseCoopers and Huntingdon Life Sciences.

PricewaterhouseCoopers is a major investor in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) superhighway,

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[trigger_of_rock]

the toll booths are also being auctioned off to PRIVATE COMPANIES. which means that PRIVATE COMPANIES will own those roads and be collecting money from them. COOL.

About NAFTA and I-69

[assilembob]

The other great evil of the two is the jobs that are being lost thanks to NAFTA and the further jobs lost because most industry is easily moving to Mexico. Example: While the automotive industry in America crumbles they move their factories to Mexico to do most of the part building. Now they are doing some assembly in Mexico too! So NAFTA is also majorly hurting out economy. We had a brief increase in our economy when Clinton first signed it in but Bush's mismanagement of it is one of the prime reasons for our economy downslide. I-69 is just going to compound that problem.