Subpar
2nd September 2005, 13:09
The other night, a friend and I spent an hour or so making this flyer to be handed out at school. I will have a pdf up, as soon as my domain is functioning again, if you would like to print out your own copy.
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a269/subpar1917/LandoftheFreehalfprint.jpg
Here's the text:
LAND OF THE FREE?
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Profit
The concept of Free Trade has been growing in popularity since the earliest decades of the 20th century. In theory, Free trade was supposed to function in such a way that would bring Third World countries out of desolation and into the riches that you and I enjoy in the United States today. In the 1980s, when Mexican border towns first opened Free Trade Zones, speculation had it that every citizen in these very towns would be standardized to the living conditions of the American PEople and their bretheren in European Countries. A simple trip across the border would show the exact opposite.
The implementation of Free Trade has instead removed the barrier that separated one nation's market from another, resulting in the stronger countries overcoming the weak. For Example, in the 1920s, Venezuela was introduced to the idealogy of Free Trade. Since Then, American Corporations have taken control of the nation's markets and natural resources, leading to the impoverishment of the people in an oil-rich country. Instead of the proposed "trickle-down economic effect," this has instead created a country composed of two poles: the wealthy investors, and the poverty-stricken workers.
The myth of Free Trade has denied host countries control of their own markets, leaving them at the mercy of foreign businesses. People have put too much faith into the corporate entity to behave ethically. As time has passed, more and more images have come back from Third World Countries showing the worsening conditions that people are forced to live through daily. Sweatshops, Maquiladoras, Death Squads, and even State-sponsored terrorism have all been employed to keep prices down and productivity high.
Is this the freedom that is promised us in our comfortable living conditions in the United States? Are the citizens of Third World Countries different than the citizens of rich European Nations? Whave have these people done to deserve the onslaught of unethical practices forced upon them by the corporations and business entities that you and I support through the purchasing of goods every day?
FIGHT POVERTY. END FREE TRADE.
www.crimethinc.com | www.ftaaresistance.org | www.cursor.org | www.tradejusticemovement.org
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a269/subpar1917/LandoftheFreehalfprint.jpg
Here's the text:
LAND OF THE FREE?
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Profit
The concept of Free Trade has been growing in popularity since the earliest decades of the 20th century. In theory, Free trade was supposed to function in such a way that would bring Third World countries out of desolation and into the riches that you and I enjoy in the United States today. In the 1980s, when Mexican border towns first opened Free Trade Zones, speculation had it that every citizen in these very towns would be standardized to the living conditions of the American PEople and their bretheren in European Countries. A simple trip across the border would show the exact opposite.
The implementation of Free Trade has instead removed the barrier that separated one nation's market from another, resulting in the stronger countries overcoming the weak. For Example, in the 1920s, Venezuela was introduced to the idealogy of Free Trade. Since Then, American Corporations have taken control of the nation's markets and natural resources, leading to the impoverishment of the people in an oil-rich country. Instead of the proposed "trickle-down economic effect," this has instead created a country composed of two poles: the wealthy investors, and the poverty-stricken workers.
The myth of Free Trade has denied host countries control of their own markets, leaving them at the mercy of foreign businesses. People have put too much faith into the corporate entity to behave ethically. As time has passed, more and more images have come back from Third World Countries showing the worsening conditions that people are forced to live through daily. Sweatshops, Maquiladoras, Death Squads, and even State-sponsored terrorism have all been employed to keep prices down and productivity high.
Is this the freedom that is promised us in our comfortable living conditions in the United States? Are the citizens of Third World Countries different than the citizens of rich European Nations? Whave have these people done to deserve the onslaught of unethical practices forced upon them by the corporations and business entities that you and I support through the purchasing of goods every day?
FIGHT POVERTY. END FREE TRADE.
www.crimethinc.com | www.ftaaresistance.org | www.cursor.org | www.tradejusticemovement.org