New "race to top" trade bill

[Gar Lipow]

Bernie Sanders (yes, the same socialist
Congressmember who been justly flayed by Alexander
Cockburn) has introduced a new bill in Congress --
one that includes debt forgiveness, the Tobin Tax,
enforceable international labor and environmental
standards, banning the inclusion of cuts in social
programs as a condition of IMF loans and a number
of other wonderful things.

To cut and paste into this note would require a
massive reformmatting -- so instead I am just
including a URL where it is posted

http://www.zmag.org/sandersbill.htm

I will quote the first two paragraphs


>This Act aims to synthesize into one package a wide range of proposals that have emerged in the international dialogue among NGOs, social movements, and scholars for reforming various aspects of the global economy. Among the sources on which it draws are:


>Economic Policy Institute, Center for Economic Policy Analysis, Fifty Years Is Enough, Council of Canadians,  Institute for Policy Studies, The International Labor Rights Fund, Friends of the Earth, Third World Network, AFL-CIO, Jubilee 2000, Preamble Center, Citizen's Trade Watch, Focus on the  Corporation, Global South, UNCTAD, Council of  Canadians Summit of the Peoples of the Americas, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Financial Markets Center, International Forum on Globalization, United Nations Human Development Program, previous drafts of bills and amendments International Innovative Revenue Project

-- 
Gar W. Lipow
815 Dundee RD NW
Olympia, WA 98502