Milliken & his various organizations here are a major force in the anti-globalization side of the trade debate. The USBIC Foundation he has funded works very closely with the Naderites and some unions. The USBIC (the US Business & Industrial Council) is a group of domestic manufacturers in various industries who hate multinationals but also despise unions and everything they represent. And they're nationalistic to the point of xenophobia. Once one of USBIC's lobbyists told me it was a "disgrace" that the United Steelworkers had elected a Canadian (Leo Gerard) as their president. They think internationalism and cross-border solidarity is practically a disease. This has always been an interesting contradiction, but the Naderites in particular are well-known for their willingness to ally with just about anybody, as in their joint lobbying with the VFW against the China PNTR where the rhetoric was lifted almost directly from 1950. The AFL lobbyists and several other unions were part of that too. TS