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March 11, 2008 A group of U.S., Canadian and Mexican activists has embarked on its second leg of a U.S. tour to discuss the damaging effects of NAFTA and the dangers of the Security and Prosperity Partnership with concerned Americans. Carleen Pickard, the Council of Canadians’ B.C. and Yukon regional organizer, has joined Manuel Perez Rocha, an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, and Hector Sanchez of Global Exchange on a four-stop tour of the northeastern United States under the banner, “Better Neighbors: A New Way Forward for North America.” The group spoke at Brown University in Rhode Island on Monday night. According to an article in the Brown Daily Herald, “Perez Rocha called the SPP a ‘hijacking of public policy,’ saying it was not passed through the appropriate political channels. He further warned that it would continue to deregulate big businesses, which he said were the only stakeholders in the negotiations.” Pickard handed out buttons that read “I didn’t vote for the SPP,” describing how the SPP has impacted Canada and how students can urge their congressional representatives to oppose the tri-national partnership, which has seen no debate in any of the three participating countries. And according to the article, Sanchez made the often overlooked links between income disparities under NAFTA and the migration of Mexican workers into the United States in search of employment that isn’t available back home. Pickard had previously joined other U.S. activists on a first leg of the SPP tour through mid-Atlantic and New England region. This second leg will stop in Boston, New York City and New Jersey. Dates and venue information is available at www.canadians.org/events.
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