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	<title>USW Blog &#187; fair trade</title>
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		<title>A Crucial  Senate Race and Its Impact on Jobs and the Economy</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/30/a-crucial-senate-race-and-its-impact-on-jobs-and-the-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/30/a-crucial-senate-race-and-its-impact-on-jobs-and-the-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fair trade]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Sherrod Brown]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As the campaigning for the 2012 election nears, America is still in deep trouble in unemployment and ever-increasing job-killing import competition. We lost 55,000 manufacturing facilities in the last decade, and those losses continue at about 1,000 per month along with many more good jobs. Any changes in trade policy to correct this grievous situation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trade Rulings Undermine Consumer Protection</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/07/trade-rulings-undermine-consumer-protection/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/07/trade-rulings-undermine-consumer-protection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fair trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Trade Agreements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Trade Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Citizen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12506</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“His name was Colin; here are his papers,” said the waitress presenting a bound prospectus to two diners who possess a limitless interest in the origin, diet and even friendship circle of the chicken they are about to order. The scene comes from Portlandia, the sketch comedy that skewers the bobo lifestyle. Most of us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FTA: Pillage and Barbarism</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/24/fta-pillage-and-barbarism/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/24/fta-pillage-and-barbarism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fair trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Documents signed in a fraudulent attempt to violate workers’ and citizens’ rights are only sheets of paper. These do not reflect a bilateral commercial treaty but just one episode more in the history of pillage and barbarism in Colombia, Panama and South Korea. On the other hand, we value the work of all organizations and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter To President Barack Obama on Trade:</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/17/an-open-letter-to-president-barack-obama-on-trade/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/17/an-open-letter-to-president-barack-obama-on-trade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitch McConnell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rob Portman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warren Buffett]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11579</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The White House Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. President: Despite America’s  huge jobs problem and trillions of dollars in trade deficits, some U.S. leaders want even more bad Free Trade Agreements! The results ofNAFTA have been disastrous, and it’s widely predicted our new agreement with South Korea will also be a big net loss for the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trade Deals Pass Congress &#8212; China Currency Bill More Important Than Ever</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/16/trade-deals-pass-congress-china-currency-bill-more-important-than-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/16/trade-deals-pass-congress-china-currency-bill-more-important-than-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[currency manipulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fair trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11570</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Congress just passed three more NAFTA-like trade deals, so our country&#8217;s trade deficit is going to get even worse. And pressure on working people to accept pay and benefit cuts and longer and harder working hours is going to get even worse. And the rewards to the top 1%, at the expense of the rest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Week of Walking Backwards</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/14/the-week-of-walking-backwards/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/14/the-week-of-walking-backwards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a country where joblessness is a painful 9.1 percent. Where one in five children lives in poverty. Where foreclosures rose again last month. Where a whole movement—Occupy Wall Street -- is growing to protest the appeasement of the rich at the cost of the middle class. In that place, Congress chose to walk backwards last week. It didn’t take two steps forward – which it could have by passing the currency manipulation bill and American Jobs Act. No. It just took a giant step backward by embracing three job-killing trade agreements. It all provokes the question: Where are the jobs?]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Making Everything in the U.S. from Bridges to Civil Rights Memorials: That&#8217;s a Huge Problem and China&#8217;s Not to Blame</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/10/chinas-making-everything-in-the-u-s-from-bridges-to-civil-rights-memorials-thats-a-huge-problem-and-chinas-not-to-blame/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/10/chinas-making-everything-in-the-u-s-from-bridges-to-civil-rights-memorials-thats-a-huge-problem-and-chinas-not-to-blame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[From David Sirota]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buy America]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Memorial]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chinese invasion tells us the true problem is that America is no longer willing or able to invest in its own future.   Many economic Nostradamuses have long predicted that the epitaph on America&#8217;s tombstone will ultimately read, &#8220;Made In China.&#8221; But casual observers probably didn&#8217;t think the funeral procession would happen this fast. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colombia FTA: Rewarding Promises Instead of Performance</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/12/colombia-fta-rewarding-promises-instead-of-performance/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/12/colombia-fta-rewarding-promises-instead-of-performance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To get the FTA it wants, the Colombian government, like an addict, is willing to say anything. Wall Street banks and multi-national corporations in the United States are so addicted to free trade that they will believe any baseless promise, no actual performance required.]]></description>
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		<title>The Incredible Shrinking FTA Jobs Claim</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/27/the-incredible-shrinking-fta-jobs-claim/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/27/the-incredible-shrinking-fta-jobs-claim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andean and Panama FTAs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=8045</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Travis McArthur Public Citizen Trade and Finance Researcher In Rep. Brady&#8217;s announcement of last week&#8217;s hearing on the Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA), he said, &#8220;According to the President’s own statements, [the pending trade agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea] have the ability to create over 250,000 American jobs.&#8221; Speaker Boehner&#8217;s blog has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dreamy Thinking on Free Trade</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/06/dreamy-thinking-on-free-trade/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/06/dreamy-thinking-on-free-trade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 12:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ian Fletcher Senior Economist, Coalition for a Prosperous America Globalization and, more specifically, free trade have a remarkable capacity for inducing dreamy thinking in American minds.  The “everything will be all right” lullaby arguments called forth by the subject are endless.  These lullabies are not especially hard to construct, as many popular arguments for [...]]]></description>
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