On today's Your Call, we’ll mark the 20th anniversary of The North American Free Trade Agreement between Canada, Mexico and the US. It went into effect during the Clinton administration in 1994. How has NAFTA affected the lives of millions of American, Canadian and Mexican workers? What has been NAFTA's Effect on Jobs, Migration, and the Environment? Join the conversation or call in with your questions on the next Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.
Guests:
Timothy Wise, director of the Research and Policy Program at the Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, and leads its Globalization and Sustainable Development Program
Gerardo Otero, professor of sociology, and an associate member of the school for International Studies at Simon Fraser University.
Harley Shaiken, professor of social and cultural studies at the Graduate School of Education, director of the Center for Latin American Studies and a member of the Department of Geography at UC Berkeley
Web Resources:
Public Citizen: NAFTA at 20: Decreased Wages, Increased Inequality
Global Post: How beer explains 20 years of NAFTA’s devastating effects on Mexico
Gerardo Otero: Neoliberal Globalization, NAFTA, and Migration: Mexico's Loss of Food and Labor Sovereignty
The American Prospect: Going South
Watershed Sentinel: Corn on the Border - NAFTA & Food in Mexico
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Rethinking Trade Policy for Development