Quote for 2004-07-07

[ri...@math.missouri.edu]

"For example, the WTO says its purview does not include social
issues--only trade. So it claims to be powerless to do anything
about a repressive regime selling the products of sweatshops that
use child labor. Yet let this regime use the same children in
sweatshops to produce 'pirated' CDs or fake designer T-shirts,
and the WTO can spring into action with a series of powerful
levers to protect corporate 'intellectual property rights.' So,
it's really not a question of free trade versus protectionism,
but of who and what is free, and who and what is protected."

Elaine Bernard, exec. dir., Harvard Trade Union Program.
"The Battle In Seattle," Washington Post, Sunday, Dec 5th, 1999

>From: Phil Kramer <p...@halcyon.com>

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