Reply #23: "increased living standards for all involved" - not true

[rman]

Trading Freedom: the secret life of the FTAA (Indymedia)
Indigenous struggles, working-class resistance, women vs. the FTAA, Your Biotech Future, media activism, the NAFTA Chapter 11 investor-state dispute settlement mechanism, and the ever-popular "state repression of dissent" (coming soon to to a town near you). Footage from Akwesasne, Chiapas, Quebec City, Sao Paulo, and Tijuana, plus the combined efforts of over 100 videographers, photographers, free radio outlaws, writers, editors, techs, and rabble-rousers make this the perfect vid for your local anti-FTAA event. With implementation of the accord only a few years away, time is running out.
http://frazer.rice.edu/~tish/index.html
http://frazer.rice.edu/~tish/video.html
http://frazer.rice.edu/~tish/video.mov
http://www.chomskytorrents.org/TorrentDetails.php?TorrentID=764
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/01/284511.html


Life and Debt
http://www.chomskytorrents.org/TorrentDetails.php?TorrentID=125
Jamaica, land of sea, sand and sun... and a prime example of the complexities of economic globalization on the world's developing countries. With twenty-five years of "help" from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank intended to bring Third World nations such as Jamaica into the fold of free market economies, these restructuring" policies have crippled Jamaica's efforts towards self-reliant development while enriching the lenders. This scathing film is an unapologetic look at the "new world order" from the point of view of Jamaican workers and farmers, as well as government and policy officials.


A Place Called Chiapas
Zeitgeist Films
http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=placecalledchiapas
http://www.chomskytorrents.org/TorrentDetails.php?TorrentID=1912
In 1994, the Zapatista National Liberation Army, made up of impoverished Mayan Indians from the state of Chiapas, took over five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico. The government deployed its troops and at least 145 people died in the ensuing battle. Filmmaker Nettie Wild travelled to the country's jungle canyons to film the elusive and fragile life of this uprising.