Tyranny of Free Trade: Wasted Natural Wealth and Lost Livelihoods

These are critical times for environmental and social movements around the world. Current and proposed trading arrangements are facilitating daylight robbery, with millions of already impoverished people losing their livelihoods and natural resources in order to enrich the wealthy. Those on the losing end include farmers, fisherfolk, women, indigenous peoples and literally millions of others around the world who depend on environmental resources in order to survive. Those on the winning end include corporations and those governments that profit from the drive to liberalize markets and privatize natural resources. This publication exposes the danger that current trade negotiations pose to people and their environments around the world.

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