Murder Doesn't Matter Under U.S. Trade Deals, AFL-CIO Reveals

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16. Are you serious? Do you know anything about global trade?

We get a LOT of products and resources from places where workers are brutalized and oppressed. Most products even. And yeah, it happens all the time in many of the countries which are a party to this trade agreement, which is just the latest manifestation of exploitative, colonial patterns that have benefited the "first world" and robbed the "third world" for centuries. I will not support any trade agreement that does not acknowledge and account for the extreme harm done to the least powerful in the name of intellectually bankrupt neoliberal economic ideology.

Research the history of coal mining in Appalachia. Watch King Leopold's Ghost, or A Small Place, or Maquilopolis, or any of the brilliant documentaries that tell the story of international trade.Exploitation and murder of workers, by businesses, with government collusion is not new, and the fact is our economic system and way of life depend on it. First world privilege is real, it is eating the world and killing millions, and it is not our right to continue turning a blind eye to it.