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<p><b>Don't miss your chance to learn how the Korea free trade agreement affects states.</b><br />
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<a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=sOP5aZDmPpHy9tFTXUM%2BVjzk8EVl%2FZ%2BO">Join Public Citizen's Lori Wallach for a briefing call tomorrow, Wednesday, July 21, at noon EDT!</a><br />
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For more information, see the email we sent last week, copied below.</p>
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<p><font size="2" face="arial"><strong>A Conference Call for State and Local Officials</strong></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="arial"><strong>July 13, 2010</strong></font></p>
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<td valign="top" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 15px 15px 20px 20px; margin-left: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What State Officials Must Know About the Korea FTA</span></b></span>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">President Obama announced last month at the G-20 Summit in Toronto that his administration will work to resolve outstanding problems with Bush's Korea FTA and introduce it in Congress for a vote early next year. To date, the only fixes the administration has discussed relate to improving U.S. market access into Korea for autos and beef. There is a lot more to fix! This NAFTA-style trade pact, signed by Bush three years ago, includes the outrageous NAFTA-style foreign investor rights and their private investor-state enforcement plus the strongest dose of financial deregulation ever contained in a U.S. trade pact.<br />
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<b>Please join Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch director Lori Wallach on Wednesday, July 21, at 12:00 (noon, EDT) to find out how the Korea FTA's investor rights and financial deregulation provisions could affect states. You'll also hear about what you can do to help change it!</b><br />
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<a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=v1cH33VNu4p8N2%2BbEkH1jzzk8EVl%2FZ%2BO">Register for next Wednesday's conference call now!</a><br />
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Join us for the call to find out:<br />
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<li>How the Korea FTA investment chapter could newly empower Korean corporations in your state to challenge state environmental, health, and financial regulations - and more - in private tribunals to demand taxpayer compensation. (We have a list of these firms - there are roughly 135 Korean corporations with around 270 establishments in the United States.)</li>
<li>How the financial deregulation provisions in the Korea FTA could undermine U.S. and Korean financial regulatory reforms needed to stabilize the global economy.</li>
<li>What you can do to convince the Obama administration to change these rules.</li>
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<b>DATE: Wednesday, July 21</b><br />
<b>TIME: 12:00 (noon, EDT)</b><br />
<b>SPEAKER: Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch</b><br />
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<a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=iD6mjXzIZJzwHX8HCsa1izzk8EVl%2FZ%2BO">Register for the call</a> or contact Sarah Edelman at <a href="mailto:sedelman@citizen.org?subject=Conference%20Call%20RSVP">sedelman@citizen.org</a>.</span></span></p>
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