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line-height: 1.4133334159851074px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; background-color: black;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.546667098999023px;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><u class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">For Immediate Release</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">: Dec. 13, 2017<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><u class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Contact</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">: Ufuoma Otu, (202) 454-5108, <a href="mailto:uotu@citizen.org" style="color: purple;" class="">uotu@citizen.org</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 15.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders Headlines #ReplaceNAFTA Day-of-Action Event: Millions Nationwide </span></b><b class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Call for Successful Renegotiation to Eliminate Job Outsourcing Incentives, Add Strong Labor and Environmental Terms<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 15.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Labor, Environmental, Faith, Consumer, Family Farm and Other Advocacy Groups and Activists Nationwide Drive Calls, Tweets and Emails to Congress During D.C. NAFTA Talks<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></i></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">WASHINGTON, D.C. — An</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> event on Capitol Hill today launched the national #ReplaceNAFTA Day of Action during the last North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiation talks in 2017, which are now underway in Washington, D.C. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), U.S. Reps. Rosa DeLauro </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">(D-Conn.) and</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">and union and civil society leaders<b class=""> </b>joined Americans nationwide calling, emailing and tweeting at Congress to demand a successful renegotiation of NAFTA to eliminate its outsourcing incentives and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">add strong labor and environmental terms.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">NAFTA renegotiations have reached a pivot point. <span style="color: rgb(32, 32, 34);" class="">Business lobby groups are urging Mexico and Canada simply to ignore U.S. proposals to cut NAFTA’s job outsourcing incentives and Buy American waiver, to limit Chinese content in NAFTA goods and to add a five-year review. The corporate strategy increases the chances that talks deadlock and President Donald Trump withdraws from NAFTA, which he has </span></span><a href="https://www.citizen.org/system/files/case_documents/presidential_authority_to_terminate_nafta_without_congressional_approval_0.pdf" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">authority</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(32, 32, 34);" class=""> to do in no small part because Congress has delegated swaths of its constitutional trade authority to presidents in recent decades.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(32, 32, 34);" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(32, 32, 34);" class="">U.S. civil society groups and activists participating the #ReplaceNAFTA Day of Action are urging the administration to </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">eliminate NAFTA’s outsourcing incentives and</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> add strong labor and environmental </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">provisions that meet fundamental international standards, include swift and certain enforcement, and raise wages for all workers. Callers to Congress are demanding that a vote on a renegotiated NAFTA not be held until these essential standards are met.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class="">Among key activities for this national NAFTA Day of Action and leading to it:<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 7pt;" class=""> </span></div><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Symbol;" class="">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> </span></span>On social media platforms, a #ReplaceNAFTA <b class="">Thunderclap action reached more than 1.9 million people via Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr this morning</b>.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol;" class="">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> </span></span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">More than 70 organizations are taking part in the #ReplaceNAFTA day of action, emailing</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> <b class="">more than 10 million people to drive constituent calls to every U.S. House and Senate office</b>. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol;" class="">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Public Citizen and the Citizens Trade Campaign have organized <b class="">15 town halls and independent field hearings on NAFTA’s renegotiation across the country</b>, giving voice to displaced workers, family farmers, immigrants, small business owners and others demanding replacement of NAFTA with a deal that works for them, not just large corporations. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol;" class="">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">The #ReplaceNAFTA campaign has <b class="">675 people in 48 states doing boots-on-the-ground organizing</b>. <b class="">More than 400,000 Americans have signed </b>#<b class="">ReplaceNAFTA petitions </b>demanding<b class=""> </b>the elimination of NAFTA’s corporate protections that promote job outsourcing.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Symbol;" class="">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> </span></span>The Sierra Club, the nation’s largest grassroots environmental group with more than<b class=""> 3 million members and supporters</b>, is calling for a NAFTA replacement that protects people and the planet, not corporate polluters. <b class="">Hundreds of thousands of supporters</b> participated in the call-in day, building on the more than <b class="">100,000</b> calls and messages Sierra Club members and supporters have already sent to Congress this year on NAFTA.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol;" class="">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Communications Workers of America (CWA) activists are calling their senators on the day of action to ask them to <b class="">hold U.S. trade negotiators to their promise that an updated NAFTA will raise standards and wages for workers in all three countries and stop providing incentives for multinational corporations to move jobs offshore</b>. CWA members from every state are actively engaged in the fight for trade agreements that prioritize supporting working families and strengthening our communities.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(32, 32, 34);" class="">Almost one million U.S. jobs have been </span><a href="https://www.citizen.org/trade-adjustment-assistance-database" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">certified</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(32, 32, 34);" class=""> as lost to NAFTA, with more outsourced every week to Mexico where wages are 9 percent </span><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-28/nafta-s-ugly-reality-u-s-mexico-wage-gap-is-actually-widening" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">lower</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(32, 32, 34);" class=""> than before NAFTA and a tenth of what they are in the United States and Canada. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><b class="">Statements from Members of Congress:<o:p class=""></o:p></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.546667098999023px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.959999084472656px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">“The biggest economic challenge of our time is that people are in jobs that do not pay them enough to live on – and NAFTA has only exacerbated that problem by allowing companies to outsource American jobs and pay workers even less,” said DeLauro. “That is why NAFTA must be rewritten to raise wages and level the playing field for workers. We cannot let corporate special interests write the rules once again and rig this trade agreement against workers.”</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.84000015258789px;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.546667098999023px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.959999084472656px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.546667098999023px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.959999084472656px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">“<span style="color: rgb(38, 50, 56);" class="">Trade deals like NAFTA have decimated families and communities across North America, just so corporate executives can pocket even more in profits,” said Ellison. “This is an opportunity to learn from what hasn’t worked and come up with an approach to trade that serves the common good. We have to stand strong for a trade policy that lifts up workers, safeguards human rights and protects the environment, not one that simply hands more power and profit to massive corporations.”</span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><b class=""> </b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><b class="">Statements from Participating Organizations</b>:<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">“For millions of working families, NAFTA has meant lost jobs, closed factories and call centers, and lower wages, with most unable to find jobs that provide similar levels of pay and benefits. For communities, it’s meant a loss of important public services and cuts in education and other programs as employers abandon cities and towns to relocate out of the country,” said Chris Shelton, president of the Communications Workers of America. “CWA members understand what’s at stake, and that’s why we are leading the fight to make sure that a new NAFTA works for workers.”<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">“Americans have had enough with trade deals that make it easier to outsource jobs to wherever workers are the most exploited and environmental regulations are the weakest,” said Arthur Stamoulis, executive director of the Citizens Trade Campaign. “It’s time to replace NAFTA with a new agreement that prioritizes the creation of good-paying jobs, the protection of human rights and increased wages for all working people. Central to that is ending NAFTA’s outsourcing incentives, and the addition of labor and environmental provisions that are based on fundamental international standards and include swift and certain enforcement.” <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">“Across the political spectrum, Americans reject the status quo of NAFTA helping corporations outsource more jobs to Mexico every week and attack health and environmental safeguards in secretive tribunals. We are fighting for a new deal that cuts NAFTA’s job-outsourcing incentives and corporate tribunals and adds strong labor and environmental terms to level the playing field,” said Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. “The corporate lobby is urging Mexico and Canada not to engage on U.S. proposals to improve NAFTA, which </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(32, 32, 34);" class="">increases the prospects that talks deadlock and President Trump withdraws.”</span><b class=""><u class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">“Congress must ensure that NAFTA renegotiations are used to stop the ongoing bleeding from NAFTA while also adding new protections for our environment, creating jobs and raising wages,” said Murshed Zaheed, political director of CREDO. “If phony populist Donald Trump gets his way, NAFTA renegotiations will hand over even more power and wealth to the superrich and out-of-control mega-corporations.”<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">“National Farmers Union and its 200,000 farm and ranch families support a renegotiated NAFTA that preserves duty-free market access for agricultural goods with Canada and Mexico, but fixes the flawed framework that has created a substantial trade deficit,” said Roger Johnson, president of the National Farmers Union. “Such an agreement should reinstate country-of-origin labeling (COOL) on meat and other food products and should only contain dispute settlement processes that are consistent with the U.S. judicial system.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">“People will not stand by and let Donald Trump trade away their jobs, wages, climate, air and water to the highest corporate bidder,” said Ben Beachy, director of the Sierra Club’s Responsible Trade Program. “To avoid the fate of the corporate-backed Trans-Pacific Partnership, NAFTA’s replacement must reverse the outsourcing of jobs and pollution and protect workers and communities across borders by requiring swift enforcement of core international labor, environmental and climate standards.”<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">“Trade agreements have human consequences. For more than 20 years, NAFTA has devastated Mexico’s most vulnerable communities. People have been pushed out of their homes by economic, labor and environmental factors and forced to migrate in order to survive,” said Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice.<b class=""></b>“This renegotiation gives us an opportunity to address the desperate need for better agricultural policies as well as stricter labor and environmental guidelines. The U.S. should approach these negotiations with respect for human dignity. The effects of NAFTA transcend the economy and deeply affect the lives of people who need the benefits of trade the most. We must set things right for our communities; it is the faithful way forward.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">“A renegotiated NAFTA must take concrete steps to raise labor and environmental standards throughout the continent,” said Peter Knowlton, president of the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America. “It must increase Mexican workers’ wages and eliminate repressive labor laws, including so-called ‘right to work’ laws in the U.S.”<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">“NAFTA has failed farmers in all three of its partner countries – the U.S. Canada and Mexico – all the while lining the pockets of large-scale corporate agribusiness,” said Juliette Majot, executive director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. “At its very essence, trade is meant to improve the livelihoods of people residing in all partner countries. NAFTA never has. It is time for a new approach to trade aimed at ensuring fair prices to farmers and fair working conditions and livelihoods for farmworkers.”<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">“As NAFTA renegotiations continue, it is more important than ever that we work together to find solutions to trade that protect workers, the environment and the common good,” said Patrick Carolan, executive director of the Franciscan Action Network. “Rather than having a trade deal that benefits corporations looking to make a profit or gain more power, we must find ways to protect the most vulnerable that are in the best interests of workers, public health and the environment.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">“NAFTA renegotiations need to be taken very seriously. They represent an opportunity to do what’s right. We can eliminate incentives for companies to leave the United States and move jobs overseas, while strengthening the labor and environmental side agreements, turning them into something enforceable with teeth,” said Gabriela Lemus, president of the Progressive Congress Action Fund. “NAFTA has greatly disrupted workers’ lives in all three countries — this is our opportunity to fix it.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">“The underlying crisis afflicting rural America </span>– <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">rural poverty </span>–<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> is a result of federal agriculture, dairy, food and trade policies that do not provide farmers a fair price that cover our costs of production,” said Brenda Cochran, a Pennsylvania dairy farmer with Progressive Agriculture Organization, a member organization of the National Family Farm Coalition. “Farmers do not need <span class="m5633740635462373012gmail-m4770354041690224352m-6845499325560613805gmail-m4393480165807978706gmail-il">NAFTA </span></span>–<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> we need a fair price </span>–<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> and NAFTA should be terminated unless farmers and workers are paid fairly.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Organizations Participating in the #ReplaceNAFTA Day of Action Include:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></b></div><table class="MsoTableGrid" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="738" style="width: 553.25pt; border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td width="360" valign="top" style="width: 269.75pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in -5.4pt 0.0001pt -1.15pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">American Federation of Teachers (AFT)</span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div></td><td width="378" valign="top" style="width: 283.5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in -5.4pt 0.0001pt -0.9pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Jobs with Justice</span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div></td></tr><tr class=""><td width="360" valign="top" style="width: 269.75pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in -5.4pt 0.0001pt -1.15pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Alcohol Justice </span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div></td><td width="378" valign="top" style="width: 283.5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in -5.4pt 0.0001pt -0.9pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Just Foreign Policy</span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div></td></tr><tr class=""><td width="360" valign="top" style="width: 269.75pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in -5.4pt 0.0001pt -1.15pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Alliance for Global Justice</span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div></td><td width="378" valign="top" style="width: 283.5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in -5.4pt 0.0001pt -0.9pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA)</span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div></td></tr><tr class=""><td width="360" valign="top" style="width: 269.75pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in -5.4pt 0.0001pt -1.15pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">California Labor Federation </span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div></td><td width="378" valign="top" style="width: 283.5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in -5.4pt 0.0001pt -0.9pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC)</span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div></td></tr><tr class=""><td width="360" valign="top" style="width: 269.75pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in -5.4pt 0.0001pt -1.15pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">California Nurses</span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div></td><td width="378" valign="top" style="width: 283.5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in -5.4pt 0.0001pt -0.9pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">National Farmers Union (NFU)</span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div></td></tr><tr class=""><td width="360" valign="top" style="width: 269.75pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in -5.4pt 0.0001pt -1.15pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">California Trade Justice</span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div></td><td width="378" valign="top" style="width: 283.5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in -5.4pt 0.0001pt -0.9pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">National Nurses United</span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div></td></tr><tr class=""><td width="360" valign="top" style="width: 269.75pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in -5.4pt 0.0001pt -1.15pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc. (CDM)</span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div></td><td width="378" valign="top" style="width: 283.5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in -5.4pt 0.0001pt -0.9pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice</span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div></td></tr><tr class=""><td width="360" valign="top" style="width: 269.75pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in -5.4pt 0.0001pt -1.15pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Center for International Environmental Law</span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div></td><td width="378" valign="top" style="width: 283.5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in -5.4pt 0.0001pt -0.9pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">NH Labor News</span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div></td></tr><tr class=""><td width="360" valign="top" style="width: 269.75pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in -5.4pt 0.0001pt -1.15pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Citizens Trade Campaign</span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div></td><td width="378" valign="top" style="width: 283.5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in -5.4pt 0.0001pt -0.9pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">No Maiz Gringo </span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; 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