|
Bill Moyers exposes one of NAFTA’s dirty
secrets
In what one attorney called "an
end-run around the constitution," corporations are using a
little-known provision of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
to challenge public laws, regulations and jury verdicts not only in the
United States, but in Canada and Mexico as well. And, they are arguing
these cases not in courts of law, but before secret trade tribunals.
How can this be happening? And why do so
few people know about it?
In the latest in their series of exposés
on the secret recesses of American democracy, Bill Moyers and Sherry Jones
uncover how multinational corporations have acquired the power to demand
compensation if laws aimed at protecting the environment and or public
health harm them financially.
Bill Moyers: Trading Democracy
A one-hour documentary premiering
Friday, February 8 at 10 p.m.
On KPBS Channel 15/Cable 11
|