Bush has, unsurprisingly, rejected the AFL-CIO's demand that China be held accountable for making profits off of human rights violations. Interestingly, he brought four members of cabinet to a press conference to announce it. The best quote, however, came the President of the Chamber of Commerce: Tom Donahue, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, said that workers' rights should never be included in trade agreements. "Had the administration accepted the petition, there would have been a number of negative consequences." Mr. Donahue said. "We would have married forever human rights and trade, and that would have been a huge mistake." Keep that quote in mind next you hear this administration talking about the liberating power of free trade.
4/29/2004
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Josh Eidelson received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Political Science from Yale University, where he helped lead the Undergraduate Organizing Committee. He has written about local and national politics as an opinion columnist for the Yale DailyNews, a research fellow for Talking Points Media, and a contributor to CampusProgress.org. Views expressed here are solely his own. Contact: "jeidelson" at "gmail" dot com.
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