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Subject: [BRC-NEWS] URGENT - HOPE ALERT: "NAFTA for Africa" Moving Forward
Date: 09-Jun-99 at 20:59
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Subject: [BRC-NEWS] URGENT - HOPE ALERT: "NAFTA for Africa" Moving Forward
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URGENT!!!!! URGENT!!!!! URGENT!!!!!
Dear Friends:
We have just learned that on Thursday, June 10th the dreadful AGOA or
"NAFTA for Africa" bill will come up for a vote before the House Committee
on Ways and Means. This is the last opportunity to stop the bill before
it goes to the House floor. This legislation is bad for the people of
Africa and in the United States.
As you know, AGOA would impose the most harmful conditionalities of the
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the International Monetary
Fund (IMF). The Act, like many structural adjustment programs, would
bankrupt local African enterprises, increase Africa's dependency on food
imports, gut vitally needed social programs, reduce government
expenditures on health and education, and widen the gap between the rich
and poor.
Attached is a list of the key members of the Ways and Means Committee.
Please call as many of these legislators as you can and urge them to
oppose "NAFTA for Africa" (H.R. 434) when it comes before the Ways and
Means Committee on Thursday. Also, contact your own Member of Congress to
urge him or her to vote against this legislation and support HOPE for
Africa.
For more information, please contact my office at (202) 225-0773.
Thanks you for your help.
Ways and Means Members (all are 202 area code)
Robert T. Matsui (CA) 225-7163
Nancy L. Johnson (CT) 225-4476
William J. Coyne (PA) 225-2301
Sander Levin (MI) 225-4961
Benjamin L. Cardin (MD) 225-4016
Richard E. Neal (MA) 225-5601
Xavier Becerra (CA) 225-6235
Philip S. English (PA) 225-5406
Karen L. Thurman (FL) 225-1002
To learn more about the HOPE BILL http://www.jessejacksonjr.org
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