FAST TRACK transfers the authority to make trade policy from Congress to the President, eroding democratic participation and essential checks on Executive privilege.

As a result, the Bush Administration has pursued a corporate led free trade agenda which privileges corporate interests over those of the common good.

When President Bush asks for a renewal of Fast Track, we need to make sure that Congress "JUST SAYS NO!"

You can participate in a Signature Ad to urge members of Congress to "Just Say No!" to renewing Fast Track. Your name will appear in a full-page signature ad in the New York Times shortly after the Bush administration presents its new Fast Track request to Congress, most likely in June.

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Since the passage of NAFTA in 1991, the United States has been trading away decent jobs, environmental protections and basic human rights under FAST TRACK with disastrous results throughout the Americas.

We have an opportunity to bring this disastrous trajectory to a halt.

We are urging Congress to restore the democratic process by taking back their Constitutional obligation to make trade policies that are informed by citizen participation and benefit the common good.

Please join us in sending this crucial message to Congress and getting the United States off the FAST TRACK to economic injustice by joining our signature ad campaign.

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NAFTA's 12-year track record documents the tragic results of FAST TRACKING the corporate-led "free trade" agenda:

• Over 3 million U.S. jobs lost while corporate profits soar as manufactures move to Mexico and Central America offering low wage jobs under highly exploitative conditions.
• Environmental devastation in the United States and abroad.
• Privileges extended to agri-business are destroying small family farm production in the United States and over 2 million Mexican corn farmers have been driven off their lands as a result of the inflow of subsidized U.S. corn. This is of particular concern if FTA's are ratified with Colombia and Peru where loss of internal markets will fuel coca production.
• People forced to migrate as "free trade" policies deprive them of livelihoods.
• Basic human rights of people living in poverty are undermined as access to basic services such as water, healthcare and education are privatized.
• Patent extensions on life-saving medicines impede access to generic medicines and threaten public health.