The Eights | World Trade and the Culture Wars in 1998

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 7, 2018

Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, discusses how world trade agreements in the 1990s created a new debate that reverberates in the culture wars today.

"The Zapatistas were not just being rhetorical when they said their rights would be undermined." -- @WallachLori on NAFTA
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) June 7, 2018

The president's appointee in charge of trade, Robert Lighthizer, has been an opponent of the WTO of NAFTA. "So our moment is, ironically, one in which the Trump negotiator is fighting for the changes that progressives have demanded for decades," says @WallachLori.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) June 7, 2018

I have two scars from rubber bullets fired by police in Seattle in '99. Protesters were dismissed as uninformed Gen-X rioters. Much of what we opposed foreshadowed the impact of exploitation of working poor by global institutions & eventually the Occupy movement. @BrianLehrer
— Rhys (@FinnsLastPint) June 7, 2018

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