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What does it mean?
The speaker views the NAFTA trade agreement as a cause of disaster.
In plain terms
This trade deal brings disaster.
What can you take from it?
Trade deals can harm people and communities.

Where it applies

  • policy debates
  • labor organizing

Putting it to work

  • study trade impacts
  • advocate local economy

Questions to consider

  • Who wins or trade deals?
  • Who pays the price?

Another view

It presents a definitive conclusion without explaining the specific mechanisms of harm.

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