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Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach

Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach

Rethink Trade

Trade expert Lori Wallach cuts through the complexity and jargon to make trade policy and politics and the myriad ways it affects our daily lives accessible to all. Episodes 1 - 43 were produced in partnership with Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch.
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Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach - Crisis at the World Trade Organization

Crisis at the World Trade Organization

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05/27/20 • 19 min

Today, the World Trade Organization is in a major crisis of its own making, with its over-reaching enforcement regime derailed, its Director-General abruptly announcing his resignation and legislation introduced in both chambers to terminate Congress’ approval of the organization.

When the WTO was launched in 1995, we were promised by an array of corporations and politicians that it would usher in a new era of win-win globalization that would deliver higher wages and good jobs. Instead, as activists and union members warned, the WTO has facilitated a race to the bottom in wages and mass job outsourcing, especially after China joined in 2001. The WTO has ruled again scores of U.S. policies, including environmental and consumer protections.

What happens next at WTO affects us all. In this episode Lori digs in the history of the organization and describes the significance of its current crisis.

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Music: Groove Grove by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3831-groove-grove License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach - WTF? WTO Still Blocking End to the Pandemic

WTF? WTO Still Blocking End to the Pandemic

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02/09/22 • 20 min

In this episode, Lori talks with a leading public health expert about how we could END the pandemic and how World Trade Organization monopolies for Big Pharma are blocking that. Health GAP director Asia Russell, who helped bust Big Pharma monopolies to get HIV-AIDS meds to people worldwide, lays out the current COVID situation worldwide and what actions can end the pandemic.

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Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach - MINI-EPISODE: The UAW Strike Story Not on the News with Larry Cohen
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10/13/23 • 2 min

Once you've finished listening to our new episode with Larry Cohen, check out this mini-episode as he discusses the UAW strike.

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We're thrilled to present our latest episode of the Rethinking Trade podcast. Lori is joined by Larry Cohen, former President of the Communication Workers of America, for a guided tour of the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike. Spoiler alert: There’s a lot more about this strike and how it could impact all of us than most of us know.

Larry brings his decades of experience building worker power and broad knowledge of labor history to discuss:

· The big issues not gaining headlines, like how the strike could broadly shape U.S. workers’ fate in the future green economy,

· The role this strike plays in the arc of U.S. workers struggles,

· Where we need to go from here, including what we need to push Congress to do.

Larry’s knowledge and experience makes this conversation a must-listen for anyone interested in a fair economy and social justice.

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Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach - The Hong Kong Protests VS. China's Democracy Crackdown
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06/16/20 • 16 min

Hong Kong is at a significant crossroads—and its special trade status with the US has become a central point of leverage in determining the outcome of this crisis.

One year ago, millions took to Hong Kong’s streets in response to the Chinese government’s attempts to limit free speech, protest and unions rights. The protests would become one of the largest sustained protest movements in recent history, and would succeed in derailing repressive legislation that Chinese leadership was pushing through the Hong Kong legislature. But last month, China moved to skirt that legislature and impose from Beijing a national security law that threatens the freedoms of the Chinese government’s critics. It would allow HK residents to be arrested for criticizing the Beijing government and jailed in mainland China.

In this episode, Lori and Ryan discuss the protest movement and the central role US trade policies are playing in influencing the future of Hong Kong.

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Music: Groove Grove by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3831-groove-grove License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach - Hyperglobalization, COVID and Failed Supply Chains: Now What?
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08/24/21 • 18 min

In our very first episode, we looked at how corporate-led globalization has fueled shortages in our medical supply-chains and limited our ability to fight COVID-19 Today, we catch everyone up on the latest, discussing two Biden-Harris Administration initiatives aimed at addressing this mess -- a targeted supply chain-review and an executive order on Buy American procurement rules. We also make sense of the latest U.S. trade data, which suggests a record trade deficit in 2021. Yup, that's probably another COVID symptom...

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Music: Groove Grove by Kevin MacLeod.

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3831-groove-grove.

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach - Labor Day Special: An Historic Vote in a Mexican Auto Plant
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09/07/21 • 18 min

On August 19th, workers at the massive General Motors plant in Silao, Mexico participated in an historic vote that ousted the corrupt and undemocratic protection union that had long controlled labor relations there. The effort to win such a vote was made possible by the labor rules and Rapid Response enforcement mechanism of the USMCA trade deal.

In this Labor Day special, we sit down with Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Research Director Daniel Rangel and long-time labor organizer Jeff Hermanson, who has been supporting the General Motors campaign through the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center. We discuss the situation at Silao, its significance in the context of trade policy and what it says about the prospect for workers to utilize the USMCA to fight for labor rights in North America.

Music: Groove Grove by Kevin MacLeod.

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3831-groove-grove.

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Getting the world vaccinated and ending the pandemic is a political choice: World leaders have the medical, technical and financial capacity. To produce enough vaccines involves three clear steps: getting intellectual property monopoly barriers out of the way through a temporary WTO TRIPS waiver, technology transfer through sharing the recipes, and funding global production so the world is not reliant on a few monopoly sources.

With this year’s United Nations General Assembly now underway and President Biden’s upcoming COVID Summit around the corner, the U.S. has a powerful opportunity to end the pandemic. Unfortunately, the targets for Biden’s COVID summit exclude making a final deal on the TRIPS waiver or any others steps to share vaccine recipes with the world so more shots can be produced.

To discuss all of this, we are joined by longtime HIV and social justice activist Matthew Rose, who leads U.S. policy and advocacy work at Health GAP and has been deeply involved in the fight for the TRIPS waiver.

Click here to sign the petition.

Click here to learn more about Health GAP.

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Music: Groove Grove by Kevin MacLeod.

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3831-groove-grove.

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach - Apple & Google Seek U.S. Trade Attack on Anti-Monopoly Law
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10/18/21 • 13 min

Right now, Apple and Google are lobbying the U.S. government to attack South Korean anti-monopoly policies. They claim that a recently passed Korean law requiring app stores to allow consumers to use diverse payment systems violates the US-Korea trade deal. Big Tech corporations want to hijack trade pacts to outlaw as a “barrier to trade” anti-trust, labor, environmental or consumer protections that could cut into their profits.

On today’s show, we discuss this case and Big Tech’s current attempts to quietly thwart domestic digital governance and pro-competition policymaking now underway in the U.S. Congress, in various U.S. agencies and in countries around the world by misbranding such policies as “barriers to digital trade.”

Learn more: www.tradewatch.org

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Music: Groove Grove by Kevin MacLeod.

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3831-groove-grove.

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach - MC12, Part 1: Will Big Pharma and Big Tech Win at Next Week’s WTO Ministerial?
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11/24/21 • 15 min

Will the WTO get out of the way of global production of COVID-19 vaccines and meds so we can end this pandemic? Whether Big Pharma or humankind will win is the biggest question as the WTO’s major biennial ministerial meeting starts the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. But Big Tech also has a play...

More than 120 countries support waiving some of the WTO Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) rules that are limiting production of COVID-19 vaccines, treatments and diagnostic tests. But the European Union, UK and Switzerland are blocking. A waiver wont happen without more leadership from the Biden administration.

With all this as a backdrop, Big Tech corporations are also vying for influence at MC12, urging the body to push so-called “digital trade” proposal that would close domestic policy space on issues of great importance, including gig economy worker protections, discrimination and algorithm transparency, competition policy and anti-trust, corporate liability, and consumer privacy. Big Tech wants the WTO to formalize what have beeb rump talks in violation of its own rules.

The stakes could not be higher for the WTO or for the world: Failure to enact a waiver will prolong the pandemic, leading to more death, illness, economic hardship, and social and political disruption. And rushing through a “Trojan Horse” set of “digital trade” rules will only further erode democracy worldwide.

LINKS:

MC12 Global Call to Action

3 Million TRIPS Petitions Delivered to President Biden

Senators Sanders, Warren, Baldwin and Brown call on Biden to Push for TRIPS Waiver at MC12

Reuters: Activists Urge Biden to Push for Intellectual Property Waiver for COVID-19 Vaccines

Big Tech’s “Digital Trade” Trojan Horse Strategy

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Music: Groove Grove by Kevin MacLeod.

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3831-groove-grove.

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach - The UAW Strike Story Not on the News with Larry Cohen
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10/13/23 • 25 min

We're thrilled to present our latest episode of the Rethinking Trade podcast. Lori is joined by Larry Cohen, former President of the Communication Workers of America, for a guided tour of the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike.

(Spoiler alert: There’s a lot more about this strike and how it could impact all of us than most of us know!)

Larry brings his decades of experience building worker power and broad knowledge of labor history to discuss:

· The big issues not gaining headlines, like how the strike could broadly shape U.S. workers’ fate in the future green economy,

· The role this strike plays in the arc of U.S. workers struggles,

· Where we need to go from here, including what we need to push Congress to do.

Larry’s knowledge and experience makes this conversation a must-listen for anyone interested in a fair economy and social justice.

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How many episodes does Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach have?

Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach currently has 76 episodes available.

What topics does Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach cover?

The podcast is about News, Podcasts and Politics.

What is the most popular episode on Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach?

The episode title 'Emergency COVID-19 TRIPS Waiver: With U.S. Now Supporting, What’s Next?' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach?

The average episode length on Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach is 19 minutes.

How often are episodes of Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach released?

Episodes of Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach are typically released every 13 days, 19 hours.

When was the first episode of Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach?

The first episode of Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach was released on Apr 3, 2020.

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