Lori Wallach

Lori Wallach

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Lori Wallach is the director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch. A Harvard-trained lawyer, Wallach has promoted the public interest regarding globalization and international commercial agreements in every forum: Congress and foreign parliaments, the courts, government agencies, and the media. Described as “Ralph Nader with a sense of humor” in a Wall Street Journal profile, “the Trade Debate's Guerrilla Warrior” in the National Journal, and “Madame Defarge of Seattle” by the Institute for International Economics, Wallach has testified on NAFTA, GATT-WTO, and other trade issues before over 30 U.S. congressional committees, numerous other countries’ legislatures, the U.S. International Trade Commission and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Wallach’s work in “translating” arcane trade legalese – indeed, entire proposed international commercial agreements – into relevant, accessible prose has had significant national and international impact.

Blog Entries by Lori Wallach

Questions the Democratic Presidential Candidates Need to Answer on Trade & Globalization

Posted February 22, 2008 | 04:05 PM (EST)


The Wisconsin primary featured the first-ever presidential campaign competition of who opposes the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) the most.

The candidates sparred on a daily basis to distance themselves from NAFTA and the United States' soaring trade deficits, loss of more than 3 million manufacturing jobs and...

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Politics, Peru and a Presidential Primary?

1 Comments | Posted January 25, 2008 | 07:00 PM (EST)


How did a U.S. trade agreement with Peru of all countries become a political hot potato in the recent Congressional Black Caucus CNN debate? With repeated polls showing that strong majorities, including a majority of Republican voters, consider our current trade policies to be damaging for themselves and the nation,...

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Long Overdue, Fast Track Finally Passes into History

Posted June 29, 2007 | 03:51 PM (EST)


Millions of Those Harmed by Fast Track-Enabled "Trade" Deals Celebrate

OBITUARIES: Fast Track 1974-1995/ 2002-2007

After a brief, damaging existence, Fast Track was pronounced dead on June 30, 2007.

The demise of Fast Track allowed the U.S. Founding Fathers to stop rolling in their graves over Fast...

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The Fair Trade Sweep of 2006

Posted January 4, 2007 | 03:50 PM (EST)


"As goes Ohio, so goes the nation," we heard repeatedly last night at the Washington banquet celebrating today's swearing in of Democratic Representative Sherrod Brown as Ohio's new Senator.

So, how did Ohio go? Solidly victorious for Democrats who campaigned on a progressive message of replacing the failed NAFTA-WTO trade...

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