SPP Watch
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 4:15 pm
SPP Watch
November 2, 2007
SPP WATCH is a new feature of our Integrate This! website, devoted to challenging the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), an executive-level pact between the governments and corporate sectors of Canada, the United States and Mexico, which has never been debated publicly or voted on in any of the three countries. There are over 300 initiatives in the SPP aimed at harmonizing North American policies on food, drugs, security, immigration, refugees, manufacturing, the environment and public health. But media reports often fail to link regulatory changes designed to move the SPP forward back to the broader goal of continental economic and security integration. SPP WATCH will make those links. As well as regular SPP updates, we will continue to post new reports, interviews and multimedia presentations critical of what's often called the "deep integration" of North America. The site is updated regularly so visit often.
Here's what went up on Integrate This! in the past week:
2007 North American Forum agenda
October 31, 2007
Posted by Stuart Trew
Last year it was Banff, this year -- Puerto Vallarta. High-ranking civil servants and military officials narrowly dodged a hurricane, according to weather reports, when they landed in the Mexican resort town on October 12 for two days of brainstorming about "building a North American community." (more...)
SPP haunting Washington this Halloween
October 31, 2007
Posted by Stuart Trew
True to the Halloween spirit, if the SPP is dead, then it has risen from the crypt to haunt the halls of corporate Washington. (more...)
U.S. consumer advocate says no to new funds
October 30, 2007
Posted by Stuart Trew
According to the New York Times today, "The top official for consumer product safety [in the United States] has asked Congress in recent days to reject legislation that would strengthen the agency that polices thousands of consumer goods, from toys to tools." (more...)
Plan Mexico and the SPP
October 30, 2007
Posted by Stuart Trew
A very interesting article from Laura Carlsen at the Americas Program in Mexico City that links Plan Mexico (officially the Mérida Initiative) to the SPP, casting the U.S. subsidization of the Mexican military under the plan as, in Bush's terms, "a new paradigm for security cooperation." (more...)
For more information on the SPP, please visit www.integratethis.ca
November 2, 2007
SPP WATCH is a new feature of our Integrate This! website, devoted to challenging the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), an executive-level pact between the governments and corporate sectors of Canada, the United States and Mexico, which has never been debated publicly or voted on in any of the three countries. There are over 300 initiatives in the SPP aimed at harmonizing North American policies on food, drugs, security, immigration, refugees, manufacturing, the environment and public health. But media reports often fail to link regulatory changes designed to move the SPP forward back to the broader goal of continental economic and security integration. SPP WATCH will make those links. As well as regular SPP updates, we will continue to post new reports, interviews and multimedia presentations critical of what's often called the "deep integration" of North America. The site is updated regularly so visit often.
Here's what went up on Integrate This! in the past week:
2007 North American Forum agenda
October 31, 2007
Posted by Stuart Trew
Last year it was Banff, this year -- Puerto Vallarta. High-ranking civil servants and military officials narrowly dodged a hurricane, according to weather reports, when they landed in the Mexican resort town on October 12 for two days of brainstorming about "building a North American community." (more...)
SPP haunting Washington this Halloween
October 31, 2007
Posted by Stuart Trew
True to the Halloween spirit, if the SPP is dead, then it has risen from the crypt to haunt the halls of corporate Washington. (more...)
U.S. consumer advocate says no to new funds
October 30, 2007
Posted by Stuart Trew
According to the New York Times today, "The top official for consumer product safety [in the United States] has asked Congress in recent days to reject legislation that would strengthen the agency that polices thousands of consumer goods, from toys to tools." (more...)
Plan Mexico and the SPP
October 30, 2007
Posted by Stuart Trew
A very interesting article from Laura Carlsen at the Americas Program in Mexico City that links Plan Mexico (officially the Mérida Initiative) to the SPP, casting the U.S. subsidization of the Mexican military under the plan as, in Bush's terms, "a new paradigm for security cooperation." (more...)
For more information on the SPP, please visit www.integratethis.ca