FAST TRACK HAS EXPIRED - WE HAVE CHANGED OUR AD TEXT!

Dear Friends of Fair Trade: July 16, 2007

Let's Celebrate! Fast Track expired on June 30 without a presidential request to Congress for renewal. The mounting opposition and pressure we have built to the failed "free trade" model is having an impact. Thank you for sharing in the campaign to defeat Fast Track.

Our work is not done. Undaunted, the Administration continues to push four new trade agreements that were negotiated under Fast Track - Peru, Panama, Colombia and Korea. One or more of them will likely come up for a vote before summer recess in early August. We think it is imperative to stop all of these agreements, and demand a national re-thinking of trade policy.

Our campaign to place an ad in the New York Times has generated considerable enthusiasm, but since Fast Track was not presented for a vote, there was not sufficient traction to generate enough signatures for the NYT. However, we are well positioned to make a timely statement against the four pending agreements, which represent an extension of the devastating NAFTA/CAFTA model negotiated under Fast Track.

We will place the accompanying text in one of the Hill papers near the end of this legislative session. If you have already signed this ad, since you signed your name to a somewhat different text, we wanted to communicate to you our change of plans. We are operating on a short timeline, but want to give you the opportunity to opt out of this ad if it doesn't represent your views.

If you prefer not to be listed in the amended ad text, contact us at the earliest possible moment. If you want your contribution refunded, please let us know as well.

Thanks again to all of you for sending a strong message to Congress and for sharing in the effort to construct a just U.S. trade and economic policy.

To have your name deleted as an ad signer, call 301-699-0042 or email us at jennya@quixote.org

Peace and Blessings,

Dolores C Pomerleau
Thomas Loudon