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Published on Thursday, December 15, 2011 by IPS Blog
http://www.ips-dc.org/blog/why_the_99_percent_are_protesting_at_the_world_bank_today
by John Cavanagh
Undemocratic provisions in treaties enable corporations to sue governments in international tribunals over environmental, health, and other measures foreign countries take to protect the public.
Today I will join leaders from the labor, environmental, faith, and human rights communities to protest in front of the World Bank.
Why?
We'll be there to stand up for the democratic rights of people everywhere in the face of ever-expanding corporate rule.
There's a set of people from the 1 percent who don't think we should be there. Twenty-one years ago, those people got together just two blocks north of the World Bank, in the K Street corporate lobbyist corridor, and crafted a set of corporate rights that they then inserted in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).