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And we need to make a change. And we need to make sure that our activities that we're advocating for - if they're economic justice, racial justice, data privacy, whatever - that they include also paying attention to the rules that are being developed globally.
And we have lots of room for growth within Our World Is Not For Sale for more groups to join, to participate in this fight. We need to make a change.
And we need to get the rules that we need - worker rights, more taxation, anti-monopoly. And stop them from implementing the rules that they want which will really have such a devastating impact on our lives for the future.
Because once you get these rules in the WTO, forget ever changing them. That is a problem.
FRIES: We have to leave it there. Many thanks to the organizers & all participants of this event. And thank you for joining us in this episode of GPEnewsdocs reporting on Digital Trade Rules: A Disastrous New Constitution for the Global Economy By and For Big Tech. Authored by Deborah James, Director of International Programs at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) and coordinator of the global Our World is Not For Sale (OWINFS) network.
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Deborah James is the Director of International Programs at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and coordinates the global Our World Is Not for Sale (OWINFS) network. Deborah James has over twenty years of expertise working on issues of trade and democratic global governance. At CEPR, her work focuses on the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, and US policy towards Latin America. Prior to CEPR, she was the Director of the WTO Program of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, where she worked to inform civil society and governments worldwide about the potential impacts of the WTO's proposed Doha Round expansion. She was also the Global Economy Director of Global Exchange, where she did similar work around the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas.
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