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Rethink Trade fights for good jobs, a healthy environment, robust and fair markets where small businesses can thrive, and safe and affordable medicine, food and goods. And we believe those who will live with the results must decide the policies affecting their lives. That’s why we work to replace the current “trade” rules that were formed by and for the world’s largest corporate powers with damaging results for most people and the planet.
Rethink Trade fights for good jobs, a healthy environment, robust and fair markets where small businesses can thrive and safe and affordable medicine, food and goods. And we believe those who will live with the results must decide the policies affecting their lives. That’s why we work to replace the current “trade” rules that were formed by and for the world’s largest corporate powers with damaging results for most people and the planet.
with Lori Wallach
Welcome to Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach, where we unpack “trade” policy, law and politics and how it affects your daily life more than you think. Much of what is labeled trade today is not about actual trade stuff, like tariffs or quotas.
We’ll reveal how Big Tech, Big Pharma, Wall Street et al. use the trade brand to rig the rules against working people, consumers, small businesses and farmers and consolidate monopoly control, outsource jobs and undermine food safety and our environment. We’ll debunk myths used to sell the corporate-managed trade agenda, which also has done major damage in the developing world. And, we’ll share alternatives we support.
100 State Laws Big Tech Threatens with “Digital Trade” Attack
Did you know that states across the country are taking steps right now to regulate artificial intelligence (AI), protect kids’ online safety, guarantee us the right to repair our phones, cars and other stuff, as well as safeguard data privacy? But this progress could soon be wiped out thanks to Big Tech’s stealthy “digital trade” agenda. In the latest episode of our Rethinking Trade podcast, our colleagues Daniel Rangel and Katie Hettinga explain how more than 100 state-level tech bills could be preempted by international trade rules being pushed by Big Tech lobbyists. Katie and Daniel spent months researching how these hidden provisions could undo the vital protections being enacted by state lawmakers, and have now put this information at your fingertips.
