'저는 그들의 땅을 지키기 위하여 싸웠던 인디안들의 이야기를 기억합니다. 백인들이 그들의 신성한 숲에 도로를 만들기 위하여 나무들을 잘랐습니다. 매일밤 인디안들이 나가서 백인들이 만든 그 길을 해체하면 그 다음 날 백인들이 와서 도로를 다시 짓곤 했습니다. 한동안 그 것이 반복되었습니다. 그러던 어느날, 숲에서 가장 큰 나무가 백인들이 일할 동안 그들 머리 위로 떨어져 말과 마차들을 파괴하고 그들 중 몇몇을 죽였습니다. 그러자 백인들은 떠났고 결코 다시 오지 않았습니다….' (브루스 개그논)





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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Text Fwd: U.S. to request broad changes to KORUS FTA 미국, 한미 FTA 에 더 넓은 변경들을 요구하다

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U.S. President Barack Obama wears a troubled expression as he holds a news conference after the Democratic Party’s midterm elections defeat at the White House, Nov. 3. (Reuters Yonhap)

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U.S. to request broad changes to KORUS FTA Some ruling party lawmakers have joined the opposition’s criticism of the Lee administration’s decision to formalize renegotiations
Posted on : Nov.20,2010

By Jung Eun-joo and Seong Yeon-cheol

U.S. President Barack Obama declared his intention to examine demands from the U.S. Congress to modify provisions regarding labor, investment, and finance in renegotiations of the South Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA).

According to Reuters and Inside U.S. Trade, Obama expressed this position at a meeting in which nine Representatives from the U.S. Democratic Party’s Trade Working Group who are opposed to the KORUS FTA were summoned to the White House on Thursday (local time) and asked for their cooperation. Obama also told the Representatives that if they submitted a list of additional concerns, he would consider the items and pursue them during the negotiation process with South Korea, Maine Representative Mike Michaud reported.

Michaud and the other Representatives submitted a press release in which they asked Obama for protection of worker interests and reduction of offshore processing through stronger labor standards, a revival of U.S. manufacturing through mutualism, and expanded exports by small and medium enterprises (SMEs). They also requested U.S. economic security through a reduction in the trade deficit, the prevention of financial crisis, and a balance between consumption and production.

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