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LibrarianActivist.orghttp://www.librarianactivist.org [ LibrarianActivist.org] What is new is that I just found that the Florida Fair Trade Campaign has posted the Maine story to its site and I wonder if other states are doing the same”¦ But here I have to admit that I don’t know much about how the Fair Trade groups work - and I’ve never come across anything like them in Canada (someone correct me if I’m wrong). That Maine wants to pull itself out of the WTO could set a great precedent for folks in other states who think the trade agreements might be a bad idea.

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