This week environmental activists from the Great Lakes region
and beyond will begin converging on the U.S./Canadian border. They’re
preparing for what they call a grassroots struggle against corporate
globalization. And their major protests will occur during a meeting in
Quebec of national leaders from around the western hemisphere, who
are coming together to work on an economic agreement called the
Free Trade Area of the Americas, or FTAA. Great Lakes Radio
Consortium commentator Don Ogden says the demonstrators are
sending a message to the region’s leaders: