Trade is the new debt relief (Brad Pitt and trade)

The most interesting thing about this Washington Post article (Trade and Aid: The Stars are Aligned), is that trade is becoming the next common cause of do-gooders, after debt relief. Excerpt:

DATA, the activist outfit that sponsored Pitt's tutorials, has convinced
development groups that traditionally ignored trade that they should sign on to
a pro-Doha platform. American religious leaders, who have long campaigned for
Third World debt relief, are planning to use a meeting with Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice next week to lobby for trade liberalization.

This take on trade is likely to divide the left because many won't accept to give up the losers, as they see it. And for too many of them, it doesn't mean to exploit the new possibilities of an open economy, but to keep things as they are right now.