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TradeJustice Activists Rally in Snow and Hail to Protest Opening of NY Round of TPP Talks & Congressional Fast Track Hearings


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On Monday, January 26th, over 100 organizations braved snow and hail to protest the opening of the surprise New York round of TPP negotiations. With Senate Finance Committee hearings on Fast Track Trade Authority scheduled for the 27th, protesters marched from the site of the negotiations at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel at 52nd Street and 7th Avenue in Manhattan to the office of Senate Finance Committee member Charles Schumer on 3rd Avenue between 48th and 49th Streets.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

Call 888-804-8311 to be connected to your Representative to express your opposition to Fast Track! Then call Senator Schumer at (202) 224-6542 - ask him to urge Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden to oppose ANY form of Fast Track legislation. Ask Schumer to tell Wyden that Fast Track cannot be "fixed" with Trade Adjustment Assistance or additional trasparency in trade negotiations -- there is NO SUCH THING as a good Fast Track bill!

VISUALS

Photos of the Rally

Videos of the Rally

MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE RALLY

WBAI Morning Show w/ Mario Murillo (1/23/15)

WBAI Morning Show w/ Christy Thornton (1/26/15)

Trans Pacific Pact is Almost Ready, Says US Trade Official Even As Protests Rock New York (International Business Times, 1/29/15)

Calling TPP a 'Death Pact,' Health Advocates Rally Outside Secretive Trade Talks (Common Dreams, 1/26/15)

Hundreds of protesters in NYC tell TPP negotiators to 'Go home!' (Teamster Nation, 1/26/15)

New York Today (New York Times, 1/26/15)

TPP activists take on Global World Leaders in New York City (Demotix, 1/26/15)

Secret TPP Negotiations—And Public Protests—To Be Held in New York City (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 1/23/15)

Protests As Trans-Pacific Partnership Talks Resume In New York Today (Crooks and Liars, 1/26/15)

Council of Canadians endorses protest against TPP in NYC (Council of Canadians, 1/27/15)

Anti-TPP NYC Rally Pics TODAY: Blizzard Hysteria Doesn't Stop The Committed (Daily Kos, 1/26/15)

The ‘Movement Of Movements’ Against Fast-Tracking The TPP Can Win (Defending Dissent, 2/2/15)

MEDIA KIT

All Articles (Zip File - does not contain photos and videos)

ABOUT THE RALLY

Media Advisory: Protesters From Over 100 Organizations Brave Blizzard To Protest Monday Launch Of First-Ever NYRound ff Talks For Secretly Negotiated, Obama-Backed TPP Trade Deal

News Release: Protesters From 100+ Organizations Brave Blizzard to Denounce Opening of Secret Manhattan Negotiations For Obama-Backed Trade Deal

AIDS activists challenge Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement that will strengthen drug company monopolies and undermine access to medicines worldwide (Health GAP, 1/26/15)

Endorsing Organizations

Program of Speaker and Performers

SENATOR SCHUMER, FAST TRACK, AND TPP

Senators Tell USTR That Asia Trade Pact Is In Jeopardy Without Currency Provisions (Manufacturing and Technology News, 5/21/14)

GOP Lawmakers Embrace Obama Trade Push More Than Democrats (The New York Times, 1/27/15)

PRESS CLIP FROM PREVIOUS TRADEJUSTICE RALLY

Crowley urged to oppose TPP (Times Ledger, 2/17/14)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON TPP AND FAST TRACK

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) (Citizens Trade Campaign)

Fast Track Trade Authority: Usurping the Constitution (Coalition for A Prosperous America)

Democrats Step Up Efforts to Block Obama’s Trade Agenda (The New York Times, 1/8/15)

The Trans-­Pacific  Partnership: Undermining Food Safety (Public Citizen)

Environmentalists Reject Obama’s Call For Expanded Trade Powers (Huffington Post, 1/24/15)

Most U.S. Workers Likely to Lose Out from Proposed Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement, Report Finds (Center for Economic and Policy Research, 9/10/13)

Trans-Pacific Partnership: Obama Ready to Defy Democrats to Push Secretive Trade (The Guardian, 1/20/15)

Trading Away Health: The Trans-­Pacific Partnership  Agreement (Doctors Without Borders, 3/3/13)

An Explosion of Fracking? One of the Dirtiest Secrets of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement (Sierra Club)

Trans-Pacific Partnership and Fast Track Resources