Welcome to the homepage of TradeJustice New York Metro's chapter for the 19th Congressional district of New York. Our group works to stop the passage of free trade agreements that undermine democracy, offshore jobs, undermine health, safety, animal welfare, and environmental regulations, contribute to human rights abuses, replace family farms with industrial scale factory farms and genetically modified foods, prevent needed regulations on the banking industry, and limit internet freedom and access to lifesaving generic drugs by expanding corporate intellectual property rights to an absurd degree. Currently, we are focusing on stopping the passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a 12 country free trade agreement described as "NAFTA on Steroids."

Our Congressional Representative is Chris Gibson. As Congressman for New York's 19th District, Chris Gibson represents the 19th district comprises all of Columbia, Delaware, Greene, Otsego, Schoharie, Sullivan, and Ulster counties, and parts of Broome, Dutchess, Montgomery, and Rensselaer counties. You can view a map of the 13th Congressional district here. We work to alert Representative Gibson's constituents to the threat posed by TPP and to encourage him to use his bully pulpit and influence among his Congressional colleagues to built resistance to a trade deal that will only advance the interests of the 1% - at the expense of the rest of us!

Want to get involved or learn more? Contact Jim Mays at (845) 657 2013 or email cgibsonconstituents @ tradejustice . net (no spaces).

Learn more about the Trans-Pacific Partnership here.

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