 | Welcome to the homepage of TradeJustice New York Metro's chapter for the 5th 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 Gregory Meeks. Most of the 5th district is in Queens, but a small portion is located in Nassau County. The district includes the entire Rockaway Peninsula as well as the Queens neighborhoods of Cambria Heights, Hollis, Jamaica, Laurelton, Queens Village, Rosedale, Saint Albans, Springfield Gardens, and South Ozone Park, as well as John F. Kennedy International Airport. In Nassau County, the district covers Inwood and parts of Valley Stream and Elmont. You can view a map of the 5th Congressional district here. We work to alert Representative Meeks's constituents to the threat posed by TPP and to encourage his 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 Donne and Joanne Whitehead at (347) 231-6636 or email gmeeksconstituents @ tradejustice . net (no spaces). Do you live in our congressional district? Find out by entering your zip code here. If you're not in our district, you can find out how to get involved in a TradeJustice group in your Congressional district by calling (718) 218-4523 or emailing info @ tradejustice . net.
Learn more about the Trans-Pacific Partnership here
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