TradeJustice Alliance Sunday Webinar
TPP vs. Mining
& TPP Revolt at the DNC!
Sunday, August 7th, 2016
7:30 PM EDT / 4:30 PM PDT
(see below for additional time zones)
Register here.
Invite your friends to the Facebook event.
Learn why the Trans-Pacific Parternship and other trade and investment agreements threaten efforts to challenge the environmentally and socially destructive impacts of the global mining industry!
Hear firsthand reports from activists inside and outside the Democratic National Convention last week -- where fair trade fighers made TPP the central controversy of the convention!
FInd out about critical actions we can take to resist TPP during the August Congressional Recess! With the Obama administration planning a TPP vote in November, the long summer recess is a CRUCIAL moment for grassroots action!
Organized by TradeJustice Alliance
Cosponsored by Bayan USA and the International League of People's Struggle.
Speakers:
Lauren Waugh - Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
Jaybee Garganera - Alyansa Tigil Mina
Adam Weissman - Global Justice for Animals and the Environment, TradeJustice NY Metro, Trade Justice Alliance
Jeanne Marie Dauray - Anti-TPP DNC Delegate
Margaret Flowers - Flush the TPP / Popular Resistance
Carlos Martinez We Are Seeds Rally vs. TPP and GMOs
Rose Espinola - Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
Mara Cohen - People Demanding Action
About the Presenters:
Lauren Waugh is a recent graduate of Columbia Law Schools LLM program where she focused on international law, development and governance. She graduated from Columbia Law School as a James Kent Scholar and a recipient of a Parker School Certificate for Achievement in International and Comparative Law. Before undertaking the LLM program she worked at Australias Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Australia and Fiji, and for the Australian Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws with first class honours from Australian National University.
Jaybee Garganera is currently the National Coordinator of Alyansa Tigil MIna (Alliance to Stop Mining) or ATM in the Philippines. He was a co-convenor of the alliance since it was founded in 2005. Before going full-time in the mining campaign work, he used to head a rural development network and is one of the civil soceity representatives to the Phlipine Council for Sustainable Development (PCSD). Part of his responsbilities in coordinating the campaign against desructuve large-scale mining in the Philippines include engaging a national platforms on indigenous peoples, clmate justice and revenue transparency. He is sitting as a board or steering committee member on several of these CSO formations.
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WEBINAR TIMES AND DATES
IN ALL TPP NATIONS
Sunday August 7 (Americas) Monday August 8 (Asia/Pacific)
US/Canada times:
2:30 PM: Hawaii
3:30 PM: Pacific
4:30 PM: Alaska
5:30 PM: Mountain
6:30 PM: Central
7:30 PM: Eastern
8:30 PM: Atlantic
Sunday, August 7, 2016
Mexico
4:30 PM: Hermosillo, Mexicali, Mazatlan, Tijuana,
5:30 PM: Acapulco, Aguascalientes, Guadelajara, Mexico City, Veracruz
6:30 PM: Cancun
Peru
6:30PM Lima
Chile
6:30 PM: Easter Island
8:30 PM: Punta Arenas, Santiago
Monday August 8, 2016
Japan 8:30 AM Kobe, Koyoto, Nagoya, Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo, Yokohama
Vietnam 6:30 AM: Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh
Brunei 7:30 AM: Bandar Seri Begawan
Malaysia 7:30 AM: Kuala Lumpur
Singapore 7:30 AM: Singapore
Australia
7:30 AM: Perth
8:15 AM: Eucla
9:00 AM: Alice Springs, Darwin
9:30 AM: Cairns, Sydney
10:00 AM: Adelaide
10:30 AM: Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney
New Zealand
12:30 PM: Auckland, Wellington
1:15 PM Chatham Islands
Not in one of these time zones? Not sure?
Find the call in your time zone using http://www.timeanddate.com/ (use 7:30 PM U.S.A. - New York as the time to convert from)
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