Weekly
Update
5/22/14

TradeJustice
and Health GAP activists wearing Pinocchio noses expose US Trade Rep
Michael Froman's lies a Bloomberg-sponsored, Pfizer-funded conference on how to push TPP
through Congress.
Events
This Week
For a complete list of our upcoming
events, visit http://tradejustice.net/?page=May14Events
Sat,
May 24th, 1-4PM: March Against Monsanto
TPP will be among the focal issues for
this march. TradeJustice activists will be at the march to present
teach-ins, distribute literature and encourage participants to sign
form letters explaining urging Congress to stop Monsanto's TPP attack
on food safety. When you arrive, call us so we can meet you in the
crowd and give you signs, leaflets, etc. Malu Huacuja del Toro
(Zapatista solidarity activist) will speak on the link between NAFTA,
TPP, and Monsanto and Malu and Adam Weissman will lead in-depth
breakout discussions on why Monsanto supports free trade agreements
like TPP and how we can stop them. Volunteers are needed for anti-TPP
street theater and fliering and petitioning vs. TPP and Monsanto.
Please call in advance if you'd like to participate and be sure to
see us out at the march!
Location: Union Square, 14th Street and
Broadway
Directions: N, R, Q, 4,5, 6, or L to
14th Street-Union Square.
Contact: Carlos at (646) 416-3440
RSVP
and Additional Info:
Want to do TPP outreach at a march
against Monsanto in another city? You can print and distribute this
flier:
http://wetlands-preserve.org/phpUpload/uploads/Monsanto_Flier_Oct_2012%20-%20National.pdf
and print and cut this form letter (2
to a page), attach copies to clipboards, ask marchers to sign copies,
and mail them to the address on the bottom:
http://wetlands-preserve.org/phpUpload/uploads/Monsanto_TPP_and_Fast_Track_Petition.pdf
Fri,
May 30th-Sun, June 1st TPP Outreach @ Left Forum
We'll be tabling outside the Left Forum
throughout the weekend. When people leave after plenaries in the
evening, we'll be waiting at the exit to ask them to sign letters to
Congress vs. TPP and Fast Track and to give them informational
literature and our events calendars. If you plan on attending the
Forum, you can also help get the word out inside – we can give
you clipboard, letters, and literature to take in with you. Please
contact us IN ADVANCE if you'd like to help – either outside or
inside.
Contact (in advance): Adam at (718)
218-4523 or email adam@tradejustice.net
Location: John Jay College, 524 West
59th St., Manhattan (between 10th and 11th Aves)
Directions: A, C, D, E, or 1 to 59th
St- Columbus Circle. Walk west.
RSVP
and Additional Info:
Sun
June 1st, 7:30-9PM: National TPP Conference Call
w/ Rep. Mark Pocan and David Levine
(American Sustainable Business Council) RSVP
and Additional Info
TradeJustice
in Action - Videos and Photos
Panel: What Is the Trans-Pacific
Partnership? (Bay Ridge)
Part
1
Part
2
Panel:
TPP and Global Resistance to "Free Trade"
Action:
TradeJustice and HealthGap Activists in Pinnochio Noses Expose USTR
Froman's Lies at Corporate Conference
New
Literature (PDFs)
Portions of some
these publications were adapted from materials by groups including
the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Citizen's Global Trade
Watch, and OpenMedia.org)
The
Trans-Pacific Partnership Would Undermine Internet Freedom
(half-page, two sided)
Form
Letter: SAVE THE INTERNET! No Fast Track for Internet-Killing Trade
Agreements!
(half page, one sided)
The
Polluters' Powergrab: TPP Will Help Corporation Attack Our
Environmental Laws!
(quarter page, two sided)
The
Trans-Pacific Partnership's Attack on Jobs and Labor Rights
(full page, 2 sided)
News
Huffington Post:
EU Pushing for Expanded US Fracking in TTIP Memo
Citizens Trade Campaign:
http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/blog/2014/05/15/colombia-labor-rights-abuses-still-rampant/
Public Services International:
International
Trade Union Confederation delegates give a resounding “No”
to Trans Pacific Partnership
Doctors Without Borders (MSF): As
TPP negotiations re-start, MSF says still time to fix fatal flaws for
access to medicines
Opinion
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch: On
Eve of ‘Check In’ Ministerial, Top 10 Signs That Obama
Administration Should Call It Quits on Trans-Pacific Partnership
Negotiations
Conservative
Websites vs. Fast Track and TPP
(TradeJustice does not endorse
everything at these sites, but is providing the links to help
activists better understand resistance to Obama's trade agenda from
the right)
Obamatrade
Obama
Shreds the Constitution
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