TPP
vs. the Environment
Will
President Obama's TPP
Expand
Hydrofracking and Mining?
A
Panel Discussion on Friday, October 26, 2012
TPP:
What You Don't Know CAN Hurt You!
At
Risk: Our Jobs, Our Environment, Our Food, and Our Health!
Join us for the first of a series of
educational forums to learn more about the Trans-Pacific Partnership
and what we can do to stop it! Each event will feature different
speakers and cover different aspects of the TPP.
“ [Natural gas] is an ideal fuel
– energy source that we can use for the next hundred years. So
I want to encourage natural gas production.” – President
Barack Obama, July 16, 2012
Behind closed doors, the Obama
administration and the governments of 10 other countries are
negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive expansion of
NAFTA,, , the North American Free Trade Agreement that will increase
the profits of the 1% - at the expense of * family farmers * decent
jobs * the environment * internet freedom * access to lifesaving
drugs * animal rights * freedom of speech * indigenous communities *
financial industry reform * national sovereignty * democracy * labor
rights * food safety.
Leaked texts have revealed that TPP
will contain rules that give foreign investors in fracking projects
the power to sue the US in international tribunals for unlimited sums
if our government decides to ban hydrofracking! Plus, TPP will
eliminate the public interest review process for liquid natural gas
(LNG) terminals designed to export fracked gas to TPP member nations!
Join a panel of speakers to learn
why TPP threatens public interest laws, how NAFTA-style free trade
agreements have already helped extractive industries violate human
rights and pollute then environment in Latin America, and how the
fracking industry may use TPP to eliminate public review and
undermine anti-fracking legislation.
DATE:
Friday, October 26th, 2012
TIME:
6:30-9:30
PM
PRESENTERS:
* Alisa Simmons, Public Citizen's
Global Trade Watch
* Ilana Solomon, Trade
Representative,The Sierra Club
* Manuel Perez-Rocha, Associate
Fellow, Global Economy, Institute for Policy Studies
* Bill Weinberg, World War 4 Report,
Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade
LOCATION:
Community Church of New York, John Haynes Holmes
House, 28 East 35th Street between Madison & Park Avenues,
Manhattan, NYC.
SUGGESTED
DONATION: $5-15 for each event; FREE if you can't
afford to pay.
RSVP:
http://gjae.org/tppforums
(we'll send directions & updates)
ADDITIONAL
INFO: Phone: (718) 218-4523 Email:
notpp@gjae.org Web: http://gjae.org
ABOUT
THE PRESENTERS:
Alisa A. Simmons is the National Field
Director for Global Trade Watch. She has worked on a range of social
and economic justice issues, including global trade, worker's rights,
student's rights, LGBT civil rights and voter's rights. Alisa helped
organize anti-WTO meetings in Seattle in 1999 and joined an
international group of activists to protest the World Trade
Organization meetings in Prague in 2000. She has degrees and
certificates in sociology, liberal arts, international conflict
resolution and non-profit management but mostly credits her personal
development and organizing success to the countless number of
traditionally underrepresented and marginalized people who taught her
what it is get up and fight every day. As a native New Yorker, Alisa
has a fierce passion for jay-walking.
Ilana Solomon, Trade Representative:
Ilana Solomon joined the Sierra Club’s Labor and Trade program
in March 2012. Before coming to the Club, Ilana was a Senior
Policy Analyst with ActionAid, a rights-based anti-poverty
organization. Ilana started her work at ActionAid in 2004,
working on a diverse range of issues including women’s rights
and the right to human security in times of emergency. From
2007-March 2012, Ilana focused her work on international climate
justice. She advocated for the creation of a new equitable and
effective multilateral fund for climate change and for public finance
for adaptation in developing countries. Ilana has authored and
co-authored numerous articles and reports focused on the need for a
new global climate fund and on proposals for how to generate
substantial public finance for climate change. Before joining
ActionAid, Ilana worked with the International Rescue Committee
in Atlanta, Georgia, working on program development with women
refugees. Ilana graduated from Oberlin College with majors in Latin
American Studies and Music and has a Masters of International Service
from the School of International Service (SIS) at American
University.
Manuel Pérez-Rocha helps to
coordinate the Networking for Justice on Global Investment project,
as part of the IPS Global Economy Project. In this role, he works
together with allies at the Democracy Center in Bolivia and
organizations in several countries. Prior to that, he directed "The
NAFTA Plus and the SPP Advocacy Project," as part of the Global
Economy Project. He is a Mexican national who has led tri-national
efforts to promote just and sustainable alternative approaches to
North American economic integration for more than a decade. Prior to
moving to Washington, DC in 2006, he worked for many years with the
Mexican Action Network on Free Trade (RMALC) and continues to be a
member of that coalition’s executive committee. For the past
several years, he has also contributed to the Alternative
Regionalisms project of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, and
worked as a consultant to Oxfam International on trade issues in the
Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean region. Manuel studied
International Relations at the National Autonomous University of
Mexico (UNAM) and holds a M.A. on Development Studies from the
Institute of Social Studies (ISS) at The Hague, Netherlands.
Bill Weinberg is an award-winning
25-year veteran journalist in the fields of human rights, indigenous
peoples, ecology and war. He is the author of Homage to Chiapas: The
New Indigenous Struggles in Mexico (Verso Books, 2000), and War on
the Land: Ecology and Politics in Central America (Zed Books, 1991).
As a correspondent and contributing editor for Native Americas,
Cornell University's quarterly journal of hemispheric indigenous
issues, he won three awards from the Native American Journalists
Association for his reportage from Nicaragua to Arizona between 1996
and 2000. He also won an award from Project Censored in 2007,
although he hates Project Censored. His work has appeared in The
Nation, Newsday, The Progressive, The Village Voice, New America
Media, AlterNet, NACLA Report on the Americas, Middle East Policy,
Toward Freedom, In These Times, Yes! Magazine, Indian Country Today,
The Amsterdam News, The Ecologist, Earth Island Journal, City
Limits,Cannabis Culture and numerous other publications. He also
served as news editor at High Times in the 1990s, covering the global
war on drugs, and was a regular contributor to New York's Guardian
newsweekly in its final years. He continues to cover the drug war
beat for High Times, Kush and other magazines. With Ann-Marie
Hendrickson, he for 20 years co-produced the anarchist variety show
Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade on WBAI-NY, 99.5 FM. He was removed
from the air in 2011 for his political dissent. He lives on New
York's Lower East Side. Earlier this year, he was in Peru on
assignment for the Progressive.
ORGANIZERS
& ENDORSERS:
Ecologic
(WBAI 99.5 FM) http://www.comicbookradioshow.com/eco-logic.html
Global
Justice for Animals and the Environment http://gjae.org
The Green Sanctuary
Committee, CCNY, UU www.ccny.org
Health Global Access
Project http://healthgap.org
New York Committee in
Solidarity with the People of El Salvador http://nycispes.org
Occupy Wall Street
Environmental Solidarity Working Group
http://www.nycga.net/groups/environmentalist-solidarity/
Occupy Wall Street Trade
Justice Working Group http://tradejustice.nycga.net
Pure Imagination
(Progressive Radio Network)
http://prn.fm/shows/music-shows/pure-imagination/#axzz2A3eZBuh5
Sierra Club -
http://sierraclub.org/trade/
TradeJustice New York
Metro http://tradejustice.net
SAVE
THE DATE:
Forum #2: Thurs, Nov 15th :
Topic & Speakers to Be Announced
Location: Brecht Forum, 451 West
Street between Bank and Bethune Streets, Manhattan, NYC.
Time: 6:30-9:30 PM
LEARN
MORE ABOUT TPP AT THESE WEBSITES:
http://tradejustice.net/tpp
http://tpp2012.com
http://stoptpp.org
http://citizenstrade.org/
http://tradewatch.org
http://eyesontrade.org
http://flushthetpp.org
http://tppinfo.org/
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