[CTC] San Francisco-Area Events on the TPP

[Arthur Stamoulis]

Hi everyone:

I'll be speaking at the following events in the San Francisco Bay Area  
next week.  Public forum listed at top, and enviro brown bag and labor  
council meetings listed below.  Please help spread the word to anyone  
who might be interested.  Thanks!

Arthur Stamoulis
Citizens Trade Campaign
(202) 494-8826







You're invited!

The TransPacific Partnership (TPP):
What Corporations Want & How People Globally are Saying NO!

Presentation, Q & A and Open Discussion with Arthur Stamoulis,  
Executive Director of Citizens Trade Campaign

Monday, March 25, 6:00 pm
Global Exchange, 2017 Mission St #200
San Francisco, CA

Near Mission/16th Street BART
Free & open to the public; all welcome!

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a massive new international  
trade pact being pushed by the U.S. government at the behest of  
transnational corporations. If it continues on its current course,  
the  TPP will serve two primary purposes:

  1. Making it easier for corporations to shift jobs throughout the  
world to wherever labor is the  most exploited and regulations are the  
weakest; and
  2. Putting checks on democracy at home and abroad by giving  
corporations' new tools to attack environmental, consumer, banking and  
other public interest policies

The TPP is already being negotiated between the United States,  
Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New  
Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam — but it is also specifically  
intended as a “docking agreement” that other Pacific Rim countries  
would join over time, with Japan, Korea, Thailand, the Philippines and  
others already expressing interest.

Corporations cheering the TPP include Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Wal- 
Mart, Newscorp, Cargill, Chevron and Halliburton, among many others.  
The TPP has been questioned — if not outright opposed — by labor,  
environmental, family farm, consumer, indigenous and other social  
justice groups on four continents.

Join us to learn about the current state of TPP negotiations, growing  
movements across continents and upcoming opportunities for action to  
#StopTPP!

RVSP and help spread the word on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/496566303712067/

Sponsored by Occupy Forum and Global Exchange

Follow Citizens Trade Campaign on Twitter at @citizenstrade

Whether or not you can make to this important forum, you can help by  
forwarding this message to friends and by taking online action now!


Environmentalists Are Also Invited to a Brown Bag Discussion on the  
TPP...

Rainforest Action Network
Tuesday, March 26, 12:00 pm
425 Bush St, Ste 300 • San Francisco, CA

Union Members Can Also Hear Brief Updates on the TPP at the Following  
Meetings...

San Mateo Labor Council
Monday, March 25, 4:00 pm
1153 Chess Drive • San Mateo, CA

North Bay Labor Council
Wednesday, March 27, 6:30 pm
2525 Cleveland Ave, Ste A • Santa Rosa, CA

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