[CTC] From Negotiation to Policy: The Power of a Trade Pact

[Arthur Stamoulis]

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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!

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