[CTC] TODAY: Sunday, 4/3: TPP vs. Women Webinar w/ NOW President Terry O'Neill

Sat Apr 2 22:29:49 PDT 2016

Why TPP Is a Feminist Issue: A TradeJustice Alliance Webinar 
featuringTerry O'Neill, President, National Organziation for Women, 
Sunday, April 3rd, 2016, 7:30 PM EDT / 4:30 PM PDT Register at 
http://tradejusice.net/callreg

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*Webinar: Why TPP is a Feminist Issue with Terry O'Neill, President of 
the National Organization for Women Guest Organizer and Moderator: Liz 
Warren * *Register at http://tradejustice.net/callreg - you MUST 
register to receive webinar login info! **Sunday, April 3 (Americas) / 
Monday, April 4 (Asia/Pacific) US/Canada times: HAWAII / 3:30p ALASKA / 
4:30p PACIFIC / 5:30p MOUNTAIN / 6:30p CENTRAL / 7:30p EASTERN / 8:30p 
ATLANTIC (See below for call time in other TPP nations.) *
*ADDITIONAL PRESENTERS*
- *Nic**k**Semanko*, Senior Legislative Assistant to Representative 
Louise Slaughter, will talk about the new letter signed by 19 NY 
Congressional Democrats to President Obama opposing TPP and about Rep 
Slaughter's International Women's Day article, "Supporting women 
includes opposing TPP." - *Margaret Flowers* of Flush the TPP and 
Popular Resistance will talk about actions following the May 18th 
release of the US International Trade Commission TPP report. - *Kit 
Jones* of Fort Worth MoveOn Council and the Texas Progressive Allies 
Coalition will speak on the the anti-TPP resolution that Texas Senate 
District (SD10) just passed, which will be presented to the Texas State 
Democratic Convention in June.- *Adam Weissman* of Global Justice for 
Animals and the Environment and TradeJustice New York Metro will discuss 
two new letters by members of Congress vs. TPP, new reports on TPP's 
potential economic and environmental impacts, upcoming events, and 
volunteer opportunities with TradeJustice Alliance. **
*WHY TPP IS A FEMINIST ISSUE*
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"There have been two established patterns with free trade agreements: 
they tend to export jobs abroad and depress wages. According to the 
Economic Policy Institute, the United States displaced 682,900 jobs 
following NAFTA alone, which puts even more pressure and competition on 
U.S. workers trying to find employment. Free trade agreements also tend 
to discourage unionization and increase competition with international 
workers, which in turn, makes wages lower and worsens working conditions 
globally. These problematic trends will have the most negative impact on 
low-income workers, whose jobs are vulnerable and whose wages are low. 
Women make up two-thirds of these jobs.
Trade Agreement is a Feminist Issue – This makes the Trans-Pacific 
Partnership a feminist issue. When wages are lowered, this 
disproportionately affects women who are still subjected to gender-based 
pay discrimination and persistent patterns of low pay in occupations 
dominated by women – especially women of color — such as retail, food 
service and day care/nursing home and home health care attendants. 
Additionally, similar consequences in job markets and wages in the 12 
TPP countries will negatively impact women and low-income workers in 
those nations. (see, 
http://now.org/resource/fact-sheet-how-the-tpp-will-hurt-women/ )
The Trans-Pacific Partnership will put moderate and low-income women at 
risk, further cheating them out of the better wages, benefits and the 
job security that they deserve. On these grounds, the National 
Organization for Women opposes “Fast Track” and the Trans-Pacific 
Partnership Agreement, and strongly urges members of Congress to vote 
against “Fast Track” and to oppose the TPP.
Globally, the TPP could severely restrict women’s rights and resources 
that have been infringed upon through past trade agreements, including 
essential medicines. Drug companies have been allowed to add 
stipulations to the TPP that will increase the strength (length) of 
patents and other related protections. With these protections, drug 
companies will be able to further monopolize the pharmaceutical market, 
and will inevitably raise the price of drugs in all twelve countries 
affected by the TPP, even though their production costs will stay the 
same. Also, if a small number of drug companies monopolize the market, 
there will be less pressure for innovation research that produces more 
effective drugs.
Another controversial and deeply troubling aspect of the TPP is its 
inclusion of Brunei, a country that just last year passed horrific 
anti-LGBTQIA and anti-women legislation. Under these new laws, a penal 
code calls for the stoning of people who engage in same-sex 
relationships, the jailing of people who have abortions, and fines or 
imprisonment for women who give birth out of wedlock. A trade agreement 
that supports a country with such barbarically restrictive laws cannot 
call itself “free.” Under provisions believed to be in the TPP, the 
United States would have less power to influence which nation is allowed 
to remain a TPP partner."
Excerpted from NOW's "Free Trade and Feminism – How the TPP Will Hurt 
Women" by Marandah Field-Elliot
http://now.org/resource/issue-advisory-free-trade-and-feminism-how-the-tpp-will-hurt-women/
*ABOUT TERRY O'NEILL*

Terry O’Neill, a feminist attorney, professor and activist for social 
justice, was elected president of NOW in June 2009. She is also 
president of the NOW Foundation and chair of the NOW Political Action 
Committees, and serves as the principal spokesperson for all three 
entities. O’Neill oversees NOW’s multi-issue agenda, which includes: 
advancing reproductive freedom, promoting diversity and ending racism, 
stopping violence against women, winning lesbian rights, ensuring 
economic justice, ending sex discrimination and achieving constitutional 
equality for women.

O’Neill’s feminist activism began in the 1990s, fighting right-wing 
extremists in the Deep South, including David Duke. She has served as 
president of Louisiana NOW and New Orleans NOW and as a member of the 
National Racial Diversity Committee. She is a past president of Maryland 
NOW and served on the NOW National Board twice, representing the 
Mid-South Region (2000-2001) and the Mid-Atlantic Region (2007-2009). 
O’Neill was NOW’s membership vice president from 2001 to 2005, when she 
oversaw NOW’s membership development program as well as finances and 
government relations.

A former law professor, O’Neill taught at Tulane in New Orleans and at 
the University of California at Davis, where her courses included 
feminist legal theory and international women’s rights law, in addition 
to corporate law and legal ethics. She has testified before committees 
in the Maryland House of Delegates and has written federal amicus briefs 
on abortion rights for Louisiana NOW, Planned Parenthood and the 
American Civil Liberties Union.

O’Neill is a skilled political organizer, having worked on such historic 
campaigns as Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the Democratic presidential 
nomination, Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, and the campaign 
leading to the election of Louisiana’s first woman U.S. senator, Mary 
Landrieu. She also worked to elect women’s rights supporters to 
judgeships and the state legislature in Louisiana, as well as the 
successful campaign to elect former Maryland NOW president and NOW 
National Board member Duchy Trachtenberg to the Montgomery County (MD) 
Council. O’Neill holds a bachelor’s degree in French with distinction 
from Northwestern University and a law degree magna cum laude from 
Tulane University. She has one child, a daughter who is a proud feminist.

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*Call Times in Various TPP Nations*

*Sunday, March 20, 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, March 21, 2016
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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?*

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7:30 PM U.S.A. - New York as the time to convert from)

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