[CTC] Pacific Northwest IPEF Speakers Tour

[Hillary Haden]

Northwest People Over Profits

Speakers Tour on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) Trade
Negotiations and Northwest APEC Mobilization


May 2 @ 7pm: Portland

RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/people-over-profits-portland

May 4 @ 6pm: Olympia

RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/people-over-profits-olympia

May 5 @ 6pm: Seattle

RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/people-over-profits-seattle

May 6 @ 2pm: Bellingham

RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/people-over-profits-bellingham

May 9 @ 6pm: Spokane

RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/people-over-profits-spokane

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Major international trade negotiations are coming to the Pacific Northwest
this summer for a seminal round of talks that could have a decades-long
impact on jobs, wages, labor rights, climate action, consumer privacy and
monopoly power both at home and abroad.


The Washington Fair Trade Coalition and its local and national partners are
working to pull the proposed Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) out of
the shadows in order to shine a light on corporations' anti-worker,
anti-climate, pro-monopoly agenda for the pact and present progressive
alternatives. IPEF already includes fourteen countries, and between them,
would set rules governing approximately 40% of the global economy.  More
countries are expected to join IPEF, too, and it is expected to become the
template for new trade deals around the world.


Corporations are pushing for IPEF to make it easier for them to offshore
good-paying jobs to countries where worker rights abuses are rampant; to
help Big Tech monopolies block new consumer privacy, algorithmic
accountability, gig economy worker protection and anti-trust laws; and to
make it even easier for fossil fuel companies and other corporate polluters
to expand rip-and-ship resource extraction throughout the Asia Pacific
region.  Civil society groups, on the other hand, are pushing for trade
rules that advance worker rights, rein in Big Tech abuses and rapidly
transition the planet to a clean economy future.


Labor, environmental, human rights and other groups are already coming
together to plan a large-scale demonstration and counter-summit in August
during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings in Seattle, at
which many IPEF countries will be discussing trade and the economy.


This May, Julie Bouanna (Washington Fair Trade Coalition), Yimei Shao
(Trade Justice Education Fund) and others will be in Bellingham, Olympia,
Portland, Seattle and Spokane to get folks educated on these important
mobilizations. Join us to learn about how the IPEF trade negotiations will
have an impact on worker rights, environmental protection, and consumer
privacy in our region — and what you can do to make a difference!


Please RSVP Now at the RSVP links above. And share the event on Facebook
here <https://fb.me/e/17PovRjmT>! For more info, contact
julie at washingtonfairtrade.org.

Hillary Haden (She/Her) | Organizing Director
Direct Line: 202.240.8702  | Email: Hillary at tradejusticeedfund.org
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