[CTC] Fwd: Detroit organizer job description

Fri Feb 10 12:43:58 PST 2023

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From: Melinda St. Louis <mstlouis at citizen.org>
Date: Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 3:41 PM
Subject: Detroit organizer job description
To: arthur at citizenstrade.org <arthur at citizenstrade.org>

Public Citizen Organizer Global Trade Watch - Detroit, MI - Temporary

A major global trade summit is taking place in Detroit this Spring, and
Public Citizen is looking to hire a temporary, part-time organizer in the
area to help plan protests and educational events around it.

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, a forum involving 21 Pacific Rim
countries including the United States, is hosting a major trade policy
meeting in Detroit in May (exact dates TBA).

A major agenda item for this ministerial will be the Info-Pacific Economic
Framework (IPEF)
<https://www.citizen.org/topic/globalization-trade/indo-pacific-economic-framework-ipef/>,
a secretive, U.S.-led trade deal with 13 Asian nations that is expected to
be the most consequential trade initiative of the Biden administration.

The administration says it wants to create a new model for U.S. trade
policy that prioritizes the interests of working people and the planet –
not just big corporations. But the secretive process currently taking place
around IPEF only gives big corporations more power to dominate the
substance of these talks, while shutting civil society out.

Groups throughout the Pacific are organizing to ensure IPEF truly is a new
type of trade policy that uplifts workers across borders and tackles
climate change head-on. APEC’s Detroit summit is our biggest opportunity to
play a role in this effort from the U.S.

The organizer will work under our National Field Director, and will be the
primary point-of-contact for local and regional groups planning to attend a
series of events spanning the length of the summit.

*QUALIFICATIONS*:

·       Deep familiarity and/or existing network with social, economic and
political justice movements in the Detroit metro-area and region at-large.

·       Experience organizing events, especially press events, educational
teach-ins, planning meetings and protests.

·       Experience in renting/booking space for events, doing outreach and
publicity, booking speakers and working with city offices to obtain permits
when necessary.

·       A personal connection to trade deals like NAFTA and the WTO and the
impacts they have had on working people and the planet locally as well as
throughout the world.

*RESPONSIBILITIES*:

·       Assist with general planning for a 3-day mobilization involving
protests, educational events, art-builds and press conferences.

·       Outreach and networking with local organizations including unions
and environmental, human rights, faith, feminist, and other progressive
groups in Detroit and nearby cities and towns to build turnout for the
events.

·       Outreach and networking with similar organizations in neighboring
states including Indiana, Ohio and Illinois.

·       Mobilizing individuals in the region to attend events during the
summit.

*SALARY*:

Compensation: $16.50 - $40.00 per hour

Part-Time: 20 hours per week

Duration: January or ASAP through May 2023

*TO APPLY*:

Send a letter of interest, resume, and writing sample to
GTWapplicants at citizen.org.

Public Citizen is an equal opportunity employer. People of color, women,
LGBT candidates are encouraged to apply. Public Citizen employees are proud
members of SEIU Local 500.

About Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch:

Public Citizen is a national, nonprofit advocacy organization founded in
1971 to represent the public interest in Congress, the executive branch and
the courts. We fight for openness and democratic accountability in
government; for social and economic justice in globalization and trade
policies; for clean, safe and sustainable energy; for strong health, safety
and environmental protections; for safe, effective and affordable medicines
and health care and for the right of consumers to seek redress in the
courts. We have six divisions based in our Washington, D.C. offices and an
office in Texas.

The mission of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch division is to ensure
that in this era of globalization, a majority have the opportunity to enjoy
America's promises: economic security, a clean environment, safe food,
medicines and products, access to quality affordable services such as
health care and the exercise of democratic decision-making about the
matters that affect their lives.

Public Citizen started working on globalization and ‘trade’ issues in 1991
when we recognized that this was necessary simply to remain effective
advocates for the public health, consumer safety, environmental and
economic justice goals Public Citizen had promoted over decades. Motivating
this strategic initiative was our realization that today’s international
commercial agreements, such as the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), were no longer mainly about
trade per se. Rather, these far-reaching agreements were backdoor delivery
mechanisms to implement an expansive, enforceable package of non-trade
policies  - limits on financial regulation and food safety, new monopoly
patent rights over medicines and seeds that limit access, new investor
rights that promote job-offshoring and subject public interest policies to
attack and more. This corporate-led version of globalization is designed to
limit governments’ role in regulating the economy and to eliminate many of
the public interest safeguards Public Citizen and like-minded organizations
and activists had won over decades. And, it shifts decision-making on
matters previously determined in national, state and local venues to
international bodies where those affected by the decisions have no
meaningful role.

Since its inception in 1995, GTW has been a leader in popularizing the
globalization and trade debate by connecting these seemingly arcane
policies to peoples’ everyday experiences – and helping people make a
difference in the future of globalization by giving them the tools they
need to educate their communities, hold Congress accountable for policy
choices, and hit the streets to protest. GTW works with diverse national
and international coalitions. For more information, please see our website:
www.tradewatch.org

*Melinda St. Louis | Director*
Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch
1600 20th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009
TEL: (202) 454-5107, EMAIL: mstlouis at citizen.org
*pronouns: she/her*

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