<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><i>Please join us and spread the word to anyone who may be interested...</i></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b><i>You're Invited —</i></b></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><b>National Briefing Call on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)</b></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div><b>Friday, April 13</b> <b>* 1:00pm Eastern / Noon Central / 11:00am Mountain / 10:00am Pacific</b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGdYQlhNbkFqZ2hxZEVzZURpSk50d3c6MQ#gid=0">RSVP here for the call-in number</a></span></b></span></b></div><div><b><br></b></div></blockquote><div></div><div><b><a href="http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/trade-policies/tpp-potential-trade-policy-problems/">The Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement</a> </b>is rapidly coming to a head, with a make-or-break twelfth round of negotiations taking place in Dallas this May. Approximately 600 corporate lobbyists have special "cleared advisor" status that gives them regular access to the negotiating documents and negotiators. Meanwhile, the general public has been barred from reviewing what U.S. negotiators are proposing in our names.</div><div><br></div><div>Just because the TPP is being negotiated behind-closed-doors does not mean that we don't know what lobbyists are pushing for and what we need to do in order to derail their anti-worker, anti-environment and anti-democractic agenda. Please join the following experts for a national briefing via conference call:</div><div><br></div><div><ul class="MailOutline"><li>Lori Wallach, <i>Director</i>, <b>Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch</b></li><li>Brett Gibson, <i>Trade Policy Specialist</i>, <b>AFL-CIO</b></li><li>Ilana Solomon, <i>Trade Representative</i>, <b>Sierra Club</b></li><li>Bob Cash, <i>Director</i>, <b>Texas Fair Trade Coalition</b></li></ul><div><br></div></div><div>You'll learn the latest about the TPP and how you can plug into the national campaign to defeat it. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica; "><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGdYQlhNbkFqZ2hxZEVzZURpSk50d3c6MQ#gid=0">To receive the call-in number, please RSVP online at: </a> </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGdYQlhNbkFqZ2hxZEVzZURpSk50d3c6MQ">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGdYQlhNbkFqZ2hxZEVzZURpSk50d3c6MQ</a>#gid=0</div><div><br></div><div style="text-align: right; ">(If you can't make the call, please be sure to <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1034/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=9842">sign the petition</a> that will be delivered to trade negotiators in Dallas.)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Arthur Stamoulis</div><div>Citizens Trade Campaign</div><div>(202) 494-8826</div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>