<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://fsrn.org/audio/civil-society-groups-call-more-transparency-us-trade-deals-citing-concerns-about-labor-environ">http://fsrn.org/audio/civil-society-groups-call-more-transparency-us-trade-deals-citing-concerns-about-labor-environ</a><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><h1 class="title" style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 48, 40); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; ">Civil society groups call for more transparency in US trade deals, citing concerns about labor, environment, sovereignty</h1><div class="tabs"></div><div class="node" style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="taxonomy" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 1em; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 2px; padding-left: 1.5em; "><ul class="links inline" style="margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; "><li class="first last taxonomy_term_5" style="display: inline; list-style-type: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "><a href="http://fsrn.org/features" rel="tag" title="Free Speech Radio News Segments" class="taxonomy_term_5" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); ">NEWS SEGMENTS</a></li> </ul></span><span class="submitdate" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: -1.3em; font-size: 1em; padding-right: 1.5em; ">TUE, 03/05/2013 - 14:57</span><div class="content" style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; "><div class="audio-node block" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.75em; padding-left: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); margin-bottom: 1.5em; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; "><div class="item-list"><ul class="audio-info" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; "><li style="margin-top: 2px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 5px; list-style-type: disc; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; "><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://fsrn.org/sites/all/modules/audio/players/1pixelout.swf" width="290" height="24"></object></li><li style="margin-top: 2px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 5px; list-style-type: disc; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; "><strong>Year:</strong> 2013</li><li style="margin-top: 2px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 5px; list-style-type: disc; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; "><strong>Length:</strong> 4:16 minutes (3.91 MB)</li><li style="margin-top: 2px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 5px; list-style-type: disc; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; "><strong>Format:</strong> MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)</li></ul></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.9em; ">This week, US trade representatives are meeting in Singapore with countries in the region for the latest round of talks on a comprehensive trade deal in Asia and the Pacific, called the Transpacific Partnership, or TPP. The Obama Administration has highlighted the TPP and a deal in the Atlantic, called the Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement as priorities for his second term. But a broad coalition of environmental groups, human and labor rights advocates and Native American communities have raised concerns about the secretive trade deals and what they call the lack of public input in the process. More than 400 civil society organizations sent a letter Monday to Congress demanding more transparency. For more we’re joined by Arthur Stamoulis, executive director of Citizens Trade Campaign.</div></div></div></span></div></body></html>