<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><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; "><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; " class=""><div style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;" class=""><span style="font-size: 19px; color: rgb(30, 30, 30); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://policy.m4bl.org/economic-justice/" class="">https://policy.m4bl.org/economic-justice/</a></span></div></div></span></span></div><header style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.6rem auto 1.4rem; padding: 5px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: table; background-color: rgb(30, 30, 30); color: rgb(30, 30, 30);" class=""><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.6rem 1rem 0.8rem; border: 2px solid rgb(250, 185, 2); font-size: 2rem; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">An End to the Trans-Pacific Partnership and a Renegotiation of All Trade Agreements to Prioritize the Interests of Workers and Communities</h3></header><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.8; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 30);" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">What is the problem?</span></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2rem; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: square; color: rgb(30, 30, 30);" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Global trade policy, strongly supported by the U.S., is structured almost exclusively around the needs of capital, rather than people. So trade barriers are lowered through changes in tariffs to ensure easier flow of capital and goods or regulations that protect local economies, workers or the environment are often weakened to address the needs of an international competitor in a market. </span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Workers in the global economy and the environment are both at best secondary considerations in global trade agreements. Wages are pulled down internationally by the trade scheme and labor standards are weak with little protection for unionization. </span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">The rules for trade determine who benefits or suffers losses in the global economy, often privileging some countries, companies or sectors over others. For example, rules such as those governing intellectual property rights enrich some, while depriving groups of people of even fundamental needs such as essential medicines because it puts costs out of reach. </span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Existing trade agreements also tend to increase inequality providing greater mobility for those with high-paying jobs but not those with low-paying jobs who cannot easily travel to new locations for higher pay. </span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">While low-wage workers face barriers and costs to mobility, the increasing ease of mobility of capital leads to a race to the bottom where capital follows the lowest wage levels and worst working conditions. – and low wage workers with barriers and costs to mobility. </span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">The TPP, like most free trade policies, will destroy economic opportunity for Black people and the working class.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">The TPP will decrease access to health care and exacerbate an already exploding health crisis facing Black people and poor people throughout the world.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">The TPP will grant corporations control over the online platforms essential to the Black Lives Matter Movement </span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">The TPP will allow corporations to avoid domestic courts and challenge economic and social reforms won by the Black Lives Matter Movement in a corporate-driven foreign tribunal.</span></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.8; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 30);" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">What does this solution do?</span></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2rem; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: square; color: rgb(30, 30, 30);" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Trade agreements have successfully standardized how products, such as automobiles, are made. This power to create standards should be utilized to ensure the human rights of people here and around the world, beginning with the rights and needs of Black people everywhere because our communities have faced the most severe marginalization globally. The United States should announce its intention to withdraw from its current trade agreements within five years unless they are renegotiated to include: </span></li></ul><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2rem; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: square; color: rgb(30, 30, 30);" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Higher labor standards and wage minimums as a condition of participating in free trade;</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Protection for the ability to organize and unionize, including across borders</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Stringent environmental standards</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Racial equity standards in the sectors covered</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Transparency in all trade agreements so the public is fully aware of all of an agreements’ components at every stage of the treaty development process</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">An effective enforcement scheme that would penalize and exclude companies, and countries where appropriate, when worker rights and environmental standards are violated. Enforcement shall including standing for those impacted by violations of the agreement to challenge the company or country at issue.</span></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.8; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 30);" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Federal Action:</span></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2rem; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: square; color: rgb(30, 30, 30);" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Call on the Executive Branch and Congress calling for renegotiation of agreements including but not limited to, FTAA, CAFTA, and NAFTA and a call for renegotiation the terms of TPP prior to any ratification by the United States.</span></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.8; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 30);" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">State Action:</span></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2rem; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: square; color: rgb(30, 30, 30);" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Call on state legislatures to demand federal action renegotiating treaties according to the goals described above. </span></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.8; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 30);" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Local Action:</span></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2rem; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: square; color: rgb(30, 30, 30);" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Call on City Councils and Mayors to demand federal action renegotiating treaties according to the goals described above. </span></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.8; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 30);" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">How does this solution address the specific needs of some of the most marginalized Black people?</span></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2rem; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: square; color: rgb(30, 30, 30);" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Black people have been forced into the lowest wage work available, when they have been afforded work at all. By transforming the trade framework, Black people will enjoy higher wages and dignified conditions of work, as well as be afforded some protection against environmental injustice, which disproportionately sickens Black communities. </span></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.8; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 30);" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Resources:</span></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2rem; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: square; color: rgb(30, 30, 30);" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="http://www.aflcio.org/content/download/158221/3936941/TPPandworkersofcolor-Updated.pdf" in_tag="ul" kaspersky_status="skipped" checked_link="http://www.aflcio.org/content/download/158221/3936941/TPPandworkersofcolor-Updated.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(204, 102, 0); -webkit-transition: color 0.15s ease-in; transition: color 0.15s ease-in;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">http://www.aflcio.org/content/download/158221/3936941/TPPandworkersofcolor-Updated.pdf</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">, </span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="http://www.aflcio.org/Issues/Trade/Trans-Pacific-Partnership-Free-Trade-Agreement-TPP/Report-on-the-Impacts-of-the-Trans-Pacific-Partnership" in_tag="ul" kaspersky_status="skipped" checked_link="http://www.aflcio.org/Issues/Trade/Trans-Pacific-Partnership-Free-Trade-Agreement-TPP/Report-on-the-Impacts-of-the-Trans-Pacific-Partnership" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(204, 102, 0); -webkit-transition: color 0.15s ease-in; transition: color 0.15s ease-in;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">http://www.aflcio.org/Issues/Trade/Trans-Pacific-Partnership-Free-Trade-Agreement-TPP/Report-on-the-Impacts-of-the-Trans-Pacific-Partnership</span></a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">What does the Trans-Pacific Partnership Mean for Black People, Rachel Glimer (Ebony) See: <a href="http://www.ebony.com/news-views/what-does-the-trans-pacific-partnership-mean-for-black-people-503#axzz4Der6qMZ9" class="">http://www.ebony.com/news-views/what-does-the-trans-pacific-partnership-mean-for-black-people-503#axzz4Der6qMZ9</a></span></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.8; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 30);" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Organizations Currently Working on Policy:</span></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2rem; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: square; color: rgb(30, 30, 30);" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Global Exchange, AFL-CIO</span></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.8; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 30);" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Authors & Contributors of this Policy Overview</span></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2rem; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: square; color: rgb(30, 30, 30);" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Cathy Albisa, NESRI</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Marbre Stahly Butts, Center for Popular Democracy</span></li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>