Rob Hotakainen on October 3, 2013 in McClatchydc.com As President Barack Obama heads to Bali this weekend to tout more global trade with Asia, critics today delivered a very different message: Slow down. Larry Cohen, president Read more…
CLICK ON THE LINK TO DOWNLOAD: Fact Sheet Fast Track Fact Sheet: Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority Article I Section 8 of the US Constitution states: The Congress shall have Power to regulate Commerce with foreign Read more…
By Mike Masnick September 23, 2013 Originally published in TechDirt from the that’s-not-a-good-thing dept We’ve talked a few times about how the USTR and the administration are asking Congress for “trade promotion authority,” which would effectively let Read more…
October 6th, 5:30 – 9 pm St John’s Presbyterian Church 2727 College Ave., Berkeley, CA Event website: http://www.epicalc.org On Sunday, October 6, 5:30 – 9 PM, the Ecumenical Peace Institute will hold its annual dinner Read more…
October 1st, 12:00-1:30 pm San Francisco Federal Bldg (Pelosi) 90 7th St. San Francisco, CA The location is close to the Civic Center Bart Station. Come join us to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership!
The second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street came and went on Tuesday with a fair degree of introspection in the socially conscious corners of social media. What did it mean? What did it accomplish? Is it over or just beginning? More than a few voices suggested the whole thing was nothing more or less than a body-odor ego trip for righteousness junkies looking to lord it over their less-invested activist counterparts. For some of the people in those very large crowds, I'm sure that characterization is true; shake a tree full of activists, and a few rotten gourds are sure to fall and splatter.
6:00 PM, Aug 21st Ryals Room, 4th floor of Rawlings Library 100 E. Abriendo Ave. Pueblo, CO Event website: https://www.facebook.com/pueblo.movetoamend#!/events/229748220506811/ Please join us for “Trans Pacific Partnership: Sabotaging U.S. Democracy and Threatening American’s Prosperity”. We’ll Read more…
September 17th 9AM, Times Square, NYC Event website: http://www.moneywarz.org We will storm Times Square with a regiment of Money Troopers, accompanied by Darth Banker and Emperor Pipeline, with this Star Wars remix, and unveil the Read more…
Sign on to this letter calling for border justice and fair trade. – Leer en Español – This letter explains the relationship between ‘free’ trade agreements and militarization of the border. The struggle for immigrant Read more…
Odds are that you have not have heard of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. While the TPP has been under negotiation since 2008, talks have largely been done in secret and not covered by the mass media. The media black-out is quite impressive since this is the largest corporate trade agreement to be negotiated since the World Trade Organization got underway in 1995. Commonly called a global corporate coup, the TPP makes transnational corporations more powerful than governments. Others call it “NAFTA on steroids” because it will multiply the failures of NAFTA.