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Emergency Teach-In & Action on the Vancouver TPP Round

Learn about the Trans-Pacific Partnership and How to Take Action at the Negotiating Round Happening Right Now in Vancouver


7:00pm
- 10:00pm
Saturday June 15 2013

Venue: Greenpeace Vancouver Office
Address: 1726 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC V5N 4A3
Cost: No Cost

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Help Stop the Corporate Coup

Emergency Teach-in & Action on the Vancouver TPP Round

Learn about the Trans-Pacific Partnership and How to Take Action at the Negotiating Round Happening Right Now in Vancouver

Teach-In
Saturday, June 15 * 7:00pm

Greenpeace's Vancouver Office *
1726 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC V5N 4A3, Canada

Actions
June 15 & 16 to be posted on TPPxBorder on Facebook.

Trade negotiators from throughout the Pacific Rim are meeting in Vancouver right now to negotiate an international pact that is a corporate rights deal, designed to increase profits on the backs of workers around the world.

Please come to an emergency teach-in about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Free Trade Agreement and be a part of planning actions this Saturday and Sunday.

If you are not able to make the Teach-In we will be posting information about the planned actions Saturday & Sunday on TPPxBorder on Facebook.

Find out how the TPP will impact jobs, public health, the economy, the environment and democracy in British Columbia and throughout the globe. 

Labor, social justice, environmental groups and the Pacific NW community just got word about this secret TPP round today-just hours before the round began.  We need your help turning out people to this critical educational strategy session & actions. 

Please help spread the word and please join us to resist the TPP!.  Visit https://www.facebook.com/TPPxBorder

For questions contact: kristen@washingtonfairtrade.org

BACKGROUND ABOUT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a massive corporate power grab disguised as an international trade agreement.  The TPP is already negotiated between Canada, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, Vietnam, and starting in July, Japan — which together cover approximately 40% of the global economy.  However other Pacific Rim countries can join over time.

Over 600 Corporations are pushing the Trans-Pacific Partnership including Monsanto, Walmart, Big Ag and Wall Street power brokers. The TPP has been questioned — if not outright opposed — by labor, environmental, consumer, indigenous, family farm, labor and other social justice groups on four continents.

How will the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Impact YOU?

 

As an Eater
TPP will limit what you know about your food

Small-scale farmers will be driven from their lands

GMO, unsafe & chemical ridden foods will flood your markets

As a Worker
Under TPP more living wage jobs will be lost & poverty wage jobs created

Corporations will increase profits by suppressing labor rights
TPP will force workers to leave their communities & countries to find work

                   
As a Community Member
TPP will further privatize the natural resources of communities around the world
Bring corporate challenges to environmental & public safety laws

Inhibit access to lifesaving medicines by extending patents

As a Person
Over 600 Corporations are writing the TPP expanding corporate-personhood
TPP allows companies to sue countries for policies that hurt their profits
You don’t even have the right to know what is in the TPP

 

Kristen Beifus
Executive Director

Kristen@washingtonfairtrade.org
206.227.3079

Washington Fair Trade Coalition
606 Maynard Ave S, Suite 102
Seattle, WA 98104
www.washingtonfairtrade.org

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Organizer:Kristen Beifus, Washington Fair Trade Coalition: kristen@washingtonfairtrade.org

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