How Latin American Integration Leads To The TPP
...#8221; agreement, the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA). The latter part of this article explores the current threat that Integration poses to US interests in the region, in [...]
Newsletter: Billionaires Fear Revolt As People Power Grows
...marized a lot of the problems when he wrote “10 Reasons The TPP Is Not A ‘Progressive’ Trade Agreement“. Leaks added fuel to the fire. In the last two [...]
TISA: Another Secret Treaty Is Leaked
...excised from this process, and even our democratically elected representatives are being kept in the dark. Activism around TISA is still very diffuse and limited, but there’s one [...]
No Welcome Mat For Monsanto: Vietnam Must Draw Line
...le farmers that still dominate Vietnam’s agriculture. The TPP is the first trade deal to create specific protections for biotechnology, which was designed to strengthen [...]
Good-Bye Harper, Now It Is Time To Push Trudeau
...made a lot of promises that he needs to be held to. In addition, the Liberal Party has not been strong on putting in place fair trade that puts people and planet before profits rather than [...]
Do Corporate Media Need To Lie To Promote Trade Deals?
...zero evidence, that not doing the deal was an economic disaster? Yes, I know the political argument, which seemed to arise late in the game, that US standing in the world has collapsed because [...]
500,000 Petitions To Congress Demand Rejection Of TPP
...e resulted in an explosion lawsuits before private tribunals successfully challenging safeguards for our air, water and climate. For example, TransCanada has filed a NAFTA suit, using [...]
Newsletter: On To The General Election, Create Surprises
...ues like how we relate to the two establishment parties. The convention also included workshops on various issues. We led a discussion of next steps for building movement power which included [...]
TPP: WA Unions, Greens Protest As Senate Inquiry Hearings Held In Perth
...said. “They insist on keeping it secret because if it was out on the open then people would be horrified and they’d never get past first base. They rely on secrecy because these [...]
Trump’s Bad Deal On Trade
...hip (TPP), a trade pact negotiated by the Obama administration. Yet in the same week, he unleashed a torrent of policies just as bad, if not worse, for workers than the trade [...]
Friends Of Earth Calls For Resistance To Trump & Abe Trade Talks
...gotiate new bilateral trade deals can be squared with his campaign promises because he will have more leverage in one-on- one negotiations and that will result in so-called “America [...]
Taking Corporate Power Out of Our Trade Agreements
...argaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese With TPP, Obama has moved from transparency to secrecy, from human rights to corporate rights by Richard McIntyre Why the TransPacific [...]
Activists Cement Their Feet In Concrete To Protest CPTPP Signing
...in the CPTPP are “a dog”, and the rats are a reminder the new deal will still need to be ratified by Parliament. “The pillows symbolise how the Government [...]
Being Julian Assange
...arheaded the movement against the TPP since 2008/2009. Kelsey worked relentlessly alongside international counterparts in Japan, South Korea, the United States, and other [...]
Trump Trade Revealed – Another Rigged Corporate Deal
...e for People and Planet. Energy and the Environment Trump withdrew from the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) because a mass social movement made it unacceptable and it could [...]