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Led by Senator Bernie Sanders, the closing event of NPA’s #Populism2015 saw more than 1,000 protesters march from the AFL-CIO headquarters to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Potesters rallied to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and so-called “Fast Track” Trade Promotion Authority. Protesters carried a banner reading “Don’t Trade Our Future” and a fifteen foot Trojan Horse from the AFL-CIO to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative’s office.

 

This march highlights the united opposition against fast-track congressional authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that will put in jeopardy our jobs, our ability to protect ourselves and our environment, and our ability to keep corporate power in check. Washington DC April 20, 2015.

 

Nurses Join Rep. DeLauro to Oppose Fast-Track Authority

 

RNs: Fast Track, Trade Deals Jeopardize Public Health, Democracy

Capitol Hill Press Conference Thursday, Feb. 26, 2014.

 

Dozens of registered nurses from around the U.S. join Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), for a news conference to oppose “fast track” authority for the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations that nurses say pose a significant threat to public health and democracy.

 

NNU warns that the TPP, if approved, would give corporations the legal authority to override laws and regulatory standards in the U.S. and other nations meant to protect patients, health workers and consumers.

 

In addition to the press conference, the nurses, members of National Nurses United visit Congressional lawmakers to also encourage their opposition to both fast track and the TPP.

 

#StopFastTrack #StopTPP

Led by Senator Bernie Sanders, the closing event of NPA’s #Populism2015 saw more than 1,000 protesters march from the AFL-CIO headquarters to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Potesters rallied to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and so-called “Fast Track” Trade Promotion Authority. Protesters carried a banner reading “Don’t Trade Our Future” and a fifteen foot Trojan Horse from the AFL-CIO to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative’s office.

 

This march highlights the united opposition against fast-track congressional authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that will put in jeopardy our jobs, our ability to protect ourselves and our environment, and our ability to keep corporate power in check. Washington DC April 20, 2015. © Rick Reinhard 2015 email rick@rickreinhard.com

 

Nurses hold "No TPP" sit-in in Rep Costa's office

I was proud to be a New Zealander last Thursday. Kia ora to everyone who came from all over the country and thanks to Hikoi organisers, It's Our Future and Real Choice.

Students from Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM), alongside veteran AIDS activists from ACT UP Philadelphia and ACT UP New York, were joined by representatives from the Other 98%, John F. O’Donnell, a comedian and actor from RT-America’s satirical news program “Redacted Today” and additional Philadelphia community activist groups to urge the next president to reign in out-of-control drug prices in the U.S. and worldwide, and end global disease epidemics.

 

© Erik McGregor - erikrivas@hotmail.com - 917-225-8963

California Nurses Association RNs, in coalition with community, food justice, environmental, and other labor allies, rallied in San Francisco on June 22 outside Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office to urge her to vote against granting Fast Track authority on the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal.

On the anniversary of OWS (2011) and OLB San Diego's first action (2012), in Civic Center Plaza, the birthplace of Occupy San Diego for an evening of action against the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement - 9/27/2013

RNs Warn Fast Track, Trade Deals Threat to Public Health

 

Warning of a significant threat to public health, delegations of California registered nurses hold a press conference in Sacramento, and visit district offices of several key Congress members, to emphasize their opposition to “fast track” authority for the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations.

 

#StopTPP #StopFastTrack

Occupy Hilo Light Brigade

Students from Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM), alongside veteran AIDS activists from ACT UP Philadelphia and ACT UP New York, were joined by representatives from the Other 98%, John F. O’Donnell, a comedian and actor from RT-America’s satirical news program “Redacted Today” and additional Philadelphia community activist groups to urge the next president to reign in out-of-control drug prices in the U.S. and worldwide, and end global disease epidemics.

 

© Erik McGregor - erikrivas@hotmail.com - 917-225-8963

Saturday there was a demonstration at the Capitol against something called the TransPacific Partnership (TPP). Few at the Farmers' Market knew anything about TPP, and that's the problem.

 

TPP is a series of secret "trade" negotiations that has been taking place in secret between the US and other Pacific Rim nations. International trade can be good for all concerned, but the devil is in the details, and if recent history has shown anything it's that trade negotiations conducted in secret usually work against the public interest. TPP could be described as NAFTA on steroids. Some have called it a "corporate capitalism's Death Star." It would eviscerate nations' ability to set their own consumer, environmental and financial regulations in favor of a lowest common denominator approach that would give multinationals even more power to overturn regs they don't like.

 

To the extent that corporations pool resources and expertise toward a common goal, they have been engines to the advancement of civilization. It's hard to imagine an affordable i-phone being created and sold by your next-door neighbor out of his garage, or skyscrapers or aircraft carriers (in case you think those are necessary) being financed or built by the neighborhood gardening club. But when that corporate goal becomes to make money only, and life's most basic necessities - clean air, clean water, non-contaminated food, intact ecosystems, and a livable climate - stand in the way of making that money, many of the most powerful corporations have indeed become a gang of Frankenstein monsters, turning on us with a zombie-like indifference, with diabolical schemes of profitability at our expense, even to the point of dragging us into the abyss of an apocalyptic, uninhabitable world.

 

More information at Stop TPP.

Led by Senator Bernie Sanders, the closing event of NPA’s #Populism2015 saw more than 1,000 protesters march from the AFL-CIO headquarters to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Potesters rallied to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and so-called “Fast Track” Trade Promotion Authority. Protesters carried a banner reading “Don’t Trade Our Future” and a fifteen foot Trojan Horse from the AFL-CIO to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative’s office.

 

This march highlights the united opposition against fast-track congressional authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that will put in jeopardy our jobs, our ability to protect ourselves and our environment, and our ability to keep corporate power in check. Washington DC April 20, 2015. © Rick Reinhard 2015 email rick@rickreinhard.com

 

Students from Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM), alongside veteran AIDS activists from ACT UP Philadelphia and ACT UP New York, were joined by representatives from the Other 98%, John F. O’Donnell, a comedian and actor from RT-America’s satirical news program “Redacted Today” and additional Philadelphia community activist groups to urge the next president to reign in out-of-control drug prices in the U.S. and worldwide, and end global disease epidemics.

 

© Erik McGregor - erikrivas@hotmail.com - 917-225-8963

Led by Senator Bernie Sanders, the closing event of NPA’s #Populism2015 saw more than 1,000 protesters march from the AFL-CIO headquarters to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Potesters rallied to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and so-called “Fast Track” Trade Promotion Authority. Protesters carried a banner reading “Don’t Trade Our Future” and a fifteen foot Trojan Horse from the AFL-CIO to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative’s office.

 

This march highlights the united opposition against fast-track congressional authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that will put in jeopardy our jobs, our ability to protect ourselves and our environment, and our ability to keep corporate power in check. Washington DC April 20, 2015. © Rick Reinhard 2015 email rick@rickreinhard.com

 

Led by Senator Bernie Sanders, the closing event of NPA’s #Populism2015 saw more than 1,000 protesters march from the AFL-CIO headquarters to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Potesters rallied to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and so-called “Fast Track” Trade Promotion Authority. Protesters carried a banner reading “Don’t Trade Our Future” and a fifteen foot Trojan Horse from the AFL-CIO to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative’s office.

 

This march highlights the united opposition against fast-track congressional authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that will put in jeopardy our jobs, our ability to protect ourselves and our environment, and our ability to keep corporate power in check. Washington DC April 20, 2015. © Rick Reinhard 2015 email rick@rickreinhard.com

 

Led by Senator Bernie Sanders, the closing event of NPA’s #Populism2015 saw more than 1,000 protesters march from the AFL-CIO headquarters to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Potesters rallied to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and so-called “Fast Track” Trade Promotion Authority. Protesters carried a banner reading “Don’t Trade Our Future” and a fifteen foot Trojan Horse from the AFL-CIO to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative’s office.

 

This march highlights the united opposition against fast-track congressional authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that will put in jeopardy our jobs, our ability to protect ourselves and our environment, and our ability to keep corporate power in check. Washington DC April 20, 2015. © Rick Reinhard 2015 email rick@rickreinhard.com

 

Led by Senator Bernie Sanders, the closing event of NPA’s #Populism2015 saw more than 1,000 protesters march from the AFL-CIO headquarters to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Potesters rallied to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and so-called “Fast Track” Trade Promotion Authority. Protesters carried a banner reading “Don’t Trade Our Future” and a fifteen foot Trojan Horse from the AFL-CIO to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative’s office.

 

This march highlights the united opposition against fast-track congressional authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that will put in jeopardy our jobs, our ability to protect ourselves and our environment, and our ability to keep corporate power in check. Washington DC April 20, 2015. © Rick Reinhard 2015 email rick@rickreinhard.com

 

Nurses, labor and environmental organizations join TPP protest in front of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's office in San Francisco to ask her to oppose the TPP

The Raging Grannies singing #StopTPP songs and holding signs about TPP's restrictive copyright provisions. (Photo courtesy of @Maira via Twitter)

Comedian John F. O’Donnell and the Pharma Bros - Students from Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM), alongside veteran AIDS activists from ACT UP Philadelphia and ACT UP New York, were joined by representatives from the Other 98%, John F. O’Donnell, a comedian and actor from RT-America’s satirical news program “Redacted Today” and additional Philadelphia community activist groups to urge the next president to reign in out-of-control drug prices in the U.S. and worldwide, and end global disease epidemics.

 

© Erik McGregor - erikrivas@hotmail.com - 917-225-8963

Nurses, labor and environmental organizations join TPP protest in front of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's office in San Francisco to ask her to oppose the TPP

Led by Senator Bernie Sanders, the closing event of NPA’s #Populism2015 saw more than 1,000 protesters march from the AFL-CIO headquarters to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Potesters rallied to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and so-called “Fast Track” Trade Promotion Authority. Protesters carried a banner reading “Don’t Trade Our Future” and a fifteen foot Trojan Horse from the AFL-CIO to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative’s office.

 

This march highlights the united opposition against fast-track congressional authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that will put in jeopardy our jobs, our ability to protect ourselves and our environment, and our ability to keep corporate power in check. Washington DC April 20, 2015. © Rick Reinhard 2015 email rick@rickreinhard.com

 

- Photos by Damien Conway.

 

Shining Light on Secret TPP agreement & calling on Congress to

STOP Fast Track

For Immediate Release: Day before Wikileak of TPP Document - 13 Cities

Mobilized to Shine a Light on Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership "Trade"

Deal Telling Congress "Don't Fast Track a Train Wreck - FLUSH the

TPP!"

CONTACT: Bill Moyer 206-356-9980 | bill@backbonecampaign.org

| or Eric Ross 805-776-3882 | eric@backbonecampaign.org

| 805-776-3882 | VoteNoFastTrack.org

SEATTLE - On Tuesday evening citizens in Seattle and 12

other cities appeared on overpasses and roadsides to pull the

Trans-Pacific Partnership, aka TPP, out of the shadows and into the

light of public scrutiny. From Dallas to DC, San Diego to Seattle,

Tucson to Detroit, Baltimore to Bellingham, Spokane to Chicago

people took their messages to interstate overpasses, prominent

monuments, and busy city streets using coordinated daytime and

nighttime, high visibility tactics.

 

They deployed giant banners saying No New NAFTA, mobilized LED light

panels saying "(thumbs up) Democracy, STOP The TPP," and projected with

spotlights messages like "Don't Fast Track A Train Wreck." These

coordinated citizen's actions coincided with ongoing TPP negotiations

taking place in Salt Lake City, Utah from November 12-24

and today's anticipated release by Congressperson Rosa DeLauro and

George Miller detailing the growing opposition to "Fast Track" among

Congress, and preceded today's surprise release by Wikileaks of a leaked

chapter of the secretive "TPP" agreement. [Here

is Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch initial interpretations of the

chapter on intellectual property.]

 

The TPP has been called NAFTA on steroids, a "Corporate Coup," and

concerned citizens from across the nation are calling on Congress to

"Flush It!" and to oppose President Obama's request to renew "Fast

Track" authority to commit our country to this secretive agreement that

has less to do with trade, than it does with dismantling any domestic

policies that undermine future profits for transnational capital and

corporations.

 

Bill Moyer, Executive Director of the Backbone Campaign stated "Only a

bought a sold government would sign a treaty that sacrifices our

capacity as communities and country to pass laws for workers benefit,

and the protection of our communities and our natural resources."

 

The Trans-Pacific Partnership has been negotiated under secrecy for 3

years. Obama is now pushing to have it swiftly approved to much to the

dismay of members of Congress, most of whom haven't even been allowed to

see the text. While Congress is constitutionally required to negotiate

any international treaties, Fast Track or granting Obama Trade Promotion

Authority would forfeit the Congress' responsibility and the public's

right to weigh in on the TPP negotiations.

 

Perhaps in response to growing citizen outrage letters were release

today from both Democrats and Republicans challenging President Obama's

request for renewal of Fast Track authority. [From Today's Public

Citizen announcement: The

 

151-signature DeLauro-Miller letter, additional

 

letter from Democratic Ways & Means members, One

 

of two letters, this led by Representative Walter Jones (R-NC)]

 

One of the illuminated messages on Tuesday read "Corporate Tribunals

WTF?" This referred to how the TPP would give more power to corporate

interests including the ability for foreign companies to sue for

taxpayer compensation if any domestic law diminished the company's expected future profits.

 

Masked as a trade deal, the agreement has been negotiated under

supervision of 600 unelected corporate "trade advisors" while the text

has been hidden from members of Congress, the press, and the public.

What has been learned about the TPP has come through leaked texts, and

is alarming to members of Congress worried about sovereign powers being

negotiated away, public health officials, labor representatives,

environmental groups, and advocates of consumer issues.

 

"The TPP, the largest ever of it's kind, is a race to the bottom

international agreement on domestic and international policies of food

safety, internet freedom, medicine costs, financial regulation, and the

environment," says Kristen Beifus, executive director of Washington Fair

Trade Coalition."

 

Trade Justice organizations have declared December 3rd a "Global Day of

Action Against the TPP to resist toxic trade agreements." Citizens are

urged to take action in their own community, contact their

congressperson, and learn more about the TPP's dismantling of democracy

by visiting VoteNoFastTrack.org.

Citizens can find out where their congressperson stands and tweet them

at pdamerica.org/tpp.

 

Tuesday's coordinated actions were organized by the Backbone Campaign,

which specializes in "amplifying citizen engagement with creative

tactics and artful activism" in collaboration with Public Citizen's

Global Trade Watch, PopularResistance.org, Fair Trade Coalitions in

Washington and Oregon, and more.

 

The coordinated day of action follows on the heals of an action in

September when to the surprise of secret service, members and allies of

PopularResistance.org and the Backbone Campaign "redecorated"

the United States Trade Representatives office by scaling the building

and unfurling giant banners demanding a release of the TPP text. The

Backbone Campaign is grateful to Wikileaks for beginning that process.

 

View the growing collection of photos from the 11-12-13 actions HERE.

To speak with organizers of yesterday's day of action please contact

Bill Moyer at 206-356-9980 or Eric Ross at 805-776-3882.

  

Info and Collaborator Web Sites:

Thanks to our many awesome collaborators both mentioned and not!

 

Backbone Campaign

www.flushthetpp.org/

Popular Resistance

Public Citizen's Global Trade

Watch

Washington Fair Trade

Coalition

Oregon Fair Trade

Coalition

Luminous Intervention

Expose The TPP

Overpass Light Brigade PDX

Occupy Bellingham

Occupy Rogers Park

Chicago Overpass Light

Brigade

North Texas Light Brigade

San

Diego Overpass Light Brigade

Occupy Tucson

Occupy Spokane

South Sound

Rising Tide

TPPXBorder

TPP

Talking Points

 

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Backbone Campaign's mission is to provide creative strategies, artful

activism trainings, and creative action support to progressive

activists, organizers and organizations around the US and beyond in

order to invigorate and nurture a people-power, community-based, and

internationally-networked nonviolent social movement for human rights,

thriving communities, and ecological well being. Backbone Campaign's

vision is a world where human dignity, community resilience, and

ecological well being is built upon a foundation of democratic

economic and political systems and diverse, thriving culture where

human rights, the rights of communities and nature are truly

inalienable and honored.

Led by Senator Bernie Sanders, the closing event of NPA’s #Populism2015 saw more than 1,000 protesters march from the AFL-CIO headquarters to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Potesters rallied to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and so-called “Fast Track” Trade Promotion Authority. Protesters carried a banner reading “Don’t Trade Our Future” and a fifteen foot Trojan Horse from the AFL-CIO to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative’s office.

 

This march highlights the united opposition against fast-track congressional authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that will put in jeopardy our jobs, our ability to protect ourselves and our environment, and our ability to keep corporate power in check. Washington DC April 20, 2015. © Rick Reinhard 2015 email rick@rickreinhard.com

 

Nurses, labor and environmental organizations join TPP protest in front of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's office in San Francisco to ask her to oppose the TPP

Led by Senator Bernie Sanders, the closing event of NPA’s #Populism2015 saw more than 1,000 protesters march from the AFL-CIO headquarters to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Potesters rallied to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and so-called “Fast Track” Trade Promotion Authority. Protesters carried a banner reading “Don’t Trade Our Future” and a fifteen foot Trojan Horse from the AFL-CIO to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative’s office.

 

This march highlights the united opposition against fast-track congressional authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that will put in jeopardy our jobs, our ability to protect ourselves and our environment, and our ability to keep corporate power in check. Washington DC April 20, 2015. © Rick Reinhard 2015 email rick@rickreinhard.com

 

Nurses, labor and environmental organizations join TPP protest in front of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's office in San Francisco to ask her to oppose the TPP

Nurses Join Rep. DeLauro to Oppose Fast-Track Authority

 

RNs: Fast Track, Trade Deals Jeopardize Public Health, Democracy

Capitol Hill Press Conference Thursday, Feb. 26, 2014.

 

Dozens of registered nurses from around the U.S. join Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), for a news conference to oppose “fast track” authority for the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations that nurses say pose a significant threat to public health and democracy.

 

NNU warns that the TPP, if approved, would give corporations the legal authority to override laws and regulatory standards in the U.S. and other nations meant to protect patients, health workers and consumers.

 

In addition to the press conference, the nurses, members of National Nurses United visit Congressional lawmakers to also encourage their opposition to both fast track and the TPP.

 

#StopFastTrack #StopTPP

I was proud to be a New Zealander last Thursday. Kia ora to everyone who came from all over the country and thanks to Hikoi organisers, It's Our Future and Real Choice.

Led by Senator Bernie Sanders, the closing event of NPA’s #Populism2015 saw more than 1,000 protesters march from the AFL-CIO headquarters to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Potesters rallied to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and so-called “Fast Track” Trade Promotion Authority. Protesters carried a banner reading “Don’t Trade Our Future” and a fifteen foot Trojan Horse from the AFL-CIO to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative’s office.

 

This march highlights the united opposition against fast-track congressional authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that will put in jeopardy our jobs, our ability to protect ourselves and our environment, and our ability to keep corporate power in check. Washington DC April 20, 2015. © Rick Reinhard 2015 email rick@rickreinhard.com

 

Nurses, labor and environmental organizations join TPP protest in front of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's office in San Francisco to ask her to oppose the TPP

Led by Senator Bernie Sanders, the closing event of NPA’s #Populism2015 saw more than 1,000 protesters march from the AFL-CIO headquarters to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Potesters rallied to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and so-called “Fast Track” Trade Promotion Authority. Protesters carried a banner reading “Don’t Trade Our Future” and a fifteen foot Trojan Horse from the AFL-CIO to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative’s office.

 

This march highlights the united opposition against fast-track congressional authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that will put in jeopardy our jobs, our ability to protect ourselves and our environment, and our ability to keep corporate power in check. Washington DC April 20, 2015. © Rick Reinhard 2015 email rick@rickreinhard.com

 

Nurses, labor and environmental organizations join TPP protest in front of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's office in San Francisco to ask her to oppose the TPP

Nurses, labor and environmental organizations join TPP protest in front of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's office in San Francisco to ask her to oppose the TPP

Led by Senator Bernie Sanders, the closing event of NPA’s #Populism2015 saw more than 1,000 protesters march from the AFL-CIO headquarters to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Potesters rallied to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and so-called “Fast Track” Trade Promotion Authority. Protesters carried a banner reading “Don’t Trade Our Future” and a fifteen foot Trojan Horse from the AFL-CIO to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative’s office.

 

This march highlights the united opposition against fast-track congressional authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that will put in jeopardy our jobs, our ability to protect ourselves and our environment, and our ability to keep corporate power in check. Washington DC April 20, 2015. © Rick Reinhard 2015 email rick@rickreinhard.com

 

Led by Senator Bernie Sanders, the closing event of NPA’s #Populism2015 saw more than 1,000 protesters march from the AFL-CIO headquarters to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Potesters rallied to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and so-called “Fast Track” Trade Promotion Authority. Protesters carried a banner reading “Don’t Trade Our Future” and a fifteen foot Trojan Horse from the AFL-CIO to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative’s office.

 

This march highlights the united opposition against fast-track congressional authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that will put in jeopardy our jobs, our ability to protect ourselves and our environment, and our ability to keep corporate power in check. Washington DC April 20, 2015. © Rick Reinhard 2015 email rick@rickreinhard.com

 

I was proud to be a New Zealander last Thursday. Kia ora to everyone who came from all over the country and thanks to Hikoi organisers, It's Our Future and Real Choice.

Participant holding atoilet paper roll wth TPP written on it outside the New Zealand embassy in New York where activists protested the TPP deal.

 

© Erik McGregor - erikrivas@hotmail.com - 917-225-8963

Led by Senator Bernie Sanders, the closing event of NPA’s #Populism2015 saw more than 1,000 protesters march from the AFL-CIO headquarters to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Potesters rallied to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and so-called “Fast Track” Trade Promotion Authority. Protesters carried a banner reading “Don’t Trade Our Future” and a fifteen foot Trojan Horse from the AFL-CIO to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative’s office.

 

This march highlights the united opposition against fast-track congressional authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that will put in jeopardy our jobs, our ability to protect ourselves and our environment, and our ability to keep corporate power in check. Washington DC April 20, 2015. © Rick Reinhard 2015 email rick@rickreinhard.com

 

Backbone Campaign TPP XBorder Ra11y Peace Arch Park 12-02-2012

Nurses, labor and environmental organizations join TPP protest in front of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's office in San Francisco to ask her to oppose the TPP

Nurses, labor and environmental organizations join TPP protest in front of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's office in San Francisco to ask her to oppose the TPP

Nurses, labor and environmental organizations join TPP protest in front of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's office in San Francisco to ask her to oppose the TPP

Nurses, labor and environmental organizations join TPP protest in front of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's office in San Francisco to ask her to oppose the TPP

A crowd of about 50 people gathered outside the New Zealand embassy in New York where activists and concerned citizens protested the TPP deal.

 

© Erik McGregor - erikrivas@hotmail.com - 917-225-8963

Nurses Join Rep. DeLauro to Oppose Fast-Track Authority

 

RNs: Fast Track, Trade Deals Jeopardize Public Health, Democracy

Capitol Hill Press Conference Thursday, Feb. 26, 2014.

 

Dozens of registered nurses from around the U.S. join Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), for a news conference to oppose “fast track” authority for the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations that nurses say pose a significant threat to public health and democracy.

 

NNU warns that the TPP, if approved, would give corporations the legal authority to override laws and regulatory standards in the U.S. and other nations meant to protect patients, health workers and consumers.

 

In addition to the press conference, the nurses, members of National Nurses United visit Congressional lawmakers to also encourage their opposition to both fast track and the TPP.

 

#StopFastTrack #StopTPP

Nurses, labor and environmental organizations join TPP protest in front of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's office in San Francisco to ask her to oppose the TPP

Nurses, labor and environmental organizations join TPP protest in front of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's office in San Francisco to ask her to oppose the TPP

Nurses, labor and environmental organizations join TPP protest in front of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's office in San Francisco to ask her to oppose the TPP

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