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Hundreds March Against Trans-Pacific Partnership In Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN – Hundreds of labor, fair trade, environmental and community activists marched through downtown Minneapolis today to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive trade deal that could jeopardize American jobs, wages, consumer safety, health care and environmental standards.
“We are building people power. We are movement building,” Communications Workers of America (CWA) President Larry Cohen told the crowd.
Cohen was joined by Minnesota Fair Trade Coalition Director Josh Wise, TakeAction Minnesota Executive Director Dan McGrath,CWA’s Minnesota State Council President Mona Meyer and other coalition allies.
The United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries will meet this week in Brunei to discuss what could be the largest trade agreement in U.S. history. But the only people at the negotiating table are corporate lobbyists and government officials – not the groups fighting for workers, public health, free speech, environmental regulations and consumer protections. While the draft text of the agreement has never been officially released to the public, leaked documents reveal disconcerting proposals to grant multinational corporations new political powers, ration lifesaving medicines, extend restrictive intellectual property laws and more.
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http://www.popularresistance.org/hundreds-march-against-trans-pacific-partnership-in-minnesota/
“We are building people power. We are movement building,” Communications Workers of America (CWA) President Larry Cohen told the crowd.
Cohen was joined by Minnesota Fair Trade Coalition Director Josh Wise, TakeAction Minnesota Executive Director Dan McGrath,CWA’s Minnesota State Council President Mona Meyer and other coalition allies.
The United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries will meet this week in Brunei to discuss what could be the largest trade agreement in U.S. history. But the only people at the negotiating table are corporate lobbyists and government officials – not the groups fighting for workers, public health, free speech, environmental regulations and consumer protections. While the draft text of the agreement has never been officially released to the public, leaked documents reveal disconcerting proposals to grant multinational corporations new political powers, ration lifesaving medicines, extend restrictive intellectual property laws and more.
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CWA joined hundreds of labor, fair trade, environmental and community activists in an energetic march through downtown Minneapolis Tuesday to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive trade deal that could jeopardize American jobs, wages, consumer safety, health care and environmental standards.
"For all of us that are here from CWA, we're going to take this spirit back to wherever we're from. Across the Plains, across the Southwest, across to the Northwest and loud and clear we have one message: No more Fast Track. We need Fair Trade, not Fast Track," CWA President Larry Cohen told the crowd, referencing a bill in Congress that would force an up-or-down vote on the TPP without amendments
"For all of us that are here from CWA, we're going to take this spirit back to wherever we're from. Across the Plains, across the Southwest, across to the Northwest and loud and clear we have one message: No more Fast Track. We need Fair Trade, not Fast Track," CWA President Larry Cohen told the crowd, referencing a bill in Congress that would force an up-or-down vote on the TPP without amendments
"We have to say to the White House loud and clear: In 2008 and 2007, when you were in Iowa you told us no more NAFTA, you told us no more bad deals, that we would have good deals. We're still waiting," said Cohen at the rally. "When do we get to have a say on these trade deals? When do we get to see these trade deals? When do the people of this country get to speak up on trade, not just the State Department?"
Read more at: http://www.cwa-union.org/news/entry/minnesota_activists_march_against_secret_trade_deal