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DESCRIPTION:1/14/2011 SF Protest At Congresswoman Pelosi's Office To Oppose Korea US 
 Free Trade Agreement KORUS\n\n1/14/2011  12:00 Noon\nSan Francisco Federal 
 Building\n90 7th St. San Francisco\n\nProtest Obama's Korea-US Free Trade 
 Agreement KORUS And Oppose Congressional Support For It\nKim, Kyung Ran, 
 Director Of External Relations\nKorean Confederation of Trade Unions 
 (KCTU), South Korea\nand other speakers\nSponsored by San Francisco Labor 
 Council\nAFL-CIO\nFor more information\nkorusfairtrade(at)gmail.com\n\nOnly 
 YOU Can Stop the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement\n\n\nWe noticed that you 
 have shown an interest in helping us to defeat the Korea-US Free Trade 
 Agreement. We appreciate you reading our messages in the past and taking 
 action. But in order to achieve this goal, we are going to need your help 
 again!\n\nPresident Obama is expected to seek Congressional approval of the 
 very slightly altered Korea-US Free Trade Agreement first put forward by 
 the Bush administration very soon. We need you and your representatives to 
 let Obama know that this is a bad move for the US, a bad move for South 
 Korea and a bad move politically. \n\nNow that all negotiations are 
 complete, one of our only chances to defeat the agreement in the US is to 
 act now! We believe that despite the fact that the agreement is wildly 
 unpopular among both the left and the right at the grassroots level, it 
 will likely pass if brought before Congress. Our best chance to stop this 
 agreement (and the way it will pave for a flurry of similar agreements if 
 it passes, including the odius Colombia FTA) is to prevent the agreement 
 from even hitting the floor by urging our representatives to tell Obama 
 that this move is politically toxic. \n\nThis is where you come in! In 
 order to organize a Congressional response by Democrats who do not want to 
 vote against their weakened president and Republicans eager to please their 
 party leaders, we need your help! Your elected representatives need to know 
 that it will be very politically risky for them to support this, or any 
 other free trade agreement. They need to tell President Obama and the 
 Republican leaders that they don't want to have to go on record in choosing 
 between what their party leaders want and what their own constituents want. 
 This is the political calculation that made it impossible for Bush, and so 
 far Obama, to move these long-ago negotiated free trade agreements to 
 Congress. We need to make it very clear that this political calculus has 
 not changed!\n\nWe are asking you to organize a delegation locally to carry 
 this message to your Representative's district (or even DC) office. If you 
 can't put together a delegation, you can still go as a delegation of 
 one!\n\nThe Alliance for Global Justice will support you in these efforts. 
 If you would like to help start a local delegation to speak with your 
 elected officials, please contact us. We can supply you with talking points 
 and informational materials. Please contact Jamie Way at info@afgj.org for 
 additional information, or to let us know of actions that you will be 
 taking locally. We grassroots activists are going to have to work together 
 and work hard to defeat this agreement. We hope you will help us lead the 
 way in this fight!\n\nAlliance for Global Justice\n1247 E St., 
 SE\nWashington, DC 20003\n(202) 540-8336\nafgj@afgj.org\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/11/18668881.php
SUMMARY:Protest Korea-US FTA At Congresswoman Pelosi's Office
LOCATION:90 7th St./Mission San Francisco\nFederal Building Congresswomen Pelosi's 
 Office
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/11/18668881.php
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