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DESCRIPTION:The TransPacific Partnership (TPP): \nWhy Corporations Are Pushing it 
 and\nHow People on Four Continents\nUnite in Resistance\n\nQ & A and Open 
 Discussion with Arthur Stamoulis, Executive Director of Citizens Trade 
 Campaign \n\n-------\n\nThe Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a massive 
 new international trade pact being pushed by the U.S. government at the 
 behest of transnational corporations. If it continues on its current 
 course, the TPP will serve two primary purposes:\n\n1. Making it easier for 
 corporations to shift jobs throughout the world to wherever labor is the 
 most exploited and regulations are the weakest; and\n\n2. Putting checks on 
 democracy at home and abroad by constraining governments’ ability to 
 regulate in the public interest.\n\nThe TPP is already being negotiated 
 between the United States, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, 
 Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam — but it is 
 also specifically intended as a “docking agreement” that other Pacific 
 Rim countries would join over time, with Japan, Korea, China and others 
 already expressing some interest. Corporations already cheering the TPP 
 include Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Wal-Mart, Chevron, Newscorp, GE and 
 Halliburton. The TPP has been questioned — if not outright opposed — by 
 labor, environmental, family farm, consumer, indigenous and other social 
 justice groups on four continents.\n\nJoin us to learn about the current 
 state of negotiations, growing #NoTPP movements across continents, and 
 upcoming opportunities for action to #StopTPP!\n\n-------\n\nCitizens Trade 
 Campaign was the first to publish leaked texts of U.S. proposals for the 
 TPP, and has worked closely with Occupy and others at TPP negotiating 
 rounds in San Diego, Dallas and elsewhere.\n\nTime will be allotted for Q&A 
 and open discussion. \n\nMonday March 25, 6:30 – 9 pm.\n2017 Mission 
 Street, 2nd Floor #200, near Mission/16th Street BART\n\nDonations to 
 OccupyForum to cover our costs are encouraged; no one turned away!\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/03/18/18733831.php
SUMMARY:OccupyForum Presents: "The TransPacific Partnership (TPP): How Do We #StopTPP?"
LOCATION:Global Exchange\n2017 Mission Street, 2nd Floor #200\n@ Mission/16th Street 
 BART
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/03/18/18733831.php
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