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DESCRIPTION:Free Trade's Newest Threat - The Trans Pacific Partnership and What We Can 
 Do to Stop It \nAt our next meeting, Peace Action of San Mateo County will 
 again turn its attention to the undue and negative influence of 
 corporations on our public interest. On Sunday, November 24 we will focus 
 on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), now in the midst of ongoing 
 negotiations among a number of countries who would be a part of it. Our 
 guest speaker will be Carleen Pickard, Managing Director of the San 
 Francisco-based organization Global Exchange.\n\nThe TPP is poised to 
 become the largest free trade agreement in U.S. (and probably world) 
 history. This fact has made more than a few people uncomfortable with the 
 lack of transparency accompanying the negotiations that have surrounded it. 
 The population at large doesn't know much about the TPP, but the few things 
 we do know aren't making us feel any better about the whole thing: Its 
 current content promises to give corporations more power while trampling 
 labor rights and environmental regulations...and there is much more to find 
 out. All in all, the signs regarding TPP point to a prioritization of 
 corporate profits - with profound negative consequences for social, 
 environmental and economic justice, as well as basic human rights 
 throughout the world.\n\nOn November 24, come hear Carleen Pickard share 
 her insights on what TPP is all about, who is behind it and how people can 
 work together in the name of fair trade, justice and environmental 
 sustainability. Carleen holds a MA in Anthropology and Development from the 
 University of Sussex, UK, and has worked in social justice organizations in 
 London, the Mexican state of Chiapas, San Francisco, Vancouver, BC and 
 Ottawa, ON, Canada. She is now back in San Francisco to pursue her work at 
 Global Exchange. \nThe UUSM is wheelchair accessible.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/11/11/18746235.php
SUMMARY:A Presentation About the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
LOCATION:Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo\n300 E. Santa Inez\nSan Mateo, CA 
 94401\n\nhttp://www.uusanmateo.org/
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/11/11/18746235.php
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