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DESCRIPTION:SAN FRANCISCO DELEGATION TO JOIN BORDER CONVERGENCE TO PROTEST BORDER\nWALL 
 AND TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP\n\nSan Francisco groups are going to the 
 U.S.-Mexican border to say “no” to the border wall and “no” to the 
 proposed free trade agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership.\n\nCalling 
 themselves the Alliance for Social and Economic Justice, the groups include 
 the Bay Area Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Global 
 Exchange, Marin Task Force on the Americas, San Francisco Living Wage 
 Coalition, School of the Americas Watch West and Trabajo Cultural 
 Caminante.\n\nThey are sending a delegation from the San Francisco Bay Area 
 to Nogales, Arizona, from October 6 to 10, to participate in a convergence 
 on the border to highlight the militarization of the southern border, the 
 U.S.-sponsored militarization of Central American borders, and the human 
 rights crisis of an unjust immigration system. More than 430 human rights, 
 social justice, faith-based, labor and immigrant rights groups called for 
 the international convergence in the lead-up to the November 
 elections.\n\nMembers of the delegation are continuing to Ciudad Juarez, 
 Chihuahua, from October 11 to 14, to support Mexican factory workers who 
 have been striking for an independent union, to highlight the failures of 
 the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in protecting workers 
 rights, and to demonstrate the dangers of the Trans-Pacific Partnership 
 (TPP).\n\nThe groups see free trade and a repressive immigration system as 
 a couple of the root causes of why U.S. wages are stagnating or 
 depreciating, and why income inequality is increasing. The free trade 
 regime has brought lower wages to both sides of the border. Wages and 
 working conditions in factories are being depressed in Mexico in 
 anticipation of the TPP. With all of the presidential candidates opposed to 
 the TPP, except for Libertarian Gary Johnson, the Business Roundtable, 
 representing some of the largest U.S. companies, is pushing to get Congress 
 to pass it before the next president is inaugurated.\n\n“This is the most 
 dangerous time!,” said Karl Kramer, Campaign Co-director, San Francisco 
 Living Wage Coalition. “It will be a repeat of history. When China joined 
 the World Trade Organization, factory owners in Mexico told their workers 
 ‘either take a wage cut or we will close this plant and move it to 
 China.’ After the passage of TPP, the owners will be saying ‘either 
 take a wage cut or we will move this plant to Vietnam or 
 Malaysia.’”\n\nThe militarization of the border and a repressive 
 immigration system is creating more desperate workers, forcing them to 
 accept lower pay.\n\n“Supporters of NAFTA told us that free trade would 
 improve the lives of workers, but NAFTA has lowered the living standards of 
 U.S. and Mexican workers, and has led to the militarization of the U.S.- 
 Mexico border, to counter the forced migration of Mexican workers who have 
 lost their lands and jobs,” said David Frias, Campaign Co-director, San 
 Francisco Living Wage Coalition.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/10/04/18791905.php
SUMMARY:San Francisco Delegation to Join Border Convergence to Protest Border Wall and TPP
LOCATION:2940 16th Street (between Mission and S. Van Ness)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/10/04/18791905.php
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