California Fair Trade Coalition
Join us as we "welcome" the Trans-Pacific Partnership with two great events!Rally June 14th at 10AM in San Francisco with Art Pulaski and Carl Pope! BE THERE!
As the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations come to San Francisco, this is our best opportunity to remind President Obama of his campaign promises of trade reform and ensure that with the TPP, it's a NEW DEAL or NO DEAL!
We must say:
NO to offshoring American jobs!
NO to gutting the environment!
NO to more unsafe imports!
NO to child and sweatshop labor encouraged by free trade
NO to violence against trade unionists around the world
NO to the free trade fostered "race to the bottom" on environmental standards, human rights, and food and product safety
and we must say YES to real trade reform, that puts workers home and abroad first, not exploitative multi-national corporations.
What:
Rally two blocks from the site of the TPP negotiations, followed by a march to the site.
Who:
Art Pulaski, Ex. Secretary Treasurer, California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO
Carl Pope, Chairman, Sierra Club
Gayle McLaughlin, Mayor, Richmond
Ross Mirkarimi, Supervisor, San Francisco
Tim Paulson, Executive Director, San Francisco Labor Council
Anuradha Mittal, Executive Director, Oakland Institute
Victor Menotti, Executive Director, International Forum on Globalization
Zeke Grader, Executive Director, Pacific Coast Federation of Fisherman's Associations
Tim Robertson, Executive Director, California Fair Trade Coalition
Where:
St. Patrick's Church, 756 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94103 (Two blocks South of Powell St. BART)
When:
Monday, June 14th, 2010. 10:00AM
For more information, email: tim@citizenstrade.org.
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Global Exchange and the California Fair Trade Coalition Present
A Special Forum:
Monday, June 14th, 2010
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP NEGOTIATIONS
What it is and what it means for the future of U.S. trade policy
The election of President Obama promised to be a crossroads for U.S. trade policy. Nevertheless, after campaigning as a trade reformer, initial moves by the administration suggest continuity with Bush-Clinton-Bush-era free trade policies.
On June 14, trade ministers from around the world will be in San Francisco to attempt to negotiatie a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which marks the defining moment on U.S. trade policy for the Obama Administration. The choice is stark: a new kind of trade agreement that lifts standards around the world or the expansion of NAFTA-style agreements to Asia and beyond. If the TPP is successfully negotiated, we will have an established Obama trade policy for years to come, for ill or for good.
Please join Global Exchange and the California Fair Trade Coalition as we host a forum of experts from across civil society to explore the opportunities and threats posed by the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations.
with
Kevin Danaher, Global Exchange, moderator
Lori Wallach, Public Citizen-Global Trade Watch
Victor Menotti, International Forum on Globalization
Zeke Grader, Pacific Coast Federation of Fisherman's Associations
Bill Hing, University of San Francisco School of Law
Carla Perez, Movement Generation (invited)
Alberto Saldamando, International Indian Treaties Council (invited)
Anuradha Mittal, Oakland Institute (invited)
Tim Robertson, California Fair Trade Coalition
SEIU Local 87
240 Golden Gate Ave. (Golden Gate @ Leavenworth)
San Francisco
For more information please call the CFTC at 415-255-7291 or email tim@citizenstrade.org
Sliding scale of $10 -$25
No one turned away for lack of funds
The CFTC would like to thank Congresswoman Lois Capps (D-Santa Barbara) for becmoing the 138th Cosponsor of the TRADE Act! There are now 141 co-sponsors!
Is your Representative a cosponsor, yet? (Check here.)
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations
The Obama Administration has begun talks with Asian and Latin American nations to enter into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The talks with Australia, Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam were originally initiated by the Bush Administration. As the first trade agreement negotiations entered into by the Obama administration, the TPP is the critical venue in which the administration can formally create and then implement a new U.S. trade agreement model to replace the failed Bush-NAFTA model. The process by which President Obama approaches the TPP will determine whether the administration will follow through with his commitments to new transparency and inclusiveness in U.S. trade policymaking.
For more information, check out the Citizens Trade Campaign website and the Public Citizen Global Trade Watch website.
Congressmen Garamendi and Miller Joins CFTC to announce their cosponsorship of the TRADE Act!
For more information on the TRADE Act, please click here.
The CFTC brings together a diverse array of organizations and individuals including labor, environmental, farm, fair trade business, and human rights groups to educate California citizens, lawmakers, and the media about the devastating consequences of current U.S. trade policies, while promoting viable alternatives for creating new rules for globalization.