2012-06-20/6-9p SD/CA: Teach-in on TPP Trade Agreement "TPP will meet here in San Diego at the Bayfront Hilton from July 2nd through July 10th."
From: "Chris West" <chris...@sbcglobal.net> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:33:55 -0700 Subject: [OccupySD] Teach-in by Brooke Harper of Global Trade Watch on TPP Tomorrow (Wednesday) evening from 6 - 9 PM there will be a teach-in by Brooke Harper, Senior Field Organizer for Public Citizen's organization Global Trade Watch on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) at Canvass for a Cause in Hillcrest [<http://www.canvassforacause.org/>, CFAC HEADQUARTERS, 3705 10TH Ave. Third Floor, San Diego, CA 92103, (619) 630-7750, <mailto:i...@canvassforacause.org>]. TPP will meet here in San Diego at the Bayfront Hilton from July 2nd through July 10th. There is a Facebook event page for those of you on Facebook. [<https://www.facebook.com/events/386079468116572/>] The following organizations have endorsed a Call to Action: ⦠Occupy San Diego - CP ⦠Occupy City Heights ⦠Occupy Your Corner ⦠Women Occupy San Diego (WOSD) ⦠The San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice (SDCPJ) ⦠Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch ⦠The International Socialist Organization (ISO) - San Diego ⦠OSD Labor Solidarity Committee The Call to Action: We are waking up. The fog is lifting. We are sweeping away the lies and secrecy. From July 2 to July 10, the political leaders of the Pacific Rim nations are meeting in San Diego to turn the Pacific Ocean and its peoples into a giant privatized corporate lake characterized by non-union workers, Wal-Mart supply chain feeders, poisoned, landless agricultural laborers, a dying biodiversity, and rising, drowning sea levels. We cannot and will not let this happen. The TPP meeting is officially referred to as the 13th Round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Talks. The nations involved are the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Brunei, Chile, and Peru. Japan, Mexico and Canada have indicated a desire to join. The economic power of this group is more than 40% larger than the 27-nation European Union. The claimed purpose of TPP is to promote development and create jobs. However, this meeting is in fact one of the final conclaves to secretly negotiate the economic structural adjustments necessary to appease the worldâs largest multinational banks and multi-unit corporations. Make no mistake, these talks have nothing to do with free trade between equal nations. Rather, they are negotiations being conducted on behalf of these corporations and banks by their willing and highly-paid governments (supported by their militaries and police departments) to systematize the exploitation of the Pacific Rim peoples and increase the capital acquisition rates of the 1%. The essence of these talks is to privatize natural resources (despite the wishes of the worldâs indigenous peoples;) restructure each countryâs trade, labor, environmental, and finance laws; and reduce or eradicate social services to the people. These policies are known the world over as neoliberalism. Historically, they have been instituted around the world ever since the brutal taking of power in Chile, on September 11, 1973, by the fascist regime of General Augusto Pinochet. These policies, thus experimented with, spread to countries as widespread as the U.K., the U.S., Mexico, Argentina, Indonesia, Russia, Poland, Sri Lanka, and now Greece. They have been implemented by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, a plethora of âFree Tradeâ treaties (such as NAFTA), and various militaries. Enough is enough! ¡Ya basta! The General Assemblies of Occupy San Diego and Occupy City Heights hereby invites our communities, our regional neighbors, and our co-inhabitants of Earth, in general, to join us in both protesting the TPP and also in creating a new world. We will march with pots and pans, and drums. (Can you hear me now?) We will sponsor an international weeklong conference and roundtables on what is wrong with the TPP Pact and what are the peopleâs alternatives. --- A website has been set up, http://stoptpp.org, with more info on TPP and the upcoming TPP round 13 here in San Diego. Check back regularly as some events/actions are still in the planning stages. We will keep you updated regularly in upcoming email blasts as well. Please sign a petition demanding that US Trade Representative Ron Kirk release all Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement proposals now:  http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1034/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=9842 - - - Occupysd mailing list http://lists.citizensoversight.org/mailman/listinfo/occupysd ### ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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