At this week’s 11^th Round of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership meeting in Miami, Chief U.S. Negotiator, Dan Mullaney, stated that the timeline to seal the deal is supposedly during President Obama’s term.  Unfortunately, Europeans have quite a lot to say about that, and so do we!  Apparently, since the citizens of the E.U. have more access to the texts of TTIP than we do, there is massive popular resistance to this deal and the neoliberal model in general.  Turns out that the people are taking to the streets in large numbers protesting the ideology that enshrines corporate interests having sovereignty over nation states.  Europeans tend to be very opinionated about the consideration of climate science and environmental protection along with living wages and public health, when it comes to approving a binding trade agreement like TTIP.  Funny, we feel the same way.

National TPP Team Call Sunday, October 25 / 4:30 Pacific / 7:30 Eastern Time
605-562-3140 PIN 951146#

Report From Miami: Resisting the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

This week’s special guest speaker, William Waren, Trade Policy Analyst with Friends of the Earth, will give us his expert analysis on the environmental implications of TTIP and TPP, including the classification by the U.S. Trade Rep of Europeans' regulation of neonicitinoid pesticides (responsible for bee colony collapse) as a Technical Barrier to Trade; 

We will also hear an insider’s report on TTIP from Celeste Drake, Trade and Globalization Policy Specialist with AFL-CIO, along with an important transparency and democracy in trade call to the U.S. Trade Rep;

Michael Stumo,  Chief Executive Officer of the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA), will present an analysis of the probability of TPP passage,  should Paul Ryan accept the speakership, and how we can organize in that eventuality.

Mackenzie McDonald Wilkins, Climate and Trade Justice Activist, Popular Resistance, Flush the TPP will give us an update on the November 14-18 D.C. mass days of action;

Emilianne Slaydon, TPP Media March, will update us on this TPP Tuesday’s Twitter storm;

Adam Weissman, TradeJustice New York Metro will give us current trade updates;

Harriet Heywood will give a report on the Miami TTIP events.

We look forward to having your input on this week's call,

Harriet Heywood