During the campaign to stop the TPP, many important issues are being debated, notably, climate change and environmental degradation, rationed health care for least developed countries, job losses and wage reductions, land grabs and displacement of indigenous peoples and cultures, and limited internet freedom.

Probably the most destructive characteristic of corporate globalization is the devastating impact it has on democracy, the process whereby people decide what is best for their families and communities based on their collective interests and the common good, rather than the interests of corporations, where decisions are made strictly to enhance profits.

Our next speaker, David Korten, is uniquely qualified to take us on an historical journey, from the launch of the International Forum on Globalization in 1994, the research and analysis that became his 1995 international best seller, When Corporations Rule the World, to the Seattle WTO protests of November, 1999, and the growing popular resistance.While the resistance was silenced and fractured after 9/11 and civil liberties were rolled back, the movement did not die. We look forward to hearing more about this history, the current state of our corporatocracy, as evidenced by the destructive TPP, and a new narrative with real-world alternatives to economic globalization.

NATIONAL TPP TEAM CALL SUNDAY FEBRUARY 28

4:30 PACIFIC / 5:30 MOUNTAIN / 6:30 CENTRAL / 7:30 EASTERN TIME

TPP: DEMOCRACY vs CORPORATE RULE

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David Korten is the author of When Corporations Rule the World, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, Change the Story, Change the Future, Agenda for a New Economy, and the Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism. He is also co-founder and board chair of Yes! Magazine, co-chair of the New Economy Working Group, founder of the Living Economies Forum, and former associate of the International Forum on Globalization, and former Harvard Business School Professor.

We are also joined by Rio Tazewell, People for the American Way Manager of the Government by the People Campaign will also join us and discuss the upcoming Democracy Spring and Democracy Awakening movement.

We will also hear from the TPP Team, allied in the fight against global corporate rule.

Please join us,

Harriet Heywood

Trade Justice Alliance / National TPP Team Co-Coordinator