Issues-Advocacy
Starts Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at 9:45 AM for 195 minutes
PAST EVENT
Location: Sierra Club, 50 F Street, NW, Eighth Floor, Washington, DC
*** Followup Archive Listed in URL link ***
(http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/blog/2013/07/09/tafta/)
By now you've probably heard of TTP - but have you heard of TTIP? It's a
new free trade agreement between the US and the European Union - and
international TTIP negotiations start this week! To find our more about
the looming threat of TTIP and the long fight ahead of us to stop yet
another terrible trade deal, we'd like to encourage you to attend this
upcoming symbosium i Washington, DC - or to watch it live at the
location of your choice over the internet. Details are below - we hope
you'll be able to participate!
IN PERSON OR VIA WEBCAST:
Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement Symposium
Tuesday, July 9 * 8:45am to 12:00pm Eastern
Sierra Club, 50 F Street, NW, Eighth Floor, Washington, DC
...or watch online via live webcast
Please
join us for a public symposium on the Transatlantic Trade and
Investment Partnership, also known as the Trans-Atlantic Free Trade
Agreement (TAFTA). TAFTA threatens to build on the North American Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and similar trade deals focused on removing
"trade irritants" like food safety standards and environmental
protections without regard the costs to public health, local food
systems and our environments. We'll discuss some of the potential
impacts of this latest pact as negotiations begin that week in
Washington, DC.
Opening Panel: What's at Stake (9:00-9:55am EDT)
Virginia Robnett, Coalition for Sensible Safeguards (moderator)
Lori Wallach, Public Citizen (TAFTA context)
Natacha Cingotti, Friends of the Earth Europe (European perspectives)
Celeste Drake, AFL-CIO (labor perspectives)
Environment and Climate Panel (10:00-10:55am EDT)
Carroll Muffett, Center for International Law (moderator)
Ilana Solomon, Sierra Club (climate and energy, investor-state)
William Waren, Friends of the Earth U.S. (downward harmonization and chemical regulations)
Food Panel (11:00am-12:00pm EDT)
Kathy Ozer, National Family Farm Coalition (moderator)
Alexis Baden-Mayer, Organic Consumer Association (GMOs)
Karen Hansen-Kuhn, Institute for Trade & Agriculture Policy (emerging technologies)
Organization: TradeJustice New York Metro
Directions: Sierra Club, 50 F Street, NW, Eighth Floor, Washington, DC
Contact Info: TradeJustice Metro New York (info@tradejustice.net)
(Registration Required)
Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.
His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
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Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of (more...)
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