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'Stop TTIP': Global Day of Action Draws Tens of Thousands
'Rising anti-American sentiment linked to revelations of U.S. spying and fears of digital domination by firms like Google'
4/18/15
Demonstrators marched around the globe Saturday to protest the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a 'free trade' agreement currently being negotiated between the European Union (EU) and the United States.
Opponents fear that TTIP will erode food, labor and environmental standards particularly with regard to the EU's strict regulations on food additives, genetically modified crops and the use of pesticides. "There is a very big risk: TTIP will restrict our democratic rights. In the future, large corporations will have an even greater influence on the legislative process," said Thilo Bode of Foodwatch.
The EU and US began TTIP talks nearly two years over creating the worlds biggest trade zone. The ninth round of negotiations will begin on Monday, April 20 in New York.
Tens of thousands marched across Germany where more than 200 demonstrations took place.
In Barcelona, 50,000 marched through city streets....
...Reuters reports:
Opposition to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is particularly high in Germany, in part due to rising anti-American sentiment linked to revelations of U.S. spying and fears of digital domination by firms like Google.
A recent YouGov poll showed that 43 percent of Germans believe TTIP would be bad for the country, compared to 26 percent who see it as positive.
More than 7,000 gathered in front of the Austrian parliament chanting slogans such as Stop TTIP, humanity and the environment before profit, and TTIP is a threat to democracy, and peoples health.
In all, some 600 anti-TTIP protests were planned across the world for Saturday.
A Call to Action on www.globaltradeday.org, which is co-ordinating promotion of the protests, reads:
"We, civil society organizations, trade unions, farmers, youth, women, indigenous movements and grassroots activists from across the world, are calling for a Global Day of Action on 18 April 2015 to stop free trade and investment deals and promote an economy that works for people and the planet.
For the last decades, secret trade and investment agreements have been pushed by corporations and governments, damaging our rights and the environment.
For the last decades, we have been fighting for food sovereignty, for the commons, to defend our jobs, our lands, internet freedom and to reclaim democracy. Along the way, we have grown as a movement, we have made our voices heard and we had victories.
Together, we can stop the agreements that are being negotiated and reverse the negative impacts of past agreements. We can drive forward our alternatives based on human rights over corporate privileges.
We call on organizations, individuals and alliances to participate by organizing decentralized actions across the five continents. We welcome a diversity of tactics and solidarity actions from across the world that will help raise awareness, engage and mobilize people locally towards a new trade and economic model that works for people and the planet"....
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/18/stop-ttip-global-day-action-draws-tens-thousands
'Rising anti-American sentiment linked to revelations of U.S. spying and fears of digital domination by firms like Google'
4/18/15
Demonstrators marched around the globe Saturday to protest the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a 'free trade' agreement currently being negotiated between the European Union (EU) and the United States.
Opponents fear that TTIP will erode food, labor and environmental standards particularly with regard to the EU's strict regulations on food additives, genetically modified crops and the use of pesticides. "There is a very big risk: TTIP will restrict our democratic rights. In the future, large corporations will have an even greater influence on the legislative process," said Thilo Bode of Foodwatch.
The EU and US began TTIP talks nearly two years over creating the worlds biggest trade zone. The ninth round of negotiations will begin on Monday, April 20 in New York.
Tens of thousands marched across Germany where more than 200 demonstrations took place.
In Barcelona, 50,000 marched through city streets....
...Reuters reports:
Opposition to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is particularly high in Germany, in part due to rising anti-American sentiment linked to revelations of U.S. spying and fears of digital domination by firms like Google.
A recent YouGov poll showed that 43 percent of Germans believe TTIP would be bad for the country, compared to 26 percent who see it as positive.
More than 7,000 gathered in front of the Austrian parliament chanting slogans such as Stop TTIP, humanity and the environment before profit, and TTIP is a threat to democracy, and peoples health.
In all, some 600 anti-TTIP protests were planned across the world for Saturday.
A Call to Action on www.globaltradeday.org, which is co-ordinating promotion of the protests, reads:
"We, civil society organizations, trade unions, farmers, youth, women, indigenous movements and grassroots activists from across the world, are calling for a Global Day of Action on 18 April 2015 to stop free trade and investment deals and promote an economy that works for people and the planet.
For the last decades, secret trade and investment agreements have been pushed by corporations and governments, damaging our rights and the environment.
For the last decades, we have been fighting for food sovereignty, for the commons, to defend our jobs, our lands, internet freedom and to reclaim democracy. Along the way, we have grown as a movement, we have made our voices heard and we had victories.
Together, we can stop the agreements that are being negotiated and reverse the negative impacts of past agreements. We can drive forward our alternatives based on human rights over corporate privileges.
We call on organizations, individuals and alliances to participate by organizing decentralized actions across the five continents. We welcome a diversity of tactics and solidarity actions from across the world that will help raise awareness, engage and mobilize people locally towards a new trade and economic model that works for people and the planet"....
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/18/stop-ttip-global-day-action-draws-tens-thousands
We tend to focus on the TPP here in the US, but the TPA for fast tracking also includes the TTIP. And the People in Europe are Standing Up to fight for their sovereignty.
Here in the US, the AFL-CIO seems to be the leader in the fight for organizing against fast tracking the TPP~
AFL-CIO launches six-figure ad campaign to stop Fast Track
http://peoplesworld.org/afl-cio-launches-six-figure-ad-campaign-to-stop-fast-track/
AFL-CIO Mobilizes Tens of Thousands Against Fast Track Trade Deals
Over 86,000 Calls, 40,000 Petitioners and 400 Events Against Bad Trade Deals
http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/latest-national/latest-national-news/60146-afl-cio-mobilizes-tens-of-thousands-against-fast-track-trade-deals.html
But our media is largely ignoring it. Other than some mentions regarding the upcoming presidential election.
As Jim Hightower says~
The TPP isnt some sort of futuristic flying machine. Its just another global trade scam coming at us like a volcanic eruption straight out of hell.
This thing is a partnership of, by, and for global corporations similar to NAFTA, only much, much bigger and far more destructive both to the middle class and to our peoples sovereignty....
....For example, such odd-bedfellow boosters as Secretary of State John Kerry and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce both exclaim that the 12-nation scheme will support 650,000 new jobs.
Wow really?
No.
Glenn Kessler, who writes The Washington Posts Fact-Checker column, dug into that number in January. He found that it was incorrect, misleading, and silly.
In fact, he wrote, The correct number is zero.
http://ourfuture.org/20150416/odd-bedfellows-lying-together
This thing is a partnership of, by, and for global corporations similar to NAFTA, only much, much bigger and far more destructive both to the middle class and to our peoples sovereignty....
....For example, such odd-bedfellow boosters as Secretary of State John Kerry and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce both exclaim that the 12-nation scheme will support 650,000 new jobs.
Wow really?
No.
Glenn Kessler, who writes The Washington Posts Fact-Checker column, dug into that number in January. He found that it was incorrect, misleading, and silly.
In fact, he wrote, The correct number is zero.
http://ourfuture.org/20150416/odd-bedfellows-lying-together
We should be out marching in the streets here in the US too! And just maybe, corporate media would cover it unlike the Climate Action march in NYC they ignored. And maybe they'd even show some respect, unlike with Occupy. And maybe the FBI wouldn't begin harassing those who march...
I think protests in Europe have more impact because they're treated with the respect they deserve.
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'Stop TTIP': Global Day of Action Draws Tens of Thousands (in Europe) (Original Post)
RiverLover
Apr 2015
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newfie11
(8,159 posts)1. Obviously Europe has a more honest news media
Here in the states nothing has been said on MSM about TPP.
Granted I may have missed it as I rarely watch it.
I'm terrified this shit will pass and most Americans will have no idea until it's a done deal.
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)2. Me too.
I started mentioning it to clients here & there in small talk this past week, and I've gotten only blank looks in return. Had to explain the TPP. This is in central Ohio with educated people.
Just not informed people, thanks to our media.
marmar
(77,081 posts)3. K/R