CAGJ was founded by Seattle-area activists who helped to organize the historic shutdown of the World Trade Organization meeting in 1999. We strive to carry on the protests’ legacy of effective and creative collective action for global justice.
APEC is coming to Seattle!
Register for the Peoples’ Summit: JULY 29-30 in SEATTLE WA
PNWPOP is organizing to ensure that large numbers of working people, climate activists and others are shining a spotlight on the Seattle APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) meetings to ensure that corporate lobbyists don’t get their way as they discuss agreements on women, the economy and the upcoming Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF).
The APEC Ministers will be holding their Third Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM3) in Seattle this July-August. Help us kick off their meetings by highlighting the struggles and resistance of workers, migrants, and many others in the face of corporate-government collusion!
Wherever APEC goes, the people fight back!!
ABOUT PNW-POP
PNW People over Profit is a coalition of labor, climate justice, anti-war, human rights and community organizations who are committed to confronting APEC during their meetings in Seattle and beyond. Since these meetings happen behind closed doors, we are ensuring that demands for worker-centered, climate-friendly trade policy are front-and-center during the Seattle APEC ministerial meetings. We want to bring together an international, anti-imperialist coalition of cross-sector organizations to educate and mobilize against IPEF and APEC specifically, and neoliberal and imperialist oppression generally.
Why are we protesting APEC?
APEC is an intergovernmental forum with the purpose of preserving the neoliberal status quo and serving state and corporate interests. These seminal rounds of talks will have a massive impact on jobs, wages, labor rights, climate action, consumer privacy and monopoly power both at home and abroad for decades to come. APEC represents one of many neoliberal institutions under imperialism that promote attacks on the working class while propping up mechanisms for corporate and ruling class profiteering. The APEC round, like those before it, will specifically be focusing on a trade deal created to preserve U.S. corporate interests and hegemony in the Asia Pacific region against China. The press release announcing Seattle as the location for this crucial meeting specifically referenced it being chosen because it is the home to so many big corporations and lobby groups — such as Amazon, Microsoft, Boeing and others.
We are organizing to ensure that large numbers of working people, climate activists and others are shining a spotlight on the Seattle APEC meetings to ensure that corporate lobbyists don’t get their way as they discuss agreements on women, the economy and the upcoming Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF).
PEOPLES’ SUMMIT AGAINST APEC, JULY 29-30: REGISTER HERE
Host a workshop!
Host a workshop at the People’s Counter Summit Against APEC to build a movement highlighting the struggles and resistance of workers, migrants, women, and many others in the face of corporate-government collusion. We are looking for workshops with broad themes of free trade impacts, anti-neoliberalism and mass organizing – feel free to get creative.
Donate to Support PNW-POP
Help us organize a counter-summit against the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)!
Your donation will support counter-summit venue costs, mobilization needs for our day-of protest, and educational materials for both the counter-summit itself and our monthly lead-up events. We appreciate your contribution, as it will supply us with the signage, zines, gas money, food, and shelter we need to pull off this undertaking. Thank you for your solidarity!
PEOPLES’ SUMMIT AGAINST APEC, JULY 29-30: REGISTER HERE
CAGJ works for Trade Justice by organizing to end the current US trade model that prioritizes profits over people and the environment, and works to offer viable alternatives. Through membership in the WA Fair Trade Coalition, we continue our historic organizing to halt so-called Free Trade Agreements which are in reality pro-corporate investment deals. We seek to increase public understanding of trade by educating and advocating about the links between trade and our food system, food sovereignty, immigrant rights, climate justice and economic justice. In particular, we help to articulate a vision of trade (fair trade, not “free” trade) that will raise global food, agricultural, environmental, health and labor standards, not lower them.
