Hundreds of corporate negotiators (like Wal-Mart, Zymogenetics, and Cargill) and government officials are meeting in secret to draft a massive new trade agreement they call the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). Skeptics are calling it NAFTA on steroids. The TPP would tear down trade regulations in Pacific rim countries from Vietnam to Chile under an agreement […]
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No More NAFTAs: Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership! International Day of Action
Friday, January 31st 2014 Noon Westlake Center 400 Pine St, Seattle The rally is part of an Inter-Continental Day of Action, in solidarity with our trade justice allies in Mexico, Canada and across the U.S. Community Alliance for Global Justice grew out of the 1999 Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization, and has continued to oppose […]
NAFTA & the Zapatista Uprising: 20 Years Since, 20 Years Next
By Chris Iberle, Food Justice Project Co-Chair We stumble upon two intertwined anniversaries on this New Year’s Day, 2014. With the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) looming, a new trade pact based on the broken model of corporate globalization, we mark 20 years since NAFTA went into effect. The Zapatista uprising, timed to coincide with the implementation […]
Trans-Pacific Partnership International Day of Action & Global Fair Trade Day
Saturday, May 11th 2-5pm Central CO-OP Annex, 1900 E. Madison, Seattle Find out Why TPP matters to YOU …and what YOU can do about it! Join the Central Co-op, Washington Fair Trade Coalition, Washington State Labor Council, Sierra Club, Community Alliance for Global Justice, Philippine-US Solidarity Organization, Sol Fair Trade, Backbone Campaign, IAM 751, SPEEA […]
CAGJ statement in support and celebration of La Via Campesina International Day of Peasants’ Struggle
On April 17 1996, in Eldorado dos Carajás, Brazil, state military police massacred peasants involved in the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST), killing 19 individuals. At an ensuing protest, military police from two brigades fired tear-gas and live ammunition at 1500 women and men, killing three and wounding 69. Since then, global people’s movement […]
Facing the Threat of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
This op-ed recently appeared in the Vancouver, B.C. Tyee. CAGJ has joined the struggle against the TPP on behalf of farmers and eaters everywhere through our Food Justice Project Solidarity Campaigns. Get involved today and help stop this dangerous new trade deal! By Kristen Beifus, Raul Burbano, and Manuel Pérez-Rocha March 6, 2012 A 16th […]
10 Reasons Why Eaters & Food Justice Activists Should Care about the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership)
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, is a secretive regional free trade/investor rights initiative led by the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam, with an open-docking clause allowing for additional countries to join. In theory, the TPP seeks to increase trade in the region by opening […]
