Washington, DC – A spectrum of workers’ rights groups rallied for the annual May Day March for labor on Sunday, May 1. They called on workers to organize with a new militancy and mobilize against global economic disadvantages posed by the growing power of corporate elites. They were also joined […]
TPP
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Director takes bullhorn to denounce trade agreement as “The Big Lie” Protesters against the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) had just surrounded the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC on Monday night when filmmaker Michael Moore showed up to lend a hand. Moore was attending an event just around the […]
Three days of protests against a trade agreement recently negotiated among twelve Pacific-rim nations kicked off early Monday morning at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative in Washington, DC. Protesters restricted access to the building as the business day began, using banners as blockades, and obstructed traffic in the […]
The conviction of Occupy Wall Street protestor Cecily McMillan for assault on a police officer shows that the judiciary is corrupt and dissent will not be tolerated. We can no longer call ourselves a democratic society, and as Chris Hedges says, we are living in the “post-constitutional era.” Since 9/11, […]
U.S. Trade Representative Mike Froman needs a fast track bill to get some important free trade agreements to the President’s desk for signature. But you wouldn’t necessarily know it after he testified about the administration’s trade policy agenda at a House Committee hearing on Thursday. “Our focus is on the […]
By Anne Meador About twenty protestors with a large yellow banner that said “Democracy Not Corporatocracy” waited in the dark to greet President Obama as he arrived at the U.S. Capitol last night to deliver his State of the Union address. They shivered in the 10-degree wind chill. “We are out […]
By Anne Meador The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on January 16 on a bill that would renew Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) for the President, allowing trade treaties to be “fast tracked” through Congress. The measure was introduced by Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-MT) last week, just as […]
A dozen activists at the U.S. Trade Representative Building in Washington, DC today demanded to see Stan McCoy, the lead negotiator of the intellectual property rights section of the trade treaty called the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). While McCoy, the Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Intellectual Property and Innovation, wouldn’t meet with […]
They might as well have dared them to do it. In the process of being renovated, the north side of the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office is covered in scaffolding. To reach the rooftop of the four-story building, you don’t even have to pass through its doors. All you have to […]
Part of a concerted effort to bring attention to the secretive negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the campaign Flush the TPP projected slogans–including “TPP Dismantles Democracy” and “TPP is a Corporate Coup”–onto the General Accountability Office building in Washington, DC. The campaign has organized several days of actions to interrupt […]