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Can a “Dracula Strategy” Bring Trans-Pacific Partnership into the Sunlight?

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Can a “Dracula Strategy” Bring Trans-Pacific Partnership into the Sunlight? “ What would the TPP do?Eleven countries are now involved—Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, and the… Continue reading

TPPx Border

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Bringing the Movement Against Corporate Power Back to the Streets!The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) pretends to be a 21st Century Trade Deal. It purports to “open new markets and create new business opportunities” for all… Continue reading

TransPacific Partnership Threatens Sovereignty and Public Ownership

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Trading Away Health: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)

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  Unless damaging provisions are removed before negotiations are finalized, the TPP agreement is on track to become the most harmful trade pact ever for access to medicines in developing countries. The TPP… Continue reading

As Clock Ticks Toward Trans-Pacific Trade Pact Deadline, U.S. Must End Stall Tactics on Access to Medicines

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Cambodia 2007 © Dieter Telemans A Cambodian HIV patient holds some of her drug regimen in an MSF HIV ward. NEW YORK, MARCH 4, 2013—As closed-door talks for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement… Continue reading

Favorable signs for Doha talks

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China to take a more proactive role in opening-up, minister says China is committed to pushing forward the Doha round of talks inresponse to what it sees as recent positive signs that may… Continue reading

What Is Wrong With the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

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BY CAROLINA ROSSINI AND MAIRA SUTTON EFF has been fighting against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) intellectual property chapter for several years. This agreement poses a great risk to users’ freedoms and access to information on a… Continue reading

Trans-Pacific Partnership Draws Attention From K Street

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By Janie Boschma While the 16th round of negotiations surrounding the 11-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership wraps up in Singapore this week, K Street has plenty to say about the trade alliance and its terms at… Continue reading

TPP: What you need to know about this ‘super-sized’ trade deal

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BY KRISTEN BEIFUS MANUEL PÉREZ-ROCHA RAUL BURBANO   A 16th round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations is underway in Singapore. Canada and Mexico join the nine other TPP countries for the second… Continue reading

Japan expected to announce entry to TPP free-trade talks this week

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TOKYO/SINGAPORE – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to declare Japan’s participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade negotiations at a news conference Friday. A government source on Tuesday confirmed this is the day being… Continue reading

Who benefits from Trans-Pacific Partnership?

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A new free trade agreement that will eventually cover over 40% of global trade is being hailed as one of the most ambitious plans in the Asia-Pacific region. Eleven Asian nations have signed… Continue reading

(Yonhap Interview) deputy USTR

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by Kang Eui-young, Lee Chi-dong WASHINGTON, March 12 (Yonhap) — The United States is cautiously optimistic thatSouth Korea will decide to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, as it is a “natural candidate” for the ongoing… Continue reading

TPP v. ASEAN: The Pivot And The Island Rows

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“… competing to lead the regional trade liberalization agenda.” by Arnie Saiki Los Angeles, California Editor: This analysis of the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement) and ASEAN(Association of Southeast Asian Nations) was written just before the 21st ASEAN… Continue reading

Pop-Up Puppet Theatre presents TPP v.1.5

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TPP Creates Legal Incentives For ISPs To Police The Internet. What Is At Risk? Your Rights.

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BY CAROLINA ROSSINI AND KURT OPSAHL on the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The draft chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement on Intellectual Property—as of its current leaked version [PDF], article 16—insists that signatories provide legal incentives for Internet Service Providers (ISPs)… Continue reading

LEAKED! TPP: the Son of ACTA will oblige America and other countries to throw out privacy, free speech and due process for easier copyright enforcement

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By Cory Doctorow on BoingBoing at 6:00 pm Saturday, Aug 25 The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the son of ACTA, a secretive copyright and trade treaty being negotiated by the Pacific Rim nations, including the… Continue reading

Film and Panel Discussion: “MAQUILAPOLIS” and Fair Trade Initiatives

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As a continued effort against Free Trade Agreements, Af3irm San Diego in collaboration with The Centro Cultural de la Raza will be presenting the film MAQUILAPOLIS [city of factories] by Vicky Funari and… Continue reading

The TPP Song!

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Dallas Protestors Give USTR ‘Corporate Power Tool Award’; Replace Toilet Paper In Hotel With TPP-TP

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Written by Mike Masnick on TechDirt Ron Kirk may believe that he’s getting away with something in negotiating the TPP agreement without the public knowing what he’s doing, but sooner or later he… Continue reading

San Diego Stop TPP Media Hits

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Pacific Rim Trade Zone Talks Begin in SD: Opponents Peacefully Protest Proposed Trade Deal that Would Send Jobs to Low-Wage Countries http://www.10news.com/news/31241771/detail.html “This not only contributes to the nation’s severe unemployment problems, but… Continue reading

San Diego Rally and March Videos

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San Diego Pots and Pans March Photos 1, Saturday, July 7th

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OccupYrCorner, SD: StopTPP

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From the OccupYrCorner Blog, dated July 15th, 2012: All of June the members of OYC were busy working with The Coalition to Stop TPP on a week-long awareness event in July in San… Continue reading

Occupy Dallas Spreads News On Secret Trade Deal (Trans-Pacific Partnership)

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Anti-TPP Dance: Public Citizen, CodePINK, Occupy Dallas @ Dallas, Texas

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Public Citizen, CodePINK, and Occupy Dallas joined forces for a dance to raise awareness for the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) talks at a Dallas mall on Thursday, May 17, 2012. The next… Continue reading

Occupy Dallas Crashes Trans-Pacific Partnership Reception

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Ben & Jerry Join Local and National Groups Calling for a Fair Deal on Trans-Pacific Trade

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Ice Cream Makers Help Coalition Deliver Over 10,000 Postcards to Trade Negotiators Currently Meeting in Chicago CHICAGO, IL – September 6 – As a major Pacific Rim trade summit begins in downtown Chicago… Continue reading

Trans-Pacific Partnership picketed by Occupy Dallas – Addison

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On May 12th, Activist groups join Occupy Dallas in a rally and march demanding transparency and an end to corporate trade deals that hurt workers during a major international summit on trade and… Continue reading

San Diego Fair Trade Not Free Trade Rally, July 2nd, Pics and Video

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The Fair Trade Not Free Trade Rally against the TPP talks happening in San Diego kicked off a week of actions and conferences to bring attention to and inform the public about the… Continue reading

What Is The TPP? Video

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