Es este miércoles 25 de febrero y se explicará porque éste tratado de Libre Comercio afectará nuestros trabajos, medio ambiente, salud y dará mas poder a las corporaciones multinacionales. Es en la escuela pública 69 de la Avenida 37 y la calle 77, en Jackson Heights, Queens. Venga, infórmese, haga preguntas, discuta. Los esperamos!
Conferencista:
El estadounidense Joseph Stiglitz –
Premio Nobel de Economia.
Miércoles, 25 de febrero, 2015 6:00PM
Escuela Pública PS 69 – 77-02 Avenida 37 Jackson Heights
Auspiciadores: TradeJustice New York Metro, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, New York Communities for Change, Food & Water Watch, Sierra Club NYC Group, Sierra Club – Atlantic Chapter, Communications Workers of America, NYC District Council of Carpenters, District Council 9 Painter & Allied Trades, NYS Council of Machinists, Working Families Party, Polo Democratico Alternativo – NY, New York Buyer’s Club, Health GAP (Global Access Project), Eco-Logic of WBAI-FM, Churches United for Fair Housing, Make the Road New York, Global Justice for Animals and the Environment.
Community, Labor, Advocacy Groups Join Together for Community Meeting To Expose the Trans Pacific Partnership Trade Deal
Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz to Speak at Educational Event Calling on U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley to once again oppose ‘Fast Track’ legislation which would lead to the TPP’s passage
WHAT: A diverse set of organizations and unions are uniting with community groups in a forum to expose the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The TPP, dubbed “NAFTA on steroids” will send more U.S. jobs overseas, raise prescription drug prices, and allow multinational corporations to challenge any U.S. law or regulation that affects “expected future profits.”
Queens and Bronx Representative Joseph Crowley can help stop the TPP by once again opposing “Fast Track” legislation, which is a legislative maneuver to ram through the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, an expert on the TPP, will speak at the forum along with local activists, community leaders. Local elected officials are also invited.
WHO: The Sierra Club, Food and Water Watch, Working Families Party, Communications Workers of America, District Council of Carpenters, and the NYS Machinists Council, as well as local organizations. Over 150 people from the area are expected to attend the forum. Local elected officials are also being invited to attend.
WHERE: PS 69, 77-02 37th Avenue, Jackson Heights, NY 11372
WHEN: Wednesday, February 25, 6pm – 7:30 pm.
Background:
The TPP is being negotiated in secret between the United States and 11 Pacific Rim countries including Malaysia, Mexico, Japan, and Vietnam. This massive trade deal would cover 792 million people and 40 percent of the global economy. The TPP would destroy U.S. jobs and allow multinational corporations to challenge environmental, consumer, and even our Buy American laws. New York’s ban on fracking is an example of a regulation that could be open to challenge by multinational corporation if the TPP is enacted.
Trade Promotion Authority, or “Fast Track,” is an expedited process that strips away the rights of members of Congress to debate and amend the trade deal and requires an up-or-down vote with limited debate. Many members of Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, have publicly declared their opposition to Fast Track. Virtually all of the Democrats in the NYS delegation have announced their opposition to Fast Track.
US House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan has announced that Fast Track legislation will soon be introduced in his committee. Representative Joseph Crowley is a member of the Committee and has voted against Fast Track legislation in the past.