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What is TTIP?
13-Feb-2014 YouTube
The US and Europe are currently negotiating TTIP, with little media scrutiny and without public participation.
Public forum on anti-people “trade” deal
13-Feb-2014 CPA
As the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement hurtles towards an indecently fast and secret finalisation between the states of 12 countries and a number of large transnational corporations, concerned citizens around the globe have been organising a resistance to this anti-democratic and anti-people “free trade” agreement.
65,000 protest TPP in Mexico, see repeat of NAFTA mistakes
5-Feb-2014 Popular Resistance
Farmers, union, environmental and women’s activists gathered in Mexico City last week to take stock of the lessons from NAFTA and plan strategies to confront the next big threat: the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP).
German public TV videos on TTIP - now in EN
5-Feb-2014 CEO
CEO has put English subtitles to two excellent media reports on TTIP that were shown on German public TV in the previous months.
Is the TPP dead?
5-Feb-2014 Acronym TV
An interview with Kevin Zeese, organizer with Flush the TPP and Popular Resistance.
Not a hacker or whistleblower? Here’s how you can still liberate secret documents
3-Feb-2014 Waging Nonviolence
When there are documents that the public has a right to know about, we have a right to go take them, writes Daniel Hunter
Prevent free trade agreements TTIP/TAFTA - please sign!
3-Feb-2014 Care2
Please sign on to this German petition against TTIP/TAFTA before 24 Feb 2013
John Kinsman: Why we should oppose the Trans Pacific Partnership
31-Jan-2014 PR Watch
John Kinsman, the author of this op-ed first published in The Capital Times in 2012, passed away on January 20, 2014. He was a leader of the global food sovereignty movement who many of us knew.
Protests across North America aim to block ’NAFTA on steroids’
30-Jan-2014 Labor Notes
CETA access denied – Federal government refuses to disclose working text of Canada-EU deal
28-Jan-2014 Council of Canadians
The federal government of Canada has denied an access to information request from the Council of Canadians for the working text of the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).
EEB: “Regulatory rollback: how TTIP puts the environment at risk”
27-Jan-2014 EEB
European Environmental Bureau position paper on the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
Critics score against extreme corporate rights in TTIP, but must not be fooled by the Commission’s tricks
25-Jan-2014 CEO
This week, the European Commission announced a freeze in negotiations over dangerous corporate rights in the proposed EU-US trade deal (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP) and that it would conduct a public consultation on the issue.
The global fight against corporate rule
25-Jan-2014 The Nation
Activists are challenging rules that grant corporations the right to sue governments, write Robin Broad and John Cavanagh
Free trade for ’high-risk biotech’?
23-Jan-2014 Testbiotech
New report from Testbiotech on the potential influence of the planned Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) on the authorisation of new genetically engineered organisms for use in agriculture and food production.
TTIP threatens financial reform and the public interest
19-Jan-2014 SOMO
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership treaty will open markets to foreign services and foreign direct investment in the financial sector. It intends to limit financial sector regulations because they are considered as barriers to trade, reports SOMO.
German farmers fear for Europe’s bacon with US trade deal
16-Jan-2014 NPR
When German farmers and activists descended upon Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office building Wednesday morning, they brought along some special guests — 17 pigs. The stunt was the latest European backlash against a proposed free trade deal with the U.S. that could lift restrictions on American meat sold in Europe.
Jan 31: Inter-continental day of action vs TPP & corporate globalization
16-Jan-2014 Council of Canadians
This is a call to action for communities throughout Mexico, Canada and the United States to join together on January 31, 2014, and say "ENOUGH!" to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, and other corporate "trade" deals. Solidarity actions elsewhere throughout the globe are welcome.
La Via Campesina appelle à la cohérence des politiques agricoles de l’Union européenne
13-Jan-2014 La Via Campesina
La Via Campesina rappelle les liens très forts entre l’agriculture familiale et les accords de libre échange : l’un et l’autre sont en parfaite contradiction, alors que les défis sociaux et environnementaux qui sont ceux de notre temps doivent pris au sérieux.
Recipe for ruin: TTIP - the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
12-Jan-2014 Think Left
John Hilary, Executive Director of War on Want, introduces TTIP, the free trade and investment agreement being negotiated between the EU and USA; talk given to Friends of Le Monde Diplomatique at Café Diplo, London, 4 November 2013
Australians to Canadians: Beware TPP economic fallout
8-Jan-2014 rabble.ca
Over 125,000 people have spoken out about the damaging Internet censorship proposals in the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Now, our friends in Australia are sounding the alarm about how the TPP could wreak havoc on Canada’s economy.