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nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
Tue Jul 3, 2012, 05:25 PM Jul 2012

TRANSPACIFIC TRADE NEGOTIATIONS COME TO SAN DIEGO

Last edited Tue Jul 3, 2012, 06:00 PM - Edit history (1)

July 2, 2012 (San Diego) -- The 13th round of negotiations for the TransPacific Trade Negotiations (TTP) is being held in San Diego at the Bayfront Hilton Hotel. This treaty will expand free trade across the Pacific Rim.

The proposal is supported by business groups, but has drawn sharp criticism from labor, health experts and other groups.

What is a free trade agreement? According to Professor Hisham Foad of the San Diego State University Economics Department "A free trade agreement is a treaty between two or more countries covering how trade in goods and services will be treated. In its simplest form, imported goods are treated identically to domestically produced goods within the free trade zone." As Foad pointed out in an e-mail to ECM, ideally this leads to the closest possible trade conditions among partners, leveling competition and trade between nations.

http://eastcountymagazine.org/node/10263

Let me add some photos from the demonstration...









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TRANSPACIFIC TRADE NEGOTIATIONS COME TO SAN DIEGO (Original Post) nadinbrzezinski Jul 2012 OP
We need some representation outside the Hilton. The TPP will kill what's left of the middle class. NYC_SKP Jul 2012 #1
Yeah I just posted some of the photos nadinbrzezinski Jul 2012 #2
nice work. limpyhobbler Jul 2012 #3
 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
1. We need some representation outside the Hilton. The TPP will kill what's left of the middle class.
Tue Jul 3, 2012, 05:53 PM
Jul 2012

TPP = Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Grrrrrr.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
2. Yeah I just posted some of the photos
Tue Jul 3, 2012, 06:05 PM
Jul 2012

I took so many, that the paper cannot use all of them... and quite frankly I posted the best of the rest...

But I hope it gives people and idea of what was going on outside... boy I got home to write an article on this... most of it was already written, I needed to plug in demonstration... and a few other things, but I did my research. Yup, the last two weeks were spent in learning all I could about TTP... my editorial, I agree with Salon... NAFTA on steroids.

And then the dive into Mexican elections and write an analysis of that too.

Support small press... the big boys ain't doing this.

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