National Day of Action on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

While most Americans celebrate Independence Day, trade negotiators and corporate lobbyists from throughout the Pacific Rim will be meeting in San Diego over the week of July 4th for a major trade summit aimed at rushing the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) towards completion.  In San Diego and throughout the country, labor, environmental, immigrant rights, family farm and Occupy activists will be coming together to take actions that drag the TPP out of the shadows and expose it to the light of day!

In Portland, activists will be meeting at noon on July 2nd — the opening day of negotiations — at Pioneer Courthouse Square.  After a brief update about the work of our allies in San Diego and across the country, we’ll then march and caravan together to local branches of three of the big corporations that have been pushing the TPP: Verizon, FedEx and Wal-Mart.  These corporations are among the approximately 600 that have been granted special “cleared advisor” status to review, comment upon and draft proposed TPP text, while ordinary Americans have been barred from even seeing what’s been proposed in our names.

For more information, or to rsvp (necessary if you want to take advantage of a free ride) please see here.