We look forward to seeing you  at these events!

Tues,  Mar 19, 2013: 11:30am – 1:30pm Challenge US Korea FTA & TPP Negotiator @ Korea Society Event

Wed, Mar 20, 2013 3pm – 4pm National TPP Organizing Call
On the call, you’ll get a status update on the TPP in light of the just-completed Singapore Round of negotiations and Japan’s announcement seeking to join. More importantly, we’ll discuss steps you can take to introduce accountability on the TPP during the upcoming spring Congressional recess — and you’ll also get a heads-up on a proposed International Day of Action prior to the Lima Round of negotiations this May.
Details at http:/tradejustice.net/32013.

 Thurs, Mar 21, 5:30pm – 8:30pm: Protest: Tell  Rep. Crowley to Vote NO! on Fast Track for TPP @ B-Day Fundraiser
Congressman Joseph Crowley, a consistent supporter of job-killing ,environment destroying free trade agreements, is holding his annual birthday fundraiser to rake in corporate cash from the companies who want to ensure that he will continue pushing free trade agreements that endanger our jobs, our health, and our environment.  Join TradeJustice to expose Crowley’s past free trade votes and demand that he vote against Fast Track Authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an 11 country trade deal currently being negotiated, described by critics as “NAFTA on Steroids” and “a corporate power tool.”
Details @ http://tradejustice.net/32113

Fri, March 22, 7:00pm – 9:30pm: Bullshit – Vandana Shiva Documentary w/ anti-TPP Speaker
Follow the tireless Indian nuclear physicist Vandana Shiva for two years in her worldwide battle against the leaders of globalization. In the discussion portion of the evening, a rep from TradeJustice member group Global Justice for Animals and the Environment will discuss the environmental threat posed by the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Details @ http://tradejustice.net/32213

Sun, March 24, 10:30AM – 5:00PM March and Table on TPP @ Veggie Pride Parade
Join TradeJustice member group Global Justice for Animal and the Environment at this massive vegetarian community event to raise awareness on the connection between free trade agreements, the global expansion of inhumane and polluting factory farm agriculture, climate change, rising consumption of animal products and increases rates of diseases in the developing world, “NAFTA flu” and other dangerous diseases spread by factory farm globalization.
Details at  http:///tradejustice.net/32413

Endangering Our Food, Health, & Environment

Panel Discussion & Organizing Meeting

Tues, Nov 27^th, 2012, 6:30-9:30PM

Metropolitan Community Church of NY, 446 W. 36th St. bet. Dyer & 10^thAvenues, Manhattan

Presenters:

- Ana Maria Quispe-Piscoya (GMO activist) on how TPP will attack bans on genetically modified foods

- Amanda Lugg (Health Global Access Project) on how TPP will limit access to generic drugs

- Adam Weissman (Global Justice for Animals and the Environment) on how TPP will attack bans on fracking and other environmental laws.

6:30-8 PM: Join a panel of experts at to learn more about TPP.

8-9:30 PM Join activists to plan a campaign to stop it!

Suggested Donation: $5-15 (free if you can’t afford to pay!)

RSVP & Additional Info:http://tradejustice.net/tppforums

Organizations: To Endorse: http://tradejustice.net/nov27endorse

Downloadable Flier: http://tradejustice.net/nov27fly

(copy same original on both sides and cut into four quarter page sized fliers)

Info:Phone: (718) 218-4523 Email: info@tradejustice.net Web:http://tradejustice.net

DIRECTIONS:

By Subway: A, C, or E to West 34th Street. Walk or take the M34 bus to Dyer Avenue.  Walk North to 36th Ave and west (in the direction of 10th Avenue.  Church is on the South Side of the Street.

By Bus: M34 to Dyer Ave.  Walk North to 36th Ave and west towards 10th Ave.  Church is on the South Side of the Street.

ENDORSING ORGANIZATIONS

American Jobs Alliance; Brooklyn for Peace; Center for Health, Environment, and Justice; Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines; Global Justice for Animals and the Environment; Mingas Network; Occupy Wall Street Environmental Solidarity Working Group; Occupy Wall Street Trade Justice Working Group; Sane Energy Project; and TradeJustice New York Metro.

What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership?

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a massive proposed expansion of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). 11 countries are part of TPP negotiations and more are expected to join. TPP negotiations are being conducted in secret – the public, the media, non-governmental organizations, and even member of Congress have been denied access to the negotiating texts of the agreement – but 600 corporate advisers have full access and in collusion with the Obama administration have been shaping an agreement that will advance their interests at the expense of the public interest.

Pharmaceutical companies are pushing for expanded intellectual property rights that will drive many generic drugs out of the marketplace- a death sentence for people who cannot afford exorbitantly priced brand-named drugs for life-threatening illnesses like AIDS.

Biotech and agribusiness corporations and the US government, want to include rules that will force countries to drop their bans on dangerous genetically modified foods – and would even attack government labeling programs for GMO foods!

Corporate polluters, including the hydrofracking industry, benefit from TPP’s investor provisions, which give investors in any TPP nation the power to sue the government of another nation if that nation’s environmental laws prevent those investors from profit from environmental destruction.

Here are some ways you can help spread the word about this event:

Facebook Event – invite all your friends:

http://www.facebook.com/events/396180937117327/

IM this to your Facebook, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, iChat, IRC, & ICQ Friends:

Friday, October 26, 2012, 6:30pm: Will Obama’s Secret TPP Agreement Expand Fracking, Mining & Industrial Pollution? w/ Alisa Simmons (Public Citizen), Ilana Solomon (Sierra Club), Manuel Perez-Rocha (Institute for Policy Studies) & Bill Weinberg (World War 4 Report, Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade) http://www.facebook.com/events/396180937117327/

- instant messaging this to your friends on AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, iChat, IRC, ICQ, etc.:
Friday, October 26, 2012, 6:30pm: Will Obama’s Secret TPP Agreement Expand Fracking, Mining & Industrial Pollution? w/ Alissa Simmons (Public Citizen), Ilana Solomon (Sierra Club), Manuel Perez-Rocha (Institute for Policy Studies) & Bill Weinberg (World War 4 Report): Details @ http://gjae.org/f

 Tweet this:

Fri10/26 TPP=Fracking? Simmons (Pub Citizen), Solomon (Sierra), Perez-Rocha (In Policy Studies), Weinberg (WW4 Report) http://gjae.org/f

 Text this to your phone contacts:

Fri 10/26: TPP=Fracking & Mining? Simmons (Public Citizen), Solomon (Sierra Club), Perez-Rocha (Inst. Policy Studies), Weinberg (WW4 Report) http://gjae.org/f

 Get other groups to help promote:

Send this support request letter to groups you know or present it at meetings (you can leave in my name and contact info or swap in yours: http://tradejustice.net/frendorsereq

 Outreach at Events:

There are lots of activist events in the next few days that we should pass our fliers at to promote our TPP Forum. You can find a list of key outreach events at http://tradejustice.net/fre. Please let me know if you are able to flier at any of these events (contact me at (718 218 4523 or adam@tradejustice.net). You can print and distribute either of these two fliers below to pass our at events.

Flier Version# 1: Fracking Focused: http://tradejustice.net/frackfly

Flier Version #2: General: http://tradejustice.net/Promo1026

To print them, print the same page on the front and back and then cut them to make quarter page sized fliers (palm cards). Or if you’d prefer, we can print them and give them to you – call or email Adam (718) 218-4523 / adam@tradejustice.net to arrange this.

-    Offshore good-paying jobs to low-wage nations and undercut working conditions globally
-    Create new tools for attacking environmental and consumer safety policies
-    Deregulate Wall Street banks, hedge funds and insurance companies
-    Further concentrate global food supplies, displacing family farmers, expanding factory farms and subjecting consumers to wild price fluctuations
-    Lengthen patents thereby blocking access to affordable, generic medications

Activities will include:

-  a free direct action training in Baltimore in preparation for the week of action on Saturday, September 8th and Sunday, September 9th
-  a rally at the site of the negotiations on Sunday, September 9th
-  creative actions through the negotiations!

RSVP online now for info on carpools, buses, housing, and volunteer opportunities.

About the Direct Action Training:

Action Camp to Stop the Global Corporate Coup!
September 8th and 9th
Real News Network Building, 235 Holiday Street , Baltimore, MD

Itsoureconomy.us will be holding a direct action training  organized by the Backbone Campaign. The training will focus on spectacle actions as well as ways to engage the negotiators. To get an idea about what will be covered, visit http://backbonecampaign.org. The training will be held at the . The training will be led by two top national trainers, Bill Moyer of the Backbone Campaign and Kim Marks of Earth First! and Rising Tide North America. Space is limited and running out. If you want to attend RSVP to info@october2011.org.  Please fill out the form at http://tradejustice.net/tppform to find out about carpool opportunities.

On Sunday, September 9th, training participants will travel together to Leesburg, VA, site of the TPP negotiations for the rally.  Email itsoureconomy.us@gmail.com for details.  Click here to download a copy of the training flier.

Rally for Good Jobs, Affordable Medicine & a Healthy Environment

Sunday, September 9  •  3:00pm
Lansdowne Resort  •  44050 Woodridge Pkwy  •  Leesburg, Virginia (near Washington, DC)

Rally cosponsors include the American Jobs Alliance, American Medical Student Association, Bergen County Green Party, Brooklyn For Peace, Citizens Trade Campaign, Communication Workers of America, Fair World Project, Family Farm Defenders, Friends of Animals United NY/NJ, Friends of the Earth, Global Justice for Animals and the Environment, Healthcare for the 99%, Health Global Access Project,  International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers,  International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Itsoureconomy.us, Manhattan Greens, Mingas Network, National Family Farm Coalition, New York Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Nodutdol for Korean Community Development, Occupy Astoria Long Island City, Occupy Wall Street Environmental Solidarity Working Group,  Occupy Wall Street Trade Justice Working Group, October2011.org, Organic Consumers Association, Penley Global Law, Pennsylvania Fair Trade Coalition, Peruvians in Action NY, Public Citizen, Queerocracy, Rainforest Action Network, Rainforest Relief, The New York Whale and Dolphin Action League, The Sierra Club, TradeJustice New York Metro, United Students Against Sweatshops, West Queens Greens, and Wetlands Activism Collective.  Occupy Queens is in solidarity with the rally.

How to get there:

Limited carpool space is available for people leaving on the 8th.

Otherwise, get on the bus!  People will be traveling to DC together on commercial bus lines (Greyhound, Megabus, etc. -tickets to DC now only $17 online!)  From there, we’ll have chartered buses to Leesburg. RSVP now to reserve your seat on free union-operated buses leaving Washington, DC and to find out details on how to leave NYC with others going to the rally, training, and other events.

Click here to download a PDF of the rally flyer

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Wait, there’s more!

Actions will be taking place almost every day between Sept 6 and 15 and we can use your help! Let us know what dates you are available and we’ll work to arrange housing.

***How Can I Help in Advance?  (sign up to help in any of these ways here)

1) Make signs, banners, and other visuals in advance of the rally that people can bring down.
2) Volunteer to make calls to invite New York activists to come down for this mobilization.  We can provide lists of names and numbers.
3) Pass our fliers at rallies, marches, and other events to publicize the rally, training, and other actions.  We can suggest places to flier.

*** Can i make a donation to support this effort?
Donate to cover materials and other action-related costs at  http://tradejustice.net/tppfund.

***I can’t make it to VA – are there other ways I can help?   (sign up to help here)

1) Make calls to reporters to invite them to the actions in Leesburg to and confirm that they received press releases.  Anyone can help with this regardless of experience if they have a phone and a computer (to mail press contact lists to and email press releases from.  People with additional media experience may also be able to help in developing press contact lists and updating news releases with new action details.
2) Offer to house sit or pet sit for someone planning to spend several days in Leesburg.

***What about online petitions and letters?

1) Spread the Word About the Trans-Pacific Partnership Send a letter to the editor to major news outlets and demand that they cover the deal that is swiftly becoming “NAFTA-on-steroids” with the world.
2) Demand a New Trade Model  Ask your senators to help steer our trade policy back on course by cosponsoring the 21st Century Trade Agreements Act today.
3) Derail the Trans-Pacific Partnership TPP negotiations continue in Leesburg, Virginia, with the public locked out and the texts held in tight secrecy. Urge U.S. Trade representative Ron Kirk to release the draft texts.
4) Take Fracking Out of our Trade Agreements Tell US Trade Representative Ron Kirk  that no trade agreement should pave the way for increased fracking.

Questions: Call (718) 218-4523 or email notpp@tradejustice.net

And don’t forget – fill out the form to RSVP online now for info on carpools, buses, housing, and volunteer opportunities.

Learn more about TPP at these sites:

http://tradejustice.net/tpp * http://stoptpp.org * http://tpp2012.com/ * http://citizenstrade.org * http://tradewatch.org

Date: Saturday, May 12th, 2012

Location: Brooklyn Technical High School, Room 5W12
29 Fort Greene Place Brooklyn, New York 11217
Directions.
Admission is free; preregister here.

Room 5W12

11AM-12:15AM: Free Trade vs. Safe, Just, and Sustainable Food
w/ Kathy Ozer (National Family Farm Coalition, Leticia Alanis (La Union), Daira Quiñones (Mutual Association Afro-Colombian for Integrated Development and Entrepreneurship (AMDAE), and John Kinsman, President, Family Farm Defenders.

2:00PM-3:15PM: Globalizing Agribusiness: Free Trade, Factory Farms, and Genetically Modified Food
w/ Adam Weissman (Global Justice for Animals and the Environment) , John E. Peck (Family Farm Defenders), and Noam Mohr

3:30PM-4:15PM: Taking Action for Global Food Justice

w/ Christina Schiavoni ( WhyHunger) and Adam Weissman (Global Justice for Animals and the Environment)

Date: Saturday, May 12^th, 2012

Time: 2:00pm until 3:15pm

Part of the Brooklyn Food Conference

Brooklyn Technical High School, Room 5W12

Directions.

Presenters:

John Maher, Adjunct Professor of Law at Touro Law, will discuss globalization of GMOs – Do such technologies cause an unacceptable economic and political imbalance between supplier, grower and consumer in terms of environmental safety, labeling and consumer choice and environmental conservation. Is there any choice at all to avoid use of or exposure to GMOs under the political economy and legal system?

John E. Peck, Executive Director, Family Farm Defenders, will discuss how corporate agribusiness is “earning” carbon credits for building factory farms in the global south.

Adam Weissman of Global Justice for Animals and the Environment, will explore:

- How agribusiness is creating global markets for factory farmed animal products by pushing for agricultural tariff elimination and sanitary standards harmonization

- the use of World Trade Organization challenges to attack import bans on foods produced by methods that compromise food safety, endanger wildlife, and cause animal suffering and to prohibit product labeling that helps consumers avoid unsustainable, inhumane, and dangerous foods.

- how first world factory farm exports are driving agriculture in the rest of the world in the direction of factory farming to remain competitive

- why this threatens farming communities, the environment, animal welfare, and global health.

Tools, Skills or Messages Participants Will Take Home:

John: The method, globalization, by which the neo-liberal pan-nation states have eliminated “choice” while propounding that humans live in an era of expanding freedoms will be explained.”

Adam: Participants will learn how, by driving the factory farm globalization, free trade agreements threatens animal welfare, public health, family farms, and the environment and learn how they can take action at a grassroots level to advocate for fairer international trade policies.

About the Presenters

John Maher is an animal lawyer and adjunct professor of Animal Law at Touro Law Center. He represents Best Friends Animal Society and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) and NYLS.

Adam Weissman works with Global Justice for Animals and the Environment, opposing trade agreements that endanger animals, ecology, food safety, and human rights, and TradeJustice NY Metro, a coalition fighting NAFTA-style trade agreements

John E. Peck is the Executive Director of Family Farm Defenders. He grew up on a 260 acre farm in central Minnesota, has a B.A. in Economics from Reed College and a PhD in Land Resources from UW-Madison. He has been the Executive Director of Family Farm Defenders for the last decade, and is also a part-time instructor of Economics and Environmental Studies at Madison Area Technical College (MATC).  His graduate research focused on community-based management of common property resources in Zimbabwe.   He attended the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and participated in global justice events surrounding the WTO meeting Seattle in 1999, as well as FTAA meetings in Quebec in 2001 and Miami in 2003.  He has been part of solidarity delegations to Ainaro, East Timor in 2005 and Oaxaca, Mexico 2008, and also participated in the 2007 Nyeleni Food Sovereignty Conference in Selengue, Mali, the Fifth Conference of La Via Campesina in Maputo, Mozambique in 2008, as well as the 2009 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Date: Saturday, May 12^th, 2012

Time: 3:30pm until 4:45pm

Location: Brooklyn Tech High School, S. Elliott Place between Lafayette Ave. and Dekalb Ave (the entrance is on S. Elliott Place located closest to Lafayette Ave.).

Directions at http://www.bths.edu/maps/

 Presenters/Facilitators:

- Christina Schiavoni, WhyHunger

- Adam Weissman, Global Justice for Animals and the Environment

Description:

This session will be a follow-up to the workshops o“Free Trade vs. Safe, Just, and Sustainable Food” and “Globalizing Agribusiness: Free Trade, Factory Farms, and Genetically Modified Food” (while also being relevant to those who do not attend that workshop). After learning about how “free” trade threatens the food system, this workshop will:

• provide attendees with information about the latest trade deals coming down the pipeline (in particular, the Transpacific Partnership, which is currently under negotiation by the US and 8 other countries);

• share success stories and lessons learned from past organizing efforts; and

• engage attendees in a participatory strategizing and planning session on how to educate our communities on these issues in a way that speaks to them and how to get the food movement as a whole more engaged in the fight against destructive trade deals.

Participants will leave this workshop with up-to-date information on current trade deals undermining food justice; with knowledge of what past organizing efforts have consisted of; and with ideas that they can bring back to their own communities and organizations to connect organizing efforts around food justice and trade. Participants will also have the opportunity to connect with one another and to stay connected to one another for future mobilizing efforts.

About the Presenters:

 Christina Schiavoni is the Director of the Global Movements Program at WhyHunger in NYC, where she works to connect US-based food and farm movements to global movements for food sovereignty and the right to food, water, and sustainable livelihoods.

 Adam Weissman is the founder of Global Justice for Animals and the Environment, an organization that works in opposition to free trade agreements that endanger animals, the environment, food safety, and the rights of communities on the frontlines of environmental struggles. He also works with TradeJustice New York Metro, a coalition of diverse grasroots social movement groups united in opposition to the NAFTA mode of trade.

A Panel at the Brooklyn Food Conference Organized by TradeJustice New York Metro and OWS Trade Justice

Saturday, May 12th, 2012
11:00am until 12:15pm

Brooklyn Technical High School, Room 5W12
29 Fort Greene Place Brooklyn, New York 11217
Directions.
Admission is free; preregister here.

Presenters:
Kathy Ozer, Executive Director, National Family Farm Coalition

Leticia Alanis, Executive Director, La Union

Daira Quiñones, President, Mutual Association Afro-Colombian for Integrated Development and Entrepreneurship (AMDAE)

John Kinsman, President, Family Farm Defenders

Session Objectives:

Participants will leave this workshop with an understanding of what free trade agreements are and how they:

• hurt family farms

• destroy rural economies and force migration, creating an exploitable migrant workforce for US agribusiness

• compromise the safety of imported food

• ban consumer information labeling on our food

• undermine bans on genetically modified food

• encourage the global spread of factory farms, at the expense of the environment, animal welfare, and public health

• help corporations offshore food production to escape regulatory standards

• globalize unhealthy diets, heavy in animal products and processed foods

• encourage the violent displacement of indigenous and Afro-descendant communities by cattle grazing and plantation agribusiness interests

• privatize water

• allow corporations and governments to attack bans on toxic agricultural pesticides, beef from cattle injected with hormones, and other threats to food safety in international tribunals composed of unelected trade lawyers

Through this workshop, participants will:

• learn what free trade agreements are and how they impact many different areas of concern to the food movement.

• understand both how they personally are impacted by free trade agreements in their everyday lives and how communities around the world are impacted.

• be introduced to a variety of different organizations working to fight unfair trade deals and to support alternatives at the local, regional, national, and international levels.

Participants will leave the workshop both informed and empowered to act.

About the Presenters:

Kathy Ozer, Executive Director,
National Family Farm Coalition
Kathy Ozer is the executive director of the National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC), which represents family farm and rural groups whose members face the challenge of the deepening economic recession in rural communities. NFFC unites and strengthens the voices and actions of its diverse grassroots members to demand viable livelihoods for family farmers, fishers, and workers, safe and healthy food for everyone, and economically and environmentally sound rural communities.

Leticia Alanis, Executive Director,
La Union
Leticia Alanis is the executive director of La Union, an organization of people of the global south working to advance the social, economic, and cultural rights of the communities where they now live and the communities they left behind. The 600 members of La Unión are predominantly from the Mixteca region of Mexico and immigrants from across Latin America. La Unión is based in the neighborhood of Sunset Park, Brooklyn; one of New York City’s largest Mexican immigrant neighborhoods.

Daira Quiñones, President
Mutual Association Afro-Colombian for Integrated Development and Entrepreneurship
Daria Quiñones is a singer, dancer, poet, and activist from Bogota, Colombia. She is among 4.9 million Colombians displaced by violence, and she currently works to empower other displaced people in Bogota.

John Kinsman, President
Family Farm Defenders
John Kinsman is an organic dairy farmer and forester from Lime Ridge, Wisconsin.  He raises 36 cows on a 150-acre farm – 80 acres of which are devoted to rotational grazing and hay production, while another 70 acres is devoted to woodland.  John Kinsman is president of Family Farm Defenders (FFD), a group he helped found in 1994 to promote sustainable agriculture, fair trade, workers rights, animal welfare, consumer safety, environmental stewardship and – above all -  food sovereignty.   He is also the secretary of the National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC). Through FFD, John also works to relocalize food/farm economies and forge new economic relationships between consumers and farmers.  One example of this is the Family Farmer Fair Trade Project that enables FFD to direct market cheese from Cedar Grove in Plain WI, giving farmers a fair price while providing a healthier rBGH free alternative to consumers.  John remains one of the leading U.S. critics of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and is also an outspoken critic of corporate globalization.  As one of the farmer leaders involved in Via Campesina, the largest umbrella organization for farmers, fishers, foresters, hunters, gatherers, and indigenous peoples in the world – he has also traveled extensively around the world to share the message of food sovereignty.

Tell Congressman Crowley to make his 50th birthday fundraiser a retirement party!

Express your outrage at Crowley’s advocacy and votes for the job-killing Colombia, South Korea and Panama Free Trade Agreements!

When: Thursday, March 29th, 5:30-8:30 PM

Where: Grand Hyatt Hotel, 109 East 42nd Street at Grand Central Terminal, between Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue

Directions: 4, 5, 6, 7, or Times Square Shuttle to 42nd Street-Grand Central Terminal

Contact: (917) 543-2208 or (718) 218-4523
Email: info@tradejustice.net

More info: http://tradejustice.net

Sponsored by TradeJustice New York Metro & Occupy Wall Street Trade Justice Working Group

Email info@tradejustice.net to add your organization to the list of endorsers.

Why Protest Crowley?

Queens Congressional Rep and Queens Democratic Machine Boss Joseph Crowley, first won his Congressional seat in an unopposed primary and is reelected term after term with virtually no electoral opposition. Crowley has abused this safe seat to continually sell out the interests of the 99% while taking in big money from the corporate elites.

Crowley heads the New Democrats Coalition, an alliance of centrist, pro-corporate Democratic legislators tied to the infamous Democratic Leadership Council. A ProPublica expose revealed the New Democrats’s close ties to “large banks, pharmaceutical firms, insurance companies, and big-ticket trade groups” (http://www.propublica.org/article/new-democrat-coalition).

The Office of Congressional Ethics recommended a full-blown probe of whether improperly solicited donations from corporate executives just before voting on legislation overhauling Wall Street. The scrutiny centers on a series of fund-raisers — including one Crowley attended last Dec. 10, at which he collected thousands of dollars from financial power brokers before returning to the Capitol to vote against a series of amendments that would have imposed tougher restrictions on Wall Street. Crowley was reported to have received at least $23,500 before the vote.

As New Democrats coalition leader, Crowley, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, Congressional committee that oversees trade legislation, pushed Obama to pass free trade agreements with Colombia, South Korea, and Panama, pressured other Congressmembers to vote for them, and voted for all three agreements in October – despite knowing that these agreements will:

- give foreign corporation the right to sue the US for unlimited sums in international tribunals if they believe our environmental, health, food safety, and labor laws interfere with their future potential profits.

- protect the 1% and multinational corporations’ use of Panamanian banks to hide their wealth to avoid paying taxes in the US while vital social services are cut. This will also help Colombia cocaine cartels linked to paramilitary terrorist groups launder drug profits.

- outsource an estimated 214,000 US jobs – many to exploitative sweatshops.

- exacerbate the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, Panama’s Darien Rainforest and other endangered ecosystems and wildlife by oil, mining, logging, natural gas, and plantation agriculture interests.

- ban regulations on Wall Street – prohibiting rules against toxic derivatives, “too big to fail”, and commonsense capital controls.

- exacerbate human rights atrocities and assassinations of labor organizers, indigenous leaders, Afro-Colombians, environmental and gay rights activists, judges, journalists, children, and community organizers by government-linked, right-wing paramilitary death squads working to advance the interests of Coca-Cola and other US corporations operating in Colombia. Since the October vote for the Colombia FTA the assassinations have continued with victims including an election observer, an indigenous leader, an advocate for the rights of displaced persons, and a union organizer.

- continue the displacement of indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples in Colombia and Panama.

- expand exports of inhumane, polluting, dangerous factory farms that produce toxic foods and incubate diseases like swine flu and bird flu and drive family farmers out of business.

- limit access to AIDS drugs and other life saving medications by expanding corporate patent rights on drugs.

- encourage the privatization of education and other public services, making them less affordable for the 99%.

- force South Korea to eliminate its ban on genetically modified foods and to import US cars that fail to meet Korean auto emissions standards, exacerbating climate change.

With Obama negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a new, 9 country free trade agreement that looks to be even worse than the Panama, Colombia, and South Korea Free Trade Agreements, it’s vital that we let Congressman Crowley and other Wall Street Democrats know that they will be held accountable when they sell us out to the 1%!

News Release: OCCUPY HARLEM, ALLIES PROTEST OBAMA AT APOLLO FUNDRAISER: Protesters Demand an End to Wars, Free Trade Agreements, Attacks on Civil Liberties

PROTEST PRESIDENT OBAMA! Why Protest Obama?

OCCUPY HARLEM: WE, THE 99%, HOLD PRESIDENT OBAMA ACCOUNTABLE: IF WE DON’T WHO WILL?

Colombian Blood on Obama’s Hands

Panama, Colombia, & South Korea Free Trade Pink Slip: Will Barack Obama’s free trade vote cost you your job or make it harder to get one?

Occupy Wall Street: Corporate Globalization, Wall Street & the 99%

The Grim Truth About President Obama’s Colombia Free Trade Agreement

Obama’s Korea-U.S Free Trade Agreement: A Bad Deal for Working People and the Environment at Home and Abroad

New York Job Losses Since NAFTA And The Impact the Korea Trade Deal Will Have

Background on Colombia Free Trade Agreement

Background on Korea Free Trade Agreement

Background on Panama Free Trade Agreement

Online Videos on All Three Agreements

Statements from Members of TradeJustice NY Metro on Korea-US FTA