Office of Public Witness Webinar on the Trans
Pacific Partnership (TPP)
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Webinar Seat Now!
The TPP is a controversial
"free trade" agreement currently being supported by many large
international corporations and negotiated behind closed doors by officials from
the United States and 11 other countries – Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile,
Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and
Vietnam. This agreement being negotiated without transparency could:
- offshore millions of American jobs,
- roll back Wall Street reforms,
- ban Buy American policies needed to create green jobs,
- raise the cost of medicines,
- expose the U.S. to unsafe food and products,
- and empower corporations to attack our environmental and health safeguards.
The best hope is that trade
functions as a means of grace to create dignified work that support people’s
lives, puts food on the table and undergirds the creation of a just society.
The moral test is whether our increasingly globalizing economies support the
human enterprise and the larger creation, according to the PCUSA Resolution on
Just Globalization, released in 2006. If trade further impoverishes segments of
the world’s population, its purpose is distorted and such injustice calls for
reshaping global structures that cause economic oppression and creates wealth
for only a few at the expense of the many. Such a world is a parody of the
biblical vision for just community.
Join in this webinar to find out
more about the TPP and what you can do about it.
Speakers will be Catherine Gordon,
Representative for International Issues at the Office of Public Witness and
Peter Maybarduk an Burcu Kilic from Public Citizen.
Title: Office of Public Witness
Webinar on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)
Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Time: 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM EDT
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today!
