Occupy San Diego Stop TPP Week of Actions

[Carlos Huerta]

Background:
From July 2 to July 10, the secret, super-treaty negotiations known as the the 13th Round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Talks are being held here in San Diego. The 11 nations involved in the talks are the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Brunei, Chile, Peru, Mexico, and Canada. Japan has indicated a desire to join. The economic power of this group is more than 40% larger than the 27-nation European Union. The claimed purpose of TPP is to promote development and create jobs. But their reality is different. Though the contents of these negotiations are secret, what is not a secret is that the impacts of the TPP on these Pacific Rim nations, on peasants, on farmers, on workers, on their natural resources, on the environment, will be devastating. Some people describe the TPP as “NAFTA on Steroids.”

The TPP will:

• TPP will offshore millions of good-paying jobs to low-wage nations, undercutting working conditions globally and increasing unemployment.
• TPP will expand pharmaceutical monopoly protections and institute longer patents that will decrease access to affordable medications
• TPP will limit food GMO labeling and allow the import of goods that do not meet US safe standards.
• TPP will institute SOPA, PIPA, and CISPA-like regulations and Internet measures which restrict our right to free speech.
• TPP will roll back Wall Street regulations, and prohibit bans on risky financial services.
• TPP will give multinational corporations and private investors the right to sue nations in private tribunals. These tribunals have the power to overturn environmental, labor, or any other laws that limit profit, awarding taxpayer funded damages.
• TPP will encourage the privatization of lands and natural resources in areas where indigenous people live.

OSD will host a week long International Conference with over 30 guests from all across the world, Malaysia, South America, Japan, New Zealand as well as local and national speakers.


Event pages are at the bottom, please join, share, and invite everyone. Need Critical Mass, Pots and Pans, and drummers for July 7 GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION to Stop TPP. OSD San Diego is alive and well lets show the world that we are building a better world and these backdoor deals in our backyards are not acceptable.



Monday, July 2nd * 12:00 noon -March to rally and support the Labor Council's noontime rally and press conference at the Hilton Hotel next to the Convention Center
Between the Hilton Bayfront & Convention Center (Park & Harbor)
On Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/events/463272507034625/

Monday July 2nd * 6:30 - *8:30pm
Better World Conference:
Workers' Rights, Outsourcing, Wal-Mart & Gentrification
Logan Heights Public Library (567 South 28th Street, San Diego)
http://www.facebook.com/events/254064178042185/

Tuesday, July 3rd * 6:00 - 9:00pm
Better World Conference:
IP, GMOs & Healthcare AND Women & the TPP
Centro Cultural de la Raza (2125 Park Blvd)
http://www.facebook.com/events/381672918564227
http://www.facebook.com/events/436061773081565/

Thursday, July 5th * 6:00 - 9:00pm
Better World Conference:
Geopolitics & Empire AND Indigenous Rights
Centro Cultural de la Raza (2125 Park Blvd)
http://www.facebook.com/events/129540743850874

Thursday, July 5th * 6:00 - 9:00pm
Better World Conference:
Local Economies & Sustainability AND Biodiversity & Climate Change
Balboa Park
http://www.facebook.com/events/391401810916977/

Friday, July 6 * 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Better World Conference:
Food Freedom or NAFTA on Steroids?
Peace Resource Center
http://www.facebook.com/events/153357868133452/

Saturday, July 7 * 10:30 am
Global Day of Action - Join San Diego for a major march with pots and pans and drums to STOP TPP. (Need Critical Mass)
Civic Center (1100 3rd Avenue)
Gathering at 10:30am; march to Hilton leaves at 11:00am
http://www.facebook.com/events/252861931488913/

Saturday, July 7 * 3:00 - 5:00pm
Better World Conference:
Fukushima & Nuclear Power
Peace Resource Center (3850 Westgate Place)
https://www.facebook.com/events/393026330733800/