Office of Public Witness Webinar on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Join us for a Webinar on June 4 6:30-7:30 pm EDT Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar Seat Now at: https://www2.gotomeeting/register/803506402 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. Although it is called a free trade agreement, the TPP is not mainly about trade. Of TPPs 29 draft chapters, only five deal with traditional trade issues. One chapter would provide incentives to offshore jobs to low-wage countries. Many would impose limits on government policies that we rely on in our daily lives for safe food, a clean environment, and more. Our domestic federal, state and local policies would be required to comply with TPP rules. The best hope is that trade functions as a means of grace[1] 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. 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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