culture
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9-Jun-2017 Le Devoir
La réouverture de l’ALENA inquiète le milieu culturel
La renégociation de l’ALENA met en péril le rayonnement des industries culturelles québécoise et canadienne des dernières années.
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12-Oct-2016 ALAINET
Los Pueblos Indígenas del México contemporáneo: entre la resistencia organizada y la exclusión-discriminación estructural
Los pueblos indígenas encarnan dos procesos contradictorios y opuestos, pero relacionados entre sí.
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22-Jul-2016 The Hill
Musicians, actors set to campaign against the Pacific trade deal
A group of entertainers is hitting the road to kick off a campaign to build opposition against a Pacific trade agreement.
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7-Jun-2016 Le Devoir
Partenariat transpacifique: bombe sur la culture
Les négociateurs canadiens ont donné de grands avantages aux multinationales du Web, ce qui risque d’avoir des conséquences fâcheuses sur notre production et de limiter la diversité culturelle.
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31-May-2016 Rebelión
TTIP: en torno a cultura e internet
Aunque el proyecto de acuerdo también trata sobre el desmantelamiento de algunos aranceles, su contenido preferente reza al fondo sobre intangibles de gran importancia: la seguridad alimentaria; la desregulación de la competencia; la soberanía popular, legislativa y de los sistemas nacionales de justicia frente a tribunales internacionales de arbitraje.
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14-Mar-2016 China.org.cn
Les ZLE changent la Chine
Depuis l’établissement des zones de libre-échange, la facilitation du commerce avec l’extérieur a attiré de plus en plus d’entreprises à capitaux étrangers.
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3-Mar-2016 Viet Nam News
Revisions needed in IP compliance
Revision of the legal framework on intellectual property is recommended to ensure compliance with the EU – Viet Nam Free Trade Agreement.
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24-Feb-2016 The Mainichi
Copyright revisions under TPP must take cultural development into consideration
If copyrights are excessively protected, it could hinder creative work. Some people have expressed concerns that this could have a chilling effect on creators.
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15-Feb-2016 Huffington Post
I am an artist and I want to stop TTIP
Artists Against TTIP wants to work with actors, writers and directors to make films that help more and more people understand what TTIP is - and how toxic it is to our health, our environment and our democracy.
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4-Feb-2016 Electronic Frontier Foundation
Trade officials sign the TPP but it’s still up to lawmakers to reject it
While trade leaders tout the signature of the agreement today, the TPP continues to attract international criticism.
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9-Dec-2015 Electronic Frontier Foundation
How the TPP will affect you and your digital rights
By excluding a large sector of communities—like security researchers, artists, libraries, and user rights groups—trade negotiators skewed the priorities of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) towards major tech companies and copyright industries.
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19-Nov-2015 The Japan Times
Japan to strengthen copyright protections in light of TPP
The Cultural Affairs Agency is considering revising the copyright laws after Japan and 11 other countries agreed to strengthen protection of intellectual property rights as part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement.
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17-Nov-2015 The Clinic
TPP, cultura avasallada
En los doce países suscriptores se acumulan los cuestionamientos al secretismo de los gobiernos por el Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). Es, más que un acuerdo comercial, un compromiso geopolítico y de políticas económicas, que afecta especialmente a algunos sectores, dentro de los cuales está la cultura.
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26-Oct-2015 The Tyee
Internet transformed under TPP, advocates tell Trudeau
Secret trade deal invites censorship? Leak suggests it, says digital rights group.
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19-Oct-2015 Abdel en vrai
Le traité transatlantique ( TTIP / TAFTA )
Le traité transatlantique aura un effet catastrophique sur notre santé, parlez en autour de vous.
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12-Oct-2015 CEO
Public services under attack through TTIP and CETA
EU trade deals with Canada and the US could endanger citizens’ rights to basic services like water and health, as negotiators are doing the work of some of the EU’s most powerful corporate lobby groups in pushing an aggressive market opening agenda in the public sector.
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12-Oct-2015 AITEC
La grande offensive sur les services publics
Les services publics de l’Union européenne se trouvent sous la menace des accords de commerce transatlantiques, et ce au profit des multinationales.
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3-Oct-2015 EIBF
TTIP negotiations will not include fixed book prices: Börsenverein welcomes official confirmation from EU Commission
The EU Commission will by no means discuss fixed book prices as part of negotiations relating to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
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3-Oct-2015 ActuaLitté
Les prix unique du livre et livre numériques définitivement exclus du TTIP
L’association des éditeurs et libraires allemands, le Börsenverein, annonce avoir reçu une réponse écrite de la Commissaire européenne au commerce, Cécilia Malmström que le TTIP ne remettrait pas en cause le prix unique du livre.
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9-Sep-2015 Electronic Frontier Fondation
Nothing is agreed yet—we can still stop the TPP’s copyright trap
No matter how far advanced the parties are towards agreeing on repressive copyright rules, it is still not too late for them to turn back.
People’s summit against FTAs and RCEP in Hyderabad, India on 22-26 July 2017.
Click here for the complete list of actions and meetings. Also now as PDF handout.
News from the movements
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21-Jul-2017 Newsclick
Who benefits from RCEP - the world’s largest free trade agreement?
This video highlights various critical aspects of RCEPs corporate agenda.
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20-Jul-2017 bilaterals.org
Mutations des politiques commerciales: quelles réponses des mouvements sociaux ?
Plutôt que de se contenter de formes plus “inclusives” du capitalisme, nous devrions se réapproprier et construire une vision économique et politique claire et radicale. -
20-Jul-2017 Socialist Project
Trumping NAFTA: Free trade versus democratic planning
The struggle against NAFTA, and neoliberalism more broadly, must address struggles over the state. -
19-Jul-2017
Cold reception to RCEP as people’s resistance consolidates
At a press conference held today in New Delhi, researchers and academics expressed concern about the likely impact of RCEP on areas like agriculture, services, access to medicines, investment and e-commerce, flagging the growing popular rejection of this mega-regional FTA -
19-Jul-2017 AFTINET
Show support for people’s protest at RCEP talks in India
Support farmers, workers and communities protesting TPP-like proposals on seeds, medicines, services and corporate powers to sur governments in Hyderabad! -
15-Jul-2017 Focus on the Global South
Call for solidarity and participation! People’s summit against FTAs and RCEP
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13-Jul-2017 Al Jazeera
’Don’t make decisions about us, without us’
Free trade agreements scripted by powerful governments and corporations destroy rural areas. Peasants will resist them! -
13-Jul-2017 APWLD
No RCEP Campaign: Stop trading away human rights
The ’No RCEP’ campaign urges governments to consider the adverse impact of the mega free trade agreement
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