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Is the European Commission sweet on land grabbing? Trade benefits, sugarcane concessions and dispossession in Cambodia
23-Jul-2012 Terra Nullius
Over the past several years, hundreds of thousands of Cambodians have been uprooted from their homes, farmlands, and forests by companies that have been granted concessions for the development of agro-industrial plantations.
CUPE Nova Scotia issues warning to Dexter, first ministers about proposed Canada-EU trade deal
21-Jul-2012
The president of CUPE Nova Scotia has a warning for the premiers and others attending the first Ministers meeting in Halifax later this month.
San Diego says no to the TPP
11-Jul-2012 Socialist Worker
Rick Greenblatt reports on the Obama administration’s secret negotiations for a new free-trade agreement—and the voices raised in dissent against it in San Diego.
Trans Pacific Partnership protest marches on San Diego; Arrests made
8-Jul-2012 San Diego City Buzz Examiner
Arrests were made Saturday as the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement protest marched on the Gaslamp district in downtown San Diego.
About 200 Protest Against Trans-Pacific Partnership
8-Jul-2012
About two hundred people banging pots and pans marched downtown from the Civic Center Plaza to the Hilton Bayfront Hotel Saturday morning to protest a meeting of negotiators working to craft the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
The dark side of investment agreements
6-Jul-2012 TNI
An animation which exposes how people are paying the costs of corporate lawsuits under international investment agreements.
EU parliamentarians reject ACTA
4-Jul-2012 DW
The EU Parliament has rejected the controversial global Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The decision is a victory for thousands of Europeans who took to the streets in furious protest against ACTA.
S. Korean farmers rally against China trade talks
3-Jul-2012 AFP
Thousands of South Korean farmers and fisherman protest against FTA talks with China
Trans-Pacific free trade zone protest
3-Jul-2012 CNS
A coalition of groups affiliated with the Occupy San Diego movement and organized labor will protest outside the 13th round of negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Activists take on ’NAFTA on steroids’
2-Jul-2012 CWA
"The 1% has total access to all negotiating documents, while the 99% is shut out. This is not what democracy looks like," said CWA President Larry Cohen.
Stop the TPP
29-Jun-2012 The Nation
Learning and action points for a US audience
MEPs to ’finish off’ ACTA on 4 July
22-Jun-2012 EurActiv
A European Parliament Committee rejected the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) yesterday despite pro-business lobbying by Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht, who insisted that Parliament should not decide before the European Court of Justice gives its opinion. A final vote in the full Parliament is expected on 4 July.
EU bans Israeli settler products
22-Jun-2012 AFP
The global campaign to boycott companies involved in Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories is spreading, according to advocates of this form of "non-violent resistance."
The TPP: Selling out Canadians, one ’trade deal’ at a time
22-Jun-2012 NUPGE
We will be told, of course, that this deal too will enhance trade, will enrich Canadians and will be good for our economy. All of this we will be expected to swallow whole. If this deal follows the usual pattern, none of it will be true.
NGOs express concern over ongoing US-India Bilateral Investment Treaty
19-Jun-2012 PharmaBiz
A group of public interest organisations in India have expressed concern about the ongoing US-India Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT).
Breaking ’08 pledge, leaked trade doc shows Obama wants to help corporations avoid regulations
14-Jun-2012 DN!
A draft agreement leaked Wednesday shows the Obama administration is pushing a secretive trade agreement that could vastly expand corporate power and directly contradict a 2008 campaign promise by President Obama.
Taiwan activists protest against U.S. beef
11-Jun-2012 AFP
Larger trade talks between Taiwan and the United States have stalled as a result of the country’s indecision about accepting US beef imports.
Activists protest at AIT over US beef import row
8-Jun-2012 CNA
Activists demonstrated at the American Institute in Taiwan Friday to protest what they called Washington’s highhanded attitude in forcing Taiwan to open its doors to US beef containting residue of the leanness-enhancing drug ractopamine.
CSOs ambush Hannah Tetteh over EPA loose talk
1-Jun-2012
The Hannah Tetteh-led Ministry of Trade and Industry is pushing Ghana to sign up the ever-controversial Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the 27-member European Union (EU).
Ensuring Free Trade Agreements don’t impede access to HIV treatments
1-Jun-2012
The UN’s top agency for HIV-AIDS has warned that million of lives could be at risk, if intellectual property and other trade agreements impede access to treatment.