Philippines and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free-Trade Agreement (TPPA) Primer *information presented at ProPeopleYouth KmB meeting in Long Beach, CA Currently, the Philippines are not eligible to join the TPPA. Washington and the EU are both willing to engage with the Philippines in joint initiatives like the recent US trade facilitation agreement that was signed...
http://www.fpif.org/articles/vacuuming_up_the_pacifics_resources The 11th round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations is currently taking place in Melbourne, Australia. Although negotiators have agreed to the broad outlines of the TPP agreement, a new trade issue has created a snag in the process: the inclusion of investor-state dispute settlement provisions. Australia has refused to accept the investor-state...
From: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/plrmo/2012/184182.htm Fact Sheet Bureau of Public Affairs February 16, 2012 “…our problems have never respected dividing lines between global economics and international diplomacy. And neither can our solutions. That is why I have put what I call economic statecraft at the heart of our foreign policy agenda.” –Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton...
Moana Nui Action Alliance (MNAA-CA), West Papua Action, January 17, 2012. On January 17th, 2006, forty-three West Papuans circumnavigated their homeland before beaching their traditional canoe ‘Exodus’ on the Australian mainland at Mapoon in far north Queensland. In solidarity with the 43 who have risked their lives to expose the corruption and human rights...
Moana Nui Statement 2011/11/29 Sign the Moana Nui Statement Petition We, the peoples of Moana Nui, connected by the currents of our ocean home, declare that we will not cooperate with the commodification of life and land as represented by APEC’s predatory capitalistic practices, distorted information and secret trade negotiations and agreements. We invoke...
The lines in the sand have been drawn, let’s hope the wave of resistance can wash them away… Haven’t done a repost in a long time– but this sets the stage. If we do not voice our opposition, that line in the sand may very well be our prison. This is the new Pacific...