by the way how many people here stand for fairtrade that's what i thought so now we can sing about it deja vu today for me you and me grow there's a to the intercontinental day of action here in washington state we are one of over fifty actions happening right now across north america called by our mexican allies many many people in mexico lost their lives to keep not there from passing twenty years ago they knew despite all the promises of economic stability and a better life that their communities where suffer they were right and we were right however that's little consolation now after twenty years of job loss environmental degradation and erosion of our democracy and there is a play on to expand it's called the trans pacific partnership that is why we are here today and we have folks from all over washington here we have folks from olympia folks from spokane spokes from bellingham folks from kids that have come here today to vow to make sure that we do everything we can  the expansion of nafta in the folks when i started to write my presentation and not shut off the hip so i think this is a really important issue for all of us and like kristen said we were right twenty years ago twenty years ago when labor students civil rights immigrant immigrant rights groups women intellectuals professionals social justice and human echo groups came together to protest but then the effort to push the north american are over eleven million undocumented workers in the united states who suffer and can only be attributed to those financial policies old trade agreements you know then they are m millions of people displaced from their native lands and the way of life has developed a more failed state with tore up government called mexico running rampant rampant unemployment and underemployment where the largest employer for young people's or the cartels a country where life is considered cheap exemplified through murders kidnappings of rosewood without due process worker tells run a large part of the country under the phone knowledge of the existing government and inist and says they cooperation with some of these dark forces we have seen riches beyond belief of their of a very few minute heal people at the devastated along the border and in the interior of mexico by this financial interests that have benefited by nothing in this country we have seen hundreds of thousands of jobs lost for domestic and immigrant workers assume just trees are sent abroad where the salaries are super low creating super exploited condition for workers in those countries we have seen the standard of living to treat for workers and their families that have been followed by workers in the us this have been costly lessons for workers however we must also point out that people have not sent by as these policies were implemented we have also fought back and won we have hear guys who came out to protest the devastating impact that the agriculture and other domestic policies would have on people's lives this was not a passive demonstration workers students women and immigrants minority communities demonstrated during the w t o c i don't look the way worldwide because the so called trade policies we have seen the historical marches of millions of immigrants in moments in two thousand and six we have seen the development of the occupy moment and yet creational promises that it has created by highlighting the power of the ninety nine percent and narrow the fifteen dollar wage increase which continues to create ripples in politics today she represents the puget sound advocates for retirement actually an environmental committee and she will be sharing about nafta and we also welcome to the stage rand when going back a thirteen year old from plant for the about the class war are that the right wing likes to whine about israel it's real because they're rich cannot stop finding new ways to squeeze more profit out of us and this trade agreement and all these trade agreements is the new instrument so we're supposed to stand by what this trade agreement which tries to pin us down so we can't do anything well we watch our grandchildren try to go to school and accumulate debt and face a planet that's being wrecked by the by greed and we're supposed to stand by not doing anything but we're not going to sh your country what we're going to try to sell the other countries and even agreement about that now to get along it was nine hundred pages and congress passed it without reading it so what have we got now it's worse than nothing so despite all the time but how about this would be so good for the u s for mexico or for canada we have the highest level of inequality we've had in this country in history despite why the people who live there want to protect their motive check the water like in el salvador under kept up a mining company wanted to wants to mine for gold and they want to mine it using etc well the farmers began to resist that and they got the church to go on with them and they got the government of el salvador to take away the permit for mining they are now facing a multimillion dollar suit from this mining company called pacific rim which has now been taken over by another mining company because they're trying to protect that ability to grow food and we also have other cases of protecting investor right s cargill one of our favorite companies cargill an arthur daniels midland and another group called corn food to try to get mexico to stop taxing  high for tows corn syrup and mexico is doing that to protect the sugar cane growers and also they help people but they lost a suit a foreign one one company got seventy seven million dollars thirty seven million and i think the other one was fifty eight million so and of course you know are any probably about the same for mining a gas company moved to the for to the u s in order to  extract the profit no matter what it does to our health to our children to the environment but wait where do file these suits anyway it's at the world bank ever hearing place in the world the world bank the judges three corporate lawyers who rotate in and out every three months that's the kind of that's the kind of justice that these agreements mexico city mexican farmers who blocked the borders several times this month and they say they're not going home till now still read till their government breaks with the nafta and we need to stand with them the my name is readily going back and i'm thirteen years old and working with plants on the planet an organisation run by children around the world that plants trees to help offset c o two emissions i'm here to speak out against the transpacific partnership because i'm worried do more to reduce dangerous emissions but that he will prevent that from happening we can't let rules hit in a trade agreement overturn the last of democratic countries they can't lead to tiki provent us for taking action to  actually outraged the restrooms were referred to the environmental labor intellectual property an investor writes this deal has been negotiated in complete secrecy and his sierra club has not been included in the discussion however big polluters such as halliburton g e chevron international coal council and the nuclear energy institute are at their table for the last three years they've been allowed to secretly craft a trade deal that benefit if needed everything we could to halt climate change he wants to say yes we did line here to say no we didn't we're not even scratched the surface and lenny's to be done to protect our planet in our children's future from is completely on its optimal it's unbelievable to think that we have allowed foreign corporations to attack the public interest policies and try to trade group to trade you know believe here and get an environmentally binding chapter with strong commitments to help protect natural resources this goes against everything we're working so hard to again this goes against environmental protections hulton disasters climate change ending corporate personhood getting money out of politics raising our standard of living and