MN Fair Trade & Keith Ellison on Trans Pacific Partnership secret treaty operations July 1 2013
Channel: HongPong
Date: 2013-07-02

Very interesting community panel & discussion/QA about secret Trans Pacific Partnership treaty process currently imposed under incredibly covert conditions including barring Congress from reading it. With treaties as supreme law of the land, can this secret project end in anything but corporate tyranny? Hundreds of secret advisors, intellectual property chapters, the new NAFTA situation & a more-than-complicit White House.

Also I got the last question in at the very end to ask Rep Ellison to commit to posting a bill in US House within 2 weeks that would forbid the Trade Representative to hold any files secret for more than a month (to make trade policy development more fair across all Americans). How did Ellison respond? You'll have to watch to see --- 

The sound sync is messed up when he talks straight to the computer at the end & the sound gets well blown out, will try to post a cleaner cut later.

This is unedited straight from http://livestream.com/occupymn 

Hosted by MN FAIR TRADE COALITION http://mnfairtradecoalition.org/
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The audio sync is not very good and shorter highlights & revised videos may be posted later...

Minneapolis Central Labor Federation, July 1 2013
Facebook event: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/1376723425876972/
312 Central Avenue SE, Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the largest free trade agreement the US has ever attempted to negotiate. So called "free trade agreements" have been nothing more than one more tool by which corporations manipulate government to deregulate themselves and consolidate their power. Fortunately, we have a very strong ally in Congress in Rep. Keith Ellison. Unfortunately, very few people are even aware that TPP negotiations are expected to come to a head THIS YEAR. Help Keith get the word out by joining us for this public forum to learn what the TPP is, what it will do, and how we can fight back! Keith will be joined by Josh Wise of the MN Fair Trade Coalition, Jim Harkness of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, and Richard K Ryan of the International Association of Machinists.