Activist from labor, fair trade, environmental and the general community will hold a light brigade protest. Using giant boards with LED lights, the message “Flush the TPP” will be spelled out around Lake Eola on Tuesday, Aug. 27th, to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a secretive trade deal that threatens to worsen a global race to the bottom for wages, consumer safety, health care and environmental standards.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, a proposed deal between the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim nations, is poised to become the largest trade agreement in U.S. history. It could have wide-reaching influence on the quality of life of everyday Americans, yet the only people at the negotiating table are corporate lobbyists and government negotiators, not groups concerned about workers, public health, free speech, the environment and consumer protections. Protestors will be demanding fair trade, not “free trade.” Local citizens need to tell the White House no fast track agreements-we want to have the right to know what our country is trading away.
WHAT: Using giant boards, the members of the Light Brigade will spell out in LED lights the message “FLUSH THE TPP”
WHEN: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 at 8:30p.m.
WHERE: Starting on the Lake Eola sidewalk closet to Publix’s
WHO: Members of Central Florida Sierra Club, Communication Workers of America, Orlando Light Brigade religious groups and human rights organizations.
For more information, contact: Richard Hillwig 407-591-7690
