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Protest Korea-US FTA At Congresswoman Pelosi's Office
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Date:
Friday, January 14, 2011
Time:
12:00 PM
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1:00 PM
Event Type:
Protest
Organizer/Author:
Korus Fair Trade
Location Details:
90 7th St./Mission San Francisco
Federal Building Congresswomen Pelosi's Office
Federal Building Congresswomen Pelosi's Office
1/14/2011 SF Protest At Congresswoman Pelosi's Office To Oppose Korea US Free Trade Agreement KORUS
1/14/2011 12:00 Noon
San Francisco Federal Building
90 7th St. San Francisco
Protest Obama's Korea-US Free Trade Agreement KORUS And Oppose Congressional Support For It
Kim, Kyung Ran, Director Of External Relations
Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), South Korea
and other speakers
Sponsored by San Francisco Labor Council
AFL-CIO
For more information
korusfairtrade(at)gmail.com
Only YOU Can Stop the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement
We noticed that you have shown an interest in helping us to defeat the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement. We appreciate you reading our messages in the past and taking action. But in order to achieve this goal, we are going to need your help again!
President Obama is expected to seek Congressional approval of the very slightly altered Korea-US Free Trade Agreement first put forward by the Bush administration very soon. We need you and your representatives to let Obama know that this is a bad move for the US, a bad move for South Korea and a bad move politically.
Now that all negotiations are complete, one of our only chances to defeat the agreement in the US is to act now! We believe that despite the fact that the agreement is wildly unpopular among both the left and the right at the grassroots level, it will likely pass if brought before Congress. Our best chance to stop this agreement (and the way it will pave for a flurry of similar agreements if it passes, including the odius Colombia FTA) is to prevent the agreement from even hitting the floor by urging our representatives to tell Obama that this move is politically toxic.
This is where you come in! In order to organize a Congressional response by Democrats who do not want to vote against their weakened president and Republicans eager to please their party leaders, we need your help! Your elected representatives need to know that it will be very politically risky for them to support this, or any other free trade agreement. They need to tell President Obama and the Republican leaders that they don't want to have to go on record in choosing between what their party leaders want and what their own constituents want. This is the political calculation that made it impossible for Bush, and so far Obama, to move these long-ago negotiated free trade agreements to Congress. We need to make it very clear that this political calculus has not changed!
We are asking you to organize a delegation locally to carry this message to your Representative's district (or even DC) office. If you can't put together a delegation, you can still go as a delegation of one!
The Alliance for Global Justice will support you in these efforts. If you would like to help start a local delegation to speak with your elected officials, please contact us. We can supply you with talking points and informational materials. Please contact Jamie Way at info [at] afgj.org for additional information, or to let us know of actions that you will be taking locally. We grassroots activists are going to have to work together and work hard to defeat this agreement. We hope you will help us lead the way in this fight!
Alliance for Global Justice
1247 E St., SE
Washington, DC 20003
(202) 540-8336
afgj [at] afgj.org
1/14/2011 12:00 Noon
San Francisco Federal Building
90 7th St. San Francisco
Protest Obama's Korea-US Free Trade Agreement KORUS And Oppose Congressional Support For It
Kim, Kyung Ran, Director Of External Relations
Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), South Korea
and other speakers
Sponsored by San Francisco Labor Council
AFL-CIO
For more information
korusfairtrade(at)gmail.com
Only YOU Can Stop the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement
We noticed that you have shown an interest in helping us to defeat the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement. We appreciate you reading our messages in the past and taking action. But in order to achieve this goal, we are going to need your help again!
President Obama is expected to seek Congressional approval of the very slightly altered Korea-US Free Trade Agreement first put forward by the Bush administration very soon. We need you and your representatives to let Obama know that this is a bad move for the US, a bad move for South Korea and a bad move politically.
Now that all negotiations are complete, one of our only chances to defeat the agreement in the US is to act now! We believe that despite the fact that the agreement is wildly unpopular among both the left and the right at the grassroots level, it will likely pass if brought before Congress. Our best chance to stop this agreement (and the way it will pave for a flurry of similar agreements if it passes, including the odius Colombia FTA) is to prevent the agreement from even hitting the floor by urging our representatives to tell Obama that this move is politically toxic.
This is where you come in! In order to organize a Congressional response by Democrats who do not want to vote against their weakened president and Republicans eager to please their party leaders, we need your help! Your elected representatives need to know that it will be very politically risky for them to support this, or any other free trade agreement. They need to tell President Obama and the Republican leaders that they don't want to have to go on record in choosing between what their party leaders want and what their own constituents want. This is the political calculation that made it impossible for Bush, and so far Obama, to move these long-ago negotiated free trade agreements to Congress. We need to make it very clear that this political calculus has not changed!
We are asking you to organize a delegation locally to carry this message to your Representative's district (or even DC) office. If you can't put together a delegation, you can still go as a delegation of one!
The Alliance for Global Justice will support you in these efforts. If you would like to help start a local delegation to speak with your elected officials, please contact us. We can supply you with talking points and informational materials. Please contact Jamie Way at info [at] afgj.org for additional information, or to let us know of actions that you will be taking locally. We grassroots activists are going to have to work together and work hard to defeat this agreement. We hope you will help us lead the way in this fight!
Alliance for Global Justice
1247 E St., SE
Washington, DC 20003
(202) 540-8336
afgj [at] afgj.org
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1/14 Press Release On Rally-Protest-Stop Job-killing Bush-Obama Korea-U.S. FTA Approaching Vote in Congress
– California Fair Trade Coalition –
MEDIA ADVISORY for Contact: Tim Robertson, (415) 987-4870
Friday, January, 2011 tim(at)citizenstrade.org
Job-killing Bush-Obama Korea-U.S. FTA
Approaching Vote in Congress
Rally to stop NAFTA-style corporate trade deals
SAN FRANCISCO – As the Obama administration moves closer to introducing the NAFTA-style Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) to Congress, citizens and activists will join Kim Kyung-Ran, Director of External Relations for the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, in a rally to oppose the deal.
Representatives from labor, faith, environmental, fair trade, and family farm organizations will call on Minority Leader Pelosi, Congress and President Obama to stop pursuing the KORUS FTA, an agreement expected to cost 159,000 American jobs and grant corporations in each country unprecedented rights to subvert public interest laws. President Obama, who campaigned against free trade agreements, has reached a revised deal with Korea, and is expected to introduce it to Congress for ratification soon.
The KORUS FTA is the Obama administration’s first potential trade agreement, and is a slight modification from the agreement negotiated by President Bush over three years ago. Since then, it has received little support from Congress or the public. In fact, according to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, 69% of Americans believe FTAs cost jobs, while just 17% think they help the American economy. This is not surprising, given that NAFTA-style trade deals have already cost Americans millions of jobs.
WHAT: Rally to oppose the KORUS FTA with speakers from across civil society with banners, signs, and Korean-American drummers.
WHO:
· Kim Kyung-Ran, Director of External Relations, Korean Confederation of Trade Unions
· Howard Wallace, Vice President of San Francisco Labor Council
· Frank Martin Del Campo, SF President, Labor Council For Latin American Advancement (LCLAA)
Larry Wing, President, Air Transit Employees, Local Lodge 1781, IAM
· Christine Ahn, Korean Americans for Fair Trade
· Anuradha Mittal, Executive Director, Oakland Institute
· Victor Menotti, Executive Director, International Forum on Globalization
· Tim Robertson, Director, California Fair Trade Coalition
WHEN: Friday, January 14th, 2011. 12:00 PM PST
WHERE: Federal Building Annex. 90 7th St. (7th and Mission), San Francisco
WHY: To call on Minority Leader Pelosi to join with the majority of Americans in opposing the job-killing NAFTA-style KORUS FTA, which puts corporate profit over worker rights, environmental regulations, food safety, human rights and much more.
– California Fair Trade Coalition –
MEDIA ADVISORY for Contact: Tim Robertson, (415) 987-4870
Friday, January, 2011 tim(at)citizenstrade.org
Job-killing Bush-Obama Korea-U.S. FTA
Approaching Vote in Congress
Rally to stop NAFTA-style corporate trade deals
SAN FRANCISCO – As the Obama administration moves closer to introducing the NAFTA-style Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) to Congress, citizens and activists will join Kim Kyung-Ran, Director of External Relations for the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, in a rally to oppose the deal.
Representatives from labor, faith, environmental, fair trade, and family farm organizations will call on Minority Leader Pelosi, Congress and President Obama to stop pursuing the KORUS FTA, an agreement expected to cost 159,000 American jobs and grant corporations in each country unprecedented rights to subvert public interest laws. President Obama, who campaigned against free trade agreements, has reached a revised deal with Korea, and is expected to introduce it to Congress for ratification soon.
The KORUS FTA is the Obama administration’s first potential trade agreement, and is a slight modification from the agreement negotiated by President Bush over three years ago. Since then, it has received little support from Congress or the public. In fact, according to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, 69% of Americans believe FTAs cost jobs, while just 17% think they help the American economy. This is not surprising, given that NAFTA-style trade deals have already cost Americans millions of jobs.
WHAT: Rally to oppose the KORUS FTA with speakers from across civil society with banners, signs, and Korean-American drummers.
WHO:
· Kim Kyung-Ran, Director of External Relations, Korean Confederation of Trade Unions
· Howard Wallace, Vice President of San Francisco Labor Council
· Frank Martin Del Campo, SF President, Labor Council For Latin American Advancement (LCLAA)
Larry Wing, President, Air Transit Employees, Local Lodge 1781, IAM
· Christine Ahn, Korean Americans for Fair Trade
· Anuradha Mittal, Executive Director, Oakland Institute
· Victor Menotti, Executive Director, International Forum on Globalization
· Tim Robertson, Director, California Fair Trade Coalition
WHEN: Friday, January 14th, 2011. 12:00 PM PST
WHERE: Federal Building Annex. 90 7th St. (7th and Mission), San Francisco
WHY: To call on Minority Leader Pelosi to join with the majority of Americans in opposing the job-killing NAFTA-style KORUS FTA, which puts corporate profit over worker rights, environmental regulations, food safety, human rights and much more.
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