Politics in the Pub Perth - Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) - Total Power to Profit
Featuring The Greens (WA) Senator Scott Ludlam, Melissa Parke MP from the Australian Labor Party and food security, March Against Monsanto campaigner Janet Grogan.
The TPP threatens to be the mother of all trade deals encompassing, if it comes to fruition, more than 40 percent of the world’s GDP. Led by the United States, it is being negotiated in secret by the 1 Percent and threatens to encroach on the rights and quality of life of the 99 Percent by ways and means unprecedented.
The TPP and its transatlantic equivalent, the TTIP, epitomize the exploitative psychology and methods of the corporatocracy which the grassroots struggles of our time are so desperate to resist. And yet, remarkably, resistance is minimal with the public being almost entirely ignorant of the TPP and activists struggling to communicate their concerns. If not for the extended time it is taking for jockeying vested interests to negotiate the minutia of the deal, the TPP may well have been finalized with hardly a scintilla of dissent.
In Perth, awareness of this issue and resistance against it is minimal. Come along to what will be a great night, invite your mates to a safe and fun space, and let's start the conversation as to what can be done here in this part of the world.
Hosted by Perth Indymedia Radio - RTR 92.1 FM.