(2016/08/26) Stopping toxic trade deals (Trans Pacific Partnership)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 26 August 2016
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Edition #1038
Today we take a look at a couple of the international trade deals currently in the works, why they’re bad and how to stop them
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Karen @HansenKuhn on the secret negotiations of the TTIP - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 5-6-16
Ch. 3: Song 1: North By North - Faded Paper Figures
Ch. 4: Act 2: New Study Confirms #TPP Will Kill #American Jobs! (Guest @WallachLori) - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 05-19-16
Ch. 5: Song 2: A Lot of Work to Do - Friendly People
Ch. 6: Act 3: Sen. Elizabeth Warren on why we need to stop the TPP - CREDO Action - Air Date 6-7-16
Ch. 7: Song 3: Count On Me - Bruno Mars
Ch. 8: Act 4: Hillary Clinton Disavows the TPP Now and Forever - Majority Report (@MajorityFM) - Air Date: 08-13-16
Ch. 9: Song 4: Gone - Jack Johnson
Ch. 10: Act 5: What the fight against the TPP can learn from the movement against TTIP - Act Out! (@ActOutonOccupy) - Air Date 5-13-16
Ch. 11: Song 5: Protest Song - Anti-Flag
Ch. 12: Act 6: Stop Toxic Trade Deals - NationalSierraClub - Air Date 6-27-16
Ch. 13: Song 6: Victory - Trampled by Turtles
Ch. 14: Act 7: Why Did Clinton Just Tap a Pro-TPP, Pro-KXL, Pro-Fracking Politician to Head Her Transition Team? - @DemocracyNow - Air Date: 08-17-16
Ch. 15: Song 7: Fake Empire - The National
Ch. 16: Act 8: Trans-Pacific Partnership EXPLAINED! - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 08-04-16
Ch. 17: Final comments on how to fight the TPP during the lame duck session
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
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| 0:40.5 | Spend, the Tom Hartman program, Credo Action, the majority report, Act Out, the National |
| 0:46.4 | Sierra Club, Democracy Now, and the Young Turks. |
| 0:53.0 | Corporate media talk about trade packs, which have little to do at this point with actual |
| 0:57.5 | trade, but the coverage is generally pretty thin and vague. |
| 1:02.6 | Perhaps in part because for corporate media, corporate globalization is simply inevitable. |
| 1:09.1 | If the horse trading of livelihoods and lives for markets is unseemly, well, let's not |
| 1:14.9 | try to take too close a look. |
| 1:17.2 | The leak of a draft of the transatlantic trade and investment partnership or T-tip by |
| 1:22.8 | Greenpeace Netherlands may have thrown a wrench in that deal's inevitability, though media's |
| 1:28.8 | interpretation of the document's meaning will play a role there. |
| 1:33.2 | So what's in and what's not in the T-tip, according to these revelations? |
| 1:38.6 | We're joined now by Karen Hansen Kuhn, director of Trade, Technology, and Global Governance |
| 1:44.0 | at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. |
| 1:47.1 | She joins us by phone from Washington, DC. |
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