"Whatever issue you're concerned about," says Mr. Zeese, "whether it's internet freedom, workers' rights, wages, the environment, health care, safety - consumer safety, all these issues will be adversely affected by the TPP. It will become a corporate dominated economy - global economy - it's really a global corporate coup. We should call it rigged trade - it's not free trade, it's rigged trade. And we should stop letting that propaganda term of free trade out there. It's rigged trade."
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Photo credit/top, via Popular Resistance, photographer: Anne Meador, protesters hang a large sign from the top of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
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