People's Movement Public Meeting on CETA Free Trade Agreement

dublin | worker & community struggles and protests | event notice Wednesday November 04, 2015 23:21 by People's Movement

Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada -ratification in 2016

"Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time. A life of activism gives hope, which is a moral imperative in this work and in this world. You meet the nicest people, you help transform ideas and systems, and you commit yourself to leaving the earth in at least as whole a condition as you inherited it." -Maude Barlow, national chairperson of the Council of Canadians, addressing Trent University in June 2009 after being awarded an honorary doctorate of laws. Maude Barlow will be one of the speakers

This meeting is an opportunity for trade unionists and all those concerned with democracy to learn exactly how CETA will damage our society and how we can all work together to apply pressure on our representatives in the EU Parliament to vote No to CETA

People's Movement Public Meeting on CETA
Mon 9th Nov 7:30pm
Liberty Hall, Dublin

"Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time. A life of activism gives hope, which is a moral imperative in this work and in this world. You meet the nicest people, you help transform ideas and systems, and you commit yourself to leaving the earth in at least as whole a condition as you inherited it." -Maude Barlow, national chairperson of the Council of Canadians, addressing Trent University in June 2009 after being awarded an honorary doctorate of laws.

Patrica King, general secretary of the ICTU joins Maude Barlow and other international speakers to publicise the threat that the EU-Canada "free" trade deal poses to our workers' rights, democracy, health and safety standards, environment, and public services. Other speakers will include Yash Tandon, a Ugandan trade expert, and Polly Jones, head of policy and campaigns at Global Justice Now (formerly the World Development Movement).

Maude Barlow is the author of sixteen books, including the international best-sellers 'Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Threat of the World's Water' and 'Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water'. She was senior adviser on water to the president of the 63rd General Assembly of the United Nations and was a leader in the campaign to have water recognised by the United Nations as a human right.

This meeting is an opportunity for trade unionists and all those concerned with democracy to learn exactly how CETA will damage our society and how we can all work together to apply pressure on our representatives in the EU Parliament to vote No to CETA

More details on CETA and TTIP in the latest People's Movement Newsletter which can be found here
http://www.people.ie/news/PN-134.pdf