Stop TTIP
To contribute to the EU wide 'day of action' against the secretive trade deal being negotiated between EU Commissioners and US Multinationals in Brussels, 38degrees Dewsbury and surrounding areas, will be in Dewsbury town centre on 10 Oct at 10:30am giving out leaflets, and talking about the implications for democracy, the rule of law, food safety, environmental issues and the impact this deal will have on all our daily lives.
Press Release:-
Recently an inflatable pencil in Dewsbury pointed to the table where signatures were being collected for an EU wide petition. Yesterday, Sunday 4th October saw 3 million signatures collected Europe wide, a half a million of them in Britain. The total to date stands at 3,068,992. This is the biggest petition in European history.
'38degrees Dewsbury and surrounding areas' will be in Dewsbury centre, on the International Day of action on 10 October at 10:30am for an hour or two, talking about the implications of the secretive deal between the US and the European Union, for Dewsbury and local businesses. They will be synchronising with thousands of groups Europe wide, handing out leaflets. Do join them.
Subject matter:
We call on the institutions of the European Union and its member states to stop the negotiations with the USA on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and not to ratify the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.
Main objectives:
We want to prevent TTIP and CETA because they include several critical issues such as investor-state dispute settlement and rules on regulatory cooperation that pose a threat to democracy and the rule of law. We want to prevent lowering of standards concerning employment, social, environmental, privacy and consumers and the deregulation of public services (such as water) and cultural assets from being deregulated in non-transparent negotiations. The European Citizen's Initiative (ECI) supports an alternative trade and investment policy in the EU.
The European Citizen's Initiative is made up of a huge number of EU unions, the UK's TUC, pressure groups like 38degrees, charities like War on Want, Friends of the Earth, food safety campaigners, highlighting the US practice of filthy, battery cage, factory farming where the only way to make chicken safe to eat is to wash it in chlorine, the cancer inducing growth hormones in cattle used routinely in the US, unlabelled Genetically Modified food. GM crops are sprayed routinely 5 times per growing season with weedkiller, which gets into the food chain. The environmental protections which Europe has built up over time are likely to be compromised by nicotiniods which disorientate and finally kill bees, fracking which causes air, soil and water pollution, the removal of tariffs making oil and shale gas easier to export from the US will lock the EU into dirty carbon power sources for a generation compromising all climate change targets and increasing greenhouse gasses while at the same time huge transport costs mean the increased imports of gas and oil will not benefit the consumer. There is a myth that demand for energy is increasing when in fact it is decreasing so the move is completely unnecessary. Compromises will have to be made in negotiations because European companies will want to deliver services in the US and it is feared that the compromises will be health, outsourced at great cost to US Multinational Health Corporations, food and climate, in other words, environmental and social goals will be targeted. Which politicians in their right mind in government, would hand their power to another nation state with no democracy? Yet David Cameron will hand them to Multinational companies, since, should his government make policies which threaten future profits under TTIP they will sue, like Aeolia is suing Egypt over introduction of a minimum wage and Phillip Morris Tobacco, suing Australia for introducing plain cigarette packets. Taxpayers have to stump up to pay huge fines to these Multinationals. There is no evidence that the secret dispute mechanism (ISDS) which results in these unfair court cases increases investment in a country, so there is no case for including them in any negotiation.
There is no good TTIP because to change it as much as is needed, results in a different deal altogether. Start again!
Press Release:-
Recently an inflatable pencil in Dewsbury pointed to the table where signatures were being collected for an EU wide petition. Yesterday, Sunday 4th October saw 3 million signatures collected Europe wide, a half a million of them in Britain. The total to date stands at 3,068,992. This is the biggest petition in European history.
'38degrees Dewsbury and surrounding areas' will be in Dewsbury centre, on the International Day of action on 10 October at 10:30am for an hour or two, talking about the implications of the secretive deal between the US and the European Union, for Dewsbury and local businesses. They will be synchronising with thousands of groups Europe wide, handing out leaflets. Do join them.
Subject matter:
We call on the institutions of the European Union and its member states to stop the negotiations with the USA on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and not to ratify the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.
Main objectives:
We want to prevent TTIP and CETA because they include several critical issues such as investor-state dispute settlement and rules on regulatory cooperation that pose a threat to democracy and the rule of law. We want to prevent lowering of standards concerning employment, social, environmental, privacy and consumers and the deregulation of public services (such as water) and cultural assets from being deregulated in non-transparent negotiations. The European Citizen's Initiative (ECI) supports an alternative trade and investment policy in the EU.
The European Citizen's Initiative is made up of a huge number of EU unions, the UK's TUC, pressure groups like 38degrees, charities like War on Want, Friends of the Earth, food safety campaigners, highlighting the US practice of filthy, battery cage, factory farming where the only way to make chicken safe to eat is to wash it in chlorine, the cancer inducing growth hormones in cattle used routinely in the US, unlabelled Genetically Modified food. GM crops are sprayed routinely 5 times per growing season with weedkiller, which gets into the food chain. The environmental protections which Europe has built up over time are likely to be compromised by nicotiniods which disorientate and finally kill bees, fracking which causes air, soil and water pollution, the removal of tariffs making oil and shale gas easier to export from the US will lock the EU into dirty carbon power sources for a generation compromising all climate change targets and increasing greenhouse gasses while at the same time huge transport costs mean the increased imports of gas and oil will not benefit the consumer. There is a myth that demand for energy is increasing when in fact it is decreasing so the move is completely unnecessary. Compromises will have to be made in negotiations because European companies will want to deliver services in the US and it is feared that the compromises will be health, outsourced at great cost to US Multinational Health Corporations, food and climate, in other words, environmental and social goals will be targeted. Which politicians in their right mind in government, would hand their power to another nation state with no democracy? Yet David Cameron will hand them to Multinational companies, since, should his government make policies which threaten future profits under TTIP they will sue, like Aeolia is suing Egypt over introduction of a minimum wage and Phillip Morris Tobacco, suing Australia for introducing plain cigarette packets. Taxpayers have to stump up to pay huge fines to these Multinationals. There is no evidence that the secret dispute mechanism (ISDS) which results in these unfair court cases increases investment in a country, so there is no case for including them in any negotiation.
There is no good TTIP because to change it as much as is needed, results in a different deal altogether. Start again!
Starts on
Saturday, 10 October 2015 at 10:30 AM BST
Ends on
Saturday, 10 October 2015 at 12:15 PM BST
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Wakefield Old Rd
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