{"id":5412,"date":"2016-09-01T08:39:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T12:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/?p=5412"},"modified":"2016-09-07T08:45:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T12:45:44","slug":"rock-tpp-rocks-northwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/blog\/2016\/09\/01\/rock-tpp-rocks-northwest\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Against the TPP Rocks the Northwest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ugC4NG1Zoc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/RockAgainstTheTPP.org\">Rock Against the TPP<\/a><\/strong> shows in Seattle and Portland this summer, organized locally by the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonfairtrade.org\">Washington Fair Trade Coalition<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/OregonFairTrade.org\">Oregon Fair Trade Campaign<\/a> in partnership with\u00a0 Fight for the Future and others, energized and inspired hundreds of committed Northwest activists who\u2019ve been fighting the TPP, while bringing\u00a0hundreds of new people into the trade justice movement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are more willing to listen to a musician or a comedian or a poet because they appreciate other elements. They appreciate laughter, they appreciate the music, they appreciate how something is written,\u201d explained comedian <strong>Hari Kondabolu<\/strong>. \u201cSo if you\u2019re somebody who\u2019s already on board, it\u2019s inspiring, right? People say you\u2019re preaching to the choir, but sometimes the choir needs that. And then for folks who aren\u2019t in the movement, who don\u2019t see a lot of this stuff, to be in that space and actually question themselves in a way that they\u2019re not being yelled at is another way to get the message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArtists have a very special place because we have a platform we can voice the struggle. We can voice the people that dedicate their lives to the struggle. We can voice the people that\u2019s on the front lines,\u201d<b> <\/b>hip hop legend <strong>Talib Kweli<\/strong> said during his performance.<\/p>\n<p>The TPP would grants multinational corporations extraordinary new powers to threaten jobs and wages, the environment, affordable medicine, free speech, and food safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs indigenous people, we\u2019re kind of like the canaries in the coal mine. When there is environmental destruction, when there are corporations that are coming after our natural resources, as indigenous people we\u2019re usually the ones on the front lines,\u201d said <strong>Jeneda Benally<\/strong> of the Navajo punk band Sihasin.<\/p>\n<p>Her brother, <strong>Clayson Benally<\/strong>, added, \u201cWhen you give corporations total authority and power to change laws, that\u2019s going too far. When they first come to strip away our rights, who\u2019s next?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe TPP is a corporate protection agreement that increases the rights of corporations and supersedes existing laws in nations that bind themselves to the contract,\u201d says Hawaiian slack-guitar artist <strong>Makana<\/strong>. \u201cit basically gives corporations a free pass to do whatever they want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/RockAgainstTheTPP.org\">RockAgainstTheTPP.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rock Against the TPP shows in Seattle and Portland this summer, organized locally by the Washington Fair Trade Coalition and Oregon Fair Trade Campaign in partnership with\u00a0 Fight for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,102],"tags":[71,83,70],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - 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