Goals & Accomplishments
Goals for 2018
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Ensure NAFTA renegotiations embody significant trade policy reform
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Engage state legislators on opposing Investor-State Dispute Settlement provisions
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Develop and release a community-wide Fair Trade Vision Statement
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Make Congressional candidates views on trade known to their constituents
- Guide coalition partners through turbulent trade actions at the federal level
- Establish a coherent alternative to the current Administration’s trade agenda that works for workers, communities and the planet
Recent Accomplishments
Cross-Border Education & Action
- Launched TPPxBorder, involving activists across the US, Canada, Mexico
- Workshop at the Council of Canadians Annual Meeting
- Organized Briefing with Celeste Drake (AFL-CIO) & Lynne Dodson (WSLC) at the
BC Labour Federations Annual Meeting where they passed a TPP Resolution - Developed TPPxBorder website, Facebook & twitter
- Dec. 1st TPP People’s Summit and Action with 300 labor, environmental,
social justice activists at the Peace Arch
US & WA State Education & Action
- Week of action with Celeste Drake AFL-CIO
- Briefing in Olympia with WFSE
- Trade Justice Happy Hour
- Radio & Print Media around December 1st Action
- Hosted Labor Leader’s Roundtable w/ AFL-CIO’s Liz Shuler
- Co-organized w/SPEEA TPP Round table with Deputy USTR Demetrios
Marantis-presented What Washington Wants in Trade - Action: Who’s At the TPP Table-Calling Out Corporations in Seattle
which was presented at the San Diego Round - Worked with ILWU/ITF to pass a west coast TPP resolution
- Attended Multiple TPP Rounds: Dallas, TX, San Diego, CA, Leesburg, VA
- Lori Wallach, Global Trade Watch WA Tour
- WFTC strategy session on the TPP
- House Party with Newground
- WSLC key note and workshop-linking migration, forced labor and trade
- Labor leaders lunch/strategy session in Wenatchee
- Public Health Sign on letter
Congressional & Legislative Efforts
- Rep Larsen signed on to a joint Congressional letter to USTR calling for
transparency and authentic stakeholder involvement - Worked with Reps Smith & McDermott to draft an individual letter to
USTR also calling for transparency and stake holder involvement - Legislators Sign-On letter with Maralyn Chase
- Briefing to WA Joint Legislative Committee on Trade
SweatFree WA Campaign
- Ran a strong SweatFree Procurement State campaign, identified champions
in the House and Senate and allies in Dept. of Enterprise Services, successfully
moved the statute through the House and only lost by 1 vote in the Senate. - Partnered with the Seattle Human Rights Commission to enforce
the Seattle SweatFree Policy
Solidarity Work
- Making Change at Wal-Mart-in solidarity with Our Wal-Mart took part in
actions on Black Friday, week before Black Friday, Red Apple Promenade
and was a lead on an action in Bellevue - Kimberly Clark Mill Closure Press event with WSLC, AWPPW
- Our Food Our Right-Article and Book Launch with CAGJ
- Urban Food Hike-athon & SLEE-CAGJ
- Sierra Club & PUSO workshops
- UFCW Local 21-Mother’s Day at Macy’s Event
- Backbone, WA CAN & PSARA events
- GMOP (Get Money Out of Politics) Occupy Seattle Workshops
- Witness for Peace Worker Tour from Cuba
- Bread & Roses events with WSLC
- WA State Labor Education & Research Center Labor event
- COMITE-May Day March