September 21, SumOfUs (a movement of consumers, workers and shareholders to counterbalance the growing power of large corporations) reported a meeting in July in Maui to finalize the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal. SumOfUs helped organize a major protest that succeeded in stopping the finalisation of the deal.
The negotiators are meeting AGAIN at the end of September in Atlanta. The details were kept top-secret until the last minute, so a major mobilization is planned at short notice.
This time in Atlanta, hundreds of corporate-backed negotiators are going to be fighting harder than ever before to finalize this secret, slimy deal — signing away access to medicine, affordable drugs, and even our democracy to corporate interests.
Read more at
http://action.sumofus.org/a/tppa-debate/?sub=homepage
Activists have been busy in Canada too. The Canadian campaign is reported here:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/final-round-of-tpp-talks-set-for-end-of-september/article26384370/