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OBAMA PUSHING TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP (TPP)
FW: April 9, 2013
PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Baltimore.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, a new trade agreement that President Obama and his administration is leading the charge on, well, critics say this agreement--right now, at any rate--is a lot of Asian countries but China. And people are calling it everybody but China agreement so far, at any rate. It also, critics say, is going to increase corporate rights and decrease sovereign rights.
Now joining us are two people who've been very active on this whole question. First of all, Margaret Flowers is a pediatrician from Baltimore who advocates for a single-payer health-care system, but she's been very active on the TPP issue.
And Kevin Zeese. He's codirector of It's Our Economy, an organization that advocates for democratizing the economy. He's an attorney and was one of the original organizers of the national occupation of Washington.
Thank you both for joining us.