TPP DAYS OF ACTION CONTINUE!
The Days of Action vs. TPP continue this week!     Saturday's teach-in Jackson Heights was a big success    (video in Spanish and English to be released soon)!    Over 40 people braved a snowstorm for our first TPP teach-in in Spanish and our first TPP teach-in in Rep. Crowley's district.    We'll be releasing video of the event - both in Spanish and an English dubbed version - in the next few days.    This week we continue the Days of Action Against TPP & Fast Track with events and/or activities every day!    Read through this whole message for a list of events EVERY DAY THIS WEEK.    But if you can ONLY do one thing this week, join us for this Friday's rally! 

TOP EVENT THIS WEEK:
FRIDAY, JANUARY 31st - Intercontinental Day of Action vs. TPP
RALLY: REP. JOE CROWLEY: DON'T BOARD THE TPP FAST TRACK!
Congressman Joe Crowley is one of only two House Democrats in New York State who has not expressed opposition to Fast Tracking the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the secretly negotiated 12 nation international free trade and corporate power expansion agreement described as "the end of democracy."  Under TPP, foreign corporations will be able to sue our government for unlimited sums in international tribunals outside the jurisdiction of our court system when they believe our environmental, consumer protection, and other public interest laws interfere with their potential future profits.    Corporations can demand unlimited sums in compensation for money they MIGHT have made in the absence of our laws.    As a result of similar provisions under other trade agreements, Costa Rica is being sued for $1 billion for not allowing a mining company to destroy the nation's rainforest, Canada is being sued over a ban on fracking in Quebec, and Peru is being sued for demanding cleanup of a metal smelter site believed to be one of the ten most toxic sites on the planet.    TPP will also outsource jobs to sweatshops, wipe out family farms while expanding factory farm and genetically modified food exports, threaten internet freedom, endanger wildlife, prohibit vitally needed banking regulations, and raise the cost of lifesaving medications

In order to ramrod this terrible deal through Congress, President Obama has requested Fast Track Authority, which would allow his administration to complete negotiations on TPP and then send the agreement to be voted on in Congress within 90 days.    Under Fast Track, floor debate is limited and amendments are prohibited, meaning that our elected officials will be unable to rewrite or remove TPP's most destructive provisions.    Fast Track has been introduced in the Senate by Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus, a Democrat, and in the House by Ways and Means Committee Chair Dave Camp, a Republican.    As of yet, the Obama administration has been unable to find a Democratic cosponsor for Fast Track, considered essential to winning the Democratic votes necessary to pass the bill.    As a high ranking member of the House Democratic Caucus and a strong supporter of free trade agreements, Rep. Crowley is a likely candidate to potentially sponsor the bill. Since 2006, Crowley has voted for EVERY trade agreement to come before Congress, despite opposition to these sweetheart deals for the 1% by human rights, environmental, consumer advocacy, and labor rights advocates. Join us to demand that Crowley get on the right track by refusing to sponsor and pledging to vote against Fast Track! 

THE RALLY WILL FEATURE:
* TUG O' JOE- a street theater performance where Crowley will be pulled by characters on both sides of the issues - corporate monsters on the one and the defenders of our jobs, health and environment on the other!
* CROWLEY - STOP BEING SPEECHLESS! - another street theater bit, satirizing Crowley's "Speechless" presentation on the floor of Congress!
* NEW TPP SONGS by the NYC Raging Grannies!
* ROUSING SPEECHES by Mimi Rosenberg (WBAI'S Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report), Malú Huacuja del Toro (anti-NAFTA and Zapatista solidarity activist, acclaimed author), Corrine Rosen (Food and Water Watch), Freddy Castiblano (Latin America solidarity activist and small business owner), and others!
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Location:   Rep. Crowley's Queens Office, 82-11 37th Ave between 82th   and 83rd   Streets, Jackson Heights, Queens – please arrive on time as we may march! If you're late and can't find us, call Wendy at (347) 881-5635 or Carlos at (646) 416-3440.

Directions:   7 train to 82nd   Street-Jackson Heights

Additional Info: Phone: (718) 218-4523 Email: info@tradejustice.net Web:   http://tradejustice.net/tpp 

Endorsers (list in formation): TradeJustice New York Metro, 350 NYC, Backbone Campaign, Building Bridges: Your Comunity and Labor Report (WBAI FM), Bronx Greens, Coalition Against the Rockaway Pipeline, Crowley Constituents for Trade Justice, EcoLogic (WBAI FM), Expose the TPP New York, Expose The TPP – USA, Families for Freedom, Freedom Socialist Party, Flush the TPP, Global Justice for Animals and the Environment, Green Ecosocialist Movement, Fight for the Future, Food and Water Watch, Health Global Access Project, Mingas NY, MoveOn Long Island and New York City Councils (Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens), NYC Friends of Clearwater, NYC Metro Raging Grannies and Their Daughters, Occupy Wall Street Outreach Working Group, Occupy Wall Street Special Projects Affinity Group, Occupy the Pipeline, Occupy Wall Street Trade Justice Working Group, People's Puppets of Occupy Wall St., Peruanista, PopularResistance.org, Radical Women, Resistance Cinema, Sane Energy Project, Sierra Club NYC Group, Socialist Alternative Queens Branch, Student Global AIDS Campaign, Teraza 7, United for Action, United Students for Fair Trade, Veterans for Peace NYC Chapter 34, Wetlands Activism Collective, West Queens Greens, Win Animal Rights, World War 4 Report, and Youth International Party (Yippies). 
Organizations: to endorse the march & rally, visit the endorsement form at http://tradejustice.net/cro131form.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

JOIN US THURSDAY AT NOON FOR A FINAL PLANNING CONFERENCE CALL:
Join us for our last scheduled planning meeting before Friday's rally!    Email adam@tradejustice.net to RSVP and to be emailed a copy of the meeting agenda.    
Time: 12 Noon
CALL INSTRUCTIONS: Dial (559) 546-1000.    When prompted, type 616911#

HELP GET THE WORD OUT ABOUT THIS PROTEST: 
1. Visit the promotional toolkit for this protest, where you'll find promotional fliers to download, sample text and chat messages, suggested events to pass out fliers at, and more!    You can find the toolkit at http://tradejustice.net/131promo.
2. Volunteer to make calls to invite people to the protest.    MoveOn.org and Food and Water watch are both seeking volunteers to make calls to invite their supporters to the protest.    Food and Water watch is looking for volunteers who can make calls out of their Dumbo, Brooklyn office (68 Jay Street).    Call Food and Water Watch at 718-943-9085 if you'd like to make calls from their Brooklyn office. Call Martha at 718-834-0268 if you'd like to make calls from home 
3. Pass out fliers in the neighborhood around the protest or ask neighborhood stores to post them in their windows.    Call Adam at (718) 218-4523 to be put in contact with other volunteers so you do this as a group activity.    

HELP MAKE THE PROTEST VISUALLY EFFECTIVE!
1. Elliot Crown, who created the Money Wars street theater satire of TPP (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=855_1379713996) is creating a new street theater piece for this action.    He needs volunteers to act, photograph, and videotape the performance.    If you'd like to help in any of these ways, please call Elliot at (917) 678-2365.

2. Help us retouch and restore existing signs and make new ones at a sign making party on Wednesday in Brooklyn. Call Adam at (718) 218-4523 for details.    We may also do sign making on Thursday - call to find out.

3. Or, make a sign or banner on your own! Messages can include - "Crowley: Stop Being Speechless - Speak Out vs. Fast Track!"; "Crowley: Don't Fast Track Job-Killing TPP"; "Crowley: Respect the Constitution: NO TO FAST TRACK!"; "Crowley: Read Article 1, Section 8"'; "Crowley: Stop Don't Fast Track TPP, Fracking & Climate Change"; "Crowley: Democracy Yes, Fast Track No!"    "Crowley: Do Your Job! Fast Track Prevents You from Representing Us!; "Crowley Constituents for Trade Justice" "Crowley Constituents vs. Fast Track"; "Crowley: No Fast Track For Secret Trade Deal for the 1%"; etc.

HELP RECORD THE PROTEST
Take pictures and shoot video! Livestream! Be sure to share whatever you record with us - email material to adam@tradejustice.net.    We can share your photos and videos on the web, with journalists, and with activists throughout the continent!

HELP COLLECT LETTERS TO CROWLEY & OTHER REPS
At the rally, we'll need volunteers to hold clipboards and ask rally participants and passersby to sign letters to Rep. Crowley and other elected officials. Small groups of volunteers will also go out in front of Crowley's office between now and Friday to ask passersby to sign letters. Want to help? Call Wendy at (718) 218-4523.

OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK

WED, JAN 29: NATIONWIDE CONGRESSIONAL CALL-IN DAY VS. FAST TRACK!
Call your Congressmember, ask to speak to her legislative assistant on trade, and demand that your Congressional Rep vote NO on Fast Track and publicly announce a position. Find out who represents you and learn more at http://stopfasttrack.com.    It is SUPER EASY and takes about 3 minutes to call two Senators and your Representative. The tool dials for you and there is a one paragraph script on the screen you can read, or you can personalize when you speak to add whatever you want.You enter your number on the screen and the dialer calls you. You punch in your zip code, and it connects you, one by one (no need to hang up) to each of your Senators, followed by your member of Congress. Be sure to 

WED, JAN 29: SIGN-MAKING PARTY FOR FRIDAY'S RALLY
Call Adam for details at (718) 218-4523

THURS, JAN 30: PLANNING CONFERENCE CALL FOR JAN 31st RALLY AT REP CROWLEY'S OFFICE
Join us for our last scheduled planning meeting before Friday's rally!    Email adam@tradejustice.net to RSVP and to be emailed a copy of the meeting agenda.    
Time: 12 Noon
CALL INSTRUCTIONS: Dial (559) 546-1000.    When prompted, type 616911#

THURS, JAN 30: FORUM: EXPOSING AND STOPPING THE TPP
Speakers from AFL-CIO, People's Organization for Progress, Citizen's Trade Campaign, and Food and Water Watch 7-8:30 PM City Hall, 280 Grove St, JERSEY CITY, NJ 07302

THURS, JAN 30: TWITTERSTORM TO PROMOTE THE INTERCONTINENTAL DAY OF ACTION VS. TPP
The goal is to get out the URL tinyurl.com/tradejustice and hashtag #StopTPP. 
Find sample tweets on the 30th at http://facebook.com/TPPTuesdaysMarchonMedia
Time:    9-10pmET/6-7pmPT.

FRI, JAN 31: RALLY: REP. JOE CROWLEY: DON'T BOARD THE TPP FAST TRACK!
Time: 10AM-Noon
Location:   Rep. Crowley's Queens Office, 82-11 37th Ave between 82th   and 83rd   Streets, Jackson Heights, Queens �please arrive on time as we will be moving! If you're late and can't find us, call Wendy at (347) 881-5635 or Carlos at (646) 416-3440. 
Details: http://tradejustice.net/fbcro13114 

SAT, FEB 1: 
Join the Anti-Media Twitter Storm to tweet and post about a hashtag that is TBD. 1PM EST/10AM PST 
Learn more: