TODAY IS THE DAY!

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Please
forward to all relevant
networks
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Over 400 actions are
taking place in 22 countries, plus hundreds of
self-organised ECI
signing actions. It is also Global Frackdown Day
2014: the international
day against fracking!

1) For organisations that have not done so *use
the international PR and
spread it* (see below, you are welcome to
modify it)

2) *Please tweet and share content on social media*
Use
#o11DoA + #TTIP + #YourLocalAction
Other suggestions, tweet @ your local
press, @ your MPs and MEPs, @ your
ministers, @ your Mayor .....
Pad
with suggested tweets
-> https://11oct.titanpad.com/24?

3) *Please take
pictures* or videos and upload them to public albums,
then send us the
link (info@...)

4) There will be a second
international PR today or tomorrow, please
spread it.

Thanks everyone!
Let's gooo!

Lucile

PS: The website ​is encountering technical
difficulties, but you can
follow the day on social media ​at​
​​http://socnet.stop-ttip-ceta-tisa.eu/

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International
Press
Release

08/10/14

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European-wide
protests against TTIP, CETA and TISA on October 11,
2014
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Read
online
:
http://www.stop-ttip-ceta-tisa.eu/en/international-press-release/

*Democracy
and the environment will not be traded away!*

On October 11, 2014,
tens of thousands of people and hundreds of
organisations in 21
countries are organising actions to reclaim
democracy, and stop the
negotiations on three far-reaching trade
agreements: the EU-US deal
(TTIP*), the EU-Canada deal (CETA*) and the
trade in services deal
(TiSA*).

This decentralised European Day of Action - consisting of over
300
actions, marches, meetings and flash mobs - is being organised by
an
unprecedented alliance of civil society groups and individuals,
social
movements, trade unions, rights defenders, farmers and
grassroots
activist groups.

We are determined to put the environment
and people's rights before
corporate interests, which is what these
agreements are meant to serve.

In many places, the actions to stop
TTIP, CETA and TiSA will converge
with the global day of action against
fracking ('Global Frackdown').

Democracy will not be traded away!

For
an overview of protests across Europe,
see
http://www.stop-TTIP-ceta-tisa.eu/
For a list of supporting groups,
see
http://www.stop-ttip-ceta-tisa.eu/en/group-page/supporting-groups-2/

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Contact
persons, per language:

Michel Cermak (French, English), CNCD-11.11.11,
Michel.Cermak@...,
+32 472 45 22 73, Brussels

Madeleine Drescher
(German, English), Attac Austria, Austrian Coalition
"TTIP stoppen",
madeleine.drescher@..., +43 676 520 28 10, Vienna

Tom Kucharz
(Spanish, English) Ecologistas en
Accion,
agroecologia@..., +34 619 94 90 53,
Madrid

Kostas Foteinakis (Greek, English) Naturefriends Greece, Greek
coalition
STOP TTIP CETA Greece, xpolis@..., +30 6932
638523

Alberto Zoratti (Italian, English) Fairwatch, azoratti@...,
+39 349
6766540

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* TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and
Investment Partnership - EU/US), CETA
(Comprehensive Economic and Trade
Agreement - EU-Canada), TiSA (Trade in
Services Agreement)

These three
upcoming trade deals gravely threaten our democracy, the
environment,
health rights, food sovereignty, jobs, wages, public
services and
digital rights among other basic rights in Europe.
Negotiations are
being carried out in secret, while corporate lobbies
increasingly
influence them.

One very controversial aspect of the deals is the
investor-state dispute
settlement system (ISDS). This will allow
corporations investing abroad
to sue foreign governments when they take
actions - such as regulatory
measures to protect public health or the
environment - that affect their
expected profits. Another is 'regulatory
cooperation' which will drive
standards protecting people and the
environment on both sides of the
Atlantic down to a minimum common
denominator - a race to the bottom -
in order to satisfy
industry.

Civil society across Europe is fighting back and will reject
these
deals. We have alternatives to this corporate-driven trade model,
which
put peoples' rights, democracy and the environment first.

For
more information, see www.stop-ttip-ceta-tisa.eu

-- 
Lucile Falgueyrac
- Échanges et Partenariats [1] / AITEC [2] /
PowerShift [3]

+33671305145 (Fr only) / +491796116453 (International)
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 GPG Key ID: 0x951098F3

Using encrypted
instant messaging (XMPP +
OTR):
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Encrypting your emails
(GnuPG):
https://securityinabox.org/en/chapter_7_4

[1]
http://emi-cfd.com/echanges-partenariats/
[2]
http://aitec.reseau-ipam.org/spip.php?article1393
[3]
http://power-shift.de/

-- 
Sol Trumbo Vila
Economic Justice, Corporate
Power and Alternatives Program
Transnational Institute
(TNI)
soltrumbovila@... - Twitter: @Soltrumbo
+31 20 662 66 08
 

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