Hear from experts and leaders in the global movement for trade justice who have been fighting against toxic trade for decades. Join us in calling on governments to stop appeasing Trump. Learn how your work fits into this movement and how you can join us in pushing for resistance and creating a better world.

WHY:

Donald Trump is using tariffs and trade threats to bully other countries in order to maintain US global power. Even though existing trade rules were shaped by US corporations, recently this hasn’t been enough to guarantee US dominance, so Trump is turning to brute force. To do so, he has exploited working people’s real frustrations with the current trading system to forcibly remake the international economy in the interests of US big business. 

Too often people whose jobs and communities have been destroyed in the name of ‘free trade’ have been told that there is no alternative to the current trading system and have been given no acknowledgement of its problems. Yet what Trump proposes is not a solution but a leap out of the frying pan and into the fire. Ultimately we can only defeat Trump and fascism by creating an international economy able to meet the needs of humanity and ensure a liveable planet.

WHO: Organized by the Our World Is Not For Sale network and the European Trade Justice Coalition

- November 18 at 3pm UTC featuring:

• Diego López González, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
• Morgan Ody, La Via Campesina
• Melanie Foley, Public Citizen
• Moderated by Luciana Ghiotto, Transnational Institute