{"id":49000,"date":"2016-02-04T07:45:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T14:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=49000"},"modified":"2016-02-03T14:07:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T21:07:48","slug":"despite-mass-opposition-world-leaders-gather-to-sign-tpp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2016\/02\/04\/despite-mass-opposition-world-leaders-gather-to-sign-tpp\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Mass Opposition, World Leaders Gather to Sign TPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601502.us.archive.org\/27\/items\/uprising_2016_02_04\/Patrick_Woodall_2016_02_04.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601502.us.archive.org\/27\/items\/uprising_2016_02_04\/uprising_2016_02_04.mp3\">Listen to the full show <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><em>GUEST: <strong>Patrick Woodall<\/strong>, Research Director and Senior Policy Advocate for Food &#038; Water Watch, advocate on economic justice issues in Washington, and coauthor of a book on the World Trade Organization.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Representatives from a dozen nations including the US are gathering in Auckland, New Zealand this week to sign the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP is a complex and very secret trade deal on which the Obama Administration has pinned hopes of reviving its economic power in East Asia, against Chinese supremacy. <\/p>\n<p>But the deal is reviled by activists around the world including here in the US, as it stands to hand over decision-making on crucial policies to big corporations. <\/p>\n<p>In Washington DC, to protest the signing of the TPP, a large demonstration is expected on Thursday, accusing the US government of betraying Americans. The TPP still has to be ratified by the Parliaments and Congressional houses of the governments involved. <\/p>\n<p>For more information visit <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodandwaterwatch.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.foodandwaterwatch.org<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Patrick Woodall, Research Director and Senior Policy Advocate for Food &#038; Water Watch, advocate on economic justice issues in Washington, and coauthor of a book on the World Trade Organization. Representatives from a dozen nations including the US are gathering in Auckland, New Zealand this week to sign the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49003,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49000\/revisions\/49003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}