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Images: Chicago activists protest Trans-Pacific Partnership

Published: Wed 7 Sep 2011 12:07 PM
Images: Chicago activists protest Trans-Pacific Partnership
A rally of around a thousand unionists, HIV-Aids activists and social justice campaigners in Chicago sent a clear message to negotiators the day before the latest round of Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations began in Chicago.
Addressing the crowd, Chicago-based civil rights leader Jessie Jackson urged President Obama to address the problems of jobs and problems of poverty. That would not be delivered through more free trade deals on the NAFTA model that had only benefited the powerful corporations.
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