Washington, D.C. — A dozen labor, environmental and other civil society organizations submitted joint public comments to the...
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Environmental Orgs & Others Outline Critical Mineral Supply Chain Standards Needed to Advance Climate and Sustainable Development Goals
Washington, D.C. — Leading environmental and other civil society organizations submitted joint comments to the Office of U.S....
Groups Praise USTR Tai for Defending Privacy, Workers & Civil Rights in “Digital Trade” Negotiations
Washington, D.C. — Civil society groups across a range of sectors sent a letter to President Biden today praising U.S. Trade...
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Public Health Groups & Others Urge Support for WTO Proposal to Increase Access to COVID Tests & Treatments
For Immediate Release Public Health Groups & Others Urge Support for WTO Proposal to Increase Access to COVID Tests &...
Leading U.S. Environmental Groups Want CBAM Protected from Trade Attacks
Washington, D.C. — Leading environmental organizations urged the Biden administration today to work with the European Union...
234 Environmental Groups Call for a Climate Peace Clause to End Trade Attacks on Climate Initiatives
Seattle, Wash. — As senior officials from the U.S. and throughout the Pacific Rim met in Seattle for a final round of talks...
Calls for IPEF Transparency Garner Coast-to-Coast Coverage
Hundreds of labor, human rights and other activists marched to the Seattle Convention Center this summer to deliver over 10,000...
Activists Deliver 10,000 Petition Signatures Demanding Transparency Amid Ongoing Asia-Pacific Trade Talks
Seattle Demands, 'No Rigged Trade Deals for Big Tech!' Activists Deliver 10,000 Petition Signatures Demanding Transparency...
U.S. and EU Trade Negotiators Urged to End Trade Attacks on Clean Energy Policies
Washington, D.C. — Just days before U.S. and European Union officials meet for the next Trade and Technology Council summit,...
Rally Outside APEC Meeting in Palm Springs Calls for Trade Deals that Prioritize Working People and the Planet
Palm Springs, Calif. — As senior officials from throughout the Indo-Pacific region gathered today for the start of a two-week...
Statement on the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity (APEP)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and U.S. State Department will be hosting a virtual ministerial...
New York Times Highlights Trade Justice Report on Climate Peace Clause
"Proponents of new climate-focused trade measures say discriminating against foreign products, and goods made with greater...
Organizational Sign-on Letter on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF)
Dear friend, Will your group please join the organizational sign-on letter below about the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework...
APEC 2023 Schedule
APEC and the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) The United States is hosting the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)...
Statement on the Biden Administration’s Support for Extending Deadline on COVID Test & Treatment Access
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This morning, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced its support for extending the upcoming...
New Analysis Shows How a Climate Peace Clause Could End Increasing Trade Attacks on Green Jobs Initiatives & Other Climate Measures
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Just days before the U.S. hosts the European Union (EU) to continue negotiations within the Trade and...
Students Across the U.S. Urge Biden Administration to Lift Barriers to Global COVID Test & Treatment Access
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Students on over a dozen campuses across the U.S. are participating in a “Week of Action” calling on the...
Labor & Other Groups Demand Transparency in Indo-Pacific Trade Negotiations
LOS ANGELES, CALIF. — As trade ministers from fourteen countries meet in Los Angeles today for behind-closed-door negotiations...
Student Week of Action for Global Access to COVID Tests and Treatments | October 3–7, 2022
Billions of people in low- and middle-income countries worldwide still don’t have access to the COVID-19 vaccines, tests and...
Big Tech’s “Digital Trade” Agenda: Fall Web Briefing Series
The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) has the potential to become the biggest trade initiative of the Biden administration....
41 Civil Society Groups Urge White House to Support Lifting WTO Barriers to COVID Test & Treatment Access
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. should publicly support lifting World Trade Organization (WTO) barriers to COVID test and treatment...
Statement: EU Threatens Trade Challenges on Climate IRA Provisions, Demonstrating Need for Climate Peace Clause
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new warning issued by the European Union (EU) claiming that the U.S. Electric Vehicle tax credit in the...
Statement on the Lack of Transparency in Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) Negotiations
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the U.S. prepares to host a virtual ministerial on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), Arthur...
100+ Civil Society Groups Ask White House For Transparency in IPEF Deal
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ahead of next week’s high-level meeting of the U.S. and 13 Indo-Pacific nations, more than 100 civil society...
Expanding Global Access to COVID Tests & Treatments
Putting Access to Medicine ahead of Pharmaceutical Monopolies The gross inequalities that characterized the global rollout of...
Big Tech’s “Digital Trade” Attack on Jobs, Wages & Worker Rights
With policymakers finally paying attention to the oversized role that Big Tech has over our economy and society, companies like...
Statement: On Second Anniversary of the USMCA, the U.S., Canada and Mexico Should Commit to a Climate Peace Clause
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ahead of a meeting this week between U.S. Trade Ambassador Katherine Tai and her Mexican and Canadian...
Actions Governments Can Take Now to Help Save Lives and End the Pandemic
Addendum to the “Global Call to Action: Governments Must Break Big Pharma-WTO Stranglehold on Access to Medicine by Taking...
298 Public Health, Labor & Other Groups Condemn WTO’s Failure to Waive Rules Standing in the Way of COVID Vaccine & Treatment Access
EU, Switzerland, UK & US Criticized for Blocking a Waiver; Governments Urged to Take Action Outside of the WTO WASHINGTON,...
Governments Must Break Big Pharma-WTO Stranglehold on Access to Medicine
GLOBAL CALL TO ACTION: Governments Must Break Big Pharma-WTO Stranglehold on Access to Medicine by Taking Immediate Action to...
Ahead of WTO Summit, 750+ Students Nationwide Urge President Biden to Support Global COVID Vaccine & Treatment Access
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As governments worldwide prepare to meet at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva for its first...
Will the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) President Biden Announces During Asia Trip Benefit Working Americans?
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ahead of the anticipated launch of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) during President Joe Biden's...
Statement on the Removal of ‘Climate Peace Clause’ From Trade and Technology Council Agenda
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In response to media reports that a climate 'peace clause' was dropped from the upcoming U.S.-EU Trade and...
Press Memo: Most ASEAN Countries Are Not Appropriate Partners for the ‘Worker-Centered’ IPEF Agreement Biden Seeks
WASHINGTON, D.C. — With severe labor rights abuses documented by U.S. government agencies year after year, many members of the...
150+ Environmental Groups Urge Inclusion of ‘Climate Peace Clause’ in Trade Agreements
WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than 150 environmental organizations today urged the Biden administration in a letter to promote a...
170+ Public Health, Faith, Trade Groups Urge White House To Reject Alternative WTO IP Text
WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than 170 national and state public health, faith and trade organizations urged the Biden administration...
New York Times Covers TRIPS Letter To U.S. Trade Rep. Katherine Tai
"But the waiver request is stalled at the World Trade Organization and does not extend to treatments, drawing objections from a...
Nationwide ‘Unhappy Birthday’ Protests Mark Unfulfilled Vaccine Equity Promise
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Public health advocates held “unhappy birthday” protests this week marking the one year since President Joe...
Statement: WTO Alternative to COVID IP Waiver Is Complete Garbage
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The World Trade Organization (WTO) today formally introduced an alternative proposal to a waiver of...
Unhappy Birthday for Unfulfilled Vaccine Equity Promises
On May 5, 2021 the world cheered when the Biden administration backed a proposal to waive pharmaceutical monopoly rules standing...
Statement: Biden Must Deliver at Second White House Global COVID-19 Vaccine Summit
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the White House announced a second White House Global COVID-19 Summit to be held May 12. The Trade...
Students for Global COVID Vaccine & Treatment Justice
Billions of people around the world still don’t have access to the COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments that many Americans...
#StopTradeAttacks Social Media Toolkit
In November 2021, the Canadian firm TC Energy launched a $15 billion attack under the North American Free Trade Agreement...
Public Health Groups Urge President Biden to Reject Leaked WTO Text on COVID
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Leading U.S. organizations today joined their South African and Indian counterparts in urging their...
Statement: Leaked WTO Proposal on COVID Vaccines Won’t Help End the Pandemic
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Newly-leaked text from the World Trade Organization pertaining to monopoly protections for pharmaceutical...
New York Times Covers Trade Justice March 11 Day of Action
"...demonstrations around the globe on Friday seeking to waive intellectual property rights for Covid vaccines punctuated the...
Entering Third Year of Pandemic, Nationwide Protests Demand World Leaders End COVID Monopolies
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, March 11, two years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, people on...
POLITICO Covers Trade Justice-led Letter to Biden
"Vaccine advocacy groups are pressing President Joe Biden to help break a nearly two-year-old deadlock at the World Trade...
80-plus Civil Society Groups Urge Greater Global Vaccination Action From Biden
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden must commit to a complete waiver of intellectual property rights for COVID vaccines,...
Digital Trade Rules Factsheet
Recent and pending U.S. trade agreements have chapters on digital trade that could have far-reaching implications for jobs and...
How Fossil Fuel Companies Are Using Trade Agreements to Attack Climate Initiatives (And How We Stop Them)
To avoid the worst outcomes from climate change, humanity has less than a decade to make substantial progress towards...
Medical Professionals for Global Vaccine Equity
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the vast majority of people in low-income nations still do not have access to COVID...
Washington Post Covers Medical Professionals Letter to Biden
"First in The Health 202: Over 1,000 doctors, nurses and medical students are urging the Biden administration to press the World...
1,000-plus Medical Professionals Urge President Biden To Increase Global COVID Vaccine, Treatment Production
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden should use his existing authority to bulk up COVID vaccine and treatment production...
Locals Honor Family Members Lost to COVID, Thank First Responders With Valentine’s Day Display
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Portland, Ore. and Killeen, Texas residents today displayed hundreds of valentines cards and letters in local...
End The Pandemic Now
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the vast majority of people in low-income nations still do not have access to COVID...
In Letter to President, 53 Labor, Civil Rights, Consumer & Other Organizations Warn About Harmful Provisions in ‘Digital Trade’ Pacts
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a joint letter to President Biden ahead of next week’s Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit,...
“Die In” Protest Outside Merkel-Biden White House Summit Urges Germany to Stop Blocking Global COVID Vaccines
WASHINGTON, D.C — As President Joe Biden prepares to host German Chancellor Angela Merkel for a summit later today to discuss...
Stopping Trade Attacks on Climate Initiatives
Fossil fuel companies are increasingly using trade agreements to attack climate initiatives. Together, we can stop them. Wake Up...