https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc5G9DukVC4 Polly Jones is the Head of Policy and Campaigns at Global Justice Now gives a background to 'free trade' treaties and the motivations for TTIP. Includes explanations of ISDS and the consequences that … [Read more...]
Maude Barlow, International CETA Speaking Tour, November 2015
On the 9th of November 2015 Attac Ireland was proud to host the Irish leg of Maude Barlow's international speaking tour on CETA. The video is available here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmoqPDJsoS0 CETA is currently a … [Read more...]
The undersigned call on the US, the EU, and Canada to exclude any form of Investor-State-Dispute Settlement from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), from the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and from all other trade and investment agreements.
This week, the US and the EU will resume negotiations on investment protection in TTIP. The European Commission – claiming to have listened to public opinion – produced its proposal for a ‘new’ Investment Court System (ICS) that would allegedly … [Read more...]
Call out for attendees, Climate Justice Action Meeting, 18-20 March 2016 in Amsterdam
Two months since COP21; since governments claimed they'd made history; since tens of thousands of us were in the streets of Paris, Europe, the world, denouncing the crossing of our red lines for a just and liveable planet. But it was never meant to … [Read more...]
Attac Ireland – Declaration for a new Ireland
We envision an Ireland free from the grip of finance, where human flourishing supersedes profit creation, in all aspects of life. We imagine an Ireland where human activity, creativity and ingenuity are not monetised for profit but set free to … [Read more...]