What's For Dinner?

Tonight: Various anti-Fast Track speakers Early in 2015, strong, seemingly successful citizen initiatives to defeat Fast Track made anti-free trade activists anticipate its defeat. But in early June, the Senate passed Trade Promotion Authority, and a vote was expected in the House in mid-June. It passage would transfer Constitutional authority to negotiate trade pacts from the Congress to the Administration, allowing Congress only an up or down vote. A broad coalition of organizations resisted, concerned with the prospect of the US then passing the TPP and TTIP trade agreements. This What's For Dinner show reprises perspectives of Fast Track opponents, based on their deisre to preserve US government sovereignty to protect labor rights, the envirnoment, food safety, intellectural property, and financial reform.