Rally Urges Delaney to Vote No on "Fast Track" as Gaithersburg Joins Continent-Wide Day of Protests
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Maryland residents rallied outside Rep. John
Delaney’s (D, MD) Gaithersburg office at noon last Friday to urge him to vote
no on “Fast Track” legislation, a method used to rush dangerous free trade
agreements through Congress with limited oversight. A wide range of groups
joined together to oppose the undemocratic process, including UFCW, CWA,
Teamsters, the Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO, the Sierra Club, Food &
Water Watch, Friends of the Earth, and Flush the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
“Fast track is the wrong track,” said Josh Ardison, of UFCW Local 1994
MCGEO.
“We are strongly opposed to the ‘Trans-Pacific Partnership’ and the
devastating
effects it will have on working families. NAFTA has not worked and neither will
the TPP.” The rally was part of a North American Day of Action, during which
more than 50 cities across the U.S., Mexico, and Canada marked this month’s
twenty-year anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Click here for the complete local report.
– photo courtesy
Flush the TPP