Moments ago a strong national organizing phone call ended. Participating were Jürgen Maier, leader of the recent 10-10-15 protest in Berlin (REUTERS) against the TTIP that brought out 250,000 people, and Deborah Dion, who is is working on current plans for the Miami TTIP negotiations in her position as Florida State Director, Citizen’s Trade Campaign. Deborah is a 20 year worker in AFL-CIO's Federal, State, and Local issues and was a key organizer on the 2003 Free Trade Area of the Americas campaign and strategic organizer around WTO. Dr. Margaret Flowers, Adam Weissman and Harriet Heywood are also working to organize actions opposing these trade policy positions, TPP and TTIP. There were over large 150 actions in cities and mega-cities across Europe on Oct. 10th-12th against Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and this week Jürgen Maier spoke to Bavarian Parliament, an extremely conservative group in which his comments against TTIP were well received.

Three massive trade deals are involved, TPP, TTIP and TISA. Only 5 of the 29 TPP chapters even deal with trade. They are corporate power grabs that impact every aspect of our lives.

In Miami this week the round of TTIP trade "negotiations" will be opposed by the "No More Secret Trade Deals" activists on Wednesday, 10-21-15 and Thursday will be a press briefing. "TTIP Signals Climate Shipwreck"

Public Citizen verifies that the Trans-Pacific Partnership TPP would harm public health by blocking patient access to lifesaving medicines; Electronic Frontiers Foundation has analyzed the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter that Wikileaks released a nine days ago, Oct. 9, 2015.

House Democrats are lately speaking out strongly against TPP as it attacks climate change mitigation and as it hurts labor rights. Senate Floor Speech, Bernie Sanders – TPP: A Raw Deal for America

TPP Tuesday Twitter Storm - 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern - tiny.cc/TPPMediaMarch

OCTOBER 21-22: MIAMI action on TTIP ~~ PRESS EVENTS/TIMELINE:

Wednesday, October 21st

• 9:15 am, Opening press rally denouncing secretive trade deals TTIP / TPP. Present will be elected officials, interfaith, environmentalists, senior groups and other

groups opposing

• 11:00 am-2:30 pm, Stakeholder meeting includes supporters and non supporting presenters at Hyatt Regency, Miami

• 3:15-4:30 pm, Q&A with Chief Negotiators from U.S. and EU at Hyatt Regency

Thursday, October 22nd

• 11:00 am, Press briefing on the detriments of secretive trade deals / TPP / TTIP with local and nationally acclaimed scholars.

In November there will be a large mobilization in Washington, DC, to oppose TPP. Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 14 & 11-15, will be training. Then on Monday thru Wednesday will be street and Capitol events. Washington, D.C., Franklin McPherson Square, The Ellipse, Washington, Washington City

Adam Weissman of www.tradejustice.net (learn more of upcoming events at http://tradejustice.net/...) has organized information here:

Learn more at Flush the TPP! and at #FallRising to Stop TPP, TTIP, & TISA

Background: Jürgen Maier has been Director of the German NGO Forum Environment & Development - a NGO network, coordinating NGOs monitoring international policy processes regarding sustainable development, since 1996. He attended numerous WTO conferences and coordinated the Trade Justice Campaign at the Forum 1999-2005. Currently the Forum hosts the German coalition against TTIP: ttipunfairhandelbar.de. From 1993-1996 he worked as Director of the German Asia Foundation.