Hundreds of thousands protest in Berlin against EU-U.S. trade deal
BERLIN Reuters | Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:36am EDT
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Hundreds of thousands of people marched in Berlin on Saturday in protest against a planned free trade deal between Europe and the United States that they say is anti-democratic and will lower food safety, labor and environmental standards.
Organizers - an alliance of environmental groups, charities and opposition parties - said 250,000 people were taking part in the rally against free trade deals with both the United States and Canada, far more than they had anticipated.
"This is the biggest protest that this country has seen for many, many years," Christoph Bautz, director of citizens' movement Campact told protesters in a speech.
Opposition to the so-called Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has risen over the past year in Germany, with critics fearing the pact will hand too much power to big multinationals at the expense of consumers and workers.
"What bothers me the most is that I don't want all our consumer laws to be softened," Oliver Zloty told Reuters TV. "And I don't want to have a dictatorship by any companies."
Just saying, when the Germans are saying the TTIP is anti-democratic and a corporate dictatorship, we should all pause a moment and think about what we are exactly doing as a planet.
And burn the TTIP agreements, they are not inevitable. Previous similar efforts all failed for same reasons, we can easily stop this affront to liberty.