Airborne ‘Anti-TPP’ Protest Blimp Floats Above Congressional Office
Activists floated a 25-foot blimp over the congressional offices of Scott Peters in San Diego to protest against the global Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, perhaps in the process illustrating that it is full of hot air in terms of civil liberties. Peters voted to fast track the deal.
A handful of protesters gathered outside the House of Representatives offices on Monday in San Diego. A rope tethered the massive white blimp, marked with two black arrows pointing left and right, with the word ‘Democracy’ pointing right and the acronym ‘TPP’ pointing left.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), supported and shepherded by the Obama administration, is a trade pact that has been negotiated in secret establishing regulations between 12 countries in the Pacific Basin. Its opponents say these regulations would undermine jobs in the US and work to the benefit of corporations rather than nations their workers.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders was a strong opponent of TPP, while Democratic president candidate Hillary Clinton initially supported the pact, before distancing herself from it as Sanders’ popularity grew.
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