This educational forum will address how the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal would threaten our democratic rights and how it would harm the rights of the American people to get the information that they need from a free press. This discussion will cover the TPP's various provisions, including those involving online copyright take downs, copyright term extensions, and digital rights management rules.

Speakers:
Maira Sutton, Electronic Frontier Foundation Global Policy Analyst
Richard Knee, freelance journalist, First Amendment activist, and Pacific Media Workers Guild Legislative and Political Committee Chair

This event is sonsored by the Pacific Media Workers Guild (PMWG, The News Guild-CWA Local 39521)