WHAT: Environmental, labor, consumer and family farm advocates critical of the pending Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will gather at10:30am this Wednesday outside the negotiating round’s “stakeholder” event to speak with interested reporters.  Interviews can be scheduled for other times using the contact information below. 

“These negotiations cover far more than the tariffs and quotas normally associated with ‘trade,’ delving deep into environmental, consumer safety, financial, public procurement and other public policy areas,” said Arthur Stamoulis, Executive Director of Citizens Trade Campaign. “The world cannot afford for this pact to become a back-door means of deregulation.”

WHERE: Outside the J.C. Penney Main Building
National 4-H Youth Conference Center
7100 Connecticut Avenue
Chevy Chase, MD

WHEN: 10:30am, Wednesday, October 1, 2014

VISUALS:  Activists with t-shirts and signs will also be at the 10:30am availability for photographs and b-roll.

AVAILABLE EXPERTS INCLUDE: