9 March 2016: Beyond Fair Trade – Stopping Corporate Exploitation’.

9 March 2016: Beyond Fair Trade – Stopping Corporate Exploitation’.

Once again the people of Reading expressed their concern about TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) as 70 people crowded into RISC’s hall to hear Nick Dearden, Director of Global Justice Now, speak.

Nick outlined the problems with TTIP and a new generation of trade deals that give disproportionate powers to large corporations but he said “We have stopped similar trade deals before. Three and a half million people don’t want this treaty and if we all join together, we can stop this one.”