High Flying Aerial Protest
Puts Message Before Negotiators of Secret TPP
Photos by Jerrick Romero, Aerial Action launched by
Backbone Campaign and the TPP Welcoming Committee, Funeral for our Liberties mobilized by March Against Monsanto
Thursday, November 21st, 2013
SALT LAKE CITY – Protestors outside the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) meetings in Salt Lake took to the skies to get their message to negotiators this morning as organizers with the Backbone Campaign used weather balloons to lift a 75-foot banner reading “TPP: What Are You Hiding?” about a dozen stories up the exterior of the Grand America Hotel where negotiations are taking place.
“If the TPP is really a good deal for Americans, why won’t the Obama Administration release the details to journalists or even Congress?” said Bill Moyer, Executive Director of the Backbone Campaign. “If TPP negotiators were listening to the public or Congress instead of their corporate advisors, we wouldn’t have to go to the trouble of using weather balloons to ask them what they’re hiding.”
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