Spirited rally turns anti-TPP activists' focus from Zeldin to Rice
Bill Crump attended a rally Monday, June 8, 2015, against the controversial trade agreement, the Trans Pacific Pact, outside Rep. Kathleen Rice's Garden City office. Crump also opposes fast track which gives the executive branch power to negotiate such deals without Congress. Credit: Dan Janison
An hourlong rally against the Trans Pacific Pact outside the Garden City office of Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-Garden City) included several unions as well as citizens who oppose the controversial trade agreement and its fast-track legislation.
Among those represented Monday were Mario Cilento, president of the NYS AFL-CIO; Lisa Tyson, Long Island Progressive Coalition leader; Eric Weltman, of Food and Water Watch; Roger Clayman, of the Long Island Federation of Labor; and Aaron Abel, of the Working Families Party.
Others attending included communications and auto workers' union locals.
The rally demonstrators lambasted Rice for her favoring "fast-track" authority for TPP. Previous rallies had targeted Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley).
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