Saturday, 28. May 2016 – 11:13 Update: 29-05-2016 11:04
This will also be the second MPs Jasper van Dijk (SP) and Marianne Thieme (PvdD) participate. At 12.30 pm the activists will gather on the square. it will include Geert Ritsema of Milieudefensie and Ewald Engelen, professor of financial geography, make a speech. Then the treaties of TTIP and CETA two coffins containing shall be worn in a festive funeral procession “to the city. All this accompanied by a band. This writes Het Parool Saturday.
When the procession comes back on the Beursplein, around 14:15 pm, will also some politicians speak. The action actually began at 09.00. When the protesters hung placards on the images on Rembrandt Square.
Saturday not only in Amsterdam protested against the controversial trade agreements TTIP and CETA, there are actions also include Eindhoven, Utrecht, Wageningen, The Hague , Rotterdam, Nijmegen and Stadskanaal. The actions are an initiative of Greenpeace. It is the intention to carry out actions in the whole country. Friends of the Earth, but also politicians and trade unions think that the environment, health and rights are subordinated to trade and investment and will make people aware of it. The proposed free trade agreement between the United States and the European Union said Geert Ritsema, campaigner for Friends of the Earth, “TTIP is a threat to our environment, our agriculture and the need to transition to a fossil-free economy.”
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