Photos from the Chicago Week of Action on Trans-Pacific Trade

As a major international trade summit took place in downtown Chicago in September 2011, trade justice activists from the labor, environmental, public health, family farm and consumer movements gathered to demand a Fair Deal or No Deal on the Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement.

Labor Day Rally for Jobs, Affordable Medication & a Healthy Environment
September 5, 2011

HIV+ community organizer Mike Takili addresses the crowd

United Steelworkers District Director Jim Robinson

Third World Network’s Sanya Reid Smith

Lori Wallach of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream

Rev. Jesse Jackson addresses the crowd

Labor Day march outside the Hilton Chicago

Enjoying Ben & Jerry’s ice cream after the march

Enjoying Ben & Jerry’s ice cream after the march

Ben & Jerry Attempt to Deliver 20,000 Postcards to Trade Negotiators
September 6, 2011

Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield, co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream

Bill Waren of Friends of the Earth

Ben Cohen attempts to deliver postcards to trade negotiators at the Hilton Chicago

Police officers block delivery of postcards to U.S. trade negotiators

Amy Hall of Family Farm Defenders, Arthur Stamoulis of Citizens Trade Campaign and Lisa Griffith of National Family Farm Coalition

HealthGAP Action for Access to Life-Saving Medicines
September 7, 2011

Jane Kelsey of the University of Auckland

Matt Kavanagh of HealthGAP

Action outside the Hilton Chicago in support of access to life-saving medications

International Teach-In on the Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement
September 8, 2011

Sanya Reid Smith of Third World Network, Celeste Drake of the AFL-CIO, Patricia Ranald of the Australian Network for Fair Trade and Investment, and Jane Kelsey of the University of Auckland

The AFL-CIO’s Celeste Drake at the teach-in at Roosevelt University

Alejandra Alayza Moncloa of the Peruvian Network for Equitable Globalization

Picket for a Fair Deal or No Deal
September 10, 2011

Picket outside the Hilton Chicago

Picket outside the Hilton Chicago

Picket outside the Hilton Chicago

Picket outside the Hilton Chicago

Picket outside the Hilton Chicago