- 02/03/2016 by Ken Gale (WBAI News)

—After more than five years of secret negotiations, ministers from the 12 Trans-Pacific Partnership countries, including the U.S., will meet in New Zealand this Thursday to formally sign the TPP.

Meanwhile activists will kick off two days of protests in 38 cities throughout the U.S.  and in 7 countries beginning today. WBAI's Ken Gale reports.