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big a deal and how encompassing this deal is? what about movementes in other countries. and there s a big movement here in america where workers are speaking up and rallying against it. what s happening larry in other countries right now? is there any pushback by other labor forces? last week, at a meeting of the world labor movement, every four years we organized a meeting on this what s called investors state, the corporate state, suing other countries. we had people there from 50 countries including australia. the australian stories are already horrendous. the phillip morris subsidiary in hong kong suing australia because they improved meaning they made cigarette labeling more dangerous, particularly to pregnant women. they are being sued now for hundreds of millions of dollars for doing that. the loss of profits to phillip morris. yes, around the world, i met with leaders concerns about the european trade deal. and what happens with provisions like investors state being in