--What is the SPP? An introduction
--The SPP: A Corporate Vision of the Future that Affects us All

This workshop aims to look at a next generation trade initiative that builds on NAFTA and is known as the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). Using the context of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, we hope to focus on how corporations are being given the green light to control public policy, to privatize community assets, and to profit from growing corporate control over all aspects of our basic energy needs. We also hope to engage workshop participants in strategizing about how we can collectively organize to respond to the SPP agenda that is hurting people in the Gulf States and elsewhere in the US, Mexico, and Canada. The workshop will be a mix of brief panel presentations and interaction among all workshop participants. Everyone will be a learner in this two-part morning and afternoon session, and hopefully we all will be re-activated by the end of the day!