Five hundred international trade negotiators met the week of Dec. 5th, 2012 in secret in New Zealand to hash out the terms of the Trans Pacific Partnership.

Non-governmental organizations and trade unions have been locked out of the meetings except for a so-called ‘stakeholder day’ this Friday. In the Pacific Northwest, a solidarity protest was held December 3rd at the Washington-Canada border to say No to the trans pacific partnership.

KBOO’s Jenka Soderberg spoke with one of the organizers of the weekend’s protest