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Editor\u2019s Note: This article was first published in <\/em>Convergence<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twenty-one heads of state and more than 1,200 CEOs of global corporations will descend on San Francisco, CA for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders Week and the related APEC CEO Summit beginning on Nov. 11. APEC is an intergovernmental forum of 21 \u201cmember economies<\/a>\u201d that meet annually for trade talks to advance \u201cfree trade\u201d policies within the Asia Pacific region. APEC CEO summit headliners and sponsors include super-polluters Chevron and Exxon, major financiers of the fossil fuel industry Bank of America and Citi, and labor exploiters Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Uber, among others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, a major focus of APEC will be the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF)<\/a>, an economic initiative spearheaded by the Biden administration that would govern 40% of the global economy and become the dominant template for new trade deals, much as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) did in the 1990s. The US sees APEC and IPEF as opportunities to advance US control in the region. In particular, Biden\u2019s push to establish IPEF is part of the US\u2019 economic pivot to Asia and an attempt to contain and attack its global rivals like China. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, labor unions, indigenous peoples, land and water defenders, small farmers, youth, women\u2019s, and other grassroots organizations from around the world contend that APEC\u2019s backroom deals put corporate profits over people\u2019s needs. They have learned from the damage done by NAFTA<\/a>, from declining wages and forced migration to displacement of farmers and loss of biological diversity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Activists assert that the policies advanced by APEC exploit workers, intensify resource extraction that drives ecological erosion and climate change, and weaken the sovereignty and self-determination of local communities in order to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of multinational corporations. IPEF\u2019s detractors say this new framework in particular would offshore more jobs, roll back critical labor and environmental regulations, make more of our personal data available for surveillance and profit, and undermine democracy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this reason, a multi-sector NO 2 APEC Coalition<\/a> has spent the last many months preparing to try to disrupt APEC. Organizers are planning a Peoples\u2019 Counter Summit on Nov. 11, a mass mobilization on Nov. 12 and a day of mass non-violent direct action at the CEO Summit on Nov. 15. The coalition has held teach-ins, taught webinars<\/a>, canvassed their neighborhoods, hosted art builds, offered training on civil disobedience, and raised funds to support attendees from frontline communities.. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To better understand the opposition to APEC and the call for mass direct action to stop it, I spoke with three San Francisco Bay Area activists whose experiences in human rights, labor, and climate led them to be involved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brandon Lee, human rights activist and survivor of an assassination attempt <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Brandon Lee takes in the sunset from his home in the Mission Neighborhood of San Francisco, CA, wearing The Bayyaong, a Tuwali indigenous attire in Ifugao. Photo: Brooke Anderson.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Brandon Lee knows all too well that when communities resist the kind of neoliberal policies that APEC and IPEF promote, they face escalating surveillance, harassment, violence, and repression. In 2019, Lee survived an assassination attempt by the Philippine military for his work with Indigenous peoples of the Philippines.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee, a Chinese American, was born and raised in the Sunset District of San Francisco where he got involved with the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA). Through CPA, he supported Monster Cable workers<\/a> fighting for back wages after their jobs were offshored. \u201cThat\u2019s what neoliberalism does. This is what APEC does.\u201d says Lee. \u201cThey offshore work to other countries where they can better exploit workers. Union jobs in the U.S. get sent abroad where there\u2019s more political repression. That was my introduction to neoliberal politics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inspired to work in solidarity with those resisting neoliberalism on the frontlines, Lee moved to Ifugao in the Cordillera region of the Philippines in 2010. There, he worked as a paralegal and journalist alongside indigenous peoples fighting mining and damming in their territories. The country\u2019s Mining Act of 1995 awarded 100% of the profits from the plundering of natural resources to multinational corporations, devastating the land and displacing its traditional peoples. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCommunities didn\u2019t want the companies coming in if they wouldn\u2019t benefit from it. So the companies would dangle carrots of jobs, roads, scholarships in front of them. It pitted entire clans and families against each other,\u201d Lee says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the people rose up, the military came in to quell protest and dissent. They spread propaganda and disinformation about organizers and \u201cred tagged\u201d them on social media, painting them as part of communist or terrorist organizations. In the years preceding the attempt on his own life, two of Brandon\u2019s colleagues were murdered\u2014William Bugatti in 2014 and Ricardo Mayummi in 2018. During his time in the Philippines, Lee was followed, photographed, detained, searched, and visited at home and at work by the Philippine military. He was even sent a package with a photo of burial fabric – a not-so-subtle death threat. Yet, he kept going. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, on August 6th, 2019, Lee was gunned down outside his home, presumably by the 54th Infantry Battalion security forces of the Philippine military that had previously followed and harassed him<\/a>. His young daughter was one of the first to find him, laying in a pool of blood. Lee almost died from the eight cardiac arrests he experienced in the days and weeks that followed. After the last one, he told his wife that it hurt too bad and he didn\u2019t want to continue. During the three weeks he spent in the ICU, the police and army attempted to visit him, prompting fears that they had come to finish the job. As a result, his community kept round-the-clock vigil outside his hospital room and was joined by delegations from the U.S. After extensive fundraising, he was eventually medically evacuated back to San Francisco. The attack left him permanently paralyzed without the use of his legs or hands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To date, there has been no accountability for the attempt on Lee\u2019s life. Despite its flagrant impunity for war crimes, the Philippines has received billions of dollars of U.S. military aid since 2015<\/a>.  \u201cIt horrifies me to think that the bullet fragments still lodged in my body have been funded through American tax dollars,\u201d says Lee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Lee, however, justice is not just about his own case. It\u2019s about stopping the land grabs, resource extraction, worker exploitation, and political repression that bodies like APEC and agreements like IPEF enable, and which imperil land and water defenders like him across Asia, the Pacific, and Latin America. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edith Saldano, barista and member-leader at Starbucks Workers United<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Edith Saldano (left) and Pyxie Castillo (right) sit at an outdoor cafe in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA working on their laptops in preparation for a NO to APEC Coalition meeting. Photo: Brooke Anderson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For Edith Saldano, APEC\u2019s calculated assault on workers\u2019 rights and union jobs is personal. \u201cI\u2019ve been working since I was 15. My parents immigrated in the late \u201880s and early \u201890s from Mexico. My mom wasn\u2019t a citizen so she had a hard time finding jobs. My dad worked in construction. He went through a lot to raise our family – working long hours, getting injured, the impact on his body – but all so that we could get union benefits,\u201d says Saldano. \u201cThe union is the reason I have health care and dental. That\u2019s one of the reasons I\u2019m so involved in Starbucks Workers United<\/a> and the NO to APEC coalition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saldano works as a barista at Starbucks in Capitola, CA. When Saldano and their co-workers faced sexual harassment in the workplace, they called the already-unionized Starbucks workers in Buffalo, NY for advice and started a campaign of their own. In June 2022, the Capitola workers won their own union election. Saldano is now a committed member leader with the rapidly growing Starbucks Workers United, which represents 9,000 workers across 360 stores worldwide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saldano first heard about APEC from their Chilean union counterparts with Sindicato Starbucks who had effectively shut down the trade talks when the summit came to Chile in 2019. Labor opposition to APEC has been more outspoken internationally than in the U.S., where the AFL-CIO\u2019s reticence to cross President Biden, Chairperson of this year\u2019s APEC, has likely tempered more vocal criticism. Even so, many in labor – including the San Francisco Labor Council<\/a>, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Northern California District Council, and the Oakland Education Association\u2014have gone on record opposing APEC. Regardless, APEC\u2019s devastating impact on workers is clear to rank-and-file workers like Saldano. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve done a lot of research to understand the coffee supply chain. The decisions made at APEC will impact not only baristas but the peasant labor that Starbucks uses at its haciendas from the Philippines to Costa Rica. The farmers who produce the coffee will be more exploited through the decisions made at APEC,\u201d says Saldano. \u201cThere will be more land grabs and the increased militarization they\u2019ll face when they eventually fight back. But it will also hurt warehouse workers who deliver things overnight and the garment workers who make our t-shirts and aprons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saldano\u2019s friend and fellow organizer, Pyxie Castillo, is the chairperson of GABRIELA USA<\/a>, an alliance of grassroots Filipino women\u2019s organizations in the U.S., and a chapter of the international GABRIELA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAround the time that we hosted union organizers from the Philippines on a speaking tour in the U.S., a labor organizer, Jude Thaddeus Fernandez of the Kilusan Mayo Uno [May First Movement] in the Philippines, was killed. These blatant attacks on labor are happening in real time,\u201d says Castillo. \u201cPeople might not see it in our everyday life in the U.S. but for folks in the Philippines, Haiti, South Korea, India, you can\u2019t turn away. These are the areas whose heads of state are coming, so we have a responsibility to raise these issues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nik Evasco, youth climate organizer and scholar on migration and refugees<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Nik Evasco holds a poster for the mobilizations against APEC, reading \u201cDon\u2019t Trade Away Our Climate Future,\u201d in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. Photo: Brooke Anderson\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Nik Evasco is a queer and nonbinary Filipinx organizer for climate justice and a scholar on climate refugees who lives in San Francisco and has been organizing with the Climate Bloc <\/a>of the NO to APEC Coalition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI bring an intersectional people\u2019s justice bent into what for decades has been an older, white, cis-dominated movement around carbon, or CO2 essentialism\u2014the idea that as long as we reduce carbon emissions nothing else matters,\u201d says Evasco.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evasco\u2019s own family history has been shaped by the impacts of the kind of neoliberal, \u201cfree trade\u201d policies of previous generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy family migrated to the U.S. in the 1960s and \u201870s. My grandparents had been farmers in the Philippines. But the crops they used to sustain themselves were not enough. They migrated internally to Manila to get jobs as teachers but everything, including the people, were being extracted from the Philippines and the internal structure just wasn\u2019t there,\u201d says Evasco. \u201cSo, like many folks in the Asian diaspora of APEC member countries like the Philippines, Guam, other U.S. imperial sites, the only jobs were in the U.S. military, so my grandpa enlisted and my family migrated to a military base in Virginia. They only went back once. The land they\u2019d once had in the family has been lost.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The interlocking features of U.S. neoliberal policies in Asia that played out across generations in Evasco\u2019s family\u2014crop failure, land grabs, job loss, forced displacement, migration, militarization\u2014speak to the importance of the demands of the No to APEC Climate Bloc<\/a> that the US and APEC end carbon pollution and<\/em> globalize climate justice by reversing their disproportionate impact on communities of color in the U.S. and peoples of the Global South. That, however, isn\u2019t likely to happen behind APEC\u2019s closed doors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t have to be cynical or a political activist to be like, \u2018Wow, having Exxon, Bank of America, and Lockheed Martin together with a confluence of leaders like Biden, Modi, or Marcos Jr. who proudly repress people\u2019s movements and who ignore climate and environmental standards to prop up business interests and campaign donors is not the best forum to negotiate a framework for the next decades of trade,\u2019\u201d says Evasco. \u201cThere is a massive power imbalance when there will be negotiations on the future of our planet, and our lives, but no civil component in the room. There\u2019s no forum for teachers, caregivers, artists.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTrade deals have historically helped Big Pharma expand their monopolies and jack up prices, helped Wall Street dismantle regulations, and helped Big Ag undermine food safety and consumer right-to-know regulations. Big Tech is trying to use trade rules to attack consumer privacy and AI accountability. On top of that, Big Oil, Coal and Gas have been granted special powers within trade agreements to attack the environmental movement\u2019s climate victories. \u201d says Will Wiltschko of the California Trade Justice Coalition<\/a>, which is part of the NO 2 APEC Coalition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe recently released IPEF pillar on supply chains, which of course would have a lot to do with climate change, doesn’t even mention \u2018climate change,\u2019\u201d adds Wiltschko. \u201cWhat they\u2019re doing here is greenwashing and it reeks of climate denialism. It\u2019s a photo op between heads of state and some of the worst actors when it comes to climate change and worker rights.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because  the most likely outcome of APEC\u2019s summit is a further entrenchment of human rights abuses, labor violations, and a fossil fuel economy that drives climate chaos, activists have pledged to disrupt the fundamentally undemocratic meeting of billionaires. They promise thousands of people in the streets and mass civil disobedience if necessary, much as labor, climate, and anti-globalization activists disrupted World Trade Organization (WTO) meetings more than two decades ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Activists are also raising alarm<\/a> about the impact of the summit itself on San Francisco\u2019s most vulnerable residents. Despite promotional billboards throughout the city proclaiming \u201cAPEC will be epic!,\u201d many community organizations say it will stretch the city\u2019s budget, displace unhoused neighbors<\/a>, create hardships for elderly and disabled residents<\/a> isolated inside the <\/a>\u201cexclusion zone\u201d<\/a> around the meetings, and re-traumatize immigrant communities who\u2019ve fled armed conflict by subjecting them to military checkpoints. To counter the worst impacts of the summit on the city\u2019s most marginalized, coalition members are building mutual aid networks to support their people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe understand that our struggles are interconnected. Life on this planet is interdependent,\u201d says Narissa Lee of the NO to APEC Coalition. \u201cPeople in power are colluding about how to violently crush our movements for profit, but we have to build with each other, forge really deep relationships of solidarity if we are to have a fighting chance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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