TPP Uncovered: WikiLeaks releases draft of highly-secretive multi-national trade deal. TPP: The Biggest Threat to the Internet You've Probably Never Heard Of. Moneywars.info. Obama’s Covert Trade Deal. The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. Pressure Pays Off: Obama Administration Finally Lets Congress See Secretive TPP Text (But Still Not the Rest of Us) For once, we have some good news.
After years of calling for release of the secretive draft text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), we have achieved an interim victory. No, you still can't yet get a look at the sweeping 12-country "free trade" agreement (FTA) that implicates everything from your morning Internet browsing to your evening dinner. But for the first known time in the three years that the secretive deal has been under negotiation by the Obama administration, said administration has allowed a member of Congress to view three chapters of the bracketed negotiating text. (In case you're just hearing about this, that's correct: even our elected officials have been kept in the dark on a deal that would rewrite broad swaths of domestic public interest policies.) Last week, Congressman Alan Grayson (FL-09) got a peek at the controversial pact after requesting access from the U.S. This month, the drumbeat crescendoed.
Meanwhile, the rest of us are still shut out. Stopping the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Global Revolt Against Corporate Domination. (Photo: Caelie_Frampton / Flickr) We are in the midst of an epic battle between the people of the world and transnational corporations.
Wealthy governments and corporations are merging in a global system in which private corporations have absolute power over your life. This is a battle the people can win and when we do it will show that we can defeat corporate power on issue after issue. The 1999 battle in Seattle to stop the World Trade Organization (WTO) from granting increased power to transnational corporations and the negative consequences of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) created broad public awareness about the ways that ‘free trade’ hurts people and the planet. As a result, in the past few decades, the WTO has effectively been unable to move forward with its neoliberal economic agenda. We do know that the TPP is less about trade and more about entrenching corporate property rights.
Corporate Property Rights and Profits Come First Will this legal right be abused? Trans-Pacific Partnership. TransPacific Partnership Will Undermine Democracy, Empower Transnational Corporations » Clearing the FOG Radio. Wednesday, 27 March 2013 By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Truthout | News Analysis Our country’s democratic values could be under threat if President Obama fast tracks the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
On critical issues, the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) being negotiated in secret by the Obama administration willundermine democracy in the United States and around the world and further empower transnational corporations. It will circumvent protections for health care, wages, labor rights, consumers’ rights and the environment, and decrease regulation of big finance and risky investment practices. The only way this treaty, which will be very unpopular with the American people once they are aware of it, can be approved is if the Obama administration avoids the democratic process by using an authority known as “Fast Track,” which limits the constitutional checks and balances of Congress. Circumventing the Checks and Balances of US Democracy And, this means a tremendous loss of jobs. ANNOUNCING: Action Campaign to Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership. PopularResistance.org is excited to announce it’s first action campaign.
In collaboration with groups that have been working to expose and oppose the secretive trade agreement that the Obama administration has been negotiating for the past three years, PopularResistance.org developed an action website: FlushtheTPP.org. Everyone can get involved to stop the TPP! 1. Take the pledge (and you will receive a weekly action newsletter). 2. 3.
Here is information about the campaign from FlushtheTPP.org: FlushTheTPP.org is an action campaign to Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP affects many issues, including worker’s rights and wages, environmental collapse and climate change, sovereignty of nations and democratic rule of law, Internet freedom and online creativity, food safety and agriculture, healthcare and financial regulation (including controls over the flow of capital), and much more. Strategic Action Plan There is a lot of flexibility in this strategy. Flush the TPP! ← Stop the Global Corporate Coup!