Sign Up For “Stop Fast Track” Action Camp, Days Of Action
...on the secret TPP and let members know the whole country is watching to see if they stand for transparency and democracy or secrecy and plutocracy. Materials and training will [...]
WikiLeaks: Defeating The Conspiracy Of Governance
...nd the wall of complexity is also a form of secrecy. By developing a highly searchable database, WikiLeaks made documents usable that were normally quite difficult to access. The Trans-Pacific [...]
#FightFastTrack Protests Across The Country
...ation, which has been called “NAFTA on steroids,” as a tool for advancing U.S. and corporate power at the expense of environmental and public health. In fact, many argue that [...]
TPP Fast Track Crawls To Near Halt, Opportunity To Reframe Trade
...ements without TPA and the other countries know that,” Hatch said. The administration is now negotiating deals with the European Union and a group of Latin American and Pacific nations [...]
Popular Resistance Newsletter – People-Powered Media Beats Corporate Media
...ths. This is an embarrassing lack of coverage of the largest trade agreement since the WTO. It is hard to not see this as an intentional decision. There is no question the strategy of the [...]
No TPP Deal In Sight, Supposed To Have Concluded In 2013
...ch agreement on tariffs and other market access issues. Trade ministers held four days of talks in Singapore to try to reach an agreement on the 12-nation Trans Pacific Partnership [...]
USTR Promises Congress TPP Will Have Strong Environmental Protections; Then Immediately Denies Saying That
...ent is likely to be even weaker than what’s currently in the chapter. In response to this, the USTR put out what appeared to be a fairly strong statement that it won’t accept weak [...]
USTR Told: Help Workers Not Just Corporations
...t for profit, and then come back to the U.S. and sell their products for the same prices while threatening to offshore the jobs of more American workers. The letter lists just a few of the [...]
TPP Trade Talks Must Stop
...The proposals also contain no enforcement for environmental provisions, and fail to address the need for action to mitigate climate change. “A fair and open global trading system is [...]
USTR Protests Demand: Stop The Secrecy, Release The Texts
...tions that trade away our rights and our future for corporate profits! Take action at ReleasetheText.com now. TPP Negotiators Come to DC and are Met By People Telling [...]
Mobilized & Winning, Now It’s Time to Escalate
...n, ‘If trade agreements can’t show they’re going to help the middle class…I’ve got some real problems with them.’” And in a theme heard throughout [...]
The TPP vs Democracy (Video)
...ons, as well as other prospective trade agreements.” Why is Fast track so important? Because President Obama, and the corporate advisors he so willingly serves, knows full well that if [...]
Open Government Groups Call For New USTR ‘Transparency Officer’
...blished in the Fast Track legislation to alter and improve what many in Congress consider an unacceptable lack of transparency by this Administration with respect to trade policy in general [...]
Knowledge Ecology Publishes The Chapters Of The TPP
On June 4, 2015, KEI asked USTR to provide the names of the TPP Chapters. The contents of the chapters are all officially secret, but we thought the names of the chapters should [...]
Fast Track Robs Medicare To Pay For Workers Who Lose Jobs From TPP
(Image: Health care via Shutterstock) New disturbing information has surfaced that the House Republicans’ trade adjustment assistance bill, which supports the Trans-Pacific Partnership [...]