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Actions To Finish Off The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)!

November 10, 2016 Flush the TPP, www.popularresistance.org Resist! #NoLameDuck, Congress, Obama, TPP, Trade, Trump

By Flush the TPP. We have been fighting the TPP for the past 5 years. The work of activists across the country and in solidarity with activists around the world succeeded in pushing the TPP fight into an election year and making it politically toxic. We were told two years ago that voters didn't care about trade, yet it was the TPP that played a critical role in the Democrat's loss in the elections. Voters supported Trump to protest the Democrat's support for the TPP and failure to address the needs of working people and the poor. Now we are in the battle of the year: President Obama says that he will do all that he can to ratify the TPP before he leaves office. Trump opposes the TPP. Members of Congress who have lost their seats or are retiring are not accountable to voters. We can stop the TPP if we take action now to prevent its ratification in the lame duck session of Congress!

Ryan Rules Out Lame-Duck TPP

October 12, 2016 Edmund Kozak, www.theguardian.com Educate! Congress, TPP

By Edmund Kozak for PoliZette - Paul Ryan said Friday there would be no lame duck attempt to foist the Trans-Pacific Partnership on the American people. “We’re not going to bring this up in [the] lame-duck [session],” Ryan said Friday morning during an appearance on “The Laura Ingraham Show.” “I can say that safely because even if we wanted to … we don’t have the votes,” Ryan added. Ryan stressed that he and the House GOP do not want to resurrect the TPP in its current form.

TPP Trade Deal: Plain Packaging Challenge Triggered ‘Hysteria’

October 12, 2016 Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com Organize! Congress, TPP, Trade Deal

By Katharine Murphy for The Guardian - The legal counsel to tobacco giant Philip Morris has told a parliamentary committee that people have responded hysterically to a landmark legal case challenging Australia’s plain packaging laws. Philip Morris, in the first investor-state dispute ever brought against Australia, used a 1993 investment agreement between Australia and Hong Kong to challenge the then Labor government’s plain packaging laws.

Are You Ready To Defeat TPP In November? Join #NoLameDuckUprising

October 11, 2016 Daniel Cooper Bermudez, www.nationofchange.org Resist! Congress, TPP

By Daniel Cooper Bermudez for Nation of Change - Thousands of people are resisting the TPP as it would severely limit the self-determination of peoples around the world in the service of corporate interests. The deal would entrench the enforcement of profit guarantees for investors at the expense of our lives and the well-being of our Earth. The TPP is a ticking time-bomb and the clock is set for its approval by Congress during their “Lame Duck” session after the November elections.

A Lame Duck TPP Vote Makes The People Sitting Ducks

October 4, 2016 Patrick Woodall, www.foodandwaterwatch.org Resist! Congress, TPP

By Patrick Woodall for Food & Water Watch - The White House, the big business lobby and country club Republicans are making a final push to pass the politically toxic Trans-Pacific Partnership — after the election. That’s right, the controversial trade deal is so unpopular, so reviled even by both presidential candidates, that even its biggest fans realize Congress cannot possibly take it up before the election, lest voters exact retribution at the polling booths.

Will Our Representatives In Washington Betray Us On TPP?

September 22, 2016 Mary Wildfire, www.wvgazettemail.com Organize! Congress, TPP

By Mary Wildfire for Charleston Gazette-Mail - Everybody hates the TPP — the Tran Pacific Partnership “free trade” deal. Conservatives hate it because of its assault on sovereignty, the way it hands over the rights to regulate in the U.S. to foreign corporations. Liberals and progressives hate the way it threatens labor rights, health and safety standards, and the environment. Everybody hates the prospect of sending yet more American jobs to whichever country lets the companies pay them the least.

Ute Tribe: Utah Republican Pushes Modern Day Indian Land Grab

September 20, 2016 Staff, www.indianz.com Organize! Congress, Land grabs, Utah

By Staff of Indianz - In the next few weeks Congressman Rob Bishop will attempt to push through the U.S. House of Representatives the first Indian land grab in over 100 years. H.R. 5780, the Utah Public Lands Initiative, proposes to rollback federal policy to the late 1800’s when Indian lands and resources where taken for the benefit of others. In a startling lack of transparency, Congressman Bishop plans only one hearing on this 215-page bill with about 129 other land management proposals in the obscure Subcommittee on Federal Lands.

Sen. Warren And Hundreds Of Academics Urge Rejection of TPP

September 8, 2016 Staff, www.citizen.org Resist! Congress, TPP

By Staff of Public Citizen - WASHINGTON, D.C. – The investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) regime at the heart of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that would newly empower thousands of multinational corporations to challenge U.S. policies before panels of three private lawyersto demand taxpayer compensation is the target of a letter sent to Congress today by leading pro-free trade U.S. economics and law professors calling on Congress to reject the TPP. The White House has escalated its efforts to pass the TPP in the lame-duck session, with Cabinet secretaries who are promoting the TPP crossing paths with Democratic presidential and congressional candidates campaigning against the TPP.

Drugs And Privilege: Big Business, Congress And The EpiPen

September 2, 2016 Michael Winship, www.billmoyers.com Educate! Congress, Drugs

By Michael Winship for Bill Moyers Company - This new price gouge is the latest example of a corrupt system that hurts regular Americans — but we will hold accountable those who are responsible. Cash and carry has become nothing more than standard operating procedure in politics and government, and it’s wrecking the republic. The whole system is rotten to the core, corrupted by big business and special interests from the seventh son to the seventh son.

Obama Puts Congress On Notice: TPP Is Coming

August 14, 2016 Adam Behsudi, www.politico.com Educate! Congress, Obama, TPP, Trade

By Adam Behsudi for Politico. Washington, DC - The White House put Congress on notice Friday morning that it will be sending lawmakers a bill to implement President Barack Obama’s landmark Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement — a move intended to infuse new energy into efforts to ratify the flat-lining trade pact. The move establishes a 30-day minimum before the administration can present the legislation, but the White House is unlikely to do so amid the heated rhetoric of a presidential campaign in which both major party nominees have depicted free trade deals as massive job killers. Friday's notification is the clearest signal yet that the White House is serious about getting Obama’s legacy trade deal — the biggest in U.S. history — passed by the end of the year, as he has vowed to do despite the misgivings of Republican leaders and the outright opposition of a majority of Democrats in Congress.

Congressional Corruption Rescues Biofuel Profits

August 10, 2016 Almuth Ernsting, www.independentsciencenews.org Educate! Biofuels, Congress, Corruption, Profit

By Almuth Ernsting for Independent Science News - Subsidies intended for next-generation cellulosic ethanol production are to be applied to a trivial improvement to corn ethanol refining technologies. Since cellulosic ethanol qualifies for much higher subsidies, this will significantly increase corn refinery profits and boost the demand for corn but will do nothing to combat climate change or promote energy independence. This is all thanks to an EPA policy to boost the previously (almost) non-existing cellulosic biofuel production in the US by widening and watering down the definition of that term.

Grassroots Democrats Are Making TPP Big Issue In Congressional Races

August 9, 2016 John Nichols, www.thenation.com Resist! Congress, Democrats, DNC, TPP

By John Nichols for The Nation - Trade policy in general—and the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement in particular—has become a vital concern for Democrats up and down the ballot. Just ask Wisconsin Congressman Ron Kind, one of the few congressional Democrats who continue to make arguments for agreements such as the TPP. Kind, who has served almost two decades as the Democratic representative from farm and factory towns of western Wisconsin, did not receive a warm welcome from Wisconsin delegates to this month’s Democratic National Convention.

Ryan: TPP Doesn’t Have Support For House Vote This Year

August 6, 2016 Vicki Needham, www.thehill.com Educate! Congress, House, TPP

By Vicki Needham for The Hill - Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis) on Thursday said an expansive Asia-Pacific trade deal won’t get a vote in Congress this year because there isn’t enough support. Ryan said there is no point in bringing up the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal in the lame-duck session after the November elections because he doesn't see how the Obama administration can build enough support for the controversial agreement by year's end.

500,000 Petitions To Congress Demand Rejection Of TPP

June 30, 2016 Brittany Matter, www.foe.org Resist! Congress, TPP

By Brittany Matter for Friends of the Earth - Today, June 29, Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club, Food and Water Watch and other environmental advocates delivered more than 500,000 petitions to Congress demanding the rejection of a Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal that promises to ramp up fossil fuel exports, accelerate climate change and encourage deregulation of environmental safeguards across the board. Among other anti-environment provisions, the Trans Pacific Partnership would offer thousands of new foreign firms virtually the same broad rights included in NAFTA...

Science Orgs Again Urge Congress To Take Climate Change Seriously

June 29, 2016 Lisa Song, www.insideclimatenews.org Educate! Climate Change, Congress, Science

By Lisa Song for Inside Climate News - Thirty-one major American scientific organizations sent a letter to Congress on Tuesday emphasizing the overwhelming consensus on climate change science and the urgent need for climate action. The letter served as a scientific counterpoint to recent actions by Congress designed to question that consensus. Reminding members of Congress that "rigorous scientific research concludes that the greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are the primary driver" of global warming, they cited nearly universal support for the scientific consensus as expressed by the U.S. National Academies, the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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