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Get Ready Now For Fast Track Fight

December 25, 2014 Dave Johnson, www.ourfuture.org Organize! Congress, fast track, Law, TPP

As soon as the new Congress is sworn in next year, the fight over Fast Track will begin. Start preparing now. David Cay Johnston, explains in “Full Speed Ahead On Secretive Trade Deal”: (Note the ‘t’ in his last name. I am David C JohnSON.) Early next year, after the 114th Congress begins meeting, a new Washington coalition will move quickly to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a 12-nation trade agreement that will destroy American jobs, restrict individual liberty and burden American taxpayers. Oh, and it will do so without any real debate. … The agreement would even let foreign companies seek damages if U.S. or state rules threaten their profits. Plaintiff companies would not have to sustain damages to collect damages from American taxpayers. They would only need to show a threat to their profits, leaks from the trade talks have revealed.

Popular Resistance Newsletter – Actions Heat Up In US & Globally

October 4, 2014 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Climate Change, Education, fast track, TPP, Wars and Militarism, World Bank

This past week, there has been a lot written about next steps in the climate justice movement. Now that hundreds of thousands have marched, it shows that the movement exists. But marching alone doesn’t change things, so what do we do? There are many tactics required to move to a carbon-free nuclear-free energy economy. The task for all of us is to build on the momentum created by the march and the Flood Wall Street sit-in and escalate both resistance and building alternatives. Here are a number of opportunities: Stopping Tar Sands excavation – the struggle to stop the expansion of tar sands excavation in Alberta, CA is making progress. Mike Hudema lists concrete successes in his article linked here. Resistance in the United States to transporting the bitumen from Canadian tar sands continues to be strong.

Time Again To Stop Fast Track; Stop The TPP & TAFTA

October 3, 2014 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Organize! fast track, TAFTA, TPP, TTIP

Nov. 8th to 14th Week of Action: Say NO to Fast Track and Unjust Trade! This fall, communities across the U.S. will once again join international allies in a global week of action against unjust trade. With Obama pushing to announce a TPP “framework” in November and the threat of Fast Track tripling in the lame-duck session, we need to demonstrate that hundreds of thousands still oppose corporate agreements meant to put profit before people and the planet. Let us know if you think your community can hold an action of any kind this November, and help us stand beside those resisting unjust trade from New Zealand to New York.

The Pacific Trade Deal, Fast Track, And The 2014 Elections

June 23, 2014 Bill Waren, www.foe.org Educate! Congress, Corporatism, Elections, fast track, TPP

Recently, I had the opportunity to appear with Ian Levitt, the host of The Daily Report on Minnesota radio station KTNF. He is conducting a series of interviews with me regarding the environmental threat posed by legislation that would “fast track” the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement and a similar trans Atlantic free trade agreement, which is the early stages of negotiation. The focus of our discussion was the TPP, which appears to be in the final stage of closed-door bargaining among the parties. It is a colossal trade deal in terms of its geographic and economic reach. The participants in the secretive negotiations include Japan, the communist dictatorship of Vietnam, the Sultanate of Brunei (ruled under sharia law), and eight other Pacific nations: a mixed bag in terms of observance of human rights standards, to say the least. The TPP would undercut sensible safeguards related to food safety, financial industry abuses and global warming, among many others. As I told KTNF listeners,, “a long list of special favors to the wealthy and the corporations is in this so-called trade agreement. It’s a Wall Street Bill of Rights.”

Los Angeles Resolution Opposing Obama’s TPP

June 8, 2014 The Orange Juice Blog, www.orangejuiceblog.com Organize! California, fast track, Organizing, TPP

Here’s John-Paul Leonard of The Progressive Press: In a story that has gone completely unreported in the media, the Los Angeles City Council has approved a resolution against the TPP. The Council made a very strong statement against the attempt to usurp city and citizen sovereignty by a secret and unconstitutional legislative procedure called “Fast Track.” Incredibly, under Fast Track Congress can’t even amend a law, clearly abolishing a basic right of the legislature. The arrogance and perfidy of the corporatists seems unbelievable, but we know how they are. Evidently, the Los Angeles Times did not deem it worthy of mention! To me it seems quite historic, like Los Angeles’ own contemporary version of the Declaration of Independence. The globalist corporate controlled media obviously don’t want any of that.

More Spin, No Substance On TPP From US Trade Representative

April 4, 2014 Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Corporatism, fast track, TPP

U.S. Trade Representative Mike Froman needs a fast track bill to get some important free trade agreements to the President’s desk for signature. But you wouldn’t necessarily know it after he testified about the administration’s trade policy agenda at a House Committee hearing on Thursday. “Our focus is on the substance of the agreements,” he said. “I want to get a TPA built that has broad bipartisan support.” (TPA is Trade Promotion Authority, also known as fast track–a bill which empowers the executive to negotiate a trade agreement and limit Congress to an up-or-down vote without amendments.) Thus Froman put the spin on his political strategy: to pretend he’s not avidly pursuing fast track while Republicans do the heavy lifting. Public opposition killed TPA earlier this year, and the U.S. Trade Rep will have to address numerous complaints about the trade agreements before fast track can get back on track.

Resistance Report Week in Review [#17] (Video)

January 18, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report campaign to end war, Democracy, fast track, Resistance Report, toxic chemical spill, TPP

The Resistance Report Week in Review collects all of the Resistance Report segments from the previous week and rolls them into one big show.

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