TPP

Join The Buycott For Trade Justice

December 8, 2015 Staff, www.flushthetpp.org Create! Fair Trade, Local Economy, TISA, TPP, Trade, TTIP

By Flush the TPP. If they become law, international treaties like the TransPacific Partnership (TPP), TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the Trade-in-Services Agreement (TISA) will fundamentally alter the global economy and global governance in a way that further empowers transnational corporations while decreasing the power of nation-states and people. These treaties will create a permanent path that makes corporate profit more important than the needs of people and protection of the planet. They will drive a global race to the bottom in wages and worker rights, food safety, internet freedom, access to health care, protection of the environment and more. It is up to us to organize and build power to stop the race to the bottom in its tracks! The Buycott is a tactic that people all over the world can use. It is not only a form of resistance, of non-cooperation, but it is also a way to create the necessary alternative – trade that lifts communities up and protects the planet as a first priority.

It’s Time To Take A Stand For Workers On TPP

December 8, 2015 James P. Hoffa, Leo W. Gerard and Dennis Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Labor, TPP, Workers Rights and Jobs

By James P. Hoffa, Leo W. Gerard and Dennis Williams for The Huffington Post - We serve as representatives of American organized workers on the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations (ACTPN) and together have stated that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a bum deal we cannot support. By registering our dissent to the ACTPN report that endorses the agreement, the Teamsters, the United Steelworkers and the United Auto Workers are letting Congress and the public know this deal fails everyday Americans and must be rejected by our elected representatives. The TPP is simply the latest in a long line of terrible trade pacts that ship jobs overseas and lower wages at home. At a time of outrageous economic inequality and stagnate wages, TPP is the last thing we should do.

Newsletter: Heroes In The War At Home

December 6, 2015 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Baltimore, Black Panthers, Carbon infrastructure, Clean Energy, Climate Change, COP21, Corporate crime, Fracking, Fred Hampton, Freddie Grey, Net Neutrality, Paris, Pipelines, Police Brutrality, Racism, TISA, TPP, Uranium, wealth inequality

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. Forty six years ago this week, 21 year old Black Panther leader Fred Hampton was murdered in his bed by Chicago police and the FBI. Hampton was a hero to many in his community for the work he did to feed hungry schoolchildren, create peace in his high school and within his community as a leader of the Black Panthers. His crime was being intelligent, talented and effective. In his short life, he rattled the power structure. In the war at home - the elite's war on the poor, hungry, homeless, sick, young and old - there are many heroes. Maybe this is one aspect of the US' war culture we can embrace - honoring our heroes and sheroes. In memory of the late Howard Zinn, let's honor those who work everyday for justice and peace. We are making a difference. Let's change the culture by lifting up the change-makers - those who make the world a better place - as our role models and heroes. Let's remember people like Fred Hampton. As Bill Simpich writes about Hampton and others killed for their activism, "They died in the war at home. They died holding this country to its promises. They died so we can be free. Hold them in the place of the highest honor."

Neo-Liberal Assault On Black Lives; Baltimore To Buenaventura

December 4, 2015 Ajamu Baraka, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Black Lives Matter (BLM), Neoliberalism, TPP

By Ajamu Baraka for Black Agenda Report. Buenaventura, Colombia - Danelly Estupiñan, a powerful Afro-Colombian human rights activist and personal friend of mine, is now facing a mortal threat from the fanatical criminals aligned with powerful economic interests who are committed to keeping Black people subjugated in the port city of Buenaventura and throughout Colombia. An activist and member of the Black Communities Process (PCN), Danelly joins a long list of women, labor and youth activists who are facing death or have been murdered for daring to organize Afro-Colombians to defend their dignity.

Next Phase Of TPP Resistance

November 28, 2015 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Sovereignty, TPP, Trade

By Staff for Popular Resistance. The mobilization to stop the TransPacific Partnership (TPP) in DC from November 14 to 18 was a great success! Hundreds attended the arts build and training camp and many times more took to the streets. Three energetic and colorful marches and rallies over two days shut down the US Trade Representative's Office, stopped at the White House, took over the front door of the US Chamber of Commerce, swarmed the lobby of Morgan Stanley, shut down streets and the entrance to Monsanto and performed actions of solidarity in front of embassies of TPP countries. On the third day, a group visited Congressional leaders to deliver TPP toilet paper rolls.

A Full Plate Of Activism

November 26, 2015 Staff, www.youtube.com Resist! TPP

By Staff of Occupy - This week, let's take a peak at the TPP uprising in DC last week and get inspired to jump on board for the next one. Next, money in politics may not be the sexiest issue to talk about but it is the biggest – from tweets to marching in the streets, here are some bad ass ways to join the fight. Next, inaction is dangerous game, Stuart Schuffman aka broke ass stuart talks living cheaply and running for mayor, and finally, opt outside, don't buy shit and happy thanksgiving. But first, let me muse on a muse I once came across ---- peddling tunes on a crowded street late afternoon.

WTO Says Tuna Labels Can’t Tell Consumers ‘Dolphin-Safe

November 25, 2015 David Dayen, www.theintercept.com Educate! Food and Agriculture, TPP

By David Dayen for The Intercept - International trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) need to be carefully examined piece by piece because they can take precedence over a country’s own laws. Case in point: the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Friday ruled that dolphin-safe tuna labeling rules — required by U.S. law, in an effort to protect intelligent mammals from slaughter — violate the rights of Mexican fishers. As a result, the U.S. will have to either alter the law or face sanctions from Mexico.

EFF Joins Broad Coalition Of Groups Protesting TPP In Washington, D.C.

November 25, 2015 Maira Sutton, www.eff.org Resist! TPP

By Maira Sutton for EFF - We were out on the streets this week to march against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement in the U.S. Capitol. We were there to demonstrate the beginning of a unified movement of diverse organizations calling on officials to review and reject the deal based on its substance, which we can finally read and dissect now that the final text is officially released. Contained within these 6,000-plus pages of the completed TPP text are a series of provisions that empower multinational corporations and private interest groups at the expense of the public interest. Civil society groups represent diverse concerns, so while we may disagree on our specific concerns about the TPP, we commonly recognize that this is a toxic, undemocratic deal that must be stopped at all costs.

Trade Laws Undo Local Progress On Food Systems

November 25, 2015 Sharon Treat, www.iatp.org Educate! Food and Agriculture, TPP

By Sharon Treat for IATP - So much of trade policy involves searching through legal texts and leaked documents for clues about what’s coming next. Careful examination of the recently released text for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is already revealing new risks for our food system. Those findings also tell us what to watch out for in the other big pending trade deal—the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the European Union. Unlike earlier trade agreements focused primarily on reducing tariffs to open up markets, these agreements are likely to include extensive provisions intended to reduce or eliminate state and federal regulations viewed as “trade irritants.”

Legal Bribery: Money Flows To Supporters Of The TPP

November 23, 2015 Carter Dougherty, www.ibtimes.com Educate! Barack Obama, TPP

By Carter Dougherty for International Business Times - After voting to give President Barack Obama the authority to strike new trade deals in the summer, House Democrats have enjoyed the warm, friendly embrace of the chief executive and a steady flow of cold, hard cash from the companies that are backing a massive agreement with Asia-Pacific nations. Obama, in a display of political acumen that often has eluded him in dealing with Congress, never stopped wooing members who supported him as he eyeballed the prize -- ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) -- by the time he leaves office.

Newsletter: Movement Mobilizes To Stop The TPP

November 22, 2015 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Climate Change, Corporatism, Environment, Farmworkers, Food and Agriculture, GMOs, Healthcare, Jobs, TPP, Trade, Trade Deal, Worker Rights and Jobs

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. Now that the TPP is public, opposition is rising as we see the TPPis actually worse than expected. In an interview with Jaisal Noor of The Real News, Margaret Flowers explains how the TPP was a victory for the corporations on issue after issue, including reducing wages and worker rights, undermining environmental protection, making healthcare more expensive, undermining Internet freedom and more. Kevin Zeese in a conversation with Chris Hedges talks about how the TPP is the greatest corporate power grab in US history and how people have to rise up to stop the race to the bottom that will affect every aspect of our lives. A few days after the text was released, we highlighted ten shocking realities of the TPP. The final text showed that critics were right about what it would contain. In fact, the TPP is a step backward on many important issues.

Solidarity With People Of Japan Opposing TPP & US Militarism

November 21, 2015 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Japan, Militarization, Okinawa, TPP

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. The final stop on the Embassy Row protest in Washington, DC “The World is Rising to Stop the TPP” was the Japanese Embassy. Japan is the largest economy in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) after the United States. It is the third largest economy in the world, but the Japanese economy has been stagnating for all of this century and is desperate to find a way out of its economic problems. In 2012 Abe ran for office as an opponent of the TPP but within three months joined the negotiations. Prime Minister Shinzō Abe has become a puppet of the United States not only on the TPP but also on the military pivot to Asia. His conservative Liberal Party has enough seats in the Diet, the Japanese legislature, to force through Abe’s agenda despite widespread opposition and protest by the public. He tries to hide is position as a US puppet in nationalist rhetoric of a strong Japan, but more people are seeing through it and his popularity is plummeting. The only way to defeat the TPP and other corporate trade agreements is unity across geographic boundaries and uniting all of the issues that will be adversely impacted by the TPP.

TPP And The Other Jobs Problem: Insourcing Of Jobs

November 21, 2015 Metamars, www.correntewire.com Educate! Immigration, TPP

By Metamars for Corrente - Yours truly has been writing about the threat posed by unlimited IN-sourcing via the TPP, while complaining, out loud, about how the anti-TPP 'activists', no matter how often they mentioned increased/easier OUT-sourcing, were curiously silent about the IN-sourcing threat. IMO, OUT-sourcing is largely already played out - how many US companies are there that didn't want to take advantage of lower labor rates in China, e.g., that didn't already take advantage of same 10 years ago, could there possibly be??? Yours truly also wrote a diary about Japanese Shinzo Abe blabbing about the EU style "free flow of labor", while he was in the US last summer, when Obama was trying to get TPP finalized.

Demonstrators Shut Down USTR: “TPP = Betrayal”

November 21, 2015 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Health Care, TPP, Trade, Worker Rights and Jobs

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. Washington, DC - On Monday, Nov. 16, as part of the Flush the TPP days of action, hundreds of people marched to the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) on 17th Street NW to protest and shut it down. The demonstration was planned to occur during protests in Manila, Philippines over the Asian Pacific Economic Coordination (APEC) meetings. The leaders and trade ministers from countries participating in the TransPacific Partnership (TPP) were present in Manila. The theme of the march and action in Washington was that the TPP betrays all that the people hold dear. Large images displayed family farmers, patients, youth installing solar panels and workers.

Protests Continue As Obama Praises TPP At APEC Summit

November 19, 2015 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! China, TPP

By Staff of Tele Sur TV - APEC has been overshadowed by South China Sea tensions and terrorism, but still as leaders discuss free trade, protesters slam them for worsening poverty. Activists protesting against the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit (APEC) in Manila, Philippines, clashed with police on Wednesday in attempts to take their demonstration to the site of the the APEC meetings, where world leaders also met to discuss the controversial Trans Pacific Partnership.

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