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People Powered Media Mobilizes Masses While Mass Media Remains Silent

February 9, 2014 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Organize! Climate Change, Media, NSA, Pipelines, TPP

We are in the midst of an era of media transition. The corporate media is facing tremendous financial, employee and audience challenges. At the root of their problem is credibility. In 2004, Gallup reported that “39% currently say they have ‘not very much’ confidence in the media's accuracy and fairness, while 16% say they have ‘none at all.’” Gallup reported this was the lowest credibility rating in three decades. But, the decline continued and by 2012 Gallup reported that distrust of the media had risen by 5% to 60% having little or no trust in the media – a new record. A 2013 Gallup poll found only 1 in 4 Americans trust television or newspaper news. At the same time technology has given rise to a new people-powered media. People can now turn their telephones into a video outlet and their social networks into a newspaper. Repeatedly we have seen someone publish a video from their phone and make national news. Any individual can go onto social networking outlets and reach thousands, if not tens of thousands of people in this new democratized media. We now have the ability to educate each other and tell our narrative of what is occurring. The movement is not dependent on the corporate media.

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February 8, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Climate Change, Indigenous Rights, KeystoneXL, NSA, Resistance Report, TPP, Video

In this week's Resistance Report week in we review stories from the week of action in the movement for social and economic justce. The Resistance Report covers: The Day We Fight Back Against The NSA: this Tuesday a worldwide day of activism in opposition to the NSA's mass spying regime; Massive Resistance Building To Stop #KXL: over 200 events took place from coast to coast saying 'No KXL'; Did We Defeat the TPP?: A growing movement of movements to organize, educate, and resist the fast track authority; and What Philip Seymour Hoffman's Death Can Teach Us About Climate Change: Claiming the KXL will not have a negative impact on the environment is like Walter White saying heroin is as healthy as kale.

Popular Resistance Newsletter – People-Powered Media Beats Corporate Media

February 7, 2014 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Internet Freedom, Media, NSA, Tar Sands, TPP

We are in the midst of an era of media transition. The corporate media is facing tremendous financial, employee and audience challenges. At the root of their problem is credibility. A 2013 Gallup poll found only 1 in 4 Americans trust television or newspaper news. At the same time technology has given rise to a new people-powered media. People can now turn their telephones into a video outlet and their social networks into a newspaper. Cities have groups like the DC Media group, citizen activists from the occupy movement, or like the Media Mobilizing Project in Philadelphia building media teams. And, through activist organizations, news that is not covered in the media is shared widely.

TPP Fast Track Crawls To Near Halt, Opportunity To Reframe Trade

February 6, 2014 Vicki Needham, www.thehill.com Educate! TPP

Developments on fast track trade promotion authority continue to slow progress on two controversial corporate trade agreements, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and its European cousin. The incoming chair of the Senate Finance Committee, Ron Wyden (OR), has said he is not going to rush on fast track. The Baucus-Camp fast track bill seems to be dead and if there is going to be a fast track bill it will be something different from traditional fast track laws, most recently passed in 2002. Members of Congress realize that rigged global trade agreements are not popular with the American people who have learned the lesson of NAFTA -- corporate trade only helps the transnational corporations it does not help workers in the United States or around the world, puts the environment at risk and creates economic disruption that harms economies. The economic harm to the United States is seen in massive trade deficits, losses of hundreds of thousands of jobs and lowered incomes since the modern era of free trade took root in the Clinton era.

Study Documents Media Blackout Of TPP

February 5, 2014 Craig Harrington & Brian Powell, www.mediamatters.org Educate! Media, TPP

Over The Past Six Months, Network Evening News Shows Have Completely Ignored The TPP. A Media Matters transcript search of CBS Evening News with Scott Pelly, ABC's World News with Diane Sawyer, andNBC Nightly News with Brian Williams from August 1, 2013 through January 31, 2014 found no mention of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. TPP received one mention on PBS' Newshour, when Doug Paal of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace argued that approving the TPP would improve relations with Asian nations. During the same six-month period, the three largest cable networks -- CNN, MSNBC, Fox News -- covered the ongoing negotiations 33 times during their evening programming. The overwhelming majority of these mentions (32) originated on MSNBC and aired during The Ed Show.

Stop Fast Track: Over 40,000 Phone Calls & 600,000 Emails To Congress

February 4, 2014 Staff, , www.PopularResistance.org Resist! TPP

A diverse network of organizations opposing Fast Track legislation announced they are extending their 10 days of activism following massive and widespread public action. Since its inception on January 22nd, more than 100 new groups have joined the effort at StopFastTrack.com, including Coalition for a Prosperous America, Ben & Jerry’s, Free Software Foundation, SumOfUs, Democracy for America, Friends of the Earth, Namecheap, and CREDO -- adding to an already impressive, and unlikely, list of groups like reddit, Sierra Club, AFL-CIO, MoveOn, LabelGMOs, and Fight for the Future. The social-media-fueled campaign has been embraced by more than 120 organizations and coincided with more than 50 rallies and teach-ins across the U.S., Canada and Mexico last week alone. Nearly 600,000 people have signed petitions or sent emails to lawmakers, and members of Congress have already received more than 40,000 phone calls from constituents who oppose Fast Track. A simultaneous social media push known as a Thunderclap reached 5.4 million users.

Is the TPP Dead? Have We Won?

February 3, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Corporate Personhood, Finance and Economy, Free Trade Agreements, NAFTA, TPP, Video

An interview with Kevin Zeese, organizer with Flush the TPP and Popular Resistance.

It has been 20 years since NAFTA, (North American free Trade agreement) went into effect with the promise of more equality, more jobs, and a better, more prosperous and peaceful world for all of us. Given that NAFTA has contributed to a world that is a negative image of what was sold to us, it is no surprise that the global elite and the Obama administration have been negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership in secret.

65,000 Protest TPP In Mexico, See Repeat Of NAFTA Mistakes

February 3, 2014 Karen Hansen-Kuhn, , www.iatp.org Resist! Mexico, NAFTA, TPP, Video

More than 65,000 people rallied at Mexico’s Monument to the Revolution and marched to the historic Zocalo Square to demand a new economy that puts equality, justice and human rights first. Farmers, union, environmental and women’s activists gathered in Mexico City last week to take stock of the lessons from NAFTA and plan strategies to confront the next big threat: the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). One of the earliest lessons from the NAFTA experience was that people and environments in all three countries were affected. The stories from Mexico, Canada and the U.S. were remarkably similar: environmental destruction, threats to union and community organizing, and, in all sectors, a marked increase in corporate concentration as companies gained new abilities to move different aspects of production across borders in search of lower costs and higher profits.

Utah TPP Activist Violently Arrested

February 1, 2014 Staff, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Police abuse, TPP

A protester was slammed to the ground violently and suffered repeated blows to the back after three security officer subdued him at a demonstration against the TPP Trans~Pacific Partnership. “We were there just to do a very peaceful protest against the TPP and this whole thing just took us completely by surprise and I was shocked,” said an fellow demonstrator who witnessed the attack. “It was such a brutal response from these officers; so violent. It seems way overkill and uncalled for.” Lionel Trepanier, of Salt Lake City, had left a backpack on a table on the grounds of the Bennett Federal Building. After leaving the plaza for a moment around 3:15 pm, Trepanier reentered the plaza to grab his bag. An officer stopped him.

Bipartisan Opposition To Fast Tracking TPP, ‘Obamatrade’

January 31, 2014 Cole Stangler, www.inthesetimes.com Educate! TPP

“The President said, if you like your health insurance, you can keep it,” says Curtis Ellis of the American Jobs Alliance, a small conservative group based in Virginia that opposes the outsourcing of U.S. jobs overseas. “Now essentially, with Obamatrade, he’s saying, if you like your job, you can keep it.” If “Obamatrade” catches on as a right-wing rallying cry against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)—a trade agreement covering the Pacific Rim economies of Australia, Japan, Malaysia, among others—it will probably have something to do with a sparsely attended press conference on Tuesday in the House Science Committee hearing room. That’s where the American Jobs Alliance and the United States Business and Industry Council—pro-business groups wary of trade’s impact on America’s national interests—joined with Tea Party Nation and the socially conservative Eagle Forum to rail against the TPP and President Obama’s support for “fast-tracking” the measure.

Is Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority For The TPP Dead?

January 30, 2014 Alexander Bolton and Vicki Needham, www.thehill.com Resist! Corporatism, Fair Trade, Free Trade Agreements, TPP

The people are on the verge of a major victory against transnational corporate power. Stopping the TPP seemed unlikely less than a year ago, but a campaign to educate the activist base of all the issues impacted by the TPP, pulling in more cautions non-profit organizations and unions as well as a growing awareness in the public has resulted in what looked liked a sure thing trade agreement becoming so toxic that politicians up for re-election do not want to be associated with it. This success shows that the people have more power than they realize. Of course, we are well-aware that the corporations do not give up and that we need to remain active in our opposition in 2014 and that this issue will come back in future years. Activists must remain vigilant to stop corporate trade agreements that undermine all we work for. At the same time we need to show a new path were trade can be designed for the betterment of people and the planet, negotiated in open with the participation of people all around the world. Our goal is not only to defeat fast track and the TPP but end the era of rigged corporate trade agreements. It is a goal the social movement can achieve if we remain focused on the task.

People Unite In Protest Across The Continent To Stop TPP

January 29, 2014 Benjamin Gerritz, www.labornotes.org Resist! NAFTA, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs, WTO

Workers across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico will unite in an Inter-Continental Day of Action Friday to stop a massive new trade agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership—commonly referred to as “NAFTA on steroids.” In the U.S., the immediate fight is to block a bill that would grant the president “fast track” authority to sign off on the TPP. Defeating fast track would likely stop the TPP. Fast track is designed to swiftly pass trade deals, circumventing the standard Congressional procedures of hearings, debates, and resolutions. But there has been considerable backlash against the undemocratic concept. In November, anticipating its introduction, 151 Democratic Representatives signed a letter to the president stating they were opposed and would vote no on fast track; 21 Republican Representatives also submitted an opposition letter.

“NAFTA On Steroids” To Worsen Wealth Inequality

January 29, 2014 Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Inequality, TPP

About twenty protestors with a large yellow banner that said “Democracy Not Corporatocracy” waited in the dark to greet President Obama as he arrived at the U.S. Capitol last night to deliver his State of the Union address. They shivered in the 10-degree wind chill. “We are out here because the president is going to be speaking about wealth inequality,” said Dr. Margaret Flowers, one of the protestors. “And right now he’s trying to push a bill through Congress called fast track that would allow him to sign the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement that will actually worsen wealth inequality.” The small group opposing the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade deal among eleven Asian and Latin American nations, might have appeared to be an isolated demonstration in Washington’s late January deep freeze.

Obama Got It Wrong On Fast Tracking The TPP

January 29, 2014 Ron Carver, www.otherwords.org Organize! Environment, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

Many hundreds of thousands of Americans saw their good working-class jobs disappear once NAFTA took effect. And millions of Mexicans lost their ability to live off the land after cheap factory farmed corn from the United States displaced their crops in local markets. Not surprisingly, these farmers then migrated North risking death and deportation to find a means to support their families. Renegotiating NAFTA, you may remember, was one of Obama’s early first-term campaign pledges. Obama’s request for fast-track authority means he is seeking a “no amendments allowed” up or down vote to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with most of its NAFTA-esque flaws intact.

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