TPP

SOTU: President’s Base Opposes Fast Track, TPP

January 27, 2014 Citizens Trade Campaign, www.popularresistance.org Resist! TPP

Over 550 labor, environmental, family farm and other organizations traditionally associated with President Barack Obama's political base sent a letter to Congress today opposing Fast Track legislation for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and other pending trade agreements. The letter comes just a day before the President's annual State of the Union address. Corporate interests that fought the president's re-election are lobbying for him to use the speech to call on Congress to enact Fast Track authority for the TPP. The President's political base and many congressional Democrats stand in united opposition, emphasizing that the TPP threatens to exacerbate American income inequality.

Tell Obama Solving Wealth Divide Inconsistent With TPP

January 25, 2014 Staff, www.citizen.org Resist! Inequality, TPP

In his upcoming State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama is expected to prioritize what is emerging as his legacy issue: combatting America’s growing wealth inequality. To do this, Obama must promote policies to create new middle-class jobs, especially in manufacturing, and counter the erosion of wages now undermining workers economy-wide. But in the speech, scheduled for next Tuesday, Obama is also expected to highlight several major trade initiatives, including his priority Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal, a massive pact with 11 Asian and Latin American nations that Obama hopes to sign quickly. The business lobby is at full tilt pushing Obama to use the speech to call on Congress to pass Fast Track trade authority for the TPP in the face of growing opposition. The problem is that economists of all stripes agree that U.S. trade policy has been one of the major contributors to growing U.S. income inequality. And, the TPP would replicate and expand to additional countries the trade agreement model established in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

TPP Protestors Disrupt Sen. Collins

January 25, 2014 Lisa Savage, www.went2thebridge.blogspot.com Resist! TPP

On Friday, January 24 activists from CODEPINK interrupted an appearance by Senator Susan Collins at an event with the Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce in Augusta. Holding a banner about the threat of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) which is intended to be fast-tracked through Congress this year, the two women chanted “Vote no on the TPP! It's bad for Maine, and you and me!” The TPP has been described as “NAFTA on steroids,” a reference to the North American Free Trade Agreement that cost Maine 30,000 jobs over the last 20 years. “Calling TPP a trade agreement is a bit of a misnomer,” said Ridgely Fuller of Belfast. “The TPP will allow corporations to sue us for policies including Buy Local, organic food promotion, and environmental regulation of, say, fracking.

Video: Resistance Report Week In Review #18 – January 25, 2014

January 25, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Citizens United, Inequality, MLK, TPP, Video

The Resistance Report Week in Review collects all of the Resistance Report segments from the previous week and rolls them into one big show. Watch the video below, or jump to the individual segments linked below. - Responding to the Oxfam report that concluded that the world's 85 richest people own the same amount as the bottom half of the entire global population, self appointed spokesperson for the global elite, and celebrity Judge on the reality show The Shark Tank Kevin O’Leary, applauded the news, stating that is “fantastic news (…) the motivation everybody needs (…) it inspires everyone to want to be like the 1%” and scoffing at the idea of “re-distribution of wealth” stated, “ I celebrate Capitalism.”

Students Rally To Topple The TPP

January 22, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Barack Obama, Corporatism, Free Trade Agreements, NAFTA, TPP

Click here to stop Fast Track of the TPP: http://www.stopfasttrack.com Former US Trade Representative Ron Kirk said that if the people knew what was in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, it would be impossible to get it signed. The Obama administration is going to great lengths to make sure that people do not know what is in the TPP before it gets signed into law, and have made “fast tracking” the TPP bill a top priority. January 22^nd marks the beginning of a ten-day push by groups who work on a wide variety of issues to stop Congress from granting the President Fast Track for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The push culminates in an Intercontinental Day of Action against the TPP onJan 31- with events and actions being planned all around the world.

Ten Days To Stop Fast Track And The TPP!

January 22, 2014 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Corporatism, Democracy, Sovereignty, TPP

January 22 marks the beginning of a ten day push by groups who work on a wide variety of issues to stop Congress from granting the President Fast Track for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). These groups are working together because all of our work to protect people and the planet will be undermined if the TPP is signed into law. Why? Because the TPP will give corporations the right to sue governments even down to the local level for loss of expected profits (read billions of dollars) if laws to protect people and the planet interfere with profits.

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.

TPP Fast Track Critics Locked Out of Congressman Becerra’s Office

January 18, 2014 Lauren Steiner, www.laprogressive.com Resist! Democracy, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, TPP

For some reason, Congressman Becerra decided to locate his office in the Chamber of Commerce building. When constituents questioned this, the security guard called the LAPD who told us she needed to ask the Chamber of Commerce if we could come in and speak to the Congressman’s staff. The LAPD then proceded to act as spokespeople for the staff, who refused to even come out and speak to us directly. What is noteworthy is that everyday the Congressman and his staff can develop personal relationships with Chamber employees as they see them in the halls, in the restrooms, in their respective offices. But constituents have no such access. And when they seek to address the Congressman’s staff, they are locked out and told they have to contact Washington. Well, as I say in the video, the 99% do not have the money to fly to Washington to lobby the Congressman when they have an issue the way the Chamber and associated corporations can.

Fast Track Protest: “No TPP No Way, Not Ever Not Today”

January 17, 2014 VisionPlanetMedia, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! TPP, Video

Opponents of the TPP protested throughout yesterday's hearing as soon as members of the committee entered the room. Here is a video of their statement at the end of the hearing. Margaret Flowers of the FlushTheTPP campaign, one of the protestors who held signs saying "TPP: How Low Can Wages Go?" during the hearing, criticized the fast track bill for putting limits on floor debate, barring Congress from making amendments, and requiring "a straight up-and-down vote." It would also, she said, be a continuation of the secrecy surrounding negotiations of the Trans Pacific Partnership. The only text released to the public so far has been leaked. She doesn't think fast track passage through Congress would improve transparency in any way. "[Even] Congress has limited access to the text, while 600 corporate advisers have ready access," she said. "It will be pushed through without any review or transparency, and that's going to set the global template for trade." Hatch promised transparency during the legislative process. Objections to the TPP and TTIP rest largely on the powers they give corporations to override domestic laws in violation of state sovereignty.

Harry Reid: Fast Track Corporate Trade Bill Goes Nowhere

January 17, 2014 Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! TPP

The fast track trade bill introduced in the Senate last week will go nowhere anytime soon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday. Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chair of the Senate Finance Committee and President Barack Obama's pick to be his next ambassador to China, offered the legislation last week, surprising many of his colleagues. Baucus' bill, which would reauthorize 2002's Trade Promotional Authority, would essentially give the White House the power to present Congress with trade agreements that lawmakers could not amend. The fast track bill would ease the way for the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation trade deal that opponents contend would undermine labor, environmental and other protections. But if those opponents were worried the fast-track measure might advance, Reid was emphatic in saying it would not -- at least for now.

TPP Fast Track Opponents Predict More Lost Jobs

January 16, 2014 Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing today on a bill that would renew Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) for the President, allowing trade treaties to be “fast-tracked” through Congress. The measure was introduced by Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-MT) last week, just as far-reaching “free trade” agreements with Asian and European countries are nearing completion. President Obama is pursuing two controversial trade agreements, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and it is widely agreed that he needs fast-track authority to move forward. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) however took several opportunities to protest the absence of the U.S. Trade Representative, lambasting the President for “leading from behind” when it came to TPA.

Obama’s TPP Fast Track Gets Dealt Blow By Leaked Environment Chapter

January 16, 2014 Jessica Desvarieux, www.therealnews.com Educate! Environment, TPP, Video, Wikileaks

The reason you're seeing this fall apart is really two things. First, there is a big social movement, a movement of movements bringing together labor, internet freedom, environmental protection, worker rights, you know, food safety. Everything gets affected by TPP. And so a lot of people are coming together. And for more than a year now, Congress [incompr.] getting letters and phone calls and emails and visits and protests about TPP. So they're hearing from their constituents. You know, it's a steady stream of opposition from this movement of movements, this social movement that's saying no to this global corporate coup, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. So that movement's very key. And that movement's gotten stronger and stronger. Every leak that comes out, it gets stronger. And Ron Kirk--you might remember Ron Kirk, you know, the former trade representative--before he retired in January, he negotiated three years of this. So he knows what's in it. He said that the reason we keep it secret is because if people know what was in it, it would be so unpopular it could never pass. Well, that's becoming true. Every leak that comes out makes it less and less and less popular, and people are getting more and more mobilized against it. That's one thing. The other thing is President Obama. He's already got the Republicans against him. And now he's--the chickens are coming home to roost with the Democratic Party.

Environmental TPP Chapter Leaked: Weaker Than Previous Agreements

January 15, 2014 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Environment, TPP

The Trans-Pacific Partnership will be a step backward on the environment and global trade, according to a leaked chapter of the TPP on the environment by Wikileaks. At a time of worldwide environmental challenges including species die-offs, dangerous pollution in the oceans and other waterways as well as climate change, people would expect that trade could be a tool to protect the planet not hasten ecological collapse, but the profits first mentality of the TPP will do the opposite. Carter Roberts, President and CEO of World Wildlife Fund notes this missed opportunity to use trade to protect the planet saying in a press release: “The lack of fully-enforceable environmental safeguards means negotiators are allowing a unique opportunity to protect wildlife and support legal sustainable trade of renewable resources to slip through their fingers." Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club says: “If the environment chapter is finalized as written in this leaked document, President Obama’s environmental trade record would be worse than George W. Bush’s. This draft chapter falls flat on every single one of our issues - oceans, fish, wildlife, and forest protections - and in fact, rolls back on the progress made in past free trade pacts.” What does the environment get from the TPP? "Environmental protections are only as effective as their enforcement provisions, and a trade agreement with weak enforcement language will do little or nothing to protect our communities and wildlife," said Peter Lehner, executive director of the NRDC.

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