TPP

The TPP vs Democracy (Video)

January 13, 2014 Dennis Trainor, Jr., www.acronymtv.wordpress.com Resistance Report Democracy, TPP, Video

Last week, legislation to fast track a vote on the Trans Pacific Partnership was introduced in Congress. President Obama, who, along with advisors from several hundred corporations, has built the TPP in secret, away from the prying eyes of Congress or the public, desperately wants this fast track authority. The grant of that authority is, according to prevailing wisdom and the pro-neoliberal agenda Forbes magazine contributor Dan Ikenson , something “widely considered necessary to complete and ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement between the United States and 11 other Pacific-bordering nations, as well as other prospective trade agreements." Why is Fast track so important?

Congress “No Longer Necessary” If Job-Killing TPP Passes

January 12, 2014 Lauren Steiner, www.youtube.com Resist! TPP

On January 9, 2014, Congress introduced a bill to fast track the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement of 12 countries being negotiated in secret between 600 US corporations and the US Trade Rep. The public, the press and most members of Congress have not seen the text of this agreement. That day 40 people protested in front of LA area Congressman Xavier Becerra's office because he did not sign letter pledging to vote against fast track. As a result, the TPP Movers were there to outsource his office to Vietnam.

Why House Democrats Might Kill Obama’s Big Trade Deal

January 12, 2014 Michael McAuliffe and Zach Carter, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! TPP

President Barack Obama's international trade agenda is dead in the water if he doesn't do a better job engaging with Democrats in Congress, and his administration appears to be getting that message, Democrats said Friday. Congressional Democrats have often been frustrated by his lack of attention to their concerns, but they've been especially disturbed lately that in his grand pivot to Asiaand push for a 12-nation trade pact dubbed the Trans-Pacific Partnership, they and the rest of Congress largely have been cut out of negotiations. "We want transparency. We want to see what's going on there," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told reporters. "We have a problem with that." As a result, many Democrats fear the actual terms of the deal do not reflect traditional Democratic Party policy priorities.

Plunder Road: CANAMEX And Impact Of NAFTA And TPP

January 11, 2014 Chaparral, www.chaparralrespectsnoborders Resist! CANAMEX, Climate Change, Corporatism, TPP

Opposition to the CANAMEX Corridor is necessary not only because it is a major piece of the physical infrastructure needed to facilitate this trade. Its function in international trade is also used to justify the damage brought by its imposition locally, throughout the corridor. CANAMEX, designated as a High Priority Corridor shortly after NAFTA was implemented, already exists in the form of highways, but requires improvement and expansion to effectively facilitate trade. The trade corridors of North America, CANAMEX being one of them, are extensions of NAFTA. They function as the infrastructure, such as roads, rail, ports, etc., that perpetuates the harms caused by so-called free trade. Among the effects of NAFTA since its implementation have been dramatic unemployment and displacement in Mexico due to subsidized US agricultural products such as corn, and a shift in privatization/ownership of Mexican land by private interests.

Lies The USTR Is Spreading About Fast Track

January 11, 2014 Mike Masnick, www.techdirt.com Educate! TPP

With the introduction of fast track authority (also known as "trade promotion authority") in Congress, by which Congress abdicates its constitutionally-granted sole power to regulate foreign commerce, the USTR (which gains that power) is out in force, spreading all sorts of lies about what this means. It's not exactly encouraging when the organization that has been hiding all the details of the TPP agreement for years is now trying to push it forward by directly lying to the American public. It's almost as if the USTR can't be honest or people might realize that it's spent the last few years pushing forward on an agreement designed to prop up old legacy businesses at the expense of the public and new innovators. The USTR's statement on the fast track proposal is full of lies, half-truths and misleading statements.

Nafta Failures A Warning To Treat TPP With Caution

January 11, 2014 Peter Huck, www.nzherald.co.nz Educate! Corporatism, TPP

A key step towards the globalised economic system, now the world norm, the pact foreshadowed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), being negotiated by the US with 11 other nations, including New Zealand. Unlike past deals, focused on Adam Smith-style free trade that involved slashing tariffs or barriers, Nafta, like the TPP, was more insidious. Essentially, it opened the door for multinationals to create global supply chains that exploited cheap labour. Furthermore, corporates could use World Bank or UN tribunals to circumvent domestic courts and laws if public interest policies, such as health or environmental laws, threatened profits. The tribunals could order unlimited sums to be paid to compensate litigants. It was a giant step in reducing national sovereignty to facilitate business.

Fact Sheet On Fast Track Bill & Why It Should Be Stopped

January 10, 2014 Staff, www.citizen.org Educate! Democracy, TAFTA, TPP

David Camp, Max Baucus and Orrin Hatch introduced the falsely named, Bi-Partisan Job-Creating Congressional Trade Priorities Act of 2014. Republicans were insisting that a Democrat co-sponsor the House Bill before it was introduced. They were unable to convince anyone on the Ways and Means Committee to sign on, so they went to the whole House and were unable to find a Democrat. So, the bill (HR/S 2014) is not bi-partisan. It is audacious of them to call it a 'job-creating' bill when NAFTA cost the US one million jobs, as has been true with every global trade bill. Here are some basic facts from Public Citizen, important details in the article. The Camp-Baucus Fast Track bill replicates the procedures included in the 2002 grant of Fast Track that expired in 2007. What is touted as “enhanced coordination with Congress” is actually the mere renaming of the Congressional Oversight Group from the 2002 Fast Track as “Congressional Advisory Groups on Negotiations,” while provisions ostensibly improving transparency merely formalize past practice. The Camp-Baucus bill faces long odds for approval in the 113th Congress. Fast Track is an anomaly. It has only been in effect for five of the past 19 years.

Popular Resistance Newsletter – Our Tasks In 2014

January 3, 2014 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Climate Change, Environment, Health Care, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

Last week, we defined where today’s social-political movement is within the eight stages of successful movements. This week, we delve deeper into the tasks of the movement in this stage and apply those tasks to current issues faced today. Our goal is to build a mass movement, which has the support of super-majorities of Americans and has mobilized up to 3.5% of the population. Therefore, the target of our protests is not the government or a corporation, the target is the people, to educate and mobilize them. We protest the power holders to expose their actions but do not expect them to be capable of addressing our concerns adequately in this stage.

Farmers Block Bridge At US Border To Protest 20 Years Of NAFTA

January 3, 2014 Staff, www.sinembargo.mx Resist! Food and Agriculture, Mexico, NAFTA, TPP

The National Association of Producers' Enterprises (ANEC) makes this day a lock on the international bridge in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, to protest the plight of farmers live 20 years after the entry into force of the Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Through a statement read in mobilizing the peasant organization criticizes the consequences of two decades of neglect of the field by the federal government. "We are not poor, impoverished us NAFTA and policies of contempt, neglect, dispossession and exclusion", denounced the peasants. Moreover, ANEC said that organized "autonomous mobilizations and fair prices for our crops of corn, coffee, sugarcane, beans, rice, sorghum and wheat among others, in defense of our lands and our territory, and all struggling because we recognize that we are productive subjects and individual and collective subjects of law. " Farmers charge that NAFTA is "an ocean of lies and broken promises" because two decades ago the federal government promised that Mexico would be a first world country. "We reject NAFTA and now the Trans (TPP) Treaty being negotiated in secret, without our participation and equal or worse than NAFTA. Also know the call Energy Reform for not having consulted and therefore lack legitimacy, "said the peasant organization.

Tradition Continues: 2014 Rose Bowl Parade Occupied

January 2, 2014 Staff, www.popularresistance.org, Resist! Corporatism, Fracking, GMOs, Housing, TPP

Starting with the 2012 Tournament of Roses Parade, Occupiers have followed the parade with their own version to bring attention to important issues. This year, the official theme of the Rose Bowl Parade was "Dreams Come True." Occupy Rose Parade responded with the theme "#WakeUp2014." Occupy Rpse Parade floats and banners focused on the Tran-Pacific Partnership, fracking and home foreclosures. Occupiers came from San Diego, Venice, Los Angeles and Menifee. Moms Across America were present to protest GMOs and PETA was on hand to protest Seaworld's torture of orcas. Nineteen PETA participants were arrested and the Seaworld float was guarded by police officers as it passed along the parade route. In all, it was a very successful day. One occupy member, Donna Piranha, said, "The two questions I heard repeated all day were: 1. 'What's fracking?' & 2. 'What's the TPP?'" All signs indicate that 2014 will be a very interesting year.

New Public Citizen Report Details NAFTA’s Broken Promises

January 1, 2014 Public Citizen, www.yubanet.com Educate! NAFTA, TPP

On the eve of the North American Free Trade Agreement's (NAFTA) 20th anniversary (Jan. 1), a new Public Citizen report shows that not only did promises made by proponents not materialize, but many results are exactly the opposite. Such outcomes include a staggering $181 billion U.S. trade deficit with NAFTA partners Mexico and Canada, one million net U.S. jobs lost because of NAFTA, a doubling of immigration from Mexico, larger agricultural trade deficits with Mexico and Canada, and more than $360 million paid to corporations after "investor-state" tribunal attacks on, and rollbacks of, domestic public interest policies.

The Roots Of Global Revolt: The 20th Anniversary Of NAFTA & Zapitistas

December 31, 2013 David Solnit, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! NAFTA, TPP, WTO, Zapatistas

January 1 is the 20th anniversary of the enactment of NAFTA and the beginning of the Zapatista movement in Mexico. One year later on January 1 1995, the WTO took effect. In this article, David Solnit looks at the many campaigns and movements that have developed as a result of corporate globalization and the organizing in response to it by a wide variety of movements and networks of people. We can see the roots of the ongoing struggle in the United States as well as the global revolt against neoliberalism, corporatization and big finance capitalism. Corporate globalization attempts to put forward but is faltering while the movements from below seem to be rising. Knowing that makes a commentary by one writer ever more valid: "[The] global corporate system isn't a triumphant monster, but a brittle, ungainly, jerry-rigged contraption whose managers are vainly scrambling to hold it together against a rising tide of crises. See the issues that engage your activism in that light, not as though you're desperate, but as though the system is."

Trans Pacific Partnership Protest Interrupts Nancy Pelosi Event

December 30, 2013 Staff, www.inquisitr.com Resist! TAFTA, TPP

Trans Pacific Partnership protesters caused a bit of a disturbance at a gathering hosted by Nancy Pelosi. The House Minority Leader initiated the event in order to commemorate the first ever White House “Status of Women” report. A group comprised primarily of college student activists urged Pelosi to vote against the trade deal which some are calling a “NAFTA on steroids” move. The potential deal between the United States and Pacific Rim nations has been so closely guarded that Congress has reportedly been able to garner only a few details about the agreement.The free trade deal negotiations memos recently leaked to the media have swanned alarm among economists, labor unions, and environmental groups. The TPP involves 12 different nations and could give “radical new political powers” to international corporations, restrict banking regulations, and drive up the cost of prescription medicines, if predictions by opponents are accurate.

#WakeUp2014 is Theme of Occupy the Rose Parade

December 30, 2013 Lauren Steiner, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Fracking, Housing, Occupy, TPP

Occupy the Rose Bowl! In 2013 millions lost their homes to foreclosures, thousands suffered water and air pollution and other ill effects of fracking and more Americans are about to see their jobs outsourced, their wages reduced and their environmental and food safety regulations abolished by a secret trade deal poised to be fast tracked by Congress. The newly formed Awake Coalition plans to Occupy the Rose Parade with the theme #WakeUp2014. We don’t believe Americans can achieve the kind of change necessary to improve the live of the 99% by dreaming. We need awareness, strategy and action.

Opposition To The Trans-Pacific Partnership Explodes On Twitter

December 28, 2013 Justin King, www.digitaljournal.com Organize! TPP

On December 27 on Twitter, activists from around the world will begin attempting to create a twitterstorm in opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The opposition is coming from activists on both the left and right wing of the political spectrum. The twitterstorm operation is set to begin at 7PM Eastern and will attempt to make the hashtag #StopTheTPP trend on Twitter, in hopes of raising awareness of the secretive trade deal being brokered among a dozen nations. Emily Laincz said I think it's really important for everyone to realize that this is a corporate bill, benefiting corporations while harming individuals-- There is no benefit in it for us. It will affect each and every one of us personally.

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