TPP

Trade Talks Open In Utah, Secrecy Spurs Protests

November 19, 2013 Tom Harvey, www.sltrib.com Resist! Corporatism, Democracy, TPP

Outside Salt Lake City’s Grand America Hotel on Tuesday, the rains fell, the speakers rose, the marchers chanted. Inside, top trade negotiators from the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim nations perhaps discussed imports and exports, profits and products, prices and patents. The exact topics aren’t known. The talks were closed. And that concerns critics most of all as parties from the Trans-Pacific Partnership launched a 19th round of negotiations — this time in Utah — in search of a sweeping free-trade agreement. Tuesday’s rally, organized by a coalition called the Citizens Trade Campaign, of Washington, D.C., drew 100 or so protesters, who worry that the high-level talks have been conducted behind closed doors with only multinational corporations given access to proposed provisions.

The Obama Apology That Is Needed

November 17, 2013 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Create! Democracy, Health Care, Julian Assange, TPP, Wikileaks

My fellow Americans, tonight I want to apologize for the results of my efforts in reforming US healthcare. It is now evident from the roll-out and the technical problems that have been exposed that we have created a complex system in which these types of problems will exist, not just at the beginning in the setting up of a website to sell health insurance, but as the law takes full effect. Therefore, tonight I am announcing my intent to work for a major but simple change in direction.

The People Are Defeating The TPP

November 16, 2013 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! TPP

Below is an article from the Washington Post. It is striking that the article is so critical (and accurate) in its comments on the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership. And, it is impressive that they used a photo from our protest where we covered the US Trade Representatives building in massive signs to expose their secret trade agreement. The article points out that the leak of the intellectual property chapter will increase opposition to Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority. On the day of the leak letters were released that showed we were already nearing majority opposition, including 3/4 of Democrats in the House saying they opposed Fast Track. Momentum is on our side, we need people to join the effort and push this through to victory. Also below is an interview I did on The Real News about the TPP. From the Washington Post, normally a very pro-"free" trade publication: "After Thursday’s leak of the intellectual property chapter it is obvious why the USTR and the Obama administration have insisted on secrecy. From this text it appears that the U.S. administration is negotiating for intellectual property provisions that it knows it could not achieve through an open democratic process."

Popular Resistance Newsletter – We Need To Know The Truth

November 15, 2013 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Austerity, Climate Change, Corporatism, Criminal Justice and Prisons, TPP, Whistleblowers

Knowledge is essential for popular power. In fact, it is access to knowledge and accurate information that will aid our liberation from this ruthless plutocracy. Even former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski agrees, although he does so as a warning to his fellow elites. In a recent speech, he described the “accelerating social change driven by ‘instant mass communications such as radio, television and the Internet.’” Brzezinski warns his fellow members of the power structure that there is a “rise in worldwide populist activism;” that this “persistent and highly motivated populist resistance . . . has proven to be increasingly difficult to suppress” and that as a result of this “universal awakening of mass political consciousness” they cannot exert “external control” over the masses.

Greens In Australian Parliament Seek To Expose TPP

November 14, 2013 Senator Scott Ludlam & Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Corporatism, TPP

With today's damning leak of a secret trade deal document by the WikiLeaks publishing organisation the Australian Greens have given notice that they will move a motion in the Senate, when it next sits on December 2nd, to end the secrecy around the TPPA trade talks. "The TPPA text still forces internet providers to police Australian internet users and enables the US to place us under surveillance, justified as a US-led crackdown on internet piracy," said Senator Scott Ludlam. "We have one piece of the TPPA puzzle, and it is chilling," said Senator Peter Whish-Wilson. "The Greens will move for the rest of the document to be made public to the Parliament and the Australian people, before the Government signs up to something we will regret." "It's clear this secret deal, driven by foreign interests to benefit some of the largest multinationals, will still censor internet content, impose harsh criminal penalties for non-commercial copyright infringements, and force Australian internet service providers to police users and hand information over to law enforcement," Senator Ludlam said.

The People Can Defeat the Trans-Pacific Partnership

November 14, 2013 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! TPP

Momentum is growing in the campaign to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Yesterday, the TPP was dealt two blows. Each could be lethal but the TPP, and its Atlantic counterpart, called TAFTA, are not dead yet. It is time for the movement of movements that formed to oppose the TPP to stand in solidarity, defeat these agreements and end the era of rigged corporate trade. Yesterday’s first blow came from Wikileaks, showing once again that when government works in secret with big corporations, exposure by whistle blowers is critical to changing the corrupt direction of government and the economy. The second blow came from members of the U.S. House of Representatives. In recent days, several letters were sent to President Obama opposing Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority. Fast Track undermines Congress’ responsibility under the Commerce Clause to regulate trade between nations by allowing the president to sign the agreement before Congress even sees it. The letters made public on November 13th demonstrate broad bi-partisan opposition to Fast Track with 179 Members signing at least one of the three letters. We are on the verge of defeating Fast Track. It is important that we keep the pressure on Congress. Neither the TPP nor TAFTA will become law if people learn what is in them and Congress fulfills its constitutional responsibility to review their impact. Denying the President Fast Track is the essential step to defeat both of these agreements.

FLUSH The TPP! Visibility Actions Shine Light On Secret Corp Coup

November 13, 2013 Staff, www.backbonecampaign.org Resistance Report Corporatism, TPP

On Tuesday evening citizens in Seattle and 12 other cities appeared on overpasses and roadsides to pull the Trans-Pacific Partnership, aka TPP, out of the shadows and into the light of public scrutiny. From Dallas to DC, San Diego to Seattle, Tucson to Detroit, Baltimore to Bellingham, Spokane to Chicago people took their messages to interstate overpasses, prominent monuments, and busy city streets using coordinated daytime and nighttime, high visibility tactics. They deployed giant banners saying No New NAFTA, mobilized LED light panels saying "(thumbs up) Democracy, STOP The TPP," and projected with spotlights messages like "Don't Fast Track A Train Wreck." These coordinated citizen's actions coincided with ongoing TPP negotiations taking place in Salt Lake City, Utah from November 12-24 and today's anticipated release by Congressperson Rosa DeLauro and George Miller detailing the growing opposition to "Fast Track" among Congress, and preceded today's surprise release by Wikileaks of a leaked chapter of the secretive "TPP" agreement.

5 Scary Provisions In WikiLeaks’ Trans-Pacific Partnership Release

November 13, 2013 Connor Adams Sheets, www.ibtimes.com Educate! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Health Care, Internet Freedom, TPP

WikiLeaks broke the seal on key parts of the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership on Wednesday, when it released the agreement's intellectual property chapter online. The document details proposals for "international obligations and enforcement mechanisms for copyright, trademark and patent law, and includes the combined positions of all of the parties as they were by the end of August 2013," according to WikiLeaks, but at 30,000 words it is a dense and complicated read. As such, a number of advocacy groups and independent organizations have begun parsing the 95-page chapter for provisions that could prove detrimental to the public good, and they have already found quite a few problematic passages.

Congress Voices Bipartisan Opposition To Fast Track

November 13, 2013 Arthur Stamoulis, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, TPP

Fair trade advocates praised the release of a new letter today voicing Congressional opposition to Fast Track, a policy-making process that allows trade pacts to circumvent ordinary Congressional review, amendment and debate procedures. Today's letter, spearheaded by Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and George Miller (D-CA), was signed by three quarters of the House Democratic Caucus, and comes on top of other recent letters signed by Republicans and Democratic members of the Ways & Means Committee. Taken together, the letters demonstrate a strong bipartisan demand for better oversight over the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Free Trade Agreement than Fast Track would allow. "With trade negotiators rushing to conclude the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership, it's heartening that so many Members of Congress are standing up and demanding that each provision of the pact be scrutinized to ensure that it is in the best interests of working families," said United Brotherhood of Carpenters General President Douglas J. McCarron.

Wikileaks Leaks Key TPP Documents: US Isolated In Corporate Advocacy

November 13, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Corporatism, TPP

The TPP is shrouded in secrecy by the Obama administration because the more people know, the more they will oppose the agreement. From these documents we see what had been suspected, the Obama administration has been an advocate for transnational corporate interests in the negotiations. This is not surprising since we already knew that 600 corporate advisers were working with the US Trade Representative to draft the TPP. This means that for four years some of the top corporate lawyers have been inserting phrases, paragraphs and whole sections so they agreement suits the needs of corporate power, while undermining the people and planet. Now from these documents we see that the US is isolated in its aggressive advocacy for transnational interests and that there are scores of areas still unresolved between the US and Pacific nations. The conclusion: the TPP cannot be saved. It has been destroyed by secret corporate advocacy. It needs to be rejected. Trade needs to be negotiated with a new approach -- transparency, participation of civil society throughout the process, full congressional review and participation, and a framework that starts with fair trade that puts people and profits before planet. The Congress needs to reject Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority as these documents show the Obama administration has been misleading the people and the Congress while trying to bully other nations. This flawed agreement and the secrecy essential to its becoming law needs to be rejected.

Cities Mobilize For Coordinated Actions Against TPP

November 12, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! TPP

To pull the TPP out of the shadows and into the light of public scrutiny, citizens in over 10 cities are taking their messages to interstate overpasses, prominent monuments, and busy city streets using coordinated daytime and nighttime high visibility tactics. They will deploy giant 30-foot banners saying No New NAFTA, mobilize LED light panels saying "(thumbs up) Democracy, STOP The TPP," and bright light cannons with messages like "Corporate Tribunals WTF?." The TPP has been called NAFTA on steroids, a "corporate coup," and concerned citizens from across the nation are calling on congress to Flush It.

Popular Resistance Newsletter – People Power Expressed In Elections

November 8, 2013 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Elections, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Fracking, Fukushima, GMOs, TPP

Sometimes it feels like elections are an exercise in futility. We live in a mirage democracy in which major party candidates are vetted by the corporate machine before they get on the ballot and third party candidates who represent the values of the movement are undercut by actions in which the major parties collude against them. History instructs that in this environment, it is important to build the movement and use what tools are available to shift power to the people. San Francisco-based lawyer-activist Randy Shaw writes in his new edition of The Activist’s Handbook “that neither politicians nor political parties are the prime movers for progressive change.”

Trans-Pacific Partnership: “We Will Not Obey”

November 8, 2013 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.truthout.org Resist! Corporatism, Democracy, Finance and the Economy, TPP

At present, with the help of grass-roots pressure, momentum is growing in Congress to stop Fast Track. Many elected Republicans and Democrats are signing on to letters stating that they refuse to give up their constitutional responsibility to regulate trade between nations. However, as corporate lobbyists descend on Congress, that momentum could change. To ensure that Fast Track and the Trans-Pacific Partnership do not become law, we need to continue to build grass-roots pressure. In addition to contacting Congress, activists are organizing to pass local laws saying their community will not obey the TPP because it is being passed in secrecy, without their consent and taking away their ability to legislate for the benefit of their community. And activists are strengthening their ties with the global community by coordinating efforts to stop the TPP and other toxic agreements such as the WTO and the new Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, known as TAFTA, which started being negotiated in July.

Major Reward Offered For Release Of TPP Text

November 8, 2013 Staff, www.justforeignpolicy.org Resist! TPP

$93,959 Reward WikiLeaks: We've got a job for you At this very moment, the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP)--a trade agreement that could affect the health and welfare of billions of people worldwide--is being negotiated behind closed doors. While 600 corporate lobbyists have access to the text, the press, the public, and even members of the US Congress are being kept in the dark. But we don't have to stand meekly by as corporate cronies decide our futures. Concerned citizens from around the world are pooling together their resources as a reward to WikiLeaks if it makes the negotiating text of the TPP public. Our pledge, as individuals, is to donate this money to WikiLeaks should it leak the document we seek. As WikiLeaks likes to say, information wants to be free. The negotiating text for the TPP wants to be free. Someone just needs to release it.

Transatlantic Trade Deal Is A Full-Frontal Assault On Democracy

November 6, 2013 George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com Educate! Corporatism, Democracy, TAFTA, TPP

Remember that referendum about whether we should create a single market with the United States? You know, the one that asked whether corporations should have the power to strike down our laws? No, I don't either. The purpose of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is to remove the regulatory differences between the US and European nations. I mentioned it a couple of weeks ago. But I left out the most important issue: the remarkable ability it would grant big business to sue the living daylights out of governments which try to defend their citizens. It would allow a secretive panel of corporate lawyers to overrule the will of parliament and destroy our legal protections. Yet the defenders of our sovereignty say nothing. The mechanism through which this is achieved is known as investor-state dispute settlement. It's already being used in many parts of the world to kill regulations protecting people and the living planet. This is why there has been no attempt by the UK government to inform us about this monstrous assault on democracy, let alone consult us. This is why the Conservatives who huff and puff about sovereignty are silent. Wake up, people we're being shafted.

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