TPP

Are You Ready To Defeat TPP In November? Join #NoLameDuckUprising

October 11, 2016 Daniel Cooper Bermudez, www.nationofchange.org Resist! Congress, TPP

By Daniel Cooper Bermudez for Nation of Change - Thousands of people are resisting the TPP as it would severely limit the self-determination of peoples around the world in the service of corporate interests. The deal would entrench the enforcement of profit guarantees for investors at the expense of our lives and the well-being of our Earth. The TPP is a ticking time-bomb and the clock is set for its approval by Congress during their “Lame Duck” session after the November elections.

TPP Is A Threat To All Progressive Causes

October 9, 2016 Rich Penney, www.telesurtv.net Educate! TPP

By Rich Penney for Telesur. Recently, President Obama promised to push the Trans Pacific Partnershiptoward ratification before leaving office next January. This is something that should concern anyone who possesses even the mildest progressive sentiments as the TPP is one of the most anti-democratic documents ever written. Anyone who has followed my work knows that I'm a vocal advocate of many liberal causes. Feminism,environmentalism, worker's rights: I support each of these things. I've also been a vocal advocate of the position that radicals like myself should endeavour to be flexible and work side by side with more moderate liberals. However, there are some tendencies among moderate liberals that I find problematic, and one of them is a failure – an almost outright refusal – to question the economic and philosophical foundations of Empire.

Business Associations Urge No Lame Duck Vote On TPP

October 9, 2016 Coalition for a Prosperous America and American Sustainable Business Council, Resist! Jobs and Wages, TPP, Trade, Worker's Rights

By Coalition for a Prosperous America and American Sustainable Business Council. Washington ~ The Coalition for a Prosperous American (CPA) and the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC) released a letter to Congressional leadership today urging against holding a vote on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement after the November elections. ASBC and CPA collectively represent over 250,000 American businesses across the country, including farms and ranches. CPA also includes labor organization members. The letter states in part: American voters’ trust in national leaders has been ebbing. Both major party presidential candidates oppose the TPP. A lame duck session vote on the TPP would further erode citizen’s trust in government. Legislators who have been defeated or are retiring would vote, but are no longer accountable to voters.

Don’t Be Fooled: The TPP Is Not About National Security

October 7, 2016 Jeff Faux, www.theglobalist.com Educate! National Security, TPP, Trade Deal

By Jeff Faux for The Globalist - During the 1993 U.S. congressional debate over the North American Free Trade Agreement, a Democratic Congressman with a solid pro-labor voting record asked me why I thought NAFTA would be bad for working people. After I had given my answer, he responded: “Well, you may be right about the economics.” “But we have a 2000-mile border with Mexico. The President told me we need NAFTA to make it secure.”

Day Of Action Against Trans-Pacific Partnership Speaks To Canadians

October 7, 2016 Erin Calhoun, www.thestrand.ca Resist! Canada, Protests, TPP, Trade Deal

By Erin Calhoun for The Strand - On September 16, 2016, the Canadian Communications workers of America (CWA) held “Day of Action Against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).” To protest the TPP, the CWA organized an academic forum where representatives from Doctors Without Borders, Canadian Environmental Law Association, and Osgoode Hall law professor Gus Van Harten, all discussed how the TPP threatens national sovereignty, health, and the environment.

TPP: WA Unions, Greens Protest As Senate Inquiry Hearings Held In Perth

October 7, 2016 Staff, www.perthnow.com.au Resist! Protests, Senate, TPP

By Staff of Perth Now - WITH public hearings held in Perth by the senate inquiry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, protests opposing the deal have rallied on. The Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network, UnionsWA and The Greens voiced their opposition on Wednesday outside state parliament. WA Greens Senator Scott Ludlam said negotiations for the agreement had been shrouded in secrecy, with the only transparency related to the deal revealed in chapters leaked on the WikiLeaks website.

A Lame Duck TPP Vote Makes The People Sitting Ducks

October 4, 2016 Patrick Woodall, www.foodandwaterwatch.org Resist! Congress, TPP

By Patrick Woodall for Food & Water Watch - The White House, the big business lobby and country club Republicans are making a final push to pass the politically toxic Trans-Pacific Partnership — after the election. That’s right, the controversial trade deal is so unpopular, so reviled even by both presidential candidates, that even its biggest fans realize Congress cannot possibly take it up before the election, lest voters exact retribution at the polling booths.

Cherry-Picking Trade Polls To Pave Way For A TPP Flip-Flop

September 30, 2016 Jim Naureckas, www.fair.org Organize! TPP, Trade Deal

By Jim Naureckas for FAIR - Dean Baker (FAIR.org, 9/23/16) was rightly skeptical of a New York Times article (“Who Hates Free Trade Treaties? Surprisingly, Not Voters,” 9/21/16) reporting that polling showed support for trade agreements, noting that it used the concepts of “trade,” “free trade” and “trade agreements” interchangeably. “As everyone knows, except apparently the people who work for the New York Times, these are not the same thing,” Baker pointed out.

The TPP’s Climate Blindspot

September 22, 2016 Ben Lilliston, www.iatp.org Educate! Climate Change, TPP

By Ben Lilliston for IATP - Free trade deals, and in particular the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), have taken a beating this election season. Most of the noise on trade from Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton has focused on the loss of jobs linked to the offshoring. Much less attention has been paid to the serious impact the TPP and past trade agreements will have on our ability to respond to climate change.

Will Our Representatives In Washington Betray Us On TPP?

September 22, 2016 Mary Wildfire, www.wvgazettemail.com Organize! Congress, TPP

By Mary Wildfire for Charleston Gazette-Mail - Everybody hates the TPP — the Tran Pacific Partnership “free trade” deal. Conservatives hate it because of its assault on sovereignty, the way it hands over the rights to regulate in the U.S. to foreign corporations. Liberals and progressives hate the way it threatens labor rights, health and safety standards, and the environment. Everybody hates the prospect of sending yet more American jobs to whichever country lets the companies pay them the least.

Trans-Pacific Partnership Would Hurt Black And Hispanic Workers

September 12, 2016 Robert E. Scott, www.epi.org Educate! TPP, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Robert E. Scott for Economic Policy Institute - The White House is making one last push for passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. However, growing imports of goods from low-wage, less-developed countries, which nearly tripled from 2.9 percent of GDP in 1989 to 8.4 percent in 2011, reduced the wages of the typical non-college educated worker in 2011 by “5.5 percent, or by roughly $1,800—for a full-time, full year worker earning the average wage for workers without a four-year college degree,” as shown by my colleague Josh Bivens.

Newsletter – On 9/11, Facing The Truth

September 11, 2016 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter #NoDAPL, 9/11, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Government, Open Debates, Pipelines, Prison Labor, TPP, Transparency

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese. Today is the fifteenth anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Centers in New York where 3,000 people died. The immediate responses to the attack were panic, grief and ultra-nationalism, followed by illegal attacks on Afghanistan and then Iraq. Perhaps now that 15 years has passed, we should look back at the events and review decisions that were made in hopes of avoiding mistakes in the future. The leading presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, seem stuck on the same path we have been on for 15 years -- is more militarism the right path? Have war and military attacks made the region more stable, the United States more secure, reduced terrorism, prevented instability in Europe due to the refuege crisis? Or, has the path of militarism made all of this worse?

Sen. Warren And Hundreds Of Academics Urge Rejection of TPP

September 8, 2016 Staff, www.citizen.org Resist! Congress, TPP

By Staff of Public Citizen - WASHINGTON, D.C. – The investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) regime at the heart of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that would newly empower thousands of multinational corporations to challenge U.S. policies before panels of three private lawyersto demand taxpayer compensation is the target of a letter sent to Congress today by leading pro-free trade U.S. economics and law professors calling on Congress to reject the TPP. The White House has escalated its efforts to pass the TPP in the lame-duck session, with Cabinet secretaries who are promoting the TPP crossing paths with Democratic presidential and congressional candidates campaigning against the TPP.

Obama’s TPP Would Widen The Divide

September 6, 2016 Manuel Pérez-Rocha, www.inequality.org Educate! Barack Obama, TPP

By Manuel Pérez-Rocha for Inequality - After the November election, all eyes will be on President Obama to see if he will follow through on his vow to push for a vote during a lame-duck session of Congress on the wildly unpopular Trans-Pacific Partnership. In a previous interview with Inequality.org, AFL-CIO deputy chief of staff Thea Lee explained why the U.S. labor movement strongly opposes the trade pact. She described the TPP as yet one more deal that would put downward pressure on U.S. labor conditions by further opening up the U.S. market and giving additional protections for U.S. corporations looking to move jobs offshore.

TPP Is Not Dead, Unfortunately

September 2, 2016 Lori Wallach, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! TPP

By Lori Wallach for The Huffington Post - The reports of the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s death have been greatly exaggerated, unfortunately. It would great news if the pact, which would mean more power for corporations over our lives and government, and fewer good jobs for Americans, were ready to be boxed and buried. But more urgently, if last week’s news stories convince the growing transpartisan movement fighting the TPP to stand down, the prospects that the pact’s powerful proponents can succeed in their plan to pass it after the election will increase.

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