TPP

Washington Post: Protesters Rising To New Heights

September 27, 2013 Al Kamen, www.washingtonpost.com Resist! Media, TPP

The handful of demonstrators from “Flush the TPP,” an assortment of environmentalists, veterans, Code Pink activists and others chanting in front of the USTR building against the 11-nation treaty, hardly merited media attention. But as pure guerrilla theater, the noontime demonstration could rank among the best ever. Eight “construction workers” in blue coveralls and odd “Stop the TPP” yellow hard hats somehow made their way up an unsecured scaffolding — the building is undergoing some exterior work — to the top, where they unfurled a 10-by-30-foot banner condemning the proposed treaty as a corporate giveaway.

Protesters Creatively Expose Obama’s Secret Trade Deal

September 26, 2013 Alyssa Figueroa, www.alternet.org Resist! TPP

Dozens of activists recently took to D.C.’s streets to raise awareness and protest these shady dealings. On Sunday, the activists, which included members of Flush The TPP, Backbone Campaign, Veterans for Peace, CODEPINK and Earth First!, dropped banners on the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, which advises Obama on trade policy. The banners read “Corporate Coup Against the People and Planet,” “Democracy, Not Corporatocracy” and “Transparency: Release the Text:” The protesters have plans to escalate their tactics if a lack of transparency and congressional oversight continues. Congressmembers from both parties, including Elizabeth Warren, Alan Grayson, Michelle Bachman and Walter Jones, have also vocally opposed the fast track process and are demanding that TPP’s text be released.

What A Secretly-Negotiated Trade Agreement Could Mean For Fracking

September 26, 2013 Sharon Kelly, www.desmogblog.com Educate! Democracy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Fracking, TPP

Drilling advocates have become increasingly concerned about how grassroots organizing has expanded over the past 5 years. “Meanwhile, the oil and gas industry has largely failed to appreciate social and political risks, and has repeatedly been caught off guard by the sophistication, speed and influence of anti-fracking activists,” one consultant warned the industry last year. Some of the most resounding setbacks the drilling industry has faced have come at the state or local level. Bans and moratoria have led drilling companies to withdraw from leases in parts of the country, abandoning, at least for the short term, plans to drill. But when it comes to natural gas exports – which many analysts have said are key for the industry’s financial prospects –independent experts and local organizers may soon find themselves entirely shut out of the decision-making process, if the oil and gas industry has its way.

Back Door To Tar Sands Trans-Pacific Partnership

September 26, 2013 Sarah Lazare, www.commondreams.org Educate! Energy, Environment, TPP

Obama's top trade official is pushing for tar sands industry handouts and influence in the highly secretive Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, launching attacks on EU tar sands regulations that green groups say are already too insufficient. Environmental groups say that the regulation that Froman is attempting to gut is already grossly insufficient. "The regulation is not really doing anything," Scott Parkin of Rainforest Action Network told Common Dreams. "It's just saying tar sands should be called something different. We are saying that tar sands need to stay in the ground. Period." Obama's trade official is publicly advocating for the tar sands oil industry despite the president's June speech in which he declared he would cut carbon emissions and only approve the Keystone XL pipeline if it "does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution."

PHOTOESSAY: Don’t Fast Track A Train Wreck March To Stop TPP

September 25, 2013 Ellen Davidson, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, TPP

On Tuesday, September 24, as part of the Stop Fast Track Action Camp, activists took the TPP Express for an accountability tour through Washington, DC. The message was that we don't want to Fast Track this train wreck. The train which was created over the previous 72 hours under the supervision of artistic director Mike Barczynski and Backbone Campaign director Bill Moyer (with help from a real train engineer Steve Chrismer and many volunteers who worked late into the nights) was assembled in front of the White House. President Obama (played by Tighe Barry) drove the out-of-control train. The tour began at the White House. This is where President Obama decided to start negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) after campaigning on re-negotiating NAFTA so that it would be more fair and protect workers.

PHOTOESSAY: Banners Dropped On US Trade Office, Stop The TPP

September 25, 2013 Ellen Davidson, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Government, Jobs, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

Photographer and editor Ellen Davidson tells the story of the banner drop at the office of the US Trade Representative on Monday, Sept. 23. The banner drop followed the Stop Fast Track Action Camp and was done to protest and expose the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership that is nearing the end of negotiations. The TPP is an agreement that provides a back door to the stalled WTO agenda. Unlike past trade agreements, the text of the TPP has been classified as secret. More than 600 corporate advisers have live time access to the text as it is being negotiated while members of Congress have restricted access, the media has been on a virtual blackout about it and the public only knows what has been leaked and what industry groups are reporting. President Obama has requested Fast Track from Congress which allow him to sign the agreement and later send it to Congress for an up or down vote.

Video: The Anti-TPP Take Over Of The US Trade Representative Building

September 24, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Government, TPP, Video, Worker Rights and Jobs

Below is a video of activists working in the coalition FlushTheTPP.org dropping multiple banners from the US Trade Representatives Building in Washington, DC to protest the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). The groups sought to expose the secret negotiations that have been ongoing throughout the five years of the Obama administration and mobilize people concerned about workers, the environment, banking, food, water, Internet freedom and other issues to take action to oppose the TPP. The TPP will give large transnational corporations absolute power over our lives and make them more powerful than governments.

Activists Hang Four Anti-TPP Banners On U.S. Trade Building in DC

September 23, 2013 Bill Hughes, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! TPP, Video

On Monday morning, September 23rd, social justice activists, in Washington, D.C., protested the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) secret trade agreement. The treaty terms are “classified.” According to critics of the deal, “The White House is trying to pass it through ‘Fast Track’ - a process that undermines our [Constitutional] system of checks and balances and subverts democracy.” It has been labeled a “corporate power tool for the one percent gang.” The demonstration took place in front of the “Office of the U.S. Trade Representative,” where the TPP is being negotiated behind closed doors. The trade building is directly across the street from the “Executive Office Building,” which is right next door to the White House.

Protesters Take Over US Trade Rep Building Expose Secret Negotiations

September 23, 2013 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

This afternoon, September 23rd, protesters concerned about the looming Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) covered the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative with banners calling for a democratic process and a release of the treaty’s text. The group, which included members of FlushTheTPP.org, CODEPINK, Veterans for Peace, Backbone Campaign and Earth First!, say that the TPP will have vast consequences for U.S. laws, workers rights, and the environment. We took over their office building today, and plan to continue to escalate tactics in Congress and wherever we see opportunities to expose the TPP, stop the undermining of democracy through Fast Track and have a real debate over whether the US wants rigged trade for big transnational corporations or fair trade that puts people and the planet before profits.

Mega-Trade Deal Would Make Most Americans Poorer

September 23, 2013 Joshua Holland, www.billmoyers.com Educate! TPP

According to a leaked draft agreement, the treaty would establish independent tribunals that would allow corporations to bypass member countries’ judicial systems to challenge domestic laws and regulations that interfere with their business. According to an analysis of the text by Public Citizen, “the tribunals would be staffed by private sector lawyers that rotate between acting as ‘judges’ and as advocates for the investors suing the governments” – a conflict of interest that would never stand in an American courtroom. The tribunals could order countries to pay monetary damages to foreign investors if they didn’t comply with the rulings. Fair trade activists call it a back door to deregulation.

Light Projection FLUSH THE TPP

September 22, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! TPP

On September 22, 2013 activists in Washington, DC produced light projections with messages protesting the TPP. The light projection was part of a weekend training produced by FlushTheTPP.org with trainers from the Backbone Campaign and Earth First!. The TPP light projection was a done for the project #TPPMediaMarch which does actions every Tuesday night on twitter including twitter storms and twitter parties. Protests against the TPP are growing across the country as President Obama refuses to share the contents of the Trans Pacific Partnership with the American people and is pushing to minimize the checks and balances of Congress by seeking "Fast Track." Secrecy and inadequate congressional oversight is the only way the Obama administration can pass this unpopular law. A report last week by the Center for Economic and Policy Research found that if the TPP becomes law 90% of Americans will see their incomes decline and the wealth divide in the United States will expand. Call your member of Congress and tell them to oppose Fast Track and demand that the administration make the TPP public. Call 202-224-3121.

Stop the Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement

September 21, 2013 Bill Hughes, www.baltimorepostexaminer.com Educate! Fair Trade, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

Margaret Flowers shared her views Wedesday in front of Penn Station in Baltimore on the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement. She labeled it, “NAFTA on steroids.” Flowers underscored that the treaty has been “negotiated in secret,” and its terms, “classified.” She said that President Barack Obama has asked to “Fast Track” the treaty. This would allow him to sign it into law before the U.S. Congress is given an “up or down vote on it.” In other words, the measure would not go through the usual legislative democratic process, with hearings, transparency, the calling of witnesses, etc.

Trans Pacific Partnership Protest At US Trade Representative

September 20, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! TPP

While senior negotiators were meeting protesters were outside opposing the Trans Pacific Partnership. The rally organized by Communication Workers of America, Friends of the Earth and other organizations featured a skit by Money Wars, see MoneyWars.info. A massive sign urging that we Flush The TPP because it trades away people's lives and the planet's future for profit. The rally featured multiple speakers covering the wide range of issues hurt by the TPP. Below are photos by Ted Majdosz.

TPP in the USA Is Why We Occupy

September 20, 2013 William Rivers Pitt, www.truth-out.org Educate! Occupy, TPP

The second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street came and went on Tuesday with a fair degree of introspection in the socially conscious corners of social media. What did it mean? What did it accomplish? Is it over or just beginning? More than a few voices suggested the whole thing was nothing more or less than a body-odor ego trip for righteousness junkies looking to lord it over their less-invested activist counterparts. For some of the people in those very large crowds, I'm sure that characterization is true; shake a tree full of activists, and a few rotten gourds are sure to fall and splatter.

Popular Resistance Newsletter – Celebrate The Culture Of Resistance

September 20, 2013 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Newsletter Democracy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Immigration, Occupy, Poverty, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

This week we reflect on the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street and the fifth anniversary of the financial collapse. There are reasons to celebrate despite continued economic stagnation and growing debt: the culture of resistance in the US is here and it’s having an effect. There are cracks in the pillars of power, and it’s up to us to pry them open and shine light on the lies and corruption that have been used to steal our future. We see a movement that is building momentum. We look back over the events of the past two years and feel cautiously optimistic. As we met to organize the occupation of Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC, there was a strong sense of suspense. Some said that Americans weren’t feeling enough pain, that we hadn’t reached the tipping point. Similarly, the organizers of Occupy Wall Street acted out of anticipation.

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