TPP

President Obama Speaks Out On Trade Promotion Authority

September 20, 2013 Doug Palmer, www.politico.com Educate! TPP

President Barack Obama on Thursday said he hoped to work with Republicans in Congress on a bipartisan bill supporting White House efforts to wrap up huge trade deals with 11 other countries in the Asia-Pacific region and the 28 nations of the European Union. “We’re going to need Trade Promotion Authority,” Obama said in remarks to the President’s Export Council, which brings together top corporate leaders, Cabinet officials and members of Congress to discuss ways to expand trade. Trade Promotion Authority, also known as TPA or “fast track” trade legislation, would allow Obama to submit the trade deals to Congress for straight up-or-down votes without any amendments. That protection is considered essential to assuring other countries that U.S. lawmakers won’t rip apart any agreement reached by the White House.

Money Wars: The TransPacific Partnership

September 19, 2013 Dennis Trainor, Jr., www.acronymtv.wordpress.com Resist! TPP

In this parody of Star Wars, episode 4, a new hope- It is a period of class war. The DIDACTIC EMPIRE, striking from a hidden base, have won a major victory against the OPEN ALLIANCE with the passage of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement). During the battle to fast track the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership), Luke Whistleblower managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the DEATH STAR, which has enough power to make nations subservient to corporations. Pursued by Emperor Pipeline and Dark Banker with their captive Barack Obama, Princess Laidoff is able to foil the DIDACTIC EMPIRE and help the OPEN ALLIANCE Destroy the TPP DEATH STAR.

Study: “Trade” Deal Would Mean Pay Cut For 90% Of U.S. Workers

September 18, 2013 Ben Beachy, www.eyesontrade.com Educate! Finance and the Economy, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

That is, as a result of the TPP, the median U.S. income would fall. It would not just fall in comparison to the incomes of the wealthy (which would rise). It would fall in absolute terms, forcing middle-class U.S. workers to take home less in 2025 than they earn today. Such wage losses would afflict most U.S. workers. Rosnick shows that if we assume that trade has contributed just 15% of the recent rise in inequality (a still conservative estimate), then the TPP would mean wage losses for all but the richest 10% of U.S. workers. So if you're making less than $87,000 per year (the current 90th percentile wage), the TPP would mean a pay cut. And if you're making more than $87,000 per year, you may still be a tad concerned about how the deal could jeopardize the safety of your food, threaten clean water protections, roll back Wall Street reforms, etc.

Photo Galleries From S17 OWS Anniversary

September 17, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Occupy, TPP

Below is a photo gallery from the march on the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street on September 17, 2013. A major theme of the march was global justice with a particular focus on stopping the Trans-Pacific Partnership. For more on stopping the TPP visis www.FlushTheTPP.org.

Happy Constitution Day! Happy OWS S17 and Happy TPP Tuesday!

September 17, 2013 FlushTheTPP, www.FlushTheTPP.org Resist! Occupy, TPP

There is much to celebrate because we are already having an effect. The Trans-Pacific Partnership process has been slowed - the bill to grant Fast Track to President Obama has not been introduced in Congress yet and TPP negotiators are struggling with the language in several chapters of the agreement. The initial goal of having the TPP signed by early October does not look achievable. And the AFL-CIO passed a resolution opposing the TPP at its convention last week. All of your hard work to shine a light on the TPP and to demand transparency and democracy is having an impact.

U.S. Needs To Rethink Free Trade Agreements

September 17, 2013 James P. Hoffa, www.detroitnews.com Resist! TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

Michigan and the U.S. face a similar problem with the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which Congress is expected to consider in the coming months. Supporters of the 12-nation Pacific Rim trade deal said it will lead to greater U.S. exports and job growth. But we’ve heard that before. There’s one common factor to all of these trade deals: Workers on both sides of the deal get screwed while corporations rake in record profits. Like low-wage workers in the fast food and retail industries, workers must join together to let Congress know that the TPP is not the right path for the U.S.

Trans-Pacific Partnership Events OWS Anniversary

September 16, 2013 Trade Justice NY, www.occupys17.info Resist! Environment, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

Trade Justice NY has organized a day of activities to stop the Trans Pacific Partnership as part of the anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. At 8:30AM-10AM there is a Financial District March: No Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)! No Fast Track! From NOON-1PM there is a Rally @ Washington Square – No to TPP! Money Out of Politics! Global Solidarity. From 2 PM-5PM Money Warz TPP Street Theater in Times Square and Corporate Creeps Street Theater Marching Tour. Meet at Broadway between 45th and 46th -protest the corporations pushing TPP. More events on Wednesday. Gather at 8:30 to march through the financial district to tell Wall Street – NO TPP!

AFL-CIO to Fight “Trade” Deals Like TPP

September 16, 2013 Dave Johnson, www.ourfuture.org Resist! Environment, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

This week’s AFL-CIO convention discussed the problem of these “trade” agreements that have undercut America’s middle class by pitting our country’s working people against exploited people (near-slaves in some cases) elsewhere. The convention passed a resolution vowing to fight any trade agreement that promotes the rise in corporate power at the expense of working people. Meanwhile, members of Congress are becoming more and more concerned over what they are hearing about the upcoming Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement.

Zapatista’s On NAFTA And The TPP

September 15, 2013 OWS Zapatista, www.interoccupy.net Educate! NAFTA, TPP, Zapatistas

Negotiated in secret by the US, Japan, Vietnam and 12 other countries, TPP will subvert democracy by creating a system of international tribunals outside the jurisdiction of our court system where corporations can challenge current and future banking regulations (among other things making a Robin hood Tax illegal) and attack our environmental (including fracking bans), health, and food safety rules. They can also use these tribunals to undermine access to essential services and lifesaving medicines by claiming that our laws violate their “investor rights.” TPP will lower food safety standards, replace family farms with factory farms and force countries to enforce genetically modified foods. Described as the “Son of SOPA”, TPP will attack our internet freedom and privacy.

“Final” TPP Round Not Final: More Secretive Talks Ahead

September 13, 2013 Ben Beachy, www.citizen.typepad.com Educate! Finance and the Economy, TPP

Among the most contested aspects of the deal include the U.S. proposals on medicine patents, state-owned enterprises, Internet policy, financial regulatory limits, and environment and labor standards. Only five of the TPP’s 29 chapters pertain to traditional trade matters. The rest would set policies, to which the U.S. Congress and state legislatures would be required to conform, relating to regulation of energy and other services, financial regulation, food safety, procurement policy, patents and copyright policy, and other non-trade issues. The draft pact also includes NAFTA-style foreign investor rules that facilitate job offshoring by removing many of the risks and costs of relocating U.S. production to low-wage countries.

Launch of the TPP Death Star

September 13, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Occupy, TPP

On September 17, 2013 the TPP [TransPacific Partnership) Death Star will launch. This is part of a day of actions against the TPP as part of the anniversary of Occupy Wall Street in New York City. Money Warz will show the truth about the TPP and why we must stop it. There are 4 ways to join the team and perform or assist: EVENT 1) Sunday S-15 NOON meet at the Washington Square Arch - photo op, rehearsal EVENT 2) Tuesday S-17 9am to 11am Preview at Zuccotti - marching, posing, being admired EVENT 3) Tuesday S-17 NOON to 3pm The Big Times Square Puppet Spectacle - rehearsal, performance, visiting corporate HQs EVENT 4) ALL OF THE ABOVE EVENTS!

TPP: Out of the Shadows!

September 12, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

Rally against the TPP in Washington, DC on Friday, September 20, 2013 at 12:00 noon at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative • 600 17th St NW, Washington, DC. Stop Fast Track Training Camp and Days of Action Sept. 21 and 22: Stop Fast Track Action Camp with Bill Moyer of the Backbone Campaign and Steph Cascadia of Rising Tide, where we’ll work together on strategy for direct action and developing ways to convey our message creatively. Sept. 23 and 24: Two days of creative actions to bring attention to the TPP using Washington, DC as our stage. Then the Trade Brigade that will be working Congress through the vote. Join whenever you can to take action for trade that puts people and the planet over profit. Schedule a few days when your group can come to DC to stop Fast Track and stop the TPP.

VIDEO: Acronym TV Weekly Resistance Report 007

September 12, 2013 Denis Trainor, Jr,. AcronymTV, www.popularresistance.org Resistance Report Corporatism, Democracy, Syria, TPP, Video, Wars and Militarism

Stories covered in this Resistance Report: Occupy Turns 2, Rejecting American Exceptionalism, TPP Protests Escalate | Resistance Report #007 Rejecting American Exceptionalism In invoking American Exceptionalism as a reason we should intervene in Syria. President Obama is invoking the same principle that self empowers us remain “the greatest purveyors of violence on Earth today.” Occupy Turns 2 Occupy Activist Joel Northam reflects on lessons learned from Occupy, specifically, “regardless of their perceived power and influence that they maintain through brute force, the capitalists, with their incredibly linear objectives, who only exist to satisfy their insatiable lust for wealth and resources, along with the bureaucratic, top-down, mechanistic and predictable arm of state power that protects them, is no match for the fluidity, creativity, adaptability, ferocity, and soul of this sleeping dragon that is the people in struggle for liberation. Our task is to awaken it.”

CBS MoneyWatch Highlights How TPP Will Hurt U.S. Wages

September 12, 2013 David White and Mark McCullough, www.popularresistance.org Educate! TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

MoneyWatch explains how TPP will impact middle-income earners the most, “… the workers most likely to be hurt by this are median wage earners. Those in the bottom quarter of earnings won't be much affected because their incomes are determined by the minimum wage. Top income earners, who are more protected from international competition, will likely see incomes rise as a result of TPP expansion of the terms and enforcement of copyrights and patents.” The CEPR study also describes how the costs outweigh the benefits when it comes to trade deals meant to spur economic growth, "There are winners and losers from trade, and research has shown that trade contributes to inequality. In fact, it would take only a very small contribution to inequality due to trade to wipe out all of the gains that most workers would get from this agreement."

Criticism Escalates Against TPP, Negotiations Go Further Underground

September 10, 2013 Maira Sutton, www.eff.org Educate! Internet Freedom, Privacy, TPP

Not only have they neglected to notify digital rights groups—including EFF, which is based in San Francisco—about the meeting, we could not even discover where it was taking place. Delegates from TPP countries are right now holding these secretive "inter-sessional" meetings here and in other undisclosed cities around the world. Trade reps for specific issue areas are hammering out "unresolved" issues that are holding up the conclusion of the agreement, and doing so by becoming even more secretive and evasive than ever. We only heard about a TPP meeting on intellectual property in Mexico City in September through the diplomatic rumor-mill, since the US Trade Rep is no longer bothering to announce the dates or locations of these closed-door side meetings.

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