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More From Shadow Cabinet on TPP: More Corporate, Less Human Rights

June 18, 2013 Staff, www.greenshadowcabinet.us , , ,
On June 17th, the Green Shadow Cabinet joined the national resistance to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Each day of this week, Cabinet members are sharing in specific detail why they, and people they represent, oppose the TPP. Please see below for statements by Ajamu Baraka on Human Rights, Lee Camp the impact on you, Sarah Mansk bad for small business, and Richard McIntyre on secrecy and corporate power. This is part of the continuing campaign by the Green Shadow Cabinet to stop the TPP.

Vancouver Protests Demand “End to Silence” on TPP

June 17, 2013 Kristen Beifus and Stuart Trew, www.popularresistance.org ,
Negotiators from 11 Pacific Rim countries met quietly in Vancouver this weekend to set new investment rules within the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). No announcement of this “intersessional” on investment was made to the public or the media. People in Canada first learned about this TPP ‘mini’ negotiation from an article in the Peruvian media Friday. It was later confirmed by iPolitics.ca with no other details and has since been acknowledged by the federal government in a brief statement concluding the intersessional talks. “It’s long past time to end the silence on the TPP,” says Kristen Beifus of the Washington Fair Trade Coalition. “It’s outrageous that this investor rights treaty is being developed behind closed doors. What they are negotiating will impact all of us, just as NAFTA has for 20 years, and we deserve to know what is being negotiated in our name.”

Green Shadow Cabinet Joins Critical Struggle to Defeat the Trans-Pacific Partnership

June 17, 2013 Staff, www.greenshadowcabinet.us , , , , , , , , , ,
Those who defend corporate capitalism also understand that another world is possible, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership is their attempt to foreclose our new world. The TPP gives major corporations legal personhood to sue in transnational courts dominated by judges who themselves are lawyers for major corporations. Under the TPP, corporations would be able to claim that environmental, labor, financial, health and other laws cost them profits, and to extract damages from our governments - and from us as taxpayers - if they enforce those laws.

Video: The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

June 15, 2013 TheNakedEmperor.com, www.youtube.com ,
President Obama, Governor Romney and the man with the crown discuss the merits of a trade deal that has been negotiated in secret that would allow foreign corporations to strike down US law. Video by TheNakedEmperor.com.

Support Transparency in Trade Negotiations

June 14, 2013 Daily Kos, www.dailykos.com ,
- GO STRAIGHT TO THE PETITION HERE -
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is standing up to the Obama administration and the U.S. Trade Representative’s office–demanding they release trade documents used as part of negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Sign the petition to back up Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s request that all documents being used to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership be released for review by the public.

Secret Trade Agreements Threaten Food Safety, Subvert Democracy

June 13, 2013 Katherine Paul and Ronnie Cummins, www.organicconsumers.org ,
If you think the U.S. government is doing a sub-par job of keeping your food safe, brace yourself. You could soon be eating imported seafood, beef or chicken products that don’t meet even basic U.S. food safety standards. Under two new trade agreements, currently in negotiation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could be powerless to shut down imports of unsafe food or food ingredients. And if it tries, multinational corporations will be able to sue the U.S. government for the loss of anticipated future profits. More frightening? Negotiations for both agreements are taking place behind closed doors, with input allowed almost exclusively from the corporations and industry trade groups that stand to benefit the most. And the Obama Administration intends to push the agreements through Congress without so much as giving lawmakers access to draft texts, much less the opportunity for debate.
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