HELP US STOP THE TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) Just next week, 600 corporate lobbyists are due to land Canada for what might be the last negotiations before the secretive Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal is finalized. We were planning to be there in Vancouver and welcome them with a massive protest, to call attention to this dangerous corporate power grab. We were even working to get real, non-corporate representatives officially inside these crucial talks. But we’ve just heard that TPP organizers are moving the secret talks to Ottawa -- a five hour flight away -- right at the last minute. They’re terrified of a backlash, and terrified people will actually see what happens behind the closed doors. They think they can get away with keeping the talks secret, and hiding the world’s biggest trade deal from the public eye. Not if we can help it. We urgently need to raise the funds to get organizers and citizen representatives from Vancouver to Ottawa, and make these talks the big media event the corporations don’t want. Insiders are saying this could be the last round of talks -- ever -- of one of the worst trade deals the world has ever seen. By November, the TPP could be the law, wreaking havoc on environmental laws, internet freedoms and people’s health. This treaty could prevent future governments from passing laws that protect our kids and put people over profits. And this could be one of our last chances to stop it. Governments know that if people knew how bad this deal is, they’d never agree to it. And the signatories are terrified that protests like the ones that happened in Seattle over the World Trade talks in 1999 could happen in Ottawa. But these trade talks are worse. The TPP is like NAFTA on steroids and we need to stop it now before it’s too late. The TPP talks have been on the rocks for months, but inside sources are saying these will be the last talks in North America and one of the last rounds of talks before the deal is finalized in November. Imagine 600 corporate lobbyists gathered in Ottawa’s most expensive hotel sipping cocktails in $4000 suits deciding the fate of our democratically decided laws, knowing that their main opposition is stuck on the other side of the country. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is called a trade deal, but it is really a corporate wish-list aimed at attacking everything from environmental protections to affordable medicines to internet freedoms. In fact, it is probably the most important international treaty you’ve never heard of. The TPP is being negotiated between the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan and other Pacific countries -- making it nearly global in scope. Theres lots wrong with the TPP, but the unaccountable systems it would set up to allow corporations to sue governments are one of the most frightening. If it is signed, future laws designed to protect consumers, our health, and our environment could be overturned in secret courts by corporations that claim the laws harm their profits -- and there is nothing we or our elected governments could do to stop them. We need to do a lot more to make sure we stop this treaty -- and we need your help to do that. Please, will you chip in $1 to supercharge our campaign in Ottawa now? click the link below act.sumofus.org/go/4941?ask=1&t=4&akid=5995.1636164.4RuL2j Thanks for all you do, Paul, Jon and the team at SumOfUs
Posted on: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 00:09:38 +0000
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