TELL CONGRESS TO STOP FAST TRACKING THE TPP (NAFTA on steroids) Polis wont commit...contact him It is a sneak attack on democracy! We need to stop the Nixon-era fast tracking (Obama sends the bill to Congress and they vote on it without debate) of the Trans Pacific Partnership (NAFTA on steroids). After the election during the lame duck session.. Contact your member of Congress wherever you live in whatever state... In Colorado, we are demonstrating at Rep. Jared Poliss office in Boulder at Meadows Shopping Center (4770 Baseline Rd, #220 polis.house.gov/contact/boulder.htm) on Nov. 7 at noon....He refuses to commit on either fast track or the TPP. He is considered a swing vote. Dave Anderson citizen.org/TPP Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Job Loss, Lower Wages and Higher Drug Prices Sign the petition! nofasttrack/#!/take-action aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/No-to-Fast-Track-Campaign-Aims-at-Returning-Lame-Ducks No to Fast Track’ Campaign Aims at Returning ‘Lame Ducks’ 10/27/2014 Mike Hall The AFL-CIO and its member unions launched a unique “station domination” ad campaign aimed at stopping possible congressional action on “Fast Track” trade authority legislation in the upcoming lame-duck session of Congress. The ads run throughout Capitol South Metro station, the main Capitol Hill stop and one of the busiest stations on Washington, D.C.’s Metro system. The ads convey the too often hidden but always dramatic stakes in trade negotiations for working people. One ad features Marcos V., a Texas refinery worker and member of the United Steelworkers (USW). He says that the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement that could be considered under Fast Track could be: Sign up to receive AFL-CIO Now blog alerts>> Devastating to the oil industry and the manufacturing industry it supports by off-shoring jobs, chipping away at our wages and risking the safety and environmental protections our unions have brought us for decades. The TPP could threaten our rights to organize and collectively bargain. Fast Track legislation shrouds trade deals in secrecy. It makes it nearly impossible for Congress to fix trade deals that harm our economy and environment. It prevents citizens from providing input to proposals while the deal is being negotiated. It makes you wonder what theyre trying to hide. Says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka: Fast Track is a misguided and undemocratic policy that advances the corporate trade agenda and bad deals like NAFTA, CAFTA and the Korea FTA. Congress must end the secrecy and create a new process to develop and implement trade, investment and economic policies that will promote good jobs, rising wages, a clean environment and a fair economy for us all. America’s workers simply can’t afford more Fast Track. The ads are sponsored by the AFL-CIO, AFSCME, Communications Workers of America (CWA), Machinists (IAM), UAW and USW. ------------------------------------------------------- from Public Citizen Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Job Loss, Lower Wages and Higher Drug Prices Have you heard? The TPP is a massive, controversial free trade agreement currently being pushed by big corporations and negotiated behind closed doors by officials from the United States and 11 other countries – Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. In one fell swoop, this secretive deal could: offshore millions of American jobs, roll back Wall Street reforms, sneak in SOPA-like threats to Internet freedom, ban Buy American policies needed to create green jobs, jack up the cost of medicines, expose the U.S. to unsafe food and products, and empower corporations to attack our environmental and health safeguards. Although it is called a free trade agreement, the TPP is not mainly about trade. Of TPPs 29 draft chapters, only five deal with traditional trade issues. One chapter would provide incentives to offshore jobs to low-wage countries. Many would impose limits on government policies that we rely on in our daily lives for safe food, a clean environment, and more. Our domestic federal, state and local policies would be required to comply with TPP rules. The TPP would even elevate individual foreign firms to equal status with sovereign nations, empowering them to privately enforce new rights and privileges, provided by the pact, by dragging governments to foreign tribunals to challenge public interest policies that they claim frustrate their expectations. The tribunals would be authorized to order taxpayer compensation to the foreign corporations for the expected future profits they surmise would be inhibited by the challenged policies. We only know about the TPPs threats thanks to leaks – the public is not allowed to see the draft TPP text. Even members of Congress, after being denied the text for years, are now only provided limited access. Meanwhile, more than 500 official corporate trade advisors have special access. The TPP has been under negotiation for six years, and the Obama administration wants to sign the deal this year. Opposition to the TPP is growing at home and in many of the other countries involved.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 16:59:12 +0000
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