The People Can Defeat the Trans-Pacific Partnership bit.ly/1auIEQK Momentum is growing in the campaign to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Yesterday, the TPP was dealt two blows. Each could be lethal but the TPP, and its Atlantic counterpart, called TAFTA, are not dead yet. It is time for the movement of movements that formed to oppose the TPP to stand in solidarity, defeat these agreements and end the era of rigged corporate trade. Yesterday’s first blow came from WikiLeaks, showing once again that when government works in secret with big corporations, exposure by whistleblowers is critical to changing the corrupt direction of government and the economy. WikiLeaks published the full text of the intellectual property chapter; the leaked document included the positions of all the parties. It will take time for all the corporate rigging in this lengthy document to be understood, but already it is evident that Internet freedom will be curtailed, access to healthcare will become more expensive and access to information will be undermined. More bit.ly/1auIEQK
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 18:01:25 +0000
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