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TPP is a permanent power grab by corporations that will make it
impossible for the citizens of the
TPP countries, including American
citizens, to decide what laws and
rules they want to live under.

Act Now!

 

International courts, acting at the request of private corporations, overturning the laws adopted by your elected officials. Does that sound like a good idea to you? Scarily, if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement goes through, you'll see a lot more of this.

 

The bill to "fast track" the TPP and other trade agreements has just been filed by Representative Camp (R-MI) and Senator Baucus (D-MT). Please call your Congressional delegation and tell them to vote NO!  

 

Details on who to contact and what to say are below.

 

The TPP is a new so-called "free trade" agreement being negotiated between the U.S. and a dozen other Pacific Rim countries. But the reality is that the TPP is a permanent power grab by corporations that will make it impossible for the citizens of the TPP countries, including American citizens, to decide what laws and rules they want to live under. For instance, the TPP would disable the government's ability to regulate things like GMOs, pesticides, and food additives and would increase corporate control on the global food supply.  

 

The secretive talks are in their 14th round, having begun under George W. Bush in 2008. Little of the document being negotiated has been made publicly available, but what we do know is disturbing. The TPP would go well beyond NAFTA in tearing down domestic laws of all kinds, from food to financial services. American manufacturers and farmers would suffer, while Wall Street banks would reap huge profits and companies would move more operations offshore.

 

As the TPP nears completion, President Obama is also pushing a separate trade agreement with the European Union that includes very similar provisions.

 

President Obama doesn't want Americans to look too closely at the details of these deals. He plans to seek "fast track authority" for the negotiations, meaning that he and whoever comes after him would be able to negotiate as desired without oversight by Congress.

 

The vote on Fast Track authority for the TPP trade agreement could come at any time.  

Please speak up now!

 

Tell your elected officials that you want them to do their job and take a good, hard look at the TPP--not simply give President Obama a blank check to negotiate away our domestic laws.

 

Find out who to call and what to say in the Take Action section below.   

 

For updates on TPP, go to www.bit.ly/FTC-TPP. 


Green
Item1TAKE ACTION #1    

Contact Your Representative!      

 

Our best chance to stop the Fast Track is in the U.S. House of Representatives.

 

Call or e-mail your U.S. Representative. You can find out who represents you at www.House.gov or by calling the Capital Switchboard at 202-224-3121.  

 

If you send an email, please be sure to personalize your message! Add a couple of sentences at the beginning about who you are and why these issues matter to you--it will make a much bigger impact.

 

SAMPLE MESSAGE for email or calls:

 

My name is ___ and I am a constituent. I am calling to urge Congress(wo)man ____ to vote NO on the "Trade Priorities Act of 2014," which provides Fast Track authority for the TPP and other trade agreements.

 

Both the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the U.S./EU Free Trade Agreement will harm American workers and consumers.

 

A true free trade agreement would remove trade barriers such as tariffs and quotas--and it would stop there. But these agreements go far beyond free trade, and they would undermine our domestic laws. The deals will increase the flow of dangerous fish imports from Southeast Asia, lower our consumer product and food safety standards, increase exports of natural gas to Japan, and undermine financial regulations.

 

Fast Track authority leaves the decisions on these agreements in the President's hands alone.  

That's not how Congress is supposed to work.  

 

I urge Congress(wo)man ____ to vote NO on Fast Track authority for trade agreements, in order to keep the proper checks and balances in our system.
TAKE ACTION #2     

Contact Your U.S. Senators!      

 

Contact both of your U.S. Senators and urge them to oppose Fast Track authority for the TPP and other trade agreements.

 

You can find out who represents you at www.Senate.gov or by calling the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121. 

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