say NO to Fast-Track Trade Promotion Authority
Stop giving Corporations more rights over U.S. Citizens!
Right now governments and the giant multinational corporations are engaged in writing a treaty that would overrule national laws that try to limit what these giant corporations can do to us. This treaty will allow corporations to sue governments for ?lost profits? if governments try to enforce environmental, health, labor and other laws. One ?smoking gun? example that shows us what this treaty is about is an argument over whether to ?carve out? special treatment for tobacco because it is so harmful, or give it the same protections that other corporations and their products are due to receive.
The first thing we need to do to change this process is to become aware of how TPP is going to be pushed. Corporate interests are trying to get Congress to pass something called ?Fast Track? Trade Promotion Authority, which means Congress yields is Constitutional duty to carefully consider and amend ?trade? treaties. If Congress passes this TPP will be pushed with a multi-million-dollar PR rush, with little chance for citizens to rally to fight it.
Please contact your Congress members here: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
(Quoted from Dave Johnson's article: http://www.alternet.org/economy/multinationals-are-scheming-build-corporate-death-star-will-zap-democracy-across-planet?page=0%2C0&src=newsletter893563 ) .
The first thing we need to do to change this process is to become aware of how TPP is going to be pushed. Corporate interests are trying to get Congress to pass something called ?Fast Track? Trade Promotion Authority, which means Congress yields is Constitutional duty to carefully consider and amend ?trade? treaties. If Congress passes this TPP will be pushed with a multi-million-dollar PR rush, with little chance for citizens to rally to fight it.
Please contact your Congress members here: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
(Quoted from Dave Johnson's article: http://www.alternet.org/economy/multinationals-are-scheming-build-corporate-death-star-will-zap-democracy-across-planet?page=0%2C0&src=newsletter893563 ) .
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