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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCorporate Death Star: Help fight the secretive, corporate-sponsored Trans-Pacific Partnership
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/14293/corporate_death_star/from In These Times:
Corporate Death Star
Help fight the secretive, corporate-sponsored Trans-Pacific Partnership.
BY Jacob Marshall
Since 2007, the United States has been negotiating a corporate-friendly free trade agreement with a host of Pacific nations. But despite the fact that it would be the largest trade agreement since the formation of the World trade organization, the contents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) have been kept secret from Congress and the public. Negotiators have only made the draft available to a handful of labor unions and about 600 corporate lobbyists.
Leaked excerpts from the draft agreement, published by the consumer-advocacy group Public Citizen, indicate that the TPP is a NAFTA on steroids for the Pacific Rim (participants include Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Canada, Mexico and several other Pacific countries.) The agreement would institute copyright restrictions similar to those of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, overrule domestic environmental and workplace regulations, increase outsourcing of American jobs and more.
Fair trade groups and their allies held worldwide protests during the latest round of TPP negotiations in Auckland in December 2012, while Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) has proposed a bill to increase Congressional oversight of the talks. The online activist network Avaaz hosts a One Million to Stop the Corporate Death Star petition, and Public Citizen also provides information and ways to fight back.
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Links:
One Million to Stop the Corporate Death Star: http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_the_corporate_death_star/
Public Citizen: http://www.citizen.org/tppaction
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Corporate Death Star: Help fight the secretive, corporate-sponsored Trans-Pacific Partnership (Original Post)
marmar
Jan 2013
OP
Can't do that now. All the obsessive anti-gun posts have sucked the oxygen out of the room.
AnotherMcIntosh
Jan 2013
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xchrom
(108,903 posts)1. god -- i hate that treaty. nt
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)2. Can't do that now. All the obsessive anti-gun posts have sucked the oxygen out of the room.