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In reply to the discussion: US farmers 'helpless' as TPP boosts Australia [View all]lutherj
(2,495 posts)appearances on Democracy Now and wrote opinion pieces for various mainstream media arguing against the TPP. Thats how I remember the details. Noam Chomsky spoke out against it, as did Ralph Nader, among other progressives.
Heres the relevant bit from the Wikipedia entry:
Secrecy of negotiations
As with many trade agreements, until being finalized, negotiations for the TPP were conducted with significant secrecy. Drafts of the agreement were kept classified during negotiations, and access to the working text was significantly restricted even for government officials and business representatives involved in the talks.[199] Despite this, some sections of TPP drafts were leaked to the public by WikiLeaks, which published an intellectual property chapter draft in 2013,[200][201] an environmental chapter draft in 2014,[202] and the final intellectual property chapter in 2014.
Another bit:
In 2014, linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky warned that the TPP is "designed to carry forward the neoliberal project to maximize profit and domination, and to set the working people in the world in competition with one another so as to lower wages to increase insecurity."[211] Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) argues that trade agreements like the TPP "have ended up devastating working families and enriching large corporations."[212] Professor Robert Reich contends that the TPP is a "Trojan horse in a global race to the bottom.
Elizabeth Warren also opposed it. Shes someone youll probably be reading a lot about here at DU over the next couple years.