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Showing Original Post only (View all) Delegates Are Using the Convention to Make the TPP Politically Unacceptable [View all]
A clear line has been drawn at the corporate-friendly trade deal during this year's convention.By John Nichols
The Nation Magazine
Delegates hold antiTrans-Pacific Partnership signs during the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 27, 2016. (Reuters / Scott Audette)
PhiladelphiaWhen President Obama looked out across a packed hall at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night, he could not have missed the large square signs opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership. They could be seen throughout the sprawling arena. In the Texas delegation and the Oregon delegation, in the Washington delegation and the Wisconsin delegation, delegates waved signs showing the letters TPP circled and with a red line slashed through them.
Mid-way through the presidents well-received address to the convention, delegates in a stand directly opposite the stage unfurled a sign that read: TPP Kills Democracy. And right up front, wearing his Stop TPP T-shirt, stickers and pins, was retired lawyer Stephen Spitz from Falls Church, Virginia.
I wanted to make sure that he saw that Democrats do not want him to submit the TPP in the lame-duck session of Congress after the election, said Spitz, the End Corporate Rule coordinator for the group Progressive Democrats of America.
Many of the people holding up the anti-TPP signs cheered when the president spoke of addressing inequality and injustice. Some attached their various anti-TPP signsmany of them produced by the National Nurses United unionto blue-and-white signs that read Obama, which were distributed by party officials and filled the hall for the presidents address.
The TPP is where the line has been drawn at this convention.
Even before delegates gathered in Philadelphia, platform drafters wrangled over the issuefinally settling on a strongly worded statement declaring that trade agreements must not undermine democratic decision making through special privileges and private courts for corporations, and trade negotiations must be transparent and inclusive. Democrats priority is to significantly strengthen enforcement of existing trade rules and strengthen the tools we have, including by holding countries accountable on currency manipulation and significantly expanding enforcement resources. Outlining labor, environment and currency-manipulation standards, and calling for streamlined and effective enforcement mechanisms that protect workers and the environment, the amendment insisted that These are standards all Democrats believe should be applied to all trade agreements, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Full story: https://www.thenation.com/article/delegates-are-using-the-convention-to-make-tpp-politically-unacceptable/
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newthinking
Jul 2016
OP
Ellison was talking about this yesterday or today. Override of state law is his issue.
merrily
Jul 2016
#9
Yep, TPP: The penultimate Bill from ALEC's Mill. Majority Dem opposition has been ignored,suppressed
stuffmatters
Jul 2016
#10