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BrendaBrick

(1,296 posts)
Sun Aug 19, 2012, 12:48 PM Aug 2012

Wouldn't (Some) Indigenous Cultures Have A Legal Advantage Over The Trans-Pacific Partnership?

and possibly negate its power/validity by legally reverting back to the older treaties which were never enforced? There seems to be some confusion for me as to whether the TPP is an *agreement* or a *treaty*. If its an agreement, then would it be possible to have it changed into a treaty whereby the older treaties have to be recognized and enforced first with regard to all of those Native American treaties previously enacted in this country?

I know, I know - I'm really grasping at straws here. Just seems to me that something can be done about this!

I found this: Indigenous Peoples of Central America Oppose Free Trade Agreement (2 page pdf)

http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Indigenous-Peoples-of-Central-America-Oppose-Free-Trade-Agreement.pdf

Do you suppose that Indigenous peoples everywhere might have some tiny legal foothold...anywhere?

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