As expected, Congress is trying to fast track the TPP. Now is the time to organize and defeat it.
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What you can do as an individual
I've linked to this old thread before, but it's worth doing so again because it is my understanding that this is the best action we can take, as individuals, to affect the decisions of politicians:
How to get your senators' and representatives' attention on any issue without being a wealthy donor | Protip from a former Senate intern
https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1os8rz/how_to_get_your_senators_and_representatives/
If you don't feel as though you have the time or writing skills to compose a letter to the editor with which to call out your senators and representatives, then please, at the very least, call their offices to express your opposition to the TPP.
You can find the phone numbers for your senators' offices here and those for your representatives here.
Also, work to inform others in your immediate peer group by talking about the TPP and ISDS when conversation turns to politics.
What we can do as a group
Let's start talking about direct actions that can be taken in real life to coordinate our opposition to the TPP. Obviously, most people with full time jobs can't realistically drop everything and protest 7 days a week. But why don't we pick a day--perhaps Saturday--and have weekly rallies around the country?
Feel free to amend these ideas or come up with your own, but here are some ideas that I've come up with so far:
Coordinating online activism through /r/politics, /r/technology, /r/evolutionreddit, and a sub I recently created: /r/FlushTheTPP.
Coordinating marches in DC every Saturday from the Capitol to the White House.
Holding rallies every Saturday in major cities and capitols around the country.
Organizing encampments full of labor union workers and other TPP opponents outside of senators' and representatives' private residences and state offices. Film everything (because police brutality would be a near-certainty) and refuse to leave until the TPP has been defeated.
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