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THE FIGHT IS ON! - People & Planet vs Greedy 1% (TPP Team call tomorrow!)
Since Thursday's early morning release of the text, experts agree on one thing: the reason the TPP has been kept under wraps for the last 6 years is because it stinks to high heaven!
In every meaningful way the TPP could have set benchmarks higher than former trade agreements, it fails miserably, especially when it comes to jobs, access to healthcare and lifesaving medications, environmental protection, digital rights, food sovereignty, and democracy.
Think about this for one minute: Our representatives are being told by a handful of corporate interests, to approve a treaty that is required to set up a separate bureaucracy of foreign corporate interests to harmonize our laws so they can do away with Buy American policies and kill country of origin food labeling, so countries like Viet Nam, with its poor labor standards and toxic fish have unhampered market access. And let's not forget the words "global warming" aren't mentioned a single time.
I hate to say global corporate dominance for want of sounding alarmist, but if we're not careful and don't stand up and fight now, those who follow us are going to pay the price for generations to come, because this treaty is open-ended.
There is no expiration date.
THE FIGHT IS ON! PEOPLE AND THE PLANET VS. THE GREEDY 1%
NATIONAL TPP TEAM CALL SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8 / 4:30 PACIFIC / 5:30 MOUNTAIN / 6:30 CENTRAL / 7:30 EASTERN TIME
Click this link to login to the online meeting room: http://login.meetcheap.com/conference,87610294
Online meeting room opens 15 minutes before the call
DIAL-IN NUMBER AND ACCESS CODE: 605-562-3140 / 951146#
ALTERNATE NUMBER: 559-726-1300 / 951146#
TPP VS. FAMILY FARMS AND FARMERS
Join the National TPP Team to discuss how TPP would further impact food sovereignty and safety, and jobs, with John E. Peck, Executive Director, Family Farm Defenders and Oscar Gutierrez, Director Nacional Dignidad Agropecuaria por la soberanía alimentaria de Colombia (National Executive Director of Dignity in Agriculture, working for food sovereignty for Colombia).
Mr. Gutierrez will address the continuing detrimental impacts of the U.S. Colombia Free Trade Agreement on agricultural workers in Colombia. Also with us will be the coalition partners reporting on the current state of Congress when it comes to the unpopular coming vote.
Kathryn Johnson, Policy Impacts Coordinator, American Friends Service Committ, will give her analysis on the recent leaked text of the TPP;
Emilianne Slaydon, TPP Media March, will update us on the TPP Tuesday Twitter Storm;
Adam Weissman, TradeJustice NY Metro, will update us on coming events; Mackenzie McDonald Wilkins, Popular Resistance / Flush the TPP will fill us in on the imminent #FallRising D.C. Days of Action against Toxic Trade, November 14-18, and how we can participate; And
Andrea Miller, Co-Executive Director, People Demanding, will moderate the call.
Please join us,
Harriet Heywood
Co-Coordinator, National TPP Team
P.S.: Please sign and help spread Peter's petition which we will deliver in D.C. during #FallRising:
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-the-trans-pacific?mailing_id=31855&source=s.em.cr&r_by=1444895
In every meaningful way the TPP could have set benchmarks higher than former trade agreements, it fails miserably, especially when it comes to jobs, access to healthcare and lifesaving medications, environmental protection, digital rights, food sovereignty, and democracy.
Think about this for one minute: Our representatives are being told by a handful of corporate interests, to approve a treaty that is required to set up a separate bureaucracy of foreign corporate interests to harmonize our laws so they can do away with Buy American policies and kill country of origin food labeling, so countries like Viet Nam, with its poor labor standards and toxic fish have unhampered market access. And let's not forget the words "global warming" aren't mentioned a single time.
I hate to say global corporate dominance for want of sounding alarmist, but if we're not careful and don't stand up and fight now, those who follow us are going to pay the price for generations to come, because this treaty is open-ended.
There is no expiration date.
THE FIGHT IS ON! PEOPLE AND THE PLANET VS. THE GREEDY 1%
NATIONAL TPP TEAM CALL SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8 / 4:30 PACIFIC / 5:30 MOUNTAIN / 6:30 CENTRAL / 7:30 EASTERN TIME
Click this link to login to the online meeting room: http://login.meetcheap.com/conference,87610294
Online meeting room opens 15 minutes before the call
DIAL-IN NUMBER AND ACCESS CODE: 605-562-3140 / 951146#
ALTERNATE NUMBER: 559-726-1300 / 951146#
TPP VS. FAMILY FARMS AND FARMERS
Join the National TPP Team to discuss how TPP would further impact food sovereignty and safety, and jobs, with John E. Peck, Executive Director, Family Farm Defenders and Oscar Gutierrez, Director Nacional Dignidad Agropecuaria por la soberanía alimentaria de Colombia (National Executive Director of Dignity in Agriculture, working for food sovereignty for Colombia).
Mr. Gutierrez will address the continuing detrimental impacts of the U.S. Colombia Free Trade Agreement on agricultural workers in Colombia. Also with us will be the coalition partners reporting on the current state of Congress when it comes to the unpopular coming vote.
Kathryn Johnson, Policy Impacts Coordinator, American Friends Service Committ, will give her analysis on the recent leaked text of the TPP;
Emilianne Slaydon, TPP Media March, will update us on the TPP Tuesday Twitter Storm;
Adam Weissman, TradeJustice NY Metro, will update us on coming events; Mackenzie McDonald Wilkins, Popular Resistance / Flush the TPP will fill us in on the imminent #FallRising D.C. Days of Action against Toxic Trade, November 14-18, and how we can participate; And
Andrea Miller, Co-Executive Director, People Demanding, will moderate the call.
Please join us,
Harriet Heywood
Co-Coordinator, National TPP Team
P.S.: Please sign and help spread Peter's petition which we will deliver in D.C. during #FallRising:
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-the-trans-pacific?mailing_id=31855&source=s.em.cr&r_by=1444895
Please JOIN the FIGHT!!!
(xposted in GD)
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Don't be a SLACKTIVIST! jk, sort of. 
I know people are busy with RL more than online gnats, but we need to step up!!!
Just shoot me! 
I wish they'd cut to the chase of how we can stop the TPP, not just tell the specifics of what is wrong with it.
And the audio...just shoot me.
Misery loves company...anyone? 