We need to stop the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership).
You can sign the petition at the above link, learn all about the TPP and even read the up-till-now secret text – all of it (links provided below). We need to stop this. It's a horrible rip-off. NAFTA on steroids, a corporate coup, the 1% cementing their strangle hold on the poor and working people of the world. They have concocted it in secret and they are ramming it down our throats. We will all regret it.
Read the TPPRight now, the Obama administration and giant corporations are spreading misinformation about the Trans-Pacific Partnership and how it will affect Americans. But if you read it, you'll see that the TPP threatens to corrupt our democracy by giving corporations control over the government. We are publishing the full TPP text along with expert annotations explaining how it could actually affect you.
Chapter 1: Initial Provisions and General Definitions
Chapter 2: National Treatment and Market Access for Goods
Chapter 3: Rules of Origin and Origin Procedures
Chapter 4: Textiles and Apparel
Chapter 5: Customs Administration and Trade Facilitation
Chapter 7: Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
Chapter 8: Technical Barriers to Trade
Chapter 10: Cross-Border Trade in Services
Chapter 11: Financial Services
Chapter 12: Temporary Entry for Business Persons
Chapter 13: Telecommunications
Chapter 14: Electronic Commerce
Chapter 15: Government Procurement
Chapter 17: State-Owned Enterprises and Designated Monopolies
Chapter 18: Intellectual Property
Chapter 21: Cooperation and Capacity Building
Chapter 22: Competitiveness and Business Facilitation
Chapter 24: Small and Medium-sized Businesses
Chapter 25: Regulatory Coherence
Chapter 26: Transparency and Anti-Corruption
Chapter 27: Administrative and Institutional Provisions
Chapter 28: Dispute Settlement
x YouTube VideoTPP: The Dirtiest Trade Deal You've Never Heard Of
x YouTube VideoSanders Vows To Kill TPP (h/t VL Baker)
Saying that TPP follows in the footsteps of failed trade agreements like NAFTA, CAFTA, and Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) with China, Sanders promised to “fundamentally rewrite our trade policies to benefit working families, not just the CEOs of large, multinational corporations.”
He said that supporters of these agreements have sold them as creating jobs, but over and over again, they have been proven dead wrong.
President Bill Clinton sold NAFTA in 1993, saying it would create a million American jobs over a five-year period. Instead, NAFTA led to the loss of close to 700,000 jobs.
The conservative Cato Institute said that the trade deal with China would create far more export opportunities for America than the Chinese. Instead, the trade deal with China has led to the loss of 3.2 million jobs, and enormous, humongous and continuing trade deficits with that country.
Since 2001, nearly 60,000 manufacturing plants in this country have been shut down and we have lost over 4.7 million manufacturing jobs. If the workers find new jobs at all, they are usually lower-paying.
Sanders said at the press conference, “Trade is a good thing. But trade has got to be fair. And the TPP is anything but fair.”
Senders vowed to kill TPP if elected, saying, “As your president, not only will I make sure that the TPP does not get implemented, I will not send any trade deal to Congress that will make it easier for corporations to outsource American jobs overseas.”
Clinton Said She Opposes TPP, But Won’t Lobby To Stop It