<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Important to keep in mind that what you’ve all done strikes to the heart of the TPP as well - you’ve said certain decisions are a communities to make, not the state, Feds, or international corporatocracy. <br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>- - -</div><div>Shannon Biggs</div><div>Director, Movement Rights</div><div><a href="mailto:shannon@movementrights.org">shannon@movementrights.org</a></div><div><br></div><div>Rights and real democracy. Empowering communities to write new rules. Please join us today: <a href="http://www.movementrights.org/donate.html">http://www.movementrights.org/donate.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Fracking and Rights of Nature: Read our latest news from the UK Guardian <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2014/dec/10/fracking-redd-lima-climate-talks-slammed-nature-tribunal">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2014/dec/10/fracking-redd-lima-climate-talks-slammed-nature-tribunal</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<br><div><div>On Jan 30, 2015, at 11:24 AM, Meg Courtney <<a href="mailto:mcourtney1@mcn.org">mcourtney1@mcn.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><base href="x-msg://936/"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">This seems very relevant to us. Another way that corporations are making an end run around our rights. This video is short and coherent. Please watch and spread the word.<div>Thanks,</div><div>Meg<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: inherit;"><div marginheight="5" topmargin="5" style="font-size: 10pt; "><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" size="2" style="font-size: 10pt; "><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><b>Republicans in Congress want to work with the Obama administration to fast-track the passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).</b><sup>1</sup><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></b><br>The TPP is the largest—and worst—trade deal you've never heard of, having been devised in secret by representatives of some of the world's largest corporations.<sup>2</sup></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">It's so big and has the potential to do so much damage, it's been likened to "NAFTA on steroids."<sup>3</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=302741&id=107807-9267304-wcHHgGx&t=1"><b>Watch this short video to see what I mean:</b></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></p><p align="center" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; "><a href="http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=302741&id=107807-9267304-wcHHgGx&t=2"><img height="417" width="500" src="http://s3.moveon.org/images/with_dims/reich_tpp_500x417.png"></a></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><b><a href="http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=302741&id=107807-9267304-wcHHgGx&t=3">Will you help spread the word about fast track and the TPP by watching and sharing the video right now?</a></b></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">Thanks for all you do.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">–Robert Reich</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">P.S. Once you've watched the video, please join the growing chorus of Americans who are saying no to fast track and the TPP<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-congress-we-cant?id=107807-9267304-wcHHgGx&t=4">by adding your name to this<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a><a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-congress-we-cant?id=107807-9267304-wcHHgGx&t=5">petition from Larry Cohen, president of the Communication Workers of America</a>.</b></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">Sources:</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">1. "Republicans Defend Obama's Trade Pact While Pressing To Deregulate Banks," The Huffington Post, January 27, 2015<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><a href="http://www.moveon.org/r?r=302740&id=107807-9267304-wcHHgGx&t=6">http://www.moveon.org/r?r=302740&id=107807-9267304-wcHHgGx&t=6</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">2. "Obama's Covert Trade Deal,"<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The New York Times</i>, June 2, 2013<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.moveon.org/r?r=302736&id=107807-9267304-wcHHgGx&t=7"><br></a><a href="http://www.moveon.org/r?r=302736&id=107807-9267304-wcHHgGx&t=8">http://www.moveon.org/r?r=302736&id=107807-9267304-wcHHgGx&t=8</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></p>3. "NAFTA on Steroids,"<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Nation</i>, July 16, 2012<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.moveon.org/r?r=302738&id=107807-9267304-wcHHgGx&t=9"><br></a><a href="http://www.moveon.org/r?r=302738&id=107807-9267304-wcHHgGx&t=10">http://www.moveon.org/r?r=302738&id=107807-9267304-wcHHgGx&t=10</a><a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/168627/nafta-steroids"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></a><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><b>Want to support our work?</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We're entirely funded by our 8 million members—no corporate contributions, no big checks from CEOs. 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