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</b></b><b><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0)"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">November 11, 2014 • Please forward widely</span></span></span></b></div>
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<p><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#800000" face="Arial"><b>“Si, se puede!” “Yes, we can!”</b></font></span><span style="font-size:x-large"><font color="#800000" face="Arial"><b><br>
</b></font></span><span style="font-size:x-large"><font color="#800000" face="Arial"><b>Stop Fast Track and Stop the TPP—the<br>
Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement</b></font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:medium"><font face="Arial">Don’t let the TPP take away our democratic rights as individuals and as community! We must continue to assert our rights over corporate rights and stop the corporate, political and financial elite from establishing global corporate rule by <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wCRBCVQfd79FBjE2QQ3ou9LeMxpRW1IN" target="_blank">“free” trade agreement</a>.<br>
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Overall the TPP will impact local and national economies so as to accelerate inequality, exploitation of the working class, privatization and the higher cost of essential public services (including creating a market for water), increased land grabs and mining, and put people and the planet at great risk of global warming and extreme weather. <br>
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<span style="color:rgb(128,0,0)"><b><img src="http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/5228/images/TPPFastTrackTrain.png" alt="" height="273" align="right" border="1" hspace="8" vspace="4" width="200">Join the week of action from November 8-14 to Stop Fast Track—Part of the Global Week of Action to Stop the TPP. </b></span><br>
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This past Saturday, 10,000 people marched in cities across New Zealand against the TPP and unjust trade. And this Monday, activists began delivering thousands of signatures to Sen. Wyden demanding that he #StopFastTrack, as others marched across the Capitol to remind all members of Congress that the TPP must be stopped. <br>
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Why action this week? This week Pres. Obama <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Cf6ENRiovsJ1%2BkIX0YisHNLeMxpRW1IN" target="_blank">travels to Asia</a> to try to finalize TPP negotiations. He’ll attend multiply economic meetings in China, Myanmar and Australia with trade negotiators, CEOs, and heads of state on a trip described as part of “our rebalancing strategy in Asia…to ensure that we are fostering an open, transparent security and economic order amid what is an increasing and already high demand for U.S. leadership in the region.”<br>
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This trip comes as the “Lame Duck” session of Congress gets underway. Let’s be sure that Fast Track does not get quietly sneaked through the House of Representatives during the session. <br>
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<span style="color:rgb(128,0,0)"><b>Here’s what you can do:</b></span><br>
<b>First: </b>Follow the lead of Madison and Dane County, WI and Berkeley, CA and present a <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=6FbyX2Mj84qtYCH2prqmntLeMxpRW1IN" target="_blank">“TPP-Free Zone”</a> Resolution to your City Council or place as a Warrant Article on your 2015 Town Meeting Agenda. <br>
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It’s time to say to the U.S. Trade Representative and the almost 600 corporate representatives that are sitting at the table in secret negotiations that will affect every aspect of our lives:</font></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:medium"><font face="Arial"><span style="color:rgb(0,51,102)"><i>“If you, our unelected representatives, create this corporate-driven monstrosity and then go to Congress for a rubber stamp, WE WILL NOT OBEY.”<br>
We don’t want these climate-busting trade agreements!</i></span></font></span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-size:medium"><font face="Arial"><img src="http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/5228/images/tpplawnsign.jpg" alt="" height="106" align="right" hspace="8" vspace="4" width="200">It’s time to make our municipalities “TPP-Free Zones,” following in the footsteps of the successful resistance to an earlier trade agreement, the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, which was defeated in 1998 thanks to a global grassroots campaign. <br>
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Read and use the Berkeley, CA <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=YoHlEKvaqDJLAq0j5EsBvxKphlKplEiv" target="_blank">“Resolution to Protect Democracy and the Public Interest from TAFTA & TPP Trade Agreements”</a> as a model. Here’s a “TPP/TAFTA Fact Sheet” on local impacts. <br>
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<b>Second: </b>Call Your Congressmember. <br>
1. Tell your Representative: Don’t betray democracy! No “Fast Track” for the TPP. Click <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ow6lSkYnsOZUvqMxWWnhlxKphlKplEiv" target="_blank">here</a> or <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=T4fOFoS8%2BcW4ecK4HchwYxKphlKplEiv" target="_blank">here</a> to find your Representative’s phone number. <br>
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2. Write a Letter to the Editor calling on Congress to oppose Fast Track Authority for the President to ram the TPP through Congress. Here’s a good <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FlwdTMEa%2F3NsKD3v4xP689LeMxpRW1IN" target="_blank">fact sheet</a> on the issues. Our <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HAly8JeG0Tt4R%2BRj6mEUh9LeMxpRW1IN" target="_blank">Stop the TPP</a> page has other resources you can use.</font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:medium"><font face="Arial">3. Organize or attend a <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=G6lTo46j0P1iH%2BUaDPS%2BBtLeMxpRW1IN" target="_blank">Fast Track event</a> in your community. <br>
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<span style="color:rgb(128,0,0)"><b>Why oppose Fast Track?</b></span> Fast Track shuts down the democratic process and cedes Congressional constitutional authority to oversee trade with foreign nations to the President to negotiate and finalize so-called “free” trade agreements like the TPP and submit the final agreement to Congress. For more than four years Pres. Obama has been negotiating the TPP, but now needs either Fast Track, or Sen. Ron Wyden’s (D-OR) new “Smart Fast Track,” to ram this undemocratic corporate agenda through Congress. Under Fast Track, Congress has only 90 days to read an immensely complex text, several thousands pages long. Fast Track allows only limited debate and no formal Congressional hearing process or amendments. Congress is permitted nly a “yes” or “no” vote. <br>
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The TPP is the first trade agreement negotiated in complete secrecy. As many as 600 corporate representatives from Wall Street, big Ag, big pharma, dirty energy, the military, the chemical industry, etc., have been at the table. Only recently have certain members of Congress been allowed to read texts in a “secure” room, but they are barred from taking notes or discussing the content publicly. We only know the content of a few “draft” chapters because the texts have been leaked. <br>
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Why oppose the TPP? Read our <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4FiqB1XZEVsdXsRrt9Qtj9LeMxpRW1IN" target="_blank">latest fact sheet</a>. The corporate agenda wins in every case. For example, the TPP... </font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:medium"><font face="Arial">● <b>cancels “Buy American” and “Buy Local” policies</b> that support our national and local economies. This off-shores more jobs and manufacturing with climate-impacts from ocean transport. <br>
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● <b>features dangerous new provisions</b>. A “docking provision” allows other countries to join the TPP after the original 12 negotiating nations ratify it. There is also a new “Harmonization Chapter” that mandates setting up new national bureaucracies to review laws and regulations to ensure they “harmonize” with all TPP provisions. This ensures that national laws that now protect public health, labor, the environment, food safely, etc., will be driven down to the lowest common denominator. <br>
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● <b>accelerates </b><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=df6UytFNoebQXtPvg6UVMPth0taR%2FKi0" target="_blank"><b>trading nature for profit</b></a> with devastating impacts on the <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Ff5XDRXqRDFCOQgC2ZxHSdLeMxpRW1IN" target="_blank">environment and climate</a> because of increased U.S. export of dirty fuels—especially natural gas from fracking— and expansion of land grabs for biofuels and GMO crops in developing countries that have poor environmental regulations. <br>
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● <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=yHOmvaRfNcTf3IypxqaEzRKphlKplEiv" target="_blank"><b>gives sweet deals to big pharma</b></a> to protect their patents and profits on medicines while low-cost generics on which we all depend to reduce healthcare costs are limited. </font></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:medium"><font face="Arial"><i><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0)"><b>Act Now.</b></span></i><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0)"><b> Introduce a TPP Free Zone Resolution in your community!<br>
<i>Act Now.</i> Call your Representative, write a Letter to the Editor and see if there is a local action you can join.</b></span> </font></span><span style="font-size:medium"><font face="Arial"><br>
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<p style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:medium"><font face="Arial">Thank you for all you do for democracy,<br>
Nancy Price and David e. Delk, Co-chairs<br>
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