[Occupymendocino] proposed amendments to TPP to accompany Agnes' letter

[ELLEN ROSSER]

Dear Occupy,
    Below and attached are proposed amendments to the TPP.  Please print
them and send them with Agnes' excellent letters to Obama, Feinstein and
Boxer.  Let's show them how to regulate corporations to make them
non-harmful to the workers.
                Peace and blessings,   Ellen

   The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Treaty is a very harmful treaty as
it now stands.  It will negatively impact workers both in the US and in the
Asian countries signing the treaty.\     However, if it is taken off the
fast-track and is opened to amendments, it could become beneficial.  The
following amendments would make it useful to the workers in all countries
ratifying the treaty and it would set a good example of how multi-national
corporations can be regulated.


   PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP TREATY


 1.  Signatories to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Treaty shall be bound by
all the rules and regulations of the United Nations International Labor
Organization (ILO

      ).  These rules and regulations shall be self-executing upon
ratification of the treaty.

      2.  Signatories to this treaty shall be bound by all provisions in
the constitutional international law, in particular by the provisions in
the

U N. Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the U.N. Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.  These laws and provisions shall be
self-executing upon ratification of the treaty.

      3.  The prohibitions in the treaty against public ownership shall not
apply to publicly owned infrastructure such as roads, schools and
universities, health services, transportation services, banks, public
buildings such as the White House or legislative buildings, or any other
public infrastructure so designated by the nation.   Factories or
manufacturing entities which sell goods, however, shall come under the
prohibition.
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