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Agnes

Green Shadow Cabinet joins critical struggle to defeat the Trans-Pacific
Partnership
June 17, 2013
Green Shadow Cabinet

The Green Shadow Cabinet stands united in opposition to the proposed
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and is committed to defeating this Obama
administration effort to enrich and empower global corporations at the
expense of people and planet.

For three years, the Obama administration has engaged in 16 rounds of
secret negotiations to develop the TPP. Those negotiations have included
hundreds of representatives of global corporations. The TPP negotiations
have excluded representatives of the vast majority of the American people.
It is a fact that the TPP is global economic policy for the 1%, at the
expense of the 99%.

Today, all five branches and 81 members of the Green Shadow Cabinet begin
to act in concert to not only defeat the TPP, but to show America that
another government with another global economic agenda is possible. There
is an alternative to the corrupt political establishment that produces
economic terrors like the TPP. Our Cabinet is proof of that alternative.

Daily this week, the Green Shadow Cabinet will release over a dozen
statements in opposition to the TPP; these statements describe the threats
posed by the TPP, and offer better alternatives. This month, our Cabinet
members will begin participating in the broader movement against the TPP
through actions and events across the United States and urge all Americans
to join this effort. We are bringing our networks and communities into
this critical struggle.

THE TPP THREATENS ALL OF US

If you oppose the industrial farming practices of Monsanto, Cargill and
other giant food and agribusiness corporations, with their intense use of
toxic herbicides and other harmful chemicals, production of untested
genetically modified food, efforts to control the seed supply and patent
life, their pollution of the water, air, soil and food supply, then you
must oppose the TPP.

If you oppose the actions of the big banks and financial institutions that
led to the world economic crash, exploding wealth inequality, risky
investments that endanger the economic future, and their ability to
dominate national economies, then you must oppose the TPP.

If you are committed to protecting the rights of working people to a
living wage, the right to organize, and to safe working conditions, then
you must oppose the TPP.

If you favor a free and open Internet where free speech is protected and
creativity and communication flourish, then you must oppose the TPP.

If you understand that healthcare is a human right and that the inflated
prices of pharmaceutical drugs should not be protected by law, then you
must oppose the TPP.

If you want to see the air, waters and lands protected from toxic
chemicals and pollution, and know that the ecological crisis of species
extinction and environmental breakdown must be reversed, then you must
oppose the TPP.

If you would live in a world where local, state, and national governments
are allowed to take urgent action to deal with the global climate crisis,
and to implement a Green New Deal, then you must oppose the TPP.

We look forward to working with you in the coming months to defeat the
Trans-Pacific Partnership and to prevent its sister trade agreement, the
Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, from following the same
path. The first step is to stop enactment of Trade Promotion Authority
legislation, also known as “Fast Track,” that would prevent Congress from
holding hearings on the TPP or amending the TPP. There must be no end-run
around the Constitution, or the right of the American people to petition
the government for redress.

DEFENDING THE NEW WORLD

We know that another world is possible. We are building that world every
day through local governments, cooperatives, community organizations, and
publicly owned financial institutions.

Those who defend corporate capitalism also understand that another world
is possible, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership is their attempt to
foreclose our new world. The TPP gives major corporations legal personhood
to sue in transnational courts dominated by judges who themselves are
lawyers for major corporations. Under the TPP, corporations would be able
to claim that environmental, labor, financial, health and other laws cost
them profits, and to extract damages from our governments - and from us as
taxpayers - if they enforce those laws.

The current administration in Washington D.C. is committed to passing the
TPP and to defeating America’s grassroots movement for economic democracy.
The Green Shadow Cabinet is committed to defeating the TPP, and to
strengthening the U.S. democracy movement. We and our allies are the many,
they are the few. Let us defend our communities and our future and stop
the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Statement of the Green Shadow Cabinet of the United States of America:

    * Jill Stein, President