[Occupymendocino] send a letter to urge your Congress person to oppose the TPP.

[agnes at mcn.org]

If we do not stop Fast Track there will be no amendments allowed. It will
go straight to the President which will give him dictatorial power and
he's already in the grip of Wall Street, Bernanke et al. tell
Congress to stop any attempt to fast track this legislation.

http://www.huffman.house.gov

http://boxer.senate.gov

htp:/feinstein.senate.gov/public


Agnes



> Dear Occupy,
>      It is unlikely that we can stop the TPP with the current government
> in
> place.  But with concerted action,
> we could transform it into a beneficial treaty.   The section prohibiting
> Public Banks needs to be removed, of course, and the following amendments
> need to be added.   The amendments will protect the rights of workers  in
> the countries ratifying the treaty, will give all of the citizens,
> including those in the US,  their rights under our constitutional
> international law, and will put the UN International Labor Organization
> over the corporations to assure they follow the ILO's regulations.   Isn't
> it worth a try?
>             Peace and blessings,   Ellen
>
> 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 prohibition 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.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:34 AM, <agnes at mcn.org> wrote:
>
>> Here are reasons to stop the TPP.get address of your Senators fromthe
>> newspaper.
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
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