[Occupymendocino] Amendments to TPP. Please send it on and make it happen. Peace and blessings, Ellen

[ELLEN ROSSER]

     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.   It would be excellent if the AFL-CIO and
other unions, human rights organizations and peace and justice
organizations worked to amend the 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 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.
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