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Subject: SIGN THE PETITION: Tell Congress to stop the TPP
From:    "Robert Cruickshank, Democracy for America"
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Date:    Sun, February 1, 2015 5:33 am

   friends

   They're calling it "NAFTA on steroids" -- a new trade deal, being
   negotiated in secret, that could destroy even more jobs and take away even
   more of your rights.

   It's the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the latest trade deal being cooked up
   in secret by big corporations and their lobbyists. Not only is this a bad
   idea -- President Obama wants the ability to keep Congress out of the
   negotiations by getting "fast track authority," limiting the public's
   ability to even know what is in the proposal.

   In his State of the Union address earlier this month, President Obama
   acknowledged that past trade deals "haven't always lived up to the hype."
   That's an understatement. Since NAFTA was adopted in 1993, we've watched
   income inequality soar as corporations use these trade deals to send jobs
   overseas and slash wages at home. The middle class suffers as high wage
   jobs vanish, even as the rich get richer.

   The president promises this time will be different. I'm sure he has good
   intentions. But we have tried this approach before and it hasn't worked.
   Previous trade deals prove that big corporations will take advantage of
   the deal to send more of our jobs overseas, to take advantage of low wages
   and weak environmental rules.

   The first step: make sure that Congress rejects fast track authority for
   President Obama. Senator Elizabeth Warren is leading the fight in Congress
   to protect her and her colleagues' right to stand up for the American
   people on this deal. It's time to stand with her.

   [1]Will you join DFA and Senator Elizabeth Warren in telling Congress:
   Don't give fast track authority to President Obama? Help us stop yet
   another bad trade deal that will destroy what remains of the middle class.

   Sen. Warren laid out some of the main problems with the TPP. It would:

     * Erode important safeguards designed to prevent future financial crises
     * Allow companies to use secret trade tribunals to challenge and
       override U.S. laws, including labor and environmental protections
     * Prevent the U.S. from enacting new limits on toxic financial products,
       or from taxing international financial transactions

   That's not all. The TPP will make it easier for corporations to send
   American jobs overseas. It will undermine wages by forcing Americans to
   compete with workers in countries where the average wage is just 56 cents
   an hour.

   The TPP will put our health at risk by allowing unregulated food products
   into our country. For example, it would require us to allow imports from
   countries where toxic chemicals banned in the U.S. have been found in
   seafood. Under the TPP, we wouldn't be able to hold those imports to U.S.
   safety standards.

   [2]We can't let another bad deal undermine American workers. Stand with
   Sen. Elizabeth Warren and tell Congress: Don't give fast track authority
   to President Obama.

   Thank you for joining the fight against this terrible trade deal.

   - Robert

   Robert Cruickshank, Senior Campaign Manager
   Democracy for America

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