[Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Sign the petition: Stand with Senator Bernie Sanders]

Tue Feb 10 12:10:42 PST 2015

Attention Occupiers,
  Please sign the petition .I just did.
Agnes

      Stand with Senator Bernie Sanders: Make secret trade agreements public

   Petition to President Obama:
   "We demand the immediate release of the full text of all pending trade
   agreements to members of Congress, their staff, and the American public."

   Add your name:

   [1]Sign the petition â–º

   Dear Agnes,

                                                   [2]Stand_with_Bernie

   Republicans in the new Congress have already launched a backdoor attack
   against Social Security and moved to gut Wall Street reforms with more
   bailout for big banks. And now they are working with the Obama
   administration for the next big item on their agenda â€“ a titanic
   corporate power grab called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

   We need to fight now to ensure the American public, which has purposefully
   been kept in the dark about the TPP, knows exactly what is in it.

   Fortunately, Senator Bernie Sanders is fired up. He is championing the
   public interest by demanding the Obama Administration make public the
   content of all trade agreements such as the TPP.^1 And, this is a key
   moment for us to stand with him.

   [3]Tell President Obama: Make the full text of all pending trade
   agreements public. Click here to sign the petition.

   Trade agreements such as the TPP are being negotiated behind closed doors
   by the governments of a dozen countries (including ours) in collusion with
   corporate interests. This secret "trade" deal would eviscerate broad
   swaths of regulations that protect consumers, workers, the environment and
   the soundness of our financial system. And it would set up a legal regime
   where corporate profits trump the policy priorities of sovereign
   governments.

   Under a trade agreement such as the TPP, more American jobs would be
   offshored. Internet freedom would be a joke. Developing countries would
   lose access to lifesaving medicines. Unsafe foods and products could pour
   into our country while weâ€™re powerless to stop them. Gone would be the
   days when the United States could regulate coal exports. The excesses of
   our crazy intellectual property laws that privilege corporate control over
   innovation would be both exacerbated and extended internationally. And,
   thatâ€™s just the tip of the iceberg.

   Soon congress will be taking up â€œFast Trackâ€ legislation which would
   short-circuit the typical legislative process when trade deals like the
   TPP come up for a vote. In fact, the reason the corporate lobby is pushing
   hard for Fast Track is that they know the TPP could not get through
   Congress without this extraordinary power grab.

   You might think a far-reaching proposal such as the TPP would be subject
   to intense public debate. But the text of the proposed deal is considered
   classified by our government and even members of Congress have been given
   extremely limited access to it.

   The little we do know about the deal we know because drafts of some of its
   chapters were leaked last year.

   Yet, while the government has kept the public and Congress largely in the
   dark about the TPP, it has given 600 corporate advisers access to the full
   text of the proposal. As Senator Sanders has demanded, President Obamaâ€™s
   trade negotiators must â€œstop operating in the shadows and come clean
   with details of an agreement."^2

   [4]Tell President Obama: Make the full text of all pending trade
   agreements public. Click here to sign the petition.

   Senator Elizabeth Warren has warned that trade deals like the TPP could
   provide an opportunity for â€œbanks to get something done quietly out of
   sight that they could not accomplish in a public place with the cameras
   rolling and the lights on.â€^3

   Indeed, leaked chapters of the TPP included provisions that would majorly
   hamstring the ability of governments to stem the next banking crisis.^4

   Other provisions would allow multinational corporations to sue governments
   in foreign courts that are staffed by corporate lawyers when governmental
   regulations cut into corporate profit.^5

   It would be outrageous for the Obama Administration to allow the
   Republican leadership and their corporate allies within the Democratic
   party to ram through Fast Track, without allowing all members of Congress,
   their staff, and the American public to read what is in trade agreements
   such as the TPP.

   This is why Senator Sanders is demanding the Obama administration to at
   least follow the example of the European Union which has already published
   the full text of a separate proposed trade agreement with the United
   States.^6

   Stand with Senator Sanders by demanding President Obama to immediately
   release the full text of all pending trade agreements. Click on the link
   below to sign the petition.

   [5]http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Bernie_Sanders_TPP?t=1001&akid=12997.23357.3M4uCe

   Thank you for speaking out. Your activism matters.

   Murshed Zaheed, Deputy Political Director
   [6]CREDO Action from Working Assets

   Add your name:

   [7]Sign the petition â–º

    1. [8]Senator Bernie Sanders' letter to United States Trade
       Representative, January 5, 2015.
    2. Senator Bernie Sanders' press release, "[9]Sanders Contrasts U.S.
       Trade Secrecy to EU Transparency," Sanders.senate.gov, January 7,
       2015.
    3. Kate Davidson, "[10]Elizabeth Warren: Trade talks could weaken bank
       oversight," Politico, May 8, 2013.
    4. Zach Carter, "[11]Obama Faces Backlash Over New Corporate Powers In
       Secret Trade Deal," Huffington Post, Dec. 08, 2013
    5. Ibid.
    6. Senator Bernie Sanders' press release, "[12]Sanders Contrasts U.S.
       Trade Secrecy to EU Transparency."

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