[Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Petition: No fast tracks]

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Subject: Petition: No fast tracks
From:    "Sherrod Brown" <info at sherrodbrown.com>
Date:    Fri, March 27, 2015 6:42 am
To:      "Agnes Woolsey" <agnes at mcn.org>
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Dear All,

American workers have good reason to be wary of international trade
agreements. In the past, those agreements have been stacked with corporate
handouts.

In the Senate, we can use the amendment process to modify trade agreements
so American workers get a fair shake. But if we adopt a so-called "fast
track" on trade agreements, the amendment process goes out the window.

It's up to the Senate to make sure that trade agreements put American
workers and American jobs first. That's why I'm joining with my colleagues
to oppose the fast track -- join us by signing our petition.

http://action.sherrodbrown.com/e150327

Absent an amendment process, trade agreements would just face an
up-or-down vote in the Senate. In an economy as large and complex as ours,
that's a potential recipe for disaster.

We've seen what happens when we get free trade wrong. Jobs leave town and
they don't come back. Big corporations send more and more work to far-off
places, and American families suffer for it.

Ohio lost almost 35,000 jobs thanks to NAFTA, and the country as a whole
lost more than 680,000. We can't afford to let that happen again. Join me
and say no to fast tracking trade agreements.

http://action.sherrodbrown.com/e150327

Thank you.

Sherrod


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