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17th April 2015 06:19
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Breaking: U.S. Senate Sells out America
Tell Congress to say NO to Monsanto and the TPP! - Every voice counts!
Dear Fran,
BREAKING: We just got word that a new deal has been cut in Washington DC between corporate lobbyists and the U.S. Senate to move forward with the Fast Track agreement for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), the disastrous trade deal that will destroy our basic democratic rights to protect corporate profits!
Tragically, U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) have cut a deal with the Obama administration to push this secret trade deal through Congress before Americans can learn what’s even in the agreement. If allowed to pass, the TPP could make GMO labeling in the U.S. and Europe illegal while allowing unsafe food from foreign countries with lower food safety standards to flood U.S. grocery stores.
The New York Times is reporting that in this new agreement, "Congress would have the power to vote on the Trans-Pacific Partnership once it is completed, but lawmakers could not amend it."
This is terrible news, but resistance to the TPP is growing in the House of Representatives and Congress needs to hear from you today!
Tell Congress to Vote NO on the Fast Track approval for the TPP! It’s time to stand up for democracy, not corporate profits! End the secret trade deal once and for all. Every voice counts!
As you may already know, the TPP is a new “free” trade agreement that has been negotiated behind closed doors for the past several years between an army of corporate lobbyists and trade representatives from 11 other nations. The negotiations have been so secretive that most members of Congress have not even been allowed to read the agreement.
Unfortunately, multinational corporations like Monsanto and their biotech allies are pressuring your Senators and Representatives to co-sponsor Fast Track Authority so the secret global trade deals can be decided behind closed doors without public input.
Leaked text from the deal shows that the TPP, if signed into law, will allow corporations to actually sue local governments in secretive international trade tribunals for passing pro-consumer laws, like GMO labeling or county bans on GMOs and fracking, that hurt corporate profits, effectively giving companies like Monsanto the ability to veto local, state and national laws in favor of their own corporate profits. And all of this will be done behind closed doors.
If Congress actually grants Fast Track authority to the White House, we’ll never know what’s in the agreement until after it passes. Unbelievably, Congress won't even be allowed to amend the agreement, but will simply have to rubber stamp this corporate power grab. Does this sound like democracy?
TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress: Not so fast!! Vote NO on the TPP FAST TRACK!
If the TPP passes a Congressional vote, this secret trade deal will destroy our basic democratic rights, allowing corporations to sue local and state governments and absolutely block reasonable and common sense laws to protect America’s citizens from toxic products.
Since Congress must approve any trade agreement before it can become law, the Obama administration is seeking fast-track negotiating authority to limit congressional debate and prevent consumer-friendly amendments from being included.
Click here if you believe in GMO labeling and think that secret trade deals to kill common sense laws on genetically engineered crops should be stopped! Every voice counts!
Remember, democracy is like a muscle, either you use it or you lose it!
Thanks for participating in food democracy,
Dave Murphy
Founder / Executive Director
Food Democracy Now!
Sign petition http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/s....560012._OkID-
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17th April 2015 08:12
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Re: Breaking: U.S. Senate Sells out America
Hello Fran and all,
This TPP thing really is disgusting. It has been causing me some fear, so I think about it and try to unlock it somehow. A few thoughts: the only governments who have agreed to it are the usual allies of the corrupt oligarchy- which is to realize that list has much less influence than it did just a few years ago when the TPP was a more active, negotiable idea. The only country who agreed to it that surprises me is, Vietnam. This may only mean my insticts about Vietnam are wrong.
The Asia and SE Asia alliances are very strong and active now. BRICS, ASEAN, etc...Governments in SE Asia are actively talking sense and meeting, making deals, etc...You would be happy to see the progress. Not perfect, of course, but not business as usual if you know what I mean.
The US does not have high food safety standards. This is complete bull**** and I'm not sure why you would think imported food from other nations would be dangerous somehow. That's crazy. food coming from corrupt, GMO dominated countries like all of the countries who agreed to the TPP are the ones who are dangerous!
TPP activity seems to just emphasize the utter stupidity of it all. For example, just yesterday an article appeared in the Bangkok Post that Japan would stop buying rice from Thailand because of the TPP and instead buy it from the US. How stupid is that? I could almost throw rice from Thailand to Japan! Japan would sacrifice much more than relations with Thailand, but a massive alliance of China, Russia, Laos, Cambodia, and so on...No country with any sense of the future will allow this stupid, selfish "act" to interfere with the new deals and more common sense approaches that are gaining momentum every day.
Having said all of that, our big problem now is Fukushima. I hope everyone understands that it is an instinction level event happening right now. It must be fixed, but no one here has the ability. The only way help will come from the extended community depends on our own ability to end the moral abbherancy of people who promote and defend acts like the TPP.
Erich
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17th April 2015 10:47
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