#STOPFASTTRACK Week of Action The #StopFastTrack Week of Action comes as President Obama and other heads of state travel to Asia this November in an attempt to push forward the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). It also comes as the Lame Duck session of Congress gets underway, with various Congressional leaders already calling for Fast Track legislation to be considered then. This is BAD NEWS for the People of the United States. The TPP threatens food safety, a clean environment, good-paying jobs, affordable medicine, internet freedom, indigenous rights, commonsense banking regulations, public procurement and more. The TPP “Free Trade” Agreement is a twelve-nation pact that, if approved, would set rules governing approximately 40% of the global economy with a built-in mechanism for additional countries to join over time. The TPP would have profound implications for the economy, environment and public health worldwide - yet its being developed behind closed doors, without public input. By corporations, for corporations – corporations like Monsanto. Corporate lobbyists now want to rush the TPP through Congress using Fast Track. Fast Track is a Nixon-era procedure that would allow the TPP to circumvent ordinary Congressional review, amendment and debate procedures. Fast Track takes control over trade agreements away from the public and our elected officials, and puts it further into the hands of trade bureaucrats and their corporate advisors. Fast Track rightfully expired in 2007, and would need to be raised from the dead by Congress in order to apply to the TPP and other trade agreements. WE MUST STOP FAST TRACK. WE MUST EXPOSE & STOP THE TPP. @ GMO Free USA
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 22:12:00 +0000
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