<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">People in C-U can call the offices of our local Congressional representative, Rodney Davis, at <br class=""><div>202.225.2371 (Washington)<br class="">217.403.4690 (Champaign)<br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Members and friends of AWARE will be demonstrating against the Obama administration’s work for the 1% - neoconservative wars and neoliberal trade pacts - this Saturday, June 6, from 2-4pm at the corner of Main and Neil in downtown Champaign. Everyone is welcome to join us. </div><div><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div style="text-align:center" class=""><span style="font-size: small;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" class=""><b class=""><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=BnkOplfD7uIeMMs%2FMP864gAHpjGfpdmk" target="_blank" style="font-size:14px" class=""><span style="font-size: 18px;" class="">Tell Congress No <span class="il">Fast</span> <span class="il">Track</span> at 888-804-8311</span></a></b><span style="font-size: 18px;" class=""><b class=""> (*here is a <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=IeETg01O10ZghLBVYPM%2BeQAHpjGfpdmk" class="">WFP call script</a>, and the first link also provides info on what to say*)</b></span></span></span></div><p class=""><span style="font-size: small;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" class=""><br class="">
Pro-corporate lawmakers are bringing their awful <span class="il">Fast</span> <span class="il">Track</span> legislation for a vote in the House very soon. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;" class=""><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=v2frYH1Ah1OkfST5eYhtkwAHpjGfpdmk" target="_blank" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" class=""><b class="">Please call your representative now at 888-804-8311 and urge them to vote NO on <span class="il">Fast</span> <span class="il">Track</span>.</b></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;" class=""> OR <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kSz9Y6D9Sxc5IfF9UJzlowAHpjGfpdmk" class=""><b class="">take action here to contact your representative by email (*página de acción por medio de correo en español e inglés*).</b></a><br class="">
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<span class="il">The Fast</span> <span class="il">Track</span> bill has already passed in the Senate, and <b class="">if approved by the House, would allow secretive trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)</b> to be rushed through Congress, circumventing ordinary review, amendment and debate procedures. <br class="">
</span></span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: small;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" class=""><b class="">Thanks to FTAs (Free Trade Agreements), the last 21 years have been immensely profitable for transnational corporations, but in equal manner disastrous for the vast majority of citizens and residents of the Americas where the agreements have been in effect.</b> In Mexico, NAFTA has devastated the agricultural sector, and the way of life for millions of farmers and indigenous people. All sectors of the economy have seen increased privatization, and internationally funded megaprojects are threatening community relations, the environment, and human health. NAFTA’s effects on the people of the </span></span><span style="font-size: small;" class=""><span style="font-size: small;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" class=""><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=myWN89Q1c7p2g9CdbxyCtgAHpjGfpdmk" class=""><span style="font-size: small;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" class="">United States</span></span></a></span></span><span style="font-size: small;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" class=""> and </span></span><span style="font-size: small;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" class=""><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=GDIwps0b%2BQ%2BI2TQ3DjCS6gAHpjGfpdmk" class=""><span style="font-size: small;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" class="">Canada</span></span></a></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" class=""> have also been extremely harmful. <b class="">Despite NAFTA’s obviously negative impacts, <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=e6pChUuiMK2XFuKVBIozJwAHpjGfpdmk" class="">CAFTA</a> paving the way for corporations being able to use extrajudicial investor-state tribunals to sue all levels of governments for labor and environmental standards, and the <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=eeuNLsfxsGAAb%2BqJZNutcwAHpjGfpdmk" class="">U.S.-Colombia FTA</a> failing to enforce workers' rights, politicians who want to gloss over these disasters continue to push for expansion of the "free trade" model through the TPP.</b><br class="">
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Furthermore, <b class="">the American public has been barred from reviewing what TPP negotiators have been proposing in our names.</b> Meanwhile, hundreds of corporate lobbyists — representing companies like Walmart, Chevron and Cargill — have had special “cleared advisor” status which provides them with privileged access to the TPP texts and TPP negotiators. Providing a <span class="il">Fast</span> <span class="il">Track</span> rubber stamp to back-room trade deals sight unseen is NOT the way to make sound public policy in a democracy. It may pad the profits of well-connected transnational corporations, but only at the expense of the economy, the environment and public health at home and abroad. <b class="">The good news is that, together, we can stop <span class="il">Fast</span> <span class="il">Track</span>.</b> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;" class=""><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=e1YADOcsLY%2F5mCCGKGTxhwAHpjGfpdmk" target="_blank" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" class=""><b class="">TAKE ACTION NOW: please call your Congressperson at 888-804-8311 and urge them to vote NO on <span class="il">Fast</span> <span class="il">Track</span>.</b></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;" class=""> OR <b class=""><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=laYfyFQoh5f6HIiT3FeHsAAHpjGfpdmk" class="">take action via email here (*página de acción bilingüe*).</a> <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=GsbOhRCEoJPNS9J4lr%2FHfAAHpjGfpdmk" class="">Again, here's a sample WFP call script.</a><br class="">
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Witness for Peace and literally thousands of organizations — representing the labor, environmental, family farm, civil rights, digital rights, human rights, public health, consumer, faith, student and other movements — have united to say NO to <span class="il">Fast</span> <span class="il">Track</span>. </span><b class=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" class="">We can win. We just need your help.</span></b></span></p>
<b class=""><span style="font-size: small;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" class=""> This really is the time for action.</span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" class=""> <span class="il">Fast</span> <span class="il">Track</span> proponents are trying to move quickly. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;" class=""><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Uboc4PqXv%2BtthsNTVVmJigAHpjGfpdmk" target="_blank" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" class=""><b class="">Please call your Representative now.</b></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;" class=""> (<a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=IolLrpFPF1BJpWHvXT8Y%2FwAHpjGfpdmk" class=""><b class="">To contact your representative by email, click here [*español e inglés*].</b></a>)<br class="">
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: small;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" class="">Walker Grooms</span></span></div>
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