[Peace-discuss] Just Foreign Policy Issues $14, 500 Reward for Wikileaks to Publish Trans Pacific Partnership Negotiating Text

[Robert Naiman]

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*Monday, August 20, 2012*

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JUST FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES $14,500 REWARD FOR WIKILEAKS TO PUBLISH TRANS
PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP NEGOTIATING TEXT**
As of Monday noon, "crowdsourced" reward stands at $14,543

*Washington - The U.S. foreign policy reform organization Just Foreign
Policy has issued a "crowdsourced" reward for WikiLeaks to publish the
negotiating text of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement. On Friday,
August 17, Just Foreign Policy issued an appeal online for pledges to make
donations to WikiLeaks if it publishes the Trans Pacific Partnership
Agreement negotiating text. As of noon Eastern Time on Monday, August 20,
the reward stands at $14,543, based on 344 pledges, of which the median
pledge was $25.

The appeal - and the running tally of pledges collected so far - can be
seen at

http://freetpp.org<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffreetpp.org>

On September 6, negotiators will go to Leesburg, Virginia, for the latest
round of secretive talks on the "Trans-Pacific Partnership" agreement. This
proposed agreement threatens access to essential medicines in developing
countries, threatens environmental regulations, and threatens internet
freedom. Even Members of Congress and their staffs have been blocked from
seeing the draft text, while corporate representatives have been allowed to
see it. [1]

"Americans have a right to know what's in this agreement before it is
signed," said Robert Naiman, Policy Director of Just Foreign Policy. "After
an agreement is signed we'll be told that it's too late to change it. It
was precisely to publish leaked government documents of public interest
that WikiLeaks was formed."

Partial leaks of the TPP negotiating text have raised concerns that the
agreement would threaten access to essential medicines [2], would threaten
environmental regulations that could be subject to new corporate lawsuits
[3], and would threaten internet freedom. [4]

"Our growing reward for WikiLeaks to publish the TPP text shows the growing
public concern about this attempted power grab by corporations from
democratic accountability for government policy," Naiman said. "If
WikiLeaks can publish the TPP text, allowing the public to see the
provisions which U.S. negotiators are putting forward on behalf of the U.S.
but are hiding from the U.S. public, it will dramatically illustrate that
the public interest lies not in greater crackdowns on whistleblowers, but
in greater government transparency in the first place so we don't have to
rely on leaks to find out what the government is doing."

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References:

1. "Trans-Pacific Partnership Talks: Senators Demand Access To
Controversial Documents After Leak," Zach Carter, Huffington Post,
06/25/2012,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/25/trans-pacific-partnership-documents-sherrod-brown-jeff-merkley-ron-wyden-robert-menendez_n_1624956.html<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=3&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2012%2F06%2F25%2Ftrans-pacific-partnership-documents-sherrod-brown-jeff-merkley-ron-wyden-robert-menendez_n_1624956.html>

2. "Trading Away Health: How the U.S.’s Intellectual Property Demands for
the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Threaten Access to Medicines,"
Issue Brief, MSF Access Campaign, August 2012,
http://aids2012.msf.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/TPP-Issue-Brief-IAC-July2012.pdf<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=4&url=http%3A%2F%2Faids2012.msf.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F07%2FTPP-Issue-Brief-IAC-July2012.pdf>

3. " The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (aka NAFTA on Steroids): What
it could mean for the Environment ," Sierra Club,
http://www.sierraclub.org/trade/downloads/TPP-Factsheet.pdf<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=5&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sierraclub.org%2Ftrade%2Fdownloads%2FTPP-Factsheet.pdf>

4. "Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement," Electronic Frontier Foundaton,
https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=6&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eff.org%2Fissues%2Ftpp>

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