[Peace-discuss] Trans-Pacific Partnership: Friday Jan 31st: INTERCONTINENTAL DAY OF ACTION VS. TPP

Stuart Levy stuartnlevy at gmail.com
Fri Jan 31 16:56:06 UTC 2014 

I do like the blackagendareport Glen Ford piece on the SOTU.

A box, sure!   It could use some language like this, lightly edited from
http://www.tradejustice.ca/tpp/jan31

If there's too much redundancy with what Ford's already written about 
the TPP, it could work to omit the bulleted paragraph (see below).
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This weekend, more than 50 communities across the US, Canada, Mexico, 
and around the world are joining together to say "ENOUGH!" to the North 
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the pending Trans-Pacific 
Partnership (TPP) and other corporate "trade" deals.

January 2014 marks the twenty-year anniversary of NAFTA, a pact that has 
had devastating consequences for working families, small farmers, 
indigenous peoples, small business and the environment in all three 
countries and beyond. The pending Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has 
been described as "NAFTA on Steroids." Four years into the TPP 
negotiations, this new corporate power grab threatens to:

  * Destroy livelihoods and accelerate the global race to the bottom in
    wages and working conditions
  * Further commodify agriculture, trample food sovereignty, hurt small
    farmers and contribute to forced migration
  * Enable new corporate attacks on democratically-enacted environmental
    and consumer protections
  * Undermine global economic stability by prohibiting effective
    regulation of financial markets
  * Reduce access to life-saving generic medications, increase the costs
    of prescriptions, and restrict freedom on the Internet

The harm that NAFTA has already cost our communities, and the new 
threats that the TPP poses, must be both acknowledged and resisted. We 
also need to spread the word that since NAFTA, when people have come 
together across issue areas and across geographic borders, we have 
defeated similar corporate power grabs like the Multilateral Agreement 
on Investment (MAI), the Millennial Round of the World Trade 
Organization, and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). We will do 
so again with the TPP.

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A bit shorter:

This weekend, more than 50 communities across the US, Canada, Mexico, 
and around the world are joining together to say "ENOUGH!" to the North 
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the pending Trans-Pacific 
Partnership (TPP) and other corporate "trade" deals.

January 2014 marks the twenty-year anniversary of NAFTA, a pact that has 
had devastating consequences for working families, small farmers, 
indigenous peoples, small business and the environment in all three 
countries and beyond.  The pending Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has 
been described as "NAFTA on Steroids."

The harm that NAFTA has already cost our communities, and the new 
threats that the TPP poses, must be both acknowledged and resisted. We 
also need to spread the word that since NAFTA, when people have come 
together across issue areas and across geographic borders, we have 
defeated similar corporate power grabs like the Multilateral Agreement 
on Investment (MAI), the Millennial Round of the World Trade 
Organization, and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). We will do 
so again with the TPP.
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Links for action and information, a couple of which could go somewhere:


Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch - information on the TPP:
https://www.citizen.org/TPP

Petition against the TPP with 1.6 million signatures so far:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_the_corporate_death_star

Doctors without Borders petition - TPP drug patent provisions will cost 
lives:
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/take-action/tpp/
<http://www.msf.ca/tpp>
Public Citizen: call on Congress to reject Fast Track approval of the TPP:
http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12263
     (or Karen Aram's CREDO petition, but that's an even more unwieldy link)


On 1/30/14 5:15 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:
> Stuart--
>
> I have a half-written flyer for the Saturday demo based on {1} Jeremy 
> Scahill's critique of SOTU and {2} the blue scarves KarenA has prepared.
>
> If KarenRestOfTheAlphabet et al. agree, I could substitute Glen Ford's 
> critique of SOTU - which focuses on the TPP - for {1} above.
>
> There isn't room for both.
>
> Perhaps you could send me a brief paragraph on the Jan. 31 actions, 
> suitable for framing in this week's flyer.
>
> Regards, CGE
>
> On Jan 30, 2014, at 4:34 PM, Stuart Levy <salevy at illinois.edu 
> <mailto:salevy at illinois.edu>> wrote:
>
>> Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership a good subject to raise for this 
>> Saturday's AWARE demonstration?
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: 	[ufpj-activist] TOMORROW: INTERCONTINENTAL DAY OF ACTION 
>> VS. TPP
>> Date: 	Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:31:36 -0800
>> From: 	Jackie Cabasso <wslf at earthlink.net>
>> Reply-To: 	<wslf at earthlink.net>
>> To: 	'ufpj-activist' <ufpj-activist at lists.mayfirst.org>, UFPJ Bayarea 
>> <upj-bayarea at lists.riseup.net>
>>
>>
>>
>> *UFPJ has endorsed the FRI, JAN 31: INTERCONTINENTAL DAY OF ACTION 
>> VS. TPP
>> *
>> For a complete list of local actions and events: 
>> http://www.tradejustice.ca/tpp/jan31
>>
>> *NEW YORK CITY:
>> *
>>
>> **
>>
>> *MARCH & RALLY: REP. CROWLEY - SAY NO! TO FAST TRACK!***
>>
>> Congressman Joe Crowley is one of only two New York State Democrats 
>> in the US House of Repressentatives who has not expressed opposition 
>> to Fast Tracking the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Join us to demand 
>> that Crowley get on the right track by refusing to sponsor and 
>> pledging to vote against Fast Track!
>>
>> *Time:*10AM-Noon (please arrive on time as we will be moving! If you 
>> arrive late & can't find us, call Wendy @ (347) 881-5635 
>> <tel:%28347%29%20881-5635> or Carlos at (646) 416-3440 
>> <tel:%28646%29%20416-3440>)
>>
>> *Location: * Rep. Crowley's Queens Office, 82-11 37th Ave between 
>> 87^th  and 83^rd  Streets, Jackson Heights, Queens --*Directions: *7 
>> train to 82^nd  Street-Jackson Heights
>>
>> *Additional details:*http://tradejustice.net/cro13114 
>> <http://tradejustice.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2e1c74a578359190791efe801&id=0d16f71141&e=fb051a1a05> 
>>
>>
>> *Printable Flier: *http//tradejustice.net/jan31eng 
>> <http://tradejustice.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2e1c74a578359190791efe801&id=66ad8a3e6e&e=fb051a1a05> 
>>
>>
>> *
>> SAN FRANCISCO:*
>>
>> *Inter-Continental Day of Action*
>> *STOP the TPP!!*
>> *January 31, Friday*
>> *4:30 pm -- Meet at Rep. Pelosi's office*
>> *7^th  and Mission Street*
>> *San Francisco***
>> *March down Market Street to Senator Feinstein's office *
>> *5:30 pm -- Senator Feinstein's office*
>> *One Post Street*****
>> *(Market & Montgomery Streets)*
>> *San Francisco**
>> *
>>
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