[Peace-discuss] [Aware] People's Agenda Update - ISDS: The Threat That Keeps on Threatening 🌏

Thu Mar 30 17:45:18 UTC 2017

Just because Trump dumped the TPP doesn't mean that his administration 
doesn't like one of its worst aspects ...

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Subject: 	[Aware] People's Agenda Update - ISDS: The Threat That Keeps 
on Threatening 🌏
Date: 	Tue, 28 Mar 2017 19:04:36 +0000
From: 	Popular Resistance via Aware <aware at lists.chambana.net>
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People's Agenda Update - ISDS: The Threat That Keeps on Threatening 🌏
The ISDS is a threat to our very act of resistance...

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/Art by Oliver Munday/

Dear Corporate Greed Resisters,

Brought to the world stage by NAFTA, the Investment-State Dispute 
Settlement (ISDS) is amongst the biggest threats to democracy that the 
Trump administration and corporations throughout the globe want 
consolidated in the new world order.

Last week, the Trump administration prepared a 21-point list entitled 
“Key Elements of a Model Trade Agreement” 
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at the request of Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) ahead of Robert 
Lighthizer’s congressional hearing on his nomination to be the next 
United States Trade Representatives.

While many items on the list are a cause for alarm, we want to remind 
everyone of the persistence of ISDS across presidencies.

We have heard Trump repeatedly rant about how horrible NAFTA and the TPP 
were, yet he has kept silent on the devastating effect of one of ISDS as 
a main component of these deals.
In a fantastic Buzzfeed investigative report 
<http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=14d947d88a&e=dac11ea256>, 
Chris Hamby showed how U.S. corporations have benefitted immensely from 
the alternative court system which has power over national governments. 
According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the 
most ISDS suits originated from the United States with a soaring 138 
suits. ISDS is a threat for any country that wants to increase labor and 
environmental protections domestically and a global threat to climate 
change action and peoples’ sovereignty.

For example, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch just published a blog 
post on how pharmaceutical giant Novartis has used ISDS as a threat 
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to drag the Colombian government into a corporate tribunal if it tries 
to make an essential cancer drug accessible. Colombia’s legislation 
could make end Novartis’s current monopoly rights to produce the drug 
and authorize generic competition, which could decrease the $15,000 per 
year per patient price tag by some 44%.

We expect the Trump administration to continue strengthening the power 
of the corporate court system with the renegotiations of NAFTA and other 
trade agreements. Additionally, the European Union is pushing for a 
multi-lateral ISDS system 
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through its negotiations with Chile and México along with another 40 
countries during the World Economic Forum.

If we are to have the power to rule ourselves in the future, to pull the 
brakes on global warming and the devastating effects of climate change, 
then we must defeat ISDS in any context.

/The greed of a few cannot take on the lives of the many./

*A visual description of ISDS*

Unite for Global Justice,
Trade for People and Planet Team

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