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Trade Minister Contacts

Remember to contact your trade ministers, and/or your country’s trade committee or equivalent of that! If you’re in the U.S., tell your congressmen that the TPP is shit and you’ll remember if they’re responsible or not. Same thing with MPs if you’re Canadian or from Europe!

https://stopthesecrecy.net/ (International)

http://canadians.org/expose-tpp#letter (Canada)

https://www.writetothem.com/ (UK)

https://democracy.io/#/ (U.S.)

https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-tpp-s-copyright-trap (International)

https://act.eff.org/action/speak-out-against-the-trans-pacific-partnership-agreement (U.S.)

https://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12862 (U.S. or Canada)

http://act.credoaction.com/sign/tpp_sellout (U.S.)

Petitions

https://stopthesecrecy.net/ (International)

http://canadians.org/expose-tpp#letter (Canada)

https://www.writetothem.com/ (UK)

https://democracy.io/#/ (U.S.)

https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-tpp-s-copyright-trap (International)

https://act.eff.org/action/speak-out-against-the-trans-pacific-partnership-agreement (U.S.)

https://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12862 (U.S. or Canada)

http://act.credoaction.com/sign/tpp_sellout (U.S.)

Donation for protest

Our strategy at the TPP meetings is to be everywhere the negotiators look with protests against this awful deal.

And if we can raise $150,000 for this all-out final push, here’s what we have planned:

>We’ll help organizers plan a big demonstration, getting protestors on the beach and in the water in front of the negotiators’ hotels.

>We’ll place full page color ads in the newspaper every day they’re there, so they can’t escape our “Stop the TPP” message.

>We’ll launch boats with huge banners in front of the beachfront hotels where they’re staying.

And the more we raise, the more we can do, from plastering the airport in our ads to outfitting a fleet of sailboats with custom-made sails, to make sure negotiators have a constant reminder of what is at stake from this deal.

This is the an all-out final push to stop the TPP. Will you chip in?

https://action.sumofus.org/a/stop_tpp/?akid=12169.9307286.t_o0FX&amp=&ask=1&rd=1&sub=fwd&t=1

http://itsourfuture.org.nz/tpp-cant-wait-for-canadas-october-election-says-key/

https://archive.is/byWtt

TPP can’t wait for Canada’s October election, says Key

>The conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations needs to occur before the Oct. 19 Canadian federal elections, says Prime Minister John Key, who is tipping the likelihood a further negotiating round “in the next two or three weeks” after last week’s talks in Hawaii failed to land agreement on the contentious trade and investment pact.

Whelp, scratch November we have mid to late August for the next round of negotiations.

http://www.philstar.com/opinion/2015/08/06/1485054/philippines-will-join-tpp

IT HASN’T EVEN PASSED YET AND THEY’RE ALREADY EXPANDING! PUT FULL SITE ON ALERT. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

KEEP RISING THE FIRE DAMMIT!

Canadians anti-Propaganda measures

http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/contact.htm

If CBC ever lie in a report about TPP, forward the relevant info to these guys to shove their shit in.

Something to redpill SJWs with

http://apwld.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/tpp-one-pager2.pdf

HILLARY YES

>Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Thursday attempted to distance herself from the controversial 12-nation trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. During her tenure as U.S. secretary of state, Clinton publicly promoted the pact 45 separate times – but with her Democratic presidential rivals making opposition to the deal a centerpiece of their campaigns, Clinton now asserts she was never involved in the initiative.

>“I did not work on TPP,” she said after a meeting with leaders of labor unions who oppose the pact. “I advocated for a multinational trade agreement that would ‘be the gold standard.’ But that was the responsibility of the United States Trade Representative.”

>But at a congressional hearing in 2011, Clinton told lawmakers that “with respect to the TPP, although the State Department does not have the lead on this – it is the United States Trade Representative – we work closely with the USTR.” Additionally, State Department cables reviewed by International Business Times show that her agency – including her top aides – were deeply involved in the diplomatic deliberations over the trade deal. The cables from 2009 and 2010, which were among a trove of documents disclosed by the website WikiLeaks, also show that the Clinton-run State Department advised the U.S. Trade Representative’s office on how to negotiate the deal with foreign government officials.

http://www.ibtimes.com/cables-show-hillary-clintons-state-department-deeply-involved-trans-pacific-2032948

SHE KNOWS THE DEAL IS FUCKED SO SHE’S TRYING TO RUN AWAY! LET’S MAKE SURE SHE FALLS WITH THAT CRAP

Worst Case Solution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Civil+Disobedience

The TPP is so pervasive that it affects major aspects of life including but not limited to:

>Net Neutrality

http://www.exposethetpp.org/TPPImpacts_InternetFreedom.html

> Internet censorship

http://www.thomhartmann.com/users/telliottmbamsc/blog/2014/04/obama-secretly-fast-tracking-tpp-includes-rigorous-internet-censor

http://www.globalresearch.ca/secret-plan-to-advance-global-internet-censorship-isps-to-act-as-internet-police/5378905

> ISP monitoring, corporations suing governments over “potential profits”, and contents secret for four years even if it passes.

https://wikileaks.org/tpp-investment/WikiLeaks-TPP-Investment-Chapter/page-2.html

>Healthcare

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news-stories/briefing-document/trading-away-health-trans-pacific-partnership-agreement-tpp

>Medicine

http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/06/tpp-deal-leaked-pharma-000126

>The japanese and by extension the weeaboos

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/03/massive-coalition-japanese-organizations-campaign-against-tpp-copyright-provisions

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/15/national/crime-legal/ex-minister-turns-courts-bid-keep-japan-tpp-talks/

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2015/07/27-1/manga-author-ken-akamatsu-renews-concerns-about-trade-deals-effect-on-doujinshi-and-cosplay

http://asia.nikkei.com/Life-Arts/Life/Why-cosplay-fans-fear-the-TPP

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140330/23484726740/japanese-anime-manga-fans-worried-about-how-tpp-will-kill-important-fan-fiction.shtml

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2015-02-13/akamatsu-speaks-out-again-about-tpp-copyright-issues/.84374

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/what-will-japans-entry-tpp-mean-internet-users

>Feminists and lgbt

http://feministmajority.org/fast-track-and-tpp-a-recipe-for-disaster-for-women-and-lgbt-communities/

http://apwld.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/tpp-one-pager2.pdf

>Black people, and probably every minority in some way or another.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/12/stopping-the-trans-pacific-partnership-is-a-black-issue/

>The concept of fair use

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/new-leaked-tpp-puts-fair-use-risk

>Gamers and Youtubers, specially the modding and hacking community

http://www.modvive.com/2013/11/13/trans-pacific-partnership-means-gaming/

>Third world

https://donttradeourlivesaway.wordpress.com/tag/third-world-network/

>Environmentalism

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/01/140117-trans-pacific-partnership-free-trade-environment-obama/

> Slavery

https://archive.is/yK3uu

> Unconstitutional

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/tpp-isds-constitution/396389/

> Gun control

http://www.citizen-action.com/trans-pacific-partnership-obamas-secret-gun-control/article1142

>Food

http://www.hangthebankers.com/monsanto-to-outlaw-gmo-labeling-worldwide-through-tpp/

http://www.exposethetpp.org/TPPImpacts_FoodSafety.html

http://www.citizen.org/tpp-food-safety-facts

> Built for and backed by big companies

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150605/11483831239/revealed-emails-show-how-industry-lobbyists-basically-wrote-tpp.shtml

http://www.ip-watch.org/2015/06/05/confidential-ustr-emails-show-close-industry-involvement-in-tpp-negotiations/

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/USTR-FOIA-Mar-2015-1-of-4.pdf

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/USTR-FOIA-Mar-2015-2-of-4.pdf

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/USTR-FOIA-Mar-2015-3-of-4.pdf

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/USTR-FOIA-Mar-2015-4-of-4.pdf

> Senator lobbying

https://archive.is/I76fq

Agriculture Issues Just the Tip of the TPP Iceberg

https://archive.is/y0cBD

Trade deal could slam Canadians with rising consumer, health care and education costs.

>The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), a proposed trade agreement that encompasses nearly 40 per cent of world GDP, heads to Hawaii later this month for ministerial-level negotiations. According to media reports, this may be the final round of talks, with countries expected to address the remaining contentious issues with their “best offers” in the hope that an agreement can be reached. Canadian coverage of the TPP has centred primarily on U.S. demands for changes to longstanding agricultural market safeguards.

>With a national election a few months away, the prospect of overhauling some of Canada’s biggest business sectors has politicians from all parties waffling on the agreement. Canadian International Trade Minister Ed Fast, who will lead the Canadian delegation, maintains that the government has not agreed to dismantle supply management protections and that it will only enter into an agreement if the deal is in the best interests of the country. The opposition parties are similarly hesitant to stake out positions on key issues, noting that they cannot judge the TPP until it is concluded and publicly released.

>While the agricultural issues may dominate debate, it is only one unresolved issue of many. Indeed, the concerns associated with the agreement go far beyond the supply of products such as milk and chickens.

>Meddles with copyright

>First, a recently leaked version of the intellectual property chapter revealed that Canada would have to make significant changes to its copyright and patent rules. The TPP requires Canada to extend the term of copyright to life of the author plus an additional 70 years. The law is currently set at life of the author plus 50 years, which meets the international standard found in the Berne Convention.

>Potentially huge health costs

>The patent provisions in the TPP have sparked concern from health and access to medicines groups around the world. With requirements that would delay entry of generic pharmaceuticals into the market, the TPP threatens to create huge additional health care costs.

>In fact, the agreement would also expand the right of pharmaceutical companies to sue governments over national laws, creating the prospect of more lawsuits similar to the $500-million lawsuit launched by pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly against the Government of Canada.

>With the media focus on agriculture, the TPP’s implications for privacy have also been largely overlooked. Provinces such as British Columbia and Nova Scotia have enacted privacy safeguards in recent years that are designed to keep Canadian data in Canada. These rules have become particularly important in the aftermath of the Edward Snowden surveillance revelations, since the transmission and hosting of personal information outside the country raises genuine privacy concerns. Yet the TPP views such privacy protections as trade barriers and seeks to establish new limits on the ability of countries to restrict the free flow of information across national borders.

>Net Neutrality

http://www.exposethetpp.org/TPPImpacts_InternetFreedom.html

> Internet censorship

http://www.thomhartmann.com/users/telliottmbamsc/blog/2014/04/obama-secretly-fast-tracking-tpp-includes-rigorous-internet-censor

http://www.globalresearch.ca/secret-plan-to-advance-global-internet-censorship-isps-to-act-as-internet-police/5378905

> ISP monitoring, corporations suing governments over “potential profits”, and contents secret for four years even if it passes.

https://wikileaks.org/tpp-investment/WikiLeaks-TPP-Investment-Chapter/page-2.html

>Healthcare

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news-stories/briefing-document/trading-away-health-trans-pacific-partnership-agreement-tpp

>Medicine

http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/06/tpp-deal-leaked-pharma-000126

>The japanese and by extension the weeaboos

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/03/massive-coalition-japanese-organizations-campaign-against-tpp-copyright-provisions

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/15/national/crime-legal/ex-minister-turns-courts-bid-keep-japan-tpp-talks/

>Black people, and probably every minority in some way or another.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/12/stopping-the-trans-pacific-partnership-is-a-black-issue/

>The concept of fair use

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/new-leaked-tpp-puts-fair-use-risk

>Gamers and Youtubers, specially the modding and hacking community

http://www.modvive.com/2013/11/13/trans-pacific-partnership-means-gaming/

>Third world

https://donttradeourlivesaway.wordpress.com/tag/third-world-network/

>Environmentalism

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/01/140117-trans-pacific-partnership-free-trade-environment-obama/

> Slavery

https://archive.is/yK3uu

> Unconstitutional

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/tpp-isds-constitution/396389/

> Gun control

http://www.citizen-action.com/trans-pacific-partnership-obamas-secret-gun-control/article1142

>Food

http://www.hangthebankers.com/monsanto-to-outlaw-gmo-labeling-worldwide-through-tpp/

http://www.exposethetpp.org/TPPImpacts_FoodSafety.html

http://www.citizen.org/tpp-food-safety-facts

> Built for and backed by big companies

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150605/11483831239/revealed-emails-show-how-industry-lobbyists-basically-wrote-tpp.shtml

http://www.ip-watch.org/2015/06/05/confidential-ustr-emails-show-close-industry-involvement-in-tpp-negotiations/

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/USTR-FOIA-Mar-2015-1-of-4.pdf

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/USTR-FOIA-Mar-2015-2-of-4.pdf

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/USTR-FOIA-Mar-2015-3-of-4.pdf

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/USTR-FOIA-Mar-2015-4-of-4.pdf

> Senator lobbying

https://archive.is/I76fq

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/opinion/thomas-b-edsall-whose-party-is-it-anyway.html

It is in this context that many in the labor movement, and on the left generally, view the Trans-Pacific Partnership, now in the final negotiating stages, as an unmitigated disaster. From this vantage point, Republicans who vote for trade agreements are working on behalf of their corporate supporters. Democrats who support the TPP are worse, however, seen by many as traitors to their constituents.

“Trade was linked to job losses in manufacturing that happened in the 1980s and then again in 2001-2004; it’s not happening now, because those jobs that could be shifted have been.” The bigger problem, Shapiro wrote, “is incomes – a majority of households saw their incomes decline from 2002-2013, even as they aged – i.e., people earned less at 40 than they had at 29.” In addition, one of “the ripple effects of globalization” is an intensification of competition, which, in turn, forces businesses to cut jobs and wages. “When people are feeling squeezed or worse economically, they retreat and see trade as a threat.”

and good lord…

>While the left is ascendant, the likely scenario for a resolution of the intraparty disagreement over trade is as follows: Until she secures the nomination, Hillary Clinton will voice the level of criticism of the TPP necessary to prevent the issue from serving as a mobilization tool for her rivals.

>Then, if she actually wins the presidency, she will most likely follow the path of her predecessor. In the early 2008 primaries, Obama criticized Clinton for her support of Nafta, which was approved during her husband’s presidency. The Obama campaign sent Ohio voters a mailer with the headline “Hillary Clinton believed Nafta was ‘a boon’ to our economy.” Underneath was picture of a locked factory gate with a “CLOSED” sign.

>After winning the presidency as an adversary of free trade, Obama in office became an advocate.