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Exposing the TPPFor What it Really Is
Lacey KohlmoosPublic Citizen’s Global Trade Watch
Liz MoranWestern Organization of Resource Councils
Liz MoranRegional Organizer
Lacey KohlmoosGlobal Trade Watch
Senior Field Organizer
Meet the TPPThe Trans-Pacific Partnership
“Free Trade Agreement”
NAFTA on Steroids
TPP: Who’s Now Involved
Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico,
New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, U.S., Vietnam
THE TPP IS A “DOCKING” AGREEMENT OPEN TO ANY COUNRTY THAT AGREES TO ITS TERMS
TPP is Not a Trade Agreement, but a Binding International Governance
SystemAnd Those Living with the Results Have No Say
Most of TPP is not about “Trade” but Covers Many Matters Under State
Authority
Trade ChaptersAdministrative Chap-tersNon-Trade Chapters
Most Secretive Trade Negotiation, Ever…
“This is the least transparent trade negotiation I have ever seen.”
-Former U.S. trade official Gary Horlick, a TPP supporter
“Investor-State Dispute Resolution”
Threatens Family-Owned American Farms
Ban on “Buy American” & “Buy Local”
Investor-State Attacks Patents on Seeds
Access to Markets
New Floods of Unsafe Imported Food
Threatens Environmental Reforms
Other Ways the TPP Impacts Our Lives
Incentives to Off-Shore Jobs Financial Deregulation
Attacks on Internet Freedom
Increased Medicine Costs
“Fast Track” Only Needed for Bad Agreements
Of 500+ trade agreements since 1974, Fast Track was only used for 16 of them
The Global Resistance has Begun…
In-District Meetings
Email and Call Your Representative
Bird-Dogging
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