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Exposing the TPP For What it Really Is Lacey Kohlmoos Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Liz Moran Western Organization of Resource Councils

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Exposing the TPPFor What it Really Is

Lacey KohlmoosPublic Citizen’s Global Trade Watch

Liz MoranWestern Organization of Resource Councils

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Liz MoranRegional Organizer

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Lacey KohlmoosGlobal Trade Watch

Senior Field Organizer

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Meet the TPPThe Trans-Pacific Partnership

“Free Trade Agreement”

NAFTA on Steroids

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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

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TPP is Not a Trade Agreement, but a Binding International Governance

SystemAnd Those Living with the Results Have No Say

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Most of TPP is not about “Trade” but Covers Many Matters Under State

Authority

Trade ChaptersAdministrative Chap-tersNon-Trade Chapters

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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

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“Investor-State Dispute Resolution”

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Threatens Family-Owned American Farms

Ban on “Buy American” & “Buy Local”

Investor-State Attacks Patents on Seeds

Access to Markets

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New Floods of Unsafe Imported Food

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Threatens Environmental Reforms

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Other Ways the TPP Impacts Our Lives

Incentives to Off-Shore Jobs Financial Deregulation

Attacks on Internet Freedom

Increased Medicine Costs

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“Fast Track” Only Needed for Bad Agreements

Of 500+ trade agreements since 1974, Fast Track was only used for 16 of them

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The Global Resistance has Begun…

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In-District Meetings

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Email and Call Your Representative

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Bird-Dogging

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Share on Social Media

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Contact Global Trade WatchEmail: [email protected]

Website: www.ExposeTheTPP.org

www.StopFastTrackNow.org

Facebook: www.Facebook.com/ExposeTheTPP

Twitter: @ExposeTPP

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