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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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Liz Moran Regional Organizer
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Lacey Kohlmoos Global Trade Watch Senior Field Organizer
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Meet the TPP The 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 System And 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
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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 Watch Email:ExposeTheTPP@citizen.org Website:www.ExposeTheTPP.org www.StopFastTrackNow.org Facebook: www.Facebook.com/ExposeTheTPP Twitter:@ExposeTPP Tumblr:ExposeTheTPP.tumblr.com Pinterest:Pinterest.com/ExposeTheTPP Contact WORC Email: Website: Facebook: Twitter:
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