Food & Water Watch
Economy
Tell Congress to Stop Obama’s Secret Trade Deals
from Food & Water Watch:
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a new “free trade” agreement being negotiated between the U.S. and 11 other Pacific Rim countries. Like other Free Trade Agreements, this one is basically a permanent power grab by corporations and financial companies that will make it impossible for the citizens of countries joining the TPP to choose what laws and rules they want to live under.
For Americans, it would lead to increased gas exports and increased imported foods, while undermining our domestic laws and increasing the financialization of nature.
TPP was started under George W. Bush but is being pushed — hard — by President Obama. In fact, a bill in Congress would give him “Fast Track” authority for the negotiating, meaning that he, and whoever comes after him, would be able to negotiate as desired without oversight by Congress. Isn’t the reason our constitution created three federal branches — executive, judicial and legislative — to ensure checks and balances?
Please fill out the form below and edit the letter as you wish to urge your congressional representatives to stop Obama’s plan to “Fast Track” secret trade deals.
