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In reply to the discussion: TPP goes forward. [View all]PumpkinAle
(1,210 posts)Have you not read anything from the groups who say this is a bad idea -
A Sampling of Groups Speaking Out on the TPP and Fast Track
LABOR
Teamsters, NAFTA Shows the Damage Fast Track Could Bring, 01/06/14
CWA, Tell Congress Fast Track Is the Wrong Track, 01/02/14
Boilermakers, Tell Congress to Block Fast-Track Authority, 12/11/13
Steelworkers, USW Criticizes TPP Trade Deal Negotiations, 12/10/13
Machinists, Machinists Union Urges Slow Down on Fast Track for TPP, 12/09/13
Carpenters, UBC Gen. President McCarron on Fast Track Secrecy and the Dangerous TPP, 12/09/13
AFL-CIO, America and the World Need a New Approach to Trade and Globalization, 09/13
IBEW, The Trans-Pacific Partnership, 04/13
ILWU, ILWU Joins Protest Against Latest Free Trade Deal, 08/08/12
AGRICULTURE
NFU, Statement by NFU and JA Zenchu on TPP Negotiations, 06/11/13
IATP, TPP: Doubling Down on Failed Trade Policy, 03/06/13
NFFC & 10 Others, Letter to Rep. Peterson on the TPPs Potential Impact to Dairy Farmers, 03/04/13
CONSUMER
Food & Water Watch, TPP: No Wonder They Want to Keep It Secret, 12/09/13
Consumers International, TPP: Consumer Movements Trade Deal Reaction, 11/15/13
March Against Monsanto, Secret TPP Conferences Set to Commence, 11/14/13
Food & Water Watch, Trading Away Our Safe Seafood, 09/11/13
Organic Consumers Association, Secret Trade Agreements Threaten Food Safety, Subvert Democracy, 06/13/13
Public Citizen, Obamas Covert Trade Deal, 06/02/13
CURRENCY
Alliance for American Manufacturing, 60 Senators Urge Action on Japans Currency Manipulation, 09/24/13
Coalition for a Prosperous America, CPA Submits ITC Comments on Japans Entry to TPP, 06/12/13
UAW, Statement on Japans Inclusion in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, 04/12/13
ENVIRONMENT
350.org, Say No to Corporate Power Grabs; Reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership, 12/03/13
Oceana & 23 Others, Addressing Conservation Challenges in the TPP, 11/14/13
Sierra Club, Raw Deal: How the TPP Could Threaten Our Climate, 11/13
Friends of the Earth, Stop Fast Track Authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, 10/17/13
Food & Water Watch, The TPP: Fast Tracking Fracking, 09/13
Rainforest Action Network, TPP: Trojan Horse for Corporate Domination?, 09/13/12
INTERNET
Electronic Frontier Foundation, Civil Society Demands Transparency and User Protections in TPP, 11/22/13
Credo, Defend the Internet Stop the TPP, 11/15/13
Knowledge Ecology International, KEI Analysis of Wikileaks TPP IPR Text, 11/13/13
WikiLeaks, Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, 11/13/13
Free Press, We Stopped SOPA Lets Stop the TPP, 11/13/13
Internet NZ & 33 Others, A Fair Deal, 2013
Open Media, Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership, 2013
Public Knowledge, TPP Info: Your Guide to Copyright in the TPP, 2011
Amnesty International, TPP Must Not Trade Away Free Speech, 09/06/12
TEXTILES
AMTAC, AMTAC Urges Obama Administration to Reconsider Vietnams Participation in the TPP, 10/16/12
Textile and Apparel Alliance for TPP, New Global Coalition Urges Textile Rules that Support Jobs, 02/29/12
NCTO, Statement on the TPP, 12/14/11
TOBACCO
CPATH, Smoke Out Tobacco from the TPP, 12/13
American Academy of Pediatrics & 4 Others, Letter on Tobacco in the TPP, 09/11/13
Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids & 4 Others, USTR Abandons Plan to Protect Tobacco Control Measures in the TPP, 08/19/13
Corporate Accountability International, Tell Congress: Oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership, 2013
ACCESS TO MEDICINE
American Medical Student Association, Physicians-in-Training Push for Access to TPP, 11/22/13
AARP, Trade Deal Could Lock in High Drug Prices, 10/23/13
Doctors Without Borders, TPP: Trading Away Health, 08/18/13
Public Citizen, TPP and Access to Medicine, 2013
Health GAP, The TPP: A Key Battleground in Access, 2013
HUMAN RIGHTS
TransAfrica Forum, This Trade Fight Is Against Global Apartheid, 12/23/13
Human Rights Watch, What Kerry Needs to Say in Vietnam, 12/14/13
CWA, The TPP Will Reward Vietnam for Systemic Violations of Human Rights, 12/04/13
Teamsters, Labor and Human Rights Coalition Calls for Suspension of Trade Discussion with Vietnam, 07/24/13
Worker Rights Consortium, Made in Vietnam, 05/13
OTHERS
Citizens Trade Campaign, Another Missed TPP Deadline Calls Pacts Agenda into Question, 12/09/13
Campaign for Americas Future, Urgent Fast Track Trade Deal Alert, 12/06/13
MoveOn.org, Congress: Dont Renew Fast Track Authority, 12/13
Progressive Democrats of America, Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership, 09/15/13
Avaaz, One Million to Stop the Corporate Death Star, 09/14/12
Flush the TPP, Stop the Global Corporate Coup, 2013
United Students for Fair Trade, Topple the TPP, 2013
http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/trade-policies/tpp-potential-trade-policy-problems/