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stillwaiting

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1. Huge kick. These trade agreements have been horrible for a long time.

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2015, 07:07 AM

May 2015

And, they don't need to be.

STOP packing them with tons of regulations that you can't pass through normal legislative channels. ALL politicians that vote to approve TPA/TPP/TTIP/etc. are responsible for the horrible changes that empower corporations while also stripping our governments of more fundamentally democratic modes of governance.

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