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Exposing the TPP For What it Really Is Lacey Kohlmoos Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch

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

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Exposing the TPP For What it Really Is Lacey Kohlmoos Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch

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

  2. Liz Moran Regional Organizer

  3. Lacey Kohlmoos Global Trade Watch Senior Field Organizer

  4. Meet the TPPThe Trans-Pacific Partnership “Free Trade Agreement” NAFTA on Steroids

  5. 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

  6. TPP is Not a Trade Agreement, but a Binding International Governance SystemAnd Those Living with the Results Have No Say

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

  8. 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

  9. “Investor-State Dispute Resolution”

  10. Threatens Family-Owned American Farms Patents on Seeds Investor-State Attacks Ban on “Buy American” & “Buy Local” Access to Markets

  11. New Floods of Unsafe Imported Food

  12. Threatens Environmental Reforms

  13. Other Ways the TPP Impacts Our Lives Financial Deregulation Incentives to Off-Shore Jobs Attacks on Internet Freedom Increased Medicine Costs

  14. “Fast Track” Only Needed for Bad Agreements Of 500+ trade agreements since 1974, Fast Track was only used for 16 of them

  15. The Global Resistance has Begun…

  16. In-District Meetings

  17. Email and Call Your Representative

  18. Bird-Dogging

  19. Share on Social Media

  20. 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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