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The Battle Against The Trans Pacific Income Redistribution Free Trade Treaty

The Trans Pacific Pact (TPP) is going to redistribute income and democracy from the 99 to the 1 percent. That’s what all free trade treaties are about. These unconstitutional treaties have nothing to do with trade. TPP is the biggest, baddest one of these treaties. The Guardian newspaper of the UK calls the TPP “Nafta on steroids.” There are those who oppose these income redistribution treaties. An announcement of one such action is below.

Cross-Border Organizing Summit & Rally to Defeat the TPP

Saturday, December 1 * Peace Arch Park
in Blaine, WA on the U.S./Canada border

Join hands with Canadian, Mexican and American trade justice advocates from the labor, environmental, family farm, immigrant rights, Internet freedom and other social movements to help launch a historic, new tri-national campaign to defeat the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) corporate power grab.

RSVP FOR A SEAT ON THE FREE BUS FROM PORTLAND
at http://www.OregonFairTrade.org or call (503) 736-9777

What Is the TPP?

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a massive, NAFTA-expanding trade and investment pact under negotiation between the U.S., Canada, Mexico and other countries throughout the Pacific Rim. If implemented, the TPP threatens to:

· offshore jobs, reduce tax bases and increase austerity, while undercutting worker rights globally

· promote fossil fuel exports and hand corporations new tools for attacking environmental rules

· further deregulate Wall Street financial institutions

· prioritize corporate profits over indigenous rights

· destroy family farms, force emigration and concentrate global food supplies into fewer hands

· block access to generic medications and limit freedom and innovation on the Internet

The good news is that, by working together across borders and issue areas, we have derailed similar corporate power grabs before. We can do it again!

What to Expect on December 1st

Meet rock-awesome local activists • Learn about the TPP from organizers throughout North America • Strategize on how to spread the word & mobilize in your community • Participate in a fun border action • Make movement history

For more info, contact the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign at elizabeth@oregonfairtrade.org or (503) 736-9777

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The Corporatocracy vs. Workplace Democracy

Thanks to the Supreme Court, our elections are up for sale to the highest bidder – be it a billionaire casino mogul like Sheldon Adelson or a massive transnational corporation like Koch Industries. Workplace democracy is now on the line more than ever before. Click the link below for the complete story.

the-corporatocracy-vs-workplace-democracy–truthout.orgThe corporate state today is stronger than it’s ever been.

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