Jane Hamsher: TPP is NAFTA on Steroids – What Foreign Corporations Will Obama Empower to Undermine Environmental Laws Near You?
Jane-zilla reminding us why we’re out protesting today ..
The White House wants to fast track the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) “free trade” agreement .. Basically, the TPP is NAFTA on steroids. The White House wants to reach a deal prior to the election because they know all the apparatchiks feeding on the $1 billion in Obama campaign money flowing through the system will launch tribalistic attacks on anyone organizing against it (activists, labor unions, workers) for “helping Mitt Romney win” — thus facilitating its easy passage .. Over 600 corporate advisors have access to the text of the TPP, while members of Congress, journalists and the voting public are excluded .. At an April 4 press conference in the Rose Garden, President Obama said that TPP “could be a real model for the world.” Earlier this month the US limited the ability of public interest groups to have input into the process. So much for the “most transparent administration ever.”
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