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Stop the TPP! Wish List of the 1%
By Sandy HaksiThis blog is cross-posted on Hello Cool World.
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Stop the Trap! Send a message to governments involved in the TPP to make the process transparent, accountable, and open to public participation and to all interested stakeholders.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) has been described as "NAFTA on steroids," a trade agreement designed in secret by lobbyists from big corporations and industry. The breathtaking power grab would allow them to essentially write their own regulations and circumvent democracy, granting them powers over our health, environment, internet use, labour rights, and more. The countries involved in negotiations are United States, Canada, Australia, Brunei, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam.
When Big Tobacco/Oil/Media/Pharma/Agriculture/Retail and other corporations get together to party, we know we're in for one hell of a hangover.
There's still a lot that's unknown about the TPP but that's the problem. An agreement that gives corporations and investors the power to override sovereign nations and the public interest should not be negotiated behind a closed curtain with over 600 lobbyists in the mix.
The implications for intellectual property rights mean goodbye to an open internet, limiting user access, invading our privacy, and criminalizing content sharing. Imagine the police knocking on your door because you accidentally clicked a link. Oops.
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Tag(s): TPP, geopolitics, GMOs & Food Safety, Campaign 4 Corporate Harm Reduction, Activism & Protests
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Comments(2)
On September 28, 2012 at 02:58 PM Gill Neeve wrote:The TPP should not be decided or drawn up in private. Corporations cannot be trusted to write their own regulations or to regulate themselves. They have repeatedly shown themselves to be incredibly destructive forces that harm our environment, social structure, health and well being. Internet freedom must be protected along with our health and labour rights. We should be having a wide and open public debate about the impact of corporations and how to regulate them. this is an outrage and a danger to democracy and all life on earth.
On October 03, 2012 at 11:30 PM Adarious wrote:
It shouldn't even be legal for such legislature to be debated in private. I suppose though, that given it's most likely republican driven that they can't possibly risk revealing such heinous plans right before election..or they'd have zero chance of getting their stooge in office.
