Last Chance to Stop Fast Tracking the TransPacific Partnership: Life Will Never Be The Same

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Fri, 04/17/2015 - 10:00am to 10:15am
Interviews with Dr. Margaret Flowers and Tim Hermack with the Native Forest Council

Senator Ron wyden is central to the vote on The TransPacific Partnership.  We are his constituents.  We put him in office to represent our interests.  He can stop Fast Track...
But only if you call in your opposition.

Sen. Ron Wyden 202-224-5244

 


The TPP is way more than a trade deal: It will gives global corporations an international tribunal of private attorneys, outside any nation's legal system, who can order compensation for any "unjust expropriation" of foreign assets.
 
Even better for global companies, the tribunal can order compensation for any lost profits found to result from a nation's regulations. Philip Morris is using a similar provision against Uruguay (the provision appears in a bilateral trade treaty between Uruguay and Switzerland), claiming that Uruguay's strong anti-smoking regulations unfairly diminish the company's profits.
Anyone believing the TPP is good for Americans take note: The foreign subsidiaries of U.S.-based corporations could just as easily challenge any U.S. government regulation they claim unfairly diminishes their profits -- say, a regulation protecting American consumers from unsafe products or unhealthy foods, investors from fraudulent securities or predatory lending, workers from unsafe working conditions, taxpayers from another bailout of Wall Street, or the environment from toxic emissions.

 

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