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<div class="blog-date">July 15th, 2013</div><b>By <a href="http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/about/who-we-are/" target="_blank">Mitch Jones</a></b><div class="entry prose">
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<div><font size="4"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 12px;line-height: 1.4em">The Transpacific Partnership (TPP) is being </span><a href="http://gawker.com/the-pizza-belt-the-most-important-pizza-theory-youll-743629037?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&utm_source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow">secretly negotiated by 12 countries</a></span></span></font><span style="font-size: 12px;line-height: 1.4em"><font size="4"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">,
including the United States, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Australia,
New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Japan and Brunei. </span></span></font>The Trans
Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) includes the 27 nations of the
European Union. Both of these proposed trade agreements threaten U.S.
food safety rules, infringe upon public and private land with an
increased push for fracking, undermine efforts to develop local food
systems and increase the privatization of water systems.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12px;line-height: 1.4em">While its supporters
talk about them as “trade” deals, in reality the TPP and TAFTA would be
a permanent power grab by corporations and their financers that would
make it impossible for future generations to choose what laws and rules
they want to live under. They would permanently enshrine the very
economic system that has lead to greater imbalances in income and wealth
and increasing economic crises. These deals would also allow foreign
corporations to sue the federal, state and local governments over laws
and policies that violate the “trade” deal, but protect us from unsafe
food, dirty water and dangerous fracking. It’s outrageous!</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12px;line-height: 1.4em">How do we know that
these deals will give more power to corporations and leave our children,
our air and water, and our food safety at greater risk? Because while
the American people aren’t being told what’s in the deal, and while
members of Congress are being shut out of the negotiations,
representatives from more than </span><a href="http://www.openthegovernment.org/sites/default/files/Transparency%20Trade%20Letter-Final.pdf">600 corporations and corporate interests</a><span style="font-size: 12px;line-height: 1.4em"> are able not only to see the text of the agreement, but also are able to help influence what goes into it.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12px;line-height: 1.4em">We need to stop these trade deals before they give even more power to corporations!</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12px;line-height: 1.4em">Read our new fact sheet: </span><a href="http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/factsheet/dont-fast-track-fracking-and-unsafe-food/"><b><em>Don’t Fast Track Fracking and Unsafe Food</em></b></a></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12px;line-height: 1.4em">And </span><a href="https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=623">tell your senator and representatives</a><span style="font-size: 12px;line-height: 1.4em"> to oppose these corporate give-aways.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span style="font-size: 12px;line-height: 1.4em"></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><a href="https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/blogs/if-you-thought-what-alec-and-the-koch-brothers-are-doing-is-bad/">https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/blogs/if-you-thought-what-alec-and-the-koch-brothers-are-doing-is-bad/</a></div>
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</div><div> </div><div style="color:rgb(255, 127, 0);"><font style="color:rgb(255, 127, 0);font-weight:bold;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">===============================</span><br>Chuck Palazzo<br>Agent Orange Action Group</span><br>http://aoag.org/<br><span style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;">Hoa Binh Chapter, Veterans For Peace</span><br>http://vfp-vn.ning.com/</font><font size="1"><font class="yui_3_2_0_2_133065404731860" style="font-weight:bold;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" size="2"><br></font></font><span class="yiv118013358"></span><br><font size="1"><font style="font-weight:bold;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" size="2">chuck_pal@yahoo.com<br>================================</font></font></div><div><span><br></span></div></div></body></html>