Secret deals between governments and multi-national corporations, can't be good for the general public, or they wouldn't be secret.
This from the SumOfUs:If it is signed, future laws designed to protect consumers, our health, and our environment could be overturned in secret courts by corporations that claim the laws harm their profits---
It's
a corporate lobbyist's wildest dream -- a huge global trade deal that
would let corporations like Monsanto sue our governments if they
passed laws to protect the environment or keep life-saving medicine
affordable.
This month, tens of thousands of American SumOfUs members and friends
have called Congress to demand it rejects a bill to give President
Obama "fast track" authority to sign the TPP -- and support
is starting to fall away. But it's not
enough.
In the US, corporate lobbyists are pushing hard for Congress to
approve. Elsewhere, governments are facing no scrutiny as
they get ready to sign away our democratic rights to make
laws that protect the public interest. Unless we do more, we may lose
this fight.
That's why our community is stepping up. This week, we're
getting ready to launch a major effort to stop the TPP in its tracks
-- and with your support, we're not going to stop fighting until
we've won.
If
enough of us can chip in just $1, we can launch the first steps of
our campaign and start working together to stop the TPP and save our
democracy.
The corporations behind the TPP know the public won't like what's in
the deal. That's why the full contents are still secret -- only
high-level government negotiators and the 600 corporate lobbyists
have access.
But we know enough to know that the TPP has to be stopped -- and
enough to know how we can stop it with your help.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is called a trade deal, but it is
really a corporate wish-list aimed at attacking everything from
environmental protections to affordable medicines to internet
freedoms. Worst, it gives corporations impunity from
governments or citizens that want to reign in their power.
In fact, it is probably the most important international treaty
you’ve never heard of. The TPP is being negotiated between the
United States, Canada, Australia, Japan and other Pacific countries
-- making it nearly global in scope.
There's lots wrong with the TPP, but the unaccountable systems it
would set up to allow corporations to sue governments are one of the
most frightening. If it is signed, future laws designed to
protect consumers, our health, and our environment could be
overturned in secret courts by corporations that claim the
laws harm their profits -- and there is nothing we or our elected
governments could do to stop them.
If
you can, please chip in $1 today to take a stand for democracy and
against the TPP, and fund the fight to stop this corporate power
grab.
Paul and the team at SumOfUs.org