Call to Action Tpp

8/2/2019 Call to Action Tpp

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CALL TO ACTIONOccupyTEXASAS PART OF THE 99%

RELEASE AN OFFICIAL

CALL TO ACTION

IN SOLIDARITY WITH:TEXAS AFL-CIOSIERRA CLUB ( LONE STAR CHAPTER)

TEXAS FAIR TRADE COALITION

PUBLIC CITIZEN/GLOBAL TRADE WATCH

CITIZENS TRADE CAMPAIGN

AGAINST TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT (TPP)

OCCUPY TEXAS


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GENERAL INFORMATION FROM The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) is a new trade agree-ment between the United States, Australia, Peru, Chile, New Zealand, Brunei, Singapore, Vietnam, andMalaysia. Currently Japan, Canada, and Mexico would also like to join the trade agreement. It would serveas a docking agreement for countries along the Pacific Rim to join.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) has been conducted without transparency. Despite a world-wide campaign to release the draft texts of the negotiations, negotiators have only released a memo ofunderstanding, stating that they would not release the text until four years after an agreement is met or thetalks conclude. While over 600 corporate advisors have access to the text, members of Congress, journal-ists, and stakeholders do not.

From leaked documents from our international allies we have found several troubling provisions in TPP

1. It would offer incentives for corporations to invest and offshore jobs in other countries at a time whenthe US has soaring unemployment rates.

2. It would decrease access to medicine by giving pharmaceutical companies extended monopoliesover patents and limiting the production of generic drugs, which are used in low income countries for pro-grams such as PEPFAR (the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) and to provide access to life-saving drugs. It would also ban formularies which are used by Medicare/Medicaid, Veterans health pro-grams and state healthcare plans to negotiate lower drug prices. For countries that have socialized medi-cine programs such as Australia, New Zealand, and Japan it would increase the costs of drugs dramati-cally.

3. TPP would weaken labor provisions. While offshoring jobs to low cost alternatives such as Vietnam,the labor chapter of the Agreement does not include elements of the International Labor Organizationsconventions or even state that it would enforce labor right provisions

4. Intellectual Property would stifle innovation and change the way that we use the internet. Countrieswould be forced to adapt sanctions to punish those who infringe on copyright violations. The tech world hasdescribed the IP provisions in TPP as being worse than ACTA and SOPA. Furthermore, intellectual prop-erty provisions in TPP would also hinder medical advances. Pharmaceutical companies would be empow-ered to extend patents for any changes made to the formulary of a medicine independent of whether or notit increased the medications efficacy. (For example if Tylenol were still under patent and they changed it

from a pill to a capsule they would be able to extend the patent for another few years, even if it did nothingmore to cure your headache)

5. Corporations would have increased power to attack our domestic laws through the investor stateprovisions that are included in TPP. Examples of past investor-state cases brought against countries areMetalclad vs. Mexico when the corporation sued Mexico for not permitting a waste disposal facility in an


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Hello OccupyTEXAS and Friends,

Please find the following packet of Presentation Materials below for our upcoming fight against Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) [Free Trade Agreement] at the following link:

https://docs.google.com/#folders/0B7BKX46ZRO08ajZ4WlhWd3ZRSVd1ZXBBckp2djFsdw

1. Presentation Materials TPP powerpoint presentation FINALhttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BS7gNUivfIDrTEEiaYgedib8g1MA58AAEMsBSHOiIyg/edit#slide=id.p15

2. Press

a. Press Release-Leaked Drug Patenthttps://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7BKX46ZRO08aGtjMjN0MWVTQzZLS25hNmdpcDl2Zw/edit

b. Press Release-Recently Revealed Secrecy Pacthttps://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7BKX46ZRO08Sy16bkNxSUFUVE9lZkxqSUVuQXFLZw/edit

c. Press Release-Controversial TPP Negotiationshttps://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7BKX46ZRO08ZTIzTWd5RkVRSnlHcTRqZGRIY3l1QQ/edit

3. Memos

a. Article-Obamas Trade Opportunityhttps://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7BKX46ZRO08VUppaWdtUU5UZUsyc0pHSkdfYnE0dw/edit

b. Article-New Trade Deal Would Benefithttps://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7BKX46ZRO08Wk1GN1lfRElTQnlHR0pQRmZJTmhWUQ/edit

c. Article-Bill Daleys Big Pharma Historyhttps://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7BKX46ZRO08V2txXzFIRVVUNk80V0YtQm56My0wUQ/edit

d. Memo on TPP Origins FINAL FOR BRIEFINGhttps://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7BKX46ZRO08V0JkTW1rVjBSMnFCUjZja3pRc1Qxdw/edit

4. Fact Sheets


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AFL CIO Fact Sheet:

http://www.aflcio.org/Issues/Trade/Trans-Pacific-Free-Trade-Agreement

ADDITION INFORMATION TexasFair Trade Coalition

Fact Sheethttp://issuu.com/varsane/docs/transpacificfactsheet_revised_1111?mode=window&viewMode=doublePage

Fact Sheet Environment

http://issuu.com/varsane/docs/pubcitfact_sheet_-_tpp_and_environment?mode=window&viewMode=doublePage

Fact Sheet Healthhttp://issuu.com/varsane/docs/pubcitfact_sheet_-

_tpp_and_health?mode=window&viewMode=doublePage

Fact Sheet Investment and Services

http://issuu.com/varsane/docs/pubcitfact_sheet_-_tpp_and_investment_and_services?mode=window&viewMode=doublePage

Material distributed by:

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Material supplied by:

PUBLIC CITIZEN

1600 20th Street, NW

Washington, D.C. 20009www.citizen.org202-588-1000

Brooke Harper-Patterson


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IDEAS

Call your Senators and Representative and tell them to oppose the Trans Pa-

cific Pact (TPP) trade agreement, respectively. See attached for suggestedtalking points. Then tell your friends on social media sites.

Contact Congress. Customize your letter to explain who you are and why youare worried about TPP.

Write a blog post about TPP. Whether its a candid explanation of why youoppose , a discussion of the effect on human rights, or a call to filmmakers toprotest, there are plenty of things to say about this scary trade agreement. Helpus get the word out by writing articles on your own blog, your school blog, or onblogs which take guest contributors.

Are you an artist? Showcase the dangers of this trade agreement through artand music, and use your art as a way of reaching people who might otherwisenot know about this issue. You can make stickers, posters or patches, create aYouTube video, or hold an open-mic night around TPP.

Do you administer a website? Then put a banner on your site protesting theTPP.

Coordinate a teach-in or debate at your local college or community center.Invite local experts in areas of trade to come discuss the issue of TPP.

If youre in high school, talk to your civics and media studies teachers about aclass discussion on the implications of the trade agreement. Share the attachedinformation.


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A Call for Transparency in the Trans-Pacific Trade NegotiationsDear U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk:

Americans deserve the right to know what U.S. trade negotiators are proposing in our name.

The Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement is likely to impact jobs, wages, agriculture, migration, the environment, access to medicine,

consumer safety, banking regulations, indigenous rights, Internet freedom, Buy American laws and more. A pact this far-reachingshould be negotiated in the most transparent and participatory manner possible.

Please publicly release all Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement proposals now. Sincerely,

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