Send a Letter to the Editor Demanding Coverage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Let Your Local Paper Know That The TPP is Too Big and Too Dangerous to Ignore

With President Obama calling for completion of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations by October, it’s crucial that we raise public awareness right now. The TPP can only become reality if the public remains unaware and does not demand Congress stop this attack on our basic rights. Please send a letter to the editor to your local newspaper to demand coverage of the TPP deal that is swiftly becoming “NAFTA-on-steroids” with the world. In the short term, simply getting a letter run on TPP will help raise awareness of this stealthy pact and it will let editors know what their readers expect them to cover.

It’s quick and easy to do.

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Thank you for helping — together, we’ll drag TPP out of the shadows!

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  • Next week, U.S. negotiators will be working behind closed doors in Singapore on a massive agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that would offshore millions of American jobs and flood us with unsafe imported food.

  • Corporate interests have special access to influence the negotiations, while Congress can’t even see the negotiating texts.

  • The TPP is shaping up to be a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)-on-steroids with Asia and Latin America.

  • Recent leaks reveal that most of the 29 chapters of the TPP have little to do with trade and rather would impose limits on government health, safety, labor and environmental standards while granting new rights and powers to large corporations.

  • Beyond offshoring more jobs, the TPP would open the U.S. up to attack by foreign corporations demanding our hard-earned tax dollars, simply because they do not want to meet our environmental or food safety standards.

  • The TPP would ban Buy American procurement preferences that reinvest our tax dollars to create jobs in our communities.

  • The TPP would increase drug prices, by granting new rights to big pharmaceutical firms.

  • The TPP contains provisions mirroring the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) which Congress voted down last year after receiving overwhelming resistance from the public.

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