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BREAKING: Wikileaks has released the final text of the Here's how it affects the Internet: · Compel ISPs to block or take down websites without a court order (like SOPA) Makes it illegal to unlock, modify, or tinker with a device you own Export's broken U.S. copyright policies to rest of world without expanding free speech protections

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"Bending the standards to reward a country that accepts trade in women, children and forced laborers is wrong. SALE 565.00 -Rep. Lloyd Doggett #TPPTRAFFICKING

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Lessons from NAFTA for the Trans-Pacifc Partnership (TPP) Two Decades of High Costs for Mexico's Agriculture Economy, Families, and Environment While the North American Free Trade Agreement has had severe impacts offers particularly disturbing lessons for the developing countries involved experience under this 1994 trade Im NAFTA promised that the agricultural sector in Maxico would grow so much that illegal migration of rural peoples into the United States would t of the total active population has fallen from 19% to 13% and over 6 million rural have had little choice but to migrate without documents into the When proposed, NAFTA promised to make Mexico an export-oriented producer of agricultural products. In reality, Mexico has become a food compared to 13% in 1993 (the year before NAFTA was i NAFTA hos done nothing to alleviate gender disparities in a Women landowners, regardless of the size of the plot of hours on average per week than men (35 versus 35 hours), while earning work longer 9 pesos p/hr versus 7.8) Almost 2 million Mexican agricu mi Increas sed Poverty and Inequality Cooperation and Development (OECD) half of the According to official statistics, around 50,000 NAFTA has helped the ultra-rich n says that they do not have e died of malnutrition between 2006 and increase their wealth while ginalizing the working poor rate has s combined fortune of 144 billion USD. Carlos Slim's $77 billion fortune makes him the 2nd the ranks of the poor.(5) Impacts on Women and Families NAFTA boosted industrial development along the US-Mexico border to take advantage of lower tariffs on Mexican exports into the U.S. market. There are over 3,000 maquiladoras, employing around 1.3 million Meocons, 60% of which are women.(8} While many women are drawn to these jobs because of the lack of livelihoods in rural areas they often quickly decide to take the risk of seekinig work in the United States because of r wages and Child Lab Maquiladora Wages Domestic Work in Domestic Worker Mexico Wages Mexican women in More than 1.2 million 29% of all domestic s earn women in Mexico labor workers earn only children working in Mexico and NAFTA labor protections have 1/6 of the U.S. hourly rate and turnover is high, The women as domestic workers. about USS3 per day. This is the single largest Some 48% receive occupation of female between $3-6 and workers in the Mexican 51% report that they in the Immigrant women from Mexico and other Latin American countries now comprise the majority of domestic workers in the United States. Domestic service is one of the few occupations available to undocumented women, making this to on the Environment Millions of rural farmers have lost their livelihoods under NAFTA due to competition with large agribusiness companies, 25% of peasant plots have been abandoned over the past 20 years resulting in chemical erosion with a loss of soil fertility affecting 32.4 By loosening investment barriers, NAFTA has sodium cyanide (51,000 tons in just the last 5 silver. This has led to the million cubic meters of woater in communities where access to potable water is already of tons of toxic subslances have been dumped 44,000 tons of emissions of toxic substances dumped released in the last decade. Institute for As Washington's first progressive multi-issue think tank, the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS] has served as a policy and research resource for vi social justice movements for over four decades - from the anti-war and ci rights movements in the 1960s to the peace and global justice movements of the last decode. Manuel Pérez-Rocha, Global Economy Project Associate Fellow, Institute for Pollicy Studies and Max Gibbons, Interconnections Project/Advocacy Intern, Institute for Policy Studies Special thanks to Tiffany Williams and Sarah Anderson for all of their help and support ond to our colleagues at the ANEC {www.anec.org) and RMALC (www.rmalc.orgǐn US Deportment of Commerce (201 Breo of Ce Inatituto Macianal de Estadithin y Geepratia (2013).Sisterna de Cuertas Maciancles de Nesico. INEC: Consuhed on Sephember 25th ifras paro m 3Salos, Cerles 2006. 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7 REASONS TO STO THE TPP & TAFTA! 1. Food safety: Any of our and be empowered to block distribution of cheaper generic drugs. government's food safety regulations (on pesticide levels, bacterial contamination, fecal exposure, toxic additives, GMOs, non-edible fillers, etc.) that are stricter than "international standards," as most are, could be ruled as "illegal trade barriers." 5. Banksters: Wall Street and the financial giants in other TPP countries would make out like bandits. 6. Internet freedom: Thanks to public rebellion, corporations hoping to lock up and monopolize the internet failed in Congress last year to pass their repressive "Stop Online Piracy Act." However, they've slipped SOPA's most pernicious provisions into TPP. 2. Fracking: Our Department of Energy would lose its authority to regulate exports of natural gas to any TPP nation. 3. Jobs: US corporations would get special foreign-investor protections to limit the cost and risk of relocating their factories to low-wage nations that sign onto this agreement. 7. Public services: TPP rules would limit how governments regulate such public services as utilities, transportation, and education, including restricting policies meant to ensure broad or universal access to those essential needs. Big Pharma would be given more years of monopoly pricing on each of their patents FoodDemocracyNow.org #StopMonsanto #StopTheTPP

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$TPP= NAFTA on Steroids President Obama says: "Don't fight the last war" on trade. We keep saying: "Don't copy the last deal." NAFTA Terms Replicated in L TPP Ban on Buy American Service sector rules Ihat that promote ofshoring procurement preferences Difference: The TPP version isDifference: Billions of our tax promote offshoring and broader, providing protections todollars would be offshored, with more forms of investment if it is Difference: The TPP also requires free transfer of data and relocated to a TPP country from the U.S. The TPP also includes firms located in any TPP country given the same access to U.S. government contracts as offshoring-friendly Vietnam, where minimum wages are a fraction of those paid in China,procurement market is 10 times meaning new incentives to offshore call centers, back office operations, accounting engineering, and the like s, with little in return. The U.S.federal independent unions are banned, the size of all of the new TPP procurement markets combined. And, new Buy Local programs would also be banned and widespread use of forced and child labor has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor US protection for medicines, which raise consumer Limits on food safety standards & inspections Difference: In the TPP these on Difference: The TPP comes after the global financial crisis that demonstrated why the 1990s- style hyper-deregulation requiredPhRMA goodies that will raise by trade pact rules is a bad idea. And, the TPP includes countries prices Difference: The TPP has new enforcement provisions. The TPP also includes major seafood exporters like Vietnam that have consumer drug prices even more-new-use patents required been repeatedly cited by the that have actually used capital and other patent ever-greening FDA for exporting seafood with tricks, data exclusivity for high levels of contaminants. controls to avoid past crises, but would be barred from continuing extensions for approval delays Ineffective labor and Investor-state tribunals can go to While the TPP has these rules in the core text of the agreement, versus NAFTA's side agreements, the U.S Government Accountability Office just published a report showing that the so-called improved May 2007 labor standards that the Democrats forced President Bush to include in various pacts are not working to actually improve conditions on the ground in countries where they are in effect. Meanwhile the May 2007 environmental standards have been trumped by rules empowering foreign corporations to challenge government requirements to mitigate pollution, including clean up of a toxics-spewing foreign tribunals staffed by to demand laxpayer meet the same U.S. firms that they claim undermine their investor rights. There is now an epidemic of these cases. Eli Lilly is attacking keeps drug prices low. Chevron is attacking an order to clean up massive oil pollution in the . Vattenfall is attacking Germany over its phase-out of nuclear power. Lone Pine is attacking a Canadian fracking moratorium. The Economist Cato Institute, and other "free traders" have come out against this attack on the rule of law New in TPP NAFTA-plus New rights for Big PhRMA to altack Medicare cost saving policies Copyright protections Corporate rules for Internet backdoor SOPA/ACTA Extreme new rules on IPS iability and other aspects of the extreme agenda of the "content mega-corporations thot threatens Internet freedom These terms would affect Net Rules favored by pharmaceutical Neutrality and undermine data corporations would undermine the U.S. government's ability to negotiate or mandate lower drug prices for taxpayer-funded programs, such as Medicare Medicaid and veterans' and military health programs.$

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