Action Alert: Stop FAST TRACK and unfair trade practices!

Written on: April 20, 2015

• Destroy livelihoods and accelerate the global race to the bottom in wages and working conditions
• Further commodify agriculture, trample food sovereignty, hurt small farmers and contribute to forced migration
• Enable new corporate attacks on democratically-enacted environmental and consumer protections
• Undermine global economic stability by prohibiting effective regulation of financial markets
• Reduce access to life-saving generic medications, increase the cost of prescriptions and restrict freedom on the Internet

The threats that existing “Fast Tracked” trade agreements have already cost our communities, and the additional threats that new pacts pose, must be both acknowledged and resisted.  We have defeated similar corporate power grabs like the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), the Millennial Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and even past attempts at Fast Track — as recently as 2014.  By acting together, we will do so again now.

This entry was posted in With a Heart for Justice and tagged: Congress, corporate agreements, corporate power grabs, corporate trade agreements, FAST TRACK, Food Chain Workers Alliance, rubber-stamp, Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)