Andrew V Pontbriand

Activist Post

The TPP, or Trans Pacific Partnership is on its way to being fast tracked this week, and could be pushed through via POTUS as soon as today.

The TPP, is one of the most secretive trade deals since NAFTA and GATT, that the Clinton Administration was largely responsible for, although it is well understood these plans go back many decades and are just now being primed to become operational.

WikiLeaks, has released two sets of documents concerning the TPP, in an attempt to release the information so people can become aware of what it is all about. You can find the first leak here.





It is now time to get on the phone and call your local representatives and congressmen, and make a fuss about the TPP as much as possible. Call floods, Twitter hashtags, Facebook posts, article write-ups, and even making short videos to share all over social media can help to slow down the nearly inevitable Trade Agreement that seeks to limit Internet Freedoms, among other viscous freedom-restricting provisions.

[UPDATE] Petitions and ACTION you can TAKE!!!

The Trans Pacific Partnership is our worst nightmare. It will affect everything from GMOs and labeling, food safety, environmental issues, public health, jobs, the Internet and much more and will give nearly unlimited power to the big corporations.

Call Leader Pelosi Today: tell her to speak out against Fast Track Trade Authority

http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/pelosiTPP

Before Monsanto uncorks the champagne (773,074 sigs let’s get to 1 million!)

http://www.avaaz.org/en/no_champagne_for_monsanto_b/

To governments worldwide: Promise to protect our democracies from corporate lawsuits, and stop the secret TPP and TTIP trade pacts.

http://action.sumofus.org/a/tpp-lawsuits/

Stop the Secret Trade Deal: the Monsanto Protection Act on Steroids!

http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/stop_tpp_monsanto_protection_act_on_steroids/

TELL CONGRESS: DON’T TRADE AWAY OUR FUTURE, SAY NO TO FAST TRACK AND THE TPP!

http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/2002/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=11766

Seven New petitions added December 2, 2013

U.S. President Obama: Make TPP Negotiations Transparent & with Full Citizen Participation!

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/US_President_Obama_Transparency_and_Full_Citizen_Participation_in_TPP_Negotiations/

Tell our leaders: Don’t sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/TPP3strikes/

Say no to corporate power grabs – reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership

http://campaigns.350.org/petitions/say-no-to-corporate-power-grabs-reject-the-trans-pacific-partnership

Stop the EU-US free trade agreement

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Stop_the_EUUS_free_trade_agreement/

Don’t sell out New Zealand’s democracy. To all the governments negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/selling_out_nzs_democracy_a/?bBOMLab&v=31915

L.A. Times: Cover the TPP

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/la-times-shirks-the-tpp

Denver Post: Meet Obligation, Cover TPP

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/denver-post-meet-obligation

One Million to Stop the Corporate Death Star (719,001 signatures!)

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_the_corporate_death_star/

Urge Congress Not to Fast Track the TPP

http://org.salsalabs.com/o/1034/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14411

Tell Congress: Don’t Fast-Track this Disastrous Trade Agreement

http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12428

Write and Hold Your Representative Accountable! Is Your Representative Is One of Few Democrats Who Wouldn’t Say “No” to Fast Track

http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12350

Call and Ask Your Representative Today to Oppose Fast Track Trade Authority

http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12307

Call Your Representative Today and Demand a Commitment to Oppose Fast Track Trade Authority:

http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12267

No to Fast Track and Secrecy on the TPP!

https://www.causes.com/v2actions/1757660-no-to-fast-track-and-secrecy-on-the-tpp

Urge Congress Not to Fast Track the TPP

http://org.salsalabs.com/o/1034/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13921

Tell Congress: Don’t fast-track the Trans-Pacific trade deal!

http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14591

Oppose Fast Track Trade Authority

http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12285

Do Not “Fast Track” the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership)

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1034/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=12495

Congress: Don’t renew “fast track” authority

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-dont-renew-fast

Demand Details and Oppose TPP Fast Track

http://hq-salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/1987/p/dia/action/public/index.sjs?action_KEY=11536

Tell Congress: Say NO to “NAFTA on steroids” Say NO to fast-track trade authority:

http://act.credoaction.com/sign/fast_track

Congress Must Reject Fast Track Trade Authority

http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12263

Do Not “Fast Track” the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership)

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1034/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=12495

Stop The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – No Fast Track

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-the-trans-pacific

Urge Your Representative to Sign On to a Letter Opposing Fast Track Trade Authority

http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12301

Protect people’s health, oppose the Fast Track maneuver for the TPP

http://act.stopcorporateabuse.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14082

Find out if your representative is against Fast Track here:

Democrats: http://www.exposethetpp.org/DeLauro_Fast_Track_Letter.pdf

Republicans: http://jones.house.gov/sites/jones.house.gov/files/11.12.13%20Fast%20Track%20Letter.pdf

If they are, please thank them: http://bit.ly/1aTECnI

If they are not, please “spank” them: http://bit.ly/1hG0Hd2

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

http://action.citizen.org/letter/?letter_KEY=1464

Tell USTR Stan McCoy To Stop Trading Away Lives For Profits In The TPP

http://www.popularresistance.org/tell-ustr-stan-mccoy-to-stop-trading-away-lives-for-profits-in-the-tpp/

URGENT: documents reveal that Trans-Pacific Partnership contains extreme SOPA-like Internet Censorship Plan

http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/tpp/

Don’t Let Them Trade Away Our Internet Freedoms: Speak Out Against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement!

https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8229

Keep the Trans-Pacific Partnership from changing our copyright laws

http://ourfairdeal.org/

Tell U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman to Stop Attacking Access to Lifesaving Medicines

https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/take-action/tpp/

The Trans-Pacific Partnership would impose SOPA-style Internet censorship worldwide — but we can stop it.

http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/TPP3/

TPP is a mistake – mutual gain means regulated trade, not hands-off corporate access

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/884/537/714/tpp-is-a-mistake-mutual-gain-means-regulated-trade-not-hands-off-corporate-access/

Tell Congress: Stand Up for American Jobs and Freedom

http://act.americanjobsalliance.com/5516/tell-obama-no/

We still have time to kill the Trans-Pacific Partnership!

http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/4012

WE THE PEOPLE Demand Transparency and Full Participation in Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Negotiations!

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/we-people-demand-transparency-and-full-participation-trans-pacific-partnership-tpp-negotiations/zr6KMYqK

Tell Your Congressperson and Governor to Oppose NAFTA of the Pacific

http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/2002/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=7464

Urge Congress and Obama to Negotiate a New Trade Model that Delivers on Fair Trade Pledges

http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=3285

Tell President Obama We Need Transparency for the TPP

http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/2002/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=11175

Stop the Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA): The Corporate Attack on Our Environmental and Consumer Safeguards

http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12220

Tell President Obama and U.S. Trade Rep. Michael Froman: Trade Agreements Shouldn’t Be Secret! TPP

http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=11197

The Public Deserves to See What’s in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12239

Tell the White House to Ensure Openness in the TPP’s IP Chapter

http://www.publicknowledge.org/Tell-White-House-Ensure-OpennessTPP-IP-Chapter

Help Make Senators Aware of Trans-Pacific Partnership Secrecy – Request a Copy of the TPP Draft Text From Your Senators

http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=12152

Call Your Representative Today and Request the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Draft Texts

Request the TPP Draft Texts and Make Your Representative Realize Congress Is Also Being Kept in the Dark

http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=12146

Release TPP text to the Public

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/release-tpp-text-to-the

We Stopped SOPA — Let’s Stop the TPP:

http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8365

No Back Room Deals for the 1%

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1034/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=9842

Senate: Help end secrecy of Trans-Pacific Partnership – TPP

http://act.stopcorporateabuse.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=13460

Stop the Secret Trade Deals: the Monsanto Protection Act on Steroids!

http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/stop_tpp_tafta_monsanto_protection_act_on_steroids/

Trade Deal Worse Than NAFTA

http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6218

Oppose the Trans Pacific Partnership

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/democrats-oppose-the

TPP: Terrible Plutocratic Plan – Trans-Pacific Partnership – Tell your representative, senators and the president to oppose!

http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8036

If you are not from the U.S. go here:

http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8043

Urge Congress to Stop Obama’s Secret Trade Deals

https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=623

Tell President Obama to Make Trade Fair

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-president-obama-9

Tell Congress to oppose the Trans Pacific Partnership TPP

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/606/198/076/

Stop Secret Copyright Treaties

https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9357

Say No to Internet Censorship

https://openmedia.org/censorship

You could have to pay a fine for simply clicking on the wrong link. TPP

http://stopthetrap.net/

Monsanto Using Back-Door Trade Deal to Force GMOs into EU – To: President Obama and U.S. Trade Representative Froman – TPP

http://www.causes.com/actions/1755781-is-monsanto-using-back-door-trade-deal-to-force-gmos-into-eu

Stop Monsanto’s Trojan Horse – To EU and US negotiators of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership TTIP:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/monsantos_trojan_horse_b/

TPP – Petition | Green Party of Canada

http://www.greenparty.ca/tpp/petition

Urge the Canadian government to reject provisions being proposed in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement that threaten to restrict access to affordable medicines for millions of people.

http://msf.ca/tpp/

Tell Kansas lawmakers, “Vote NO” on Fast Track for Obama

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-kansas-lawmakers

Stop Fast Track in its Tracks – To Rep. Richard Nugent (FL-11).

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-fast-track-in-its

Stop the British Government joining the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

http://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-the-british-government-joining-the-transatlantic-trade-and-investment-partnership

TPPA — It’s Not Right It’s Not Democracy. New Zealand

http://www.itsnotright.org.nz/

Don’t Trade it Away! Australia

https://choice.good.do/dont-trade-it-away/release-the-tpp-text/

Suspend TPP Negotiations with Vietnam until Human Rights Abuses Are Resolved

http://org.salsalabs.com/o/1034/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13996

Click on map to see how your reps stand on the TPP. Also gives their Twitter Handles! http://www.pdamerica.org/tpp

If they don’t show as ‘Opposed’ keep contacting them!

Make some Phone Calls! Send Emails! They probably help more than petitions!

Contact Your Representatives:

http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml

Call President Obama: 202-456-6213

Call your Representative: 202-225-3121

or Toll Free (877) 762-8762

Is Your Rep on the Wall of Shame? https://www.facebook.com/TPP.WallOfShame

Or the Wall of Honor?https://www.facebook.com/TPP.WallOfHonor

JOIN THE EXPOSE THE TPP – USA GROUP DISCUSSION

https://www.facebook.com/groups/613230272054928/

Join Your State Action Groups!

http://tinyurl.com/StateActionGroups

“LIKE” and Follow for News and Action Items!

https://www.facebook.com/ExposeTheTPP.USA

https://www.facebook.com/FlushTheTpp

https://www.facebook.com/TPPTuesdaysMarchOnMedia

Group for USA Territories – for residents of US Territories: Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, Minor Outlying Islands:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/TPP.USATerritories/

Group for INTERNATIONAL Discussion – for residents of countries OTHER THAN the United States. US residents that want to converse with international activists:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/TPP.International/

In-depth information:

http://www.exposethetpp.org

http://flushthetpp.org

http://www.citizen.org/tpp

Use the following link to post these petitions to your favorite related facebook pages or in comments:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/susan-ditler-brown/-stop-the-tpp-petitions-sign-share-tpp-tafta-ttip-top-secret-trade-deals-updated/212394032249566

To Tweet: http://tinyurl.com/SecretTPP

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Andrew Pontbriand is an activist, researcher, radio show host, and writer for Intellihub, andThe Resistance Journals. Like his Facebook Page here