The recent election results have been a shock to many. Others of us saw this coming for a long time. There will be plenty of time in the days ahead to discuss all that went wrong in the past year. But let this be a wake-up call. There is no time to waste in organizing against the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the disastrous corporate giveaway that the political establishment may still try to push through the upcoming lame-duck Congress.

Some Senate leaders have indicated they may not bring the TPP up for a vote in the lame-duck Congress. But now is not the time to trust in their sincerity or to let our guard down. We must put a stake through the heart of the TPP and the anti-democratic agenda that it represents.

If passed, the TPP will outsource millions of our service jobs, raise prescription drug prices, endanger the open internet, and undermine our food safety, health and environmental protections.

The TPP was the issue that first led me to challenge Debbie Wasserman Schultz, then the head of the Democratic National Committee. I was disgusted when she voted to fast-track the deal after taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from corporate groups pushing the TPP. Now I am leading Progress For All, our grassroots political action group that’s organizing everyday to help stop the TPP.

Progress For All will not take a penny from any corporate PACs. We need your help. Please contribute $3 or whatever you can to support our efforts to stop the TPP.

Long before I took on Wasserman Schultz, I was a law professor speaking out against the corporate trade agenda — the so-called Washington-Wall Street Consensus that gave us NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement), permanent normal trade relations with the People’s Republic of China and other repressive regimes, and now the TPP. In the next week, Progress For All will be sponsoring a major public forum on the TPP at the South Florida AFL-CIO. I will speak out against the TPP’s investor rights provisions and other speakers will include environmentalists, faith and labor leaders.

We must remember that other corporate giveaways — such as the deregulation of financial derivatives that contributed so much to the 2008 financial collapse — were passed by a lame duck Congress at the end of a two-term Democratic administration. Let’s not be fooled by recent assurances. We must organize now so the political establishment cannot suddenly push the TPP through in the eleventh hour, when we don’t have time to organize.

Please help support our efforts to derail the TPP, a disastrous corporate give-away that if passed will undermine our way of life in the future. There’s not a moment to waste in this fight.

Thank you for your support. Let’s get back to work!

In solidarity,

Tim Canova

Chair, Progress For All

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