Is the TPP Dead? Have We Won?

MASSACHUSETTS—(ENEWSPF)—February 4, 2014. It has been 20 years since NAFTA, (North American free Trade agreement) went into effect with the promise of more equality, more jobs, and a better, more prosperous and peaceful world for all of us. 

Given that NAFTA has contributed to a world that is a negative image of what was sold to us, it is no surprise that the global elite and the Obama administration have been negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership in secret. 

While the corporately controlled mainstream media ignore the implications of the TPP story, independent media and activists have come together as part of a growing movement of movements to organize, educate, and resist the fast track authority so important ant to the Obama administration. 

Have we won? Is the TPP dead? 

“The social movement opposed to the TPP has done an excellent job stopping the current version of fast track introduced by Sen. Max Baucus” notes Kevin Zeese an organizer with Flush the TPP and Popular Resistance, but he cautions:

“This week Baucus will be confirmed as the new US ambassador to China and Sen. Ron Wyden will take his place. This creates a new risk.  Sen. Wyden is a believer in corporate trade agreements. His constituents call him a “Free Traitor.”  He has said he did not support the Baucus bill but we understand he may be working on a ‘new and improved’ fast track. This could be the greatest risk that we face in stopping fast track and stopping the TPP.  We need to be clear to all members of Congress NO FAST TRACK is acceptable.  The Constitution has the appropriate balance between Congress and the president.  We need the full checks and balances of Congress over ObamaTrade.  So get ready for the next round — NO FAST TRACK is acceptable”

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Source: http://www.popularresistance.org/is-the-tpp-dead-have-we-won/