by Dave Johnson | Jun 29, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Fast track trade authority passed last week. So many of us fought so hard but The Money won again - this time. What do we do now? We take this awareness and energy into the fight against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). And then, win or lose, we build a fair trade...
by Sarah Anderson | Jun 25, 2015 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
I tried to stay emotionally distanced from this one. It didn’t work. When the White House and Republican leaders got the votes they needed in the Senate to advance “fast track” Trade Promotion Authority on Tuesday, June 23, it was crushing. All observers agree that...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 24, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Fast track passes. Our Congress - the supposed representatives of We the People - voted to cut themselves and us out of the process of deciding what "the rules" for doing business "in the 21st Century" will be. How do the plutocrats and oligarchs and their giant...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 23, 2015 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
A majority in the Senate today took sides against working families and with Wall Street and the multinationals, voting 60-37 to grant the executive branch fast-track trade promotion authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership and future trade deals. "This is a day of...
by Leo Gerard | Jun 23, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
In a close vote last week, a majority in the U.S. House chose to continue glomming onto the same tired old broken-down trade tactics that have closed American factories, cost American jobs and caused massive trade deficits. The majority voted to sustain for the next...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 22, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Wait, back up: the Senate is voting Tuesday to agree to limit debate and not to amend a "trade" deal that we haven't even seen yet – no matter what is in it? What? It's called "fast track" and the vote will in essence preapprove the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a...
