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Tell Congress to stop 'Fast Track' on TPP

Do you know about the Trans-Pacific Partnership? Are you doing everything in your power to stop it?

If you don't know, get to a computer, where you can find a short summary on YouTube.

Then google Trans Pacific Partnership to get more information. When you understand how big a threat it poses, not just to labor rights, environmental protection, food safety, access to medicines, internet freedom, etc, but to democracy itself, then start calling your elected officials and tell them to vote no on so-called Fast Track for the Trans Pacific Partnership.

If the TPP is so terrible, why would our elected officials support it? The answer is that the big corporations want it, and these days, they generally get what they want.

Proponents of the treaty acknowledge that if the American people knew what was in that treaty before the vote was taken, it could never pass.

Therefore they want Congress to pass Fast Track legislation. Fast Track, otherwise known as Trade Promotion Authority, is a legislative mechanism for ramming a trade treaty through Congress with no public hearings and no amendments. The American people would never know what hit them.

If Congress votes no on Fast Track, the Trans Pacific Partnership will likely be defeated. If they vote yes, it will likely be passed.

Please call your elected officials and voice your opposition.

Mary Shesgreen

Elgin

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