Grayson letter on trade treachery

[Iwillnevergiveup]

May be signed on the link below. This simply cannot come to pass.


http://tradetreachery.com/

[Iwillnevergiveup]

1. A little background

From Grayson's e-mail:

"I told you about a proposed partnership between multinational corporations and their sellout tools in government (a/k/a the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership). The TTIP features "investor-state" dispute resolution, which invites huge corporations to file lawsuits to prevent government actions that they just don't like, such as health and safety regulations. Similar trade agreements have allowed the World Trade Organization to strike down country-of-origin meat labels, dolphin-safe tuna labels and limits on candy-flavored cigarettes marketed to kids.

I asked you to send your thoughts to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), who will help decide whether to enter into this corrupt abridgement of American sovereignty.

Alan's Army responded - and how! In all, 9,625 of us submitted comments. Let me tell you how our response stacks up. Before we got involved, the USTR received only 113 comments in 88 days - many from corporate lobbyists. We added almost 100 times that amount, in a little more than 24 hours. Again, amazing.

Now, let's make our voices heard again. Tomorrow the House Ways and Means Committee, the committee with jurisdiction over trade, will hold a hearing on the TTIP. I plan to deliver a letter to the Committee expressing my disdain for this betrayal, and more specifically, that 30-pieces-of-silver investor-state dispute resolution clause. You can join me."

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2. K&R

This is important.

[Egalitarian Thug]

3. He (someone that posts under his name here) put the letter up yesterday.

8 recs & 3 replies.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251306112

There seems to be an inverse relationship between importance and popularity. If it matters, ignore it.
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