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Action Alert: Call Now
to Stop Fast Track
As a
community of faith with partners abroad and in our own country who
suffer from unemployment, disease, poverty and environmental degradation, our
priorities rest with the poorest of the poor. Those who are most
marginalized are disproportionately affected by bad trade agreements.
Together let us caution our representatives against an economy of
exclusion.
Fast Track
for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would pose a grave risk to
good-paying jobs and economic equality in the United States and
beyond. Please participate in today's National Call-in
Day against Fast Track by calling your Representative now at (888) 804-8311 and
urging them to oppose Fast Track for the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
The TPP has
been negotiated in secret and has still not been released to the
public. Meanwhile, hundreds of corporate lobbyists have been granted
access to the texts and have, in fact, been enlisted to help write them. This
is not something that should be rushed through the approval process.
We cannot
afford for Congress to Fast Track a "NAFTA of the Pacific" that
offshores jobs, drives down wages in the jobs that are left and reduces
revenues for our schools, roads and bridges, while also giving transnational
corporations the power to attack our environmental, consumer and other public
interest policies.
Call
Congress now at (888)
804-8311 and voice your opposition to Fast Track for the TPP.
Calling
only takes a minute, but it delivers a powerful message to Congress that
constituents are watching them on this issue. Together, our calls and emails
stopped Fast Track in the last session — and together we can stop Fast Track
for good this year. Please call now.
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Thursday, January 22, 2015
