{"id":5045,"date":"2014-01-15T19:01:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T00:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/?p=5045"},"modified":"2014-02-03T19:57:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T00:57:56","slug":"tpp-day-action-january-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/blog\/2014\/01\/15\/tpp-day-action-january-31\/","title":{"rendered":"TPP Day of Action on January 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TPPSD7_march2_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4857\" alt=\"TPPSD7_march2_small\" src=\"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TPPSD7_march2_small-300x223.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TPPSD7_march2_small-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TPPSD7_march2_small.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Citizens Trade Campaign is participating in the January 31st <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tradejustice.ca\/tpp\/jan31\">&#8220;Inter-Continental Day of Action against the TPP &amp; Corporate Globalization.&#8221;<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0We encourage supporters to take action that day to urge Members of Congress to oppose the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/blog\/2014\/01\/09\/widespread-opposition-camp-baucus-fast-track-legislation\/\">Fast Track legislation<\/a> recently introduced by Representative David Camp and Senator Max Baucus.<\/p>\n<p>As the international call to action states:<\/p>\n<p><em>January 2014 marks the twenty-year anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a pact that has had devastating consequences for working families, small farmers, indigenous peoples, small business and the environment in all three countries and beyond. The pending Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been described as \u201cNAFTA on Steroids.\u201d Four years into the TPP negotiations, this new corporate power grab threatens to:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Destroy livelihoods and accelerate the global race to the bottom in wages and working conditions<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Further commodify agriculture, trample food sovereignty, hurt small farmers and contribute to forced migration<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Enable new corporate attacks on democratically-enacted environmental and consumer protections<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Undermine global economic stability by prohibiting effective regulation of financial markets<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Reduce access to life-saving generic medications, increase the costs of prescriptions, and restrict freedom on the Internet<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The harm that NAFTA has already cost our communities, and the new threats that the TPP poses, must be both acknowledged and resisted. We also need to spread the word that since NAFTA, when people have come together across issue areas and across geographic borders, we have defeated similar corporate power grabs like the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), the Millennial Round of the World Trade Organization, and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). We will do so again with the TPP.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Please check out this <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tradejustice.ca\/tpp\/jan31\">action calendar of events taking place throughout North America.<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/a\/citizenstrade.org\/forms\/d\/1ICTx9peAbKX8lp8mXvnnwQ9qCF9O4Kbhv-QAnLECKjk\/viewform\">post your own action<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/a\/citizenstrade.org\/forms\/d\/17cmrsf9DDj0jXwcGot0Rnn2Ez2B4HtenLbR38o1fwPY\/viewform\">sign up to receive more info<\/a>. \u00a0Updates are also being posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/374314856046054\/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular&amp;source=1\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizens Trade Campaign is participating in the January 31st &#8220;Inter-Continental Day of Action against the TPP &amp; Corporate Globalization.&#8221;\u00a0We encourage supporters to take action that day to urge Members of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>TPP Day of Action on January 31 - Citizens Trade Campaign<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/blog\/2014\/01\/15\/tpp-day-action-january-31\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TPP Day of Action on January 31 - Citizens Trade Campaign\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Citizens Trade Campaign is participating in the January 31st &#8220;Inter-Continental Day of Action against the TPP &amp; 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