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For Immediate Release
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Massive Public Outcry Against “Fast Track” for Controversial Trade Pacts Like TTIP<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
More that 65 Actions Oppose Long-Shot Trade Legislation Within Days of Its Introduction<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Washington, DC \u2014 Less than 48 hours after legislation was introduced to allow controversial trade pacts such as the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) to be rushed through Congress, labor, environmental and community activists held more than 65 rallies and other actions in cities across the United States opposing it. \u00a0Without approval of so-called \u201cfast track\u201d for TTIP, Congress members would be able to amend any trade agreement agreed to by U.S. and European negotiators \u2014 potentially scuttling it altogether. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cFast track is dead on arrival in the U.S. Congress,\u201d said Arthur Stamoulis, executive director of Citizens Trade Campaign. \u00a0\u201cThe recent legislation is the same as last year\u2019s failed fast track bill, which failed to garner enough support to pass the House of Representatives. \u00a0If anything, public opposition to fast track is even louder and better organized this time around. \u00a0Most Members of Congress want nothing to do with it.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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The fast track legislation introduced on Thursday by Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) would allow TTIP and other pending trade deals to circumvent ordinary Congressional review, amendment and debate procedures. \u00a0Similar legislation introduced last year died in Congress for lack of support.<\/div>\n
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Before the legislation was even introduced, more than 1,200 trade union, environmental, consumer and faith activists and more than a dozen Members of Congress rallied outside the U.S. Capitol on April 15 to voice their opposition to fast track.<\/div>\n
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On Saturday and thereabouts, thousands of Americans turned out for other rallies, block walks, educational events and other actions throughout the country opposing the new fast track bill. \u00a0Their actions coincided with a\u00a0global day of action<\/a>\u00a0against corporate trade deals that featured hundreds of actions in dozens of countries across six continents.<\/div>\n
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On Monday, April 20, on the first day of the ninth round of TTIP negotiations, hundreds more activists plan to march to the doors of the U.S. Trade Representative to demand an end to secretive, corporate-driven trade policies.<\/div>\n
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\u201cOften times it\u2019s U.S. negotiators pushing the worst trade proposals, but they\u2019re representing corporate elites, not the American majority. \u00a0The American people are dead-set opposed to these corporate power grabs and are working hard to defeat them,\u201d said Stamoulis. \u00a0\u201cThere were over 65 actions in the U.S. as part of the Global Day of Action, and millions of Americans have been speaking out against fast tracking back-room trade proposals like the TPP and TTIP.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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