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October 11,
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Carolyn,
You don’t hear
from me often. Over the past year, I’ve spent most of my time on
Capitol Hill, meeting with members of Congress, educating them about
our current flawed trade policy and how we can create a trade model
that works. I’ve been working to get a majority in Congress to say
“No!” to the three devastating NAFTA-style trade deals signed by
President Bush that President Obama is now trying to ram through
Congress.
Today, I urgently need a favor from
you.
It will take about five minutes. Congress will vote
on these job-killing, unsafe-import-flooding deals this
Wednesday.
Take 5 minutes to save jobs.
Dial
1-800-718-1008 and tell your Representative to vote “No!” on the
three flawed trade deals with Korea, Colombia and
Panama.
Here’s why:
- The Korea trade deal is the largest offshoring deal of its
kind since NAFTA. If approved, the deal will displace 159,000
American jobs in the first seven years. Even the official U.S.
government study on the Korea pact says that it would increase our
trade deficit — meaning more job loss — and it hits the “jobs of
the future” sectors hardest — solar, high speed trains, computers.
Learn
more.
- We should have never even discussed a new trade deal with
Colombia, the world capital for violence against workers. More
unionists are assassinated every year than in the rest of the
world combined. In 2010, 51 trade unionists were assassinated. Do
you think we would consider a trade deal with a county where 51
CEOS were murdered? So far in 2011, another 22 have been killed,
despite Colombia’s heralded new “Labor Action Plan.” Learn
more (PDF).
- The Panama agreement has many of the same problems as the
other two deals — undercutting the reregulation of the big banks
and speculators who destroyed our economy and empowering foreign
investors to attack U.S. health, safety, labor and environmental
laws before foreign tribunals. But, Panama is also one of the
world’s largest tax havens. There, rich U.S. individuals and over
400,000 corporations dodge paying the taxes our communities
desperately need. This FTA would take away our current tools to
fight tax dodging and money laundering. Learn
more (PDF).
Stop the trade deals that replicate the
failed policies of the past.
Call
your Representative today.
Behind the scenes and
throughout the country, our team has done everything we can do to
try and get through to the leaders in Congress to stop these trade
agreements. But it looks like many of our leaders in Washington —
both Democrats and Republicans — are siding with corporate lobbyists
instead of learning from the experience of working
Americans.
YOU know the reality of these trade deals better
than corporate lobbyists—and Congress needs to listen to
you.
Please
call 1-800-718-1008 right now.
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Thanks for all you do,
Lori
Wallach
Executive Director
Public Citizen’s Global Trade
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