Dear friends:
As you read this, the largest package of
trade deals in over a decade is creeping closer and closer towards
reaching the floor of Congress. If we don't work together to
stop it, we'll soon be facing votes on three separate NAFTA-modeled
pacts in rapid succession:
- The
Korea Free Trade Agreement is the largest FTA since NAFTA itself,
predicted by the federal government's own International Trade
Commission to increase the overall U.S. trade deficit.
- The
Panama Free Trade Agreement is a gift to tax evaders and money
launderers, threatening to lock-in Panama's extreme banking
secrecy laws and undermine future attempts to go after corporate
tax cheats.
- The
Colombia Free Trade Agreement is a pact that will greatly exacerbate
the ongoing human rights catastrophe in a country that is already
home to the largest population of internally-displaced people in
the world.
It's not too late
to stop this insanity, but only if we act together. Two
requests: First, write
to President Obama and your Members of Congress online now and urge
them to abandon this disastrous trade agenda. Tell them,
no more offshoring jobs. No more sweetheart deals for Wall Street.
No more "free trade" when working people are denied their
basic human rights.
After you've
taken action
online, take out your calendar and marker in one of the
organizing meetings listed below. Join together with fair
trade advocates from your neck of the woods, learn where your
Members of Congress stand on the three pending trade deals and
discuss steps you can take in concert to help send a strong, clear
message that each of these pacts is unacceptable.
California
District of Columbia
Washington, DC. Tuesday, May 24, 6:00pm.
Public Citizen Q St Office. 1600 20th St. RSVP at
jplo...@citizen.org.
Maine
Minnesota
Minneapolis. Monday, May 23, 6:00pm.
Bethany Lutheran Church. 2511 East Franklin Ave.
RSVP at mn...@citizenstrade.org.
New York
Ohio
Oregon
In solidarity,
Arthur Stamoulis
Executive Director
Citizens Trade
Campaign
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