Fast Track Not A Done Deal, The People Will Stop It | PopularResistance.Org
There is bi-partisan opposition in Congress to Fast Track and a large movement of movements mobilized to stop it.
The corporate media is reporting that since the Republican leadership
and President Obama support Fast Track trade authority, it is a done
deal. And that message, also heard by countries negotiating the
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), is driving the race to finalize that
agreement.
The truth is: Fast Track is not a done deal. There is bi-partisan
opposition in Congress and a large movement of movements organized to
stop it.
Across the political spectrum there is mass opposition to fast
tracking the secretly negotiated TPP, the Transatlantic Trade and
Investment Partnership (TTIP, aka TAFTA) and the Trade in Services
Agreement (TISA). People remember the impact of NAFTA on job loss,
destruction of Mexican agriculture, expansion of inequality,
environmental degradation and increased immigration. The most recent South Korean trade pact, which Obama touts as a success, is leading to similar results of lost jobs and an expanding US trade deficits.
Members of both parties know that Obama will be out of office when
the negative impacts of these trade agreements are felt. Congress will
be alone facing an angry electorate while Obama is raising money for his
post-presidential career from the transnational corporations who get
rich off these agreements at the expense of everyone else.
Above:
Protest outside the office of the US Trade Representative in December
2014 calling for releasing the text of trade agreements and opposing
Fast Track.
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