Occupy Underground

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts) Fri Jun 15, 2012, 01:18 AM Jun 2012

Occupiers. Be sure to watch this video. This is what we should be shouting and

occupying about right now.

If this trade agreement goes through, you can forget everything else. We will no longer be a sovereign nation.

Trade treaties are equal to the Constitution in so far as their status and enforceability as laws.

Please watch this. It's Amy Goodman, Democracy Now.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101734456#post8

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Occupiers. Be sure to watch this video. This is what we should be shouting and (Original Post) JDPriestly Jun 2012 OP

Something needs to be done. I don't know who leaked it sabrina 1 Jun 2012 #1

Thanks for the heads up MannyGoldstein Jun 2012 #2

thanks for posting that limpyhobbler Jun 2012 #3

Dafuq is this crap? Odin2005 Jun 2012 #4

sabrina 1

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1. Something needs to be done. I don't know who leaked it

Reply to JDPriestly (Original post)

Fri Jun 15, 2012, 03:22 AM

Jun 2012

but whoever it was did what was right.

The press, not the MSM who are no longer capable of investigative reporting, but the independent media need to start digging to find out who in Congress knew about this.

Demand transparency in TransPacific Partnership

What’s being negotiatied?

Well, we don’t really know. All of the negotiators have been sworn to secrecy. However, we do know that the negotiators include 600 corporate lobbyists, who are either writing or advising on the langauge to be included in the final agreement. Notably not at the table are advocates for labor/unions, democracy, human rights, consumers, environmental organizations, health care, AIDs or other civil society organizations.

So Congress no longer writes legislation, the turnover of our government to corporations is almost complete. Between ALEC writing legislation, and now this, and who knows what we do not know, is Congress only there to put a rubber stamp on Corporate legislation? This just gets worse. I thought ALEC was bad enough, the rot is throughout the entire system it seems.

People are being urged to call their Congressmembers and ask that they support Wyden.