#tppawalkaway

[popthirdworld]

Remember when the GFC hit and US Congress needed to pass a bailout law quick? The first bill failed but the second one succeeded. Part of the reason the first one failed was because the bill was only 5 pages long. People actually read it and were turned off by what a no-strings-attached handout to Wall Street it was. The second bill changed little - it was still a hands-off handout to the Wall Street guys that got us into this mess - but it was paaaages long, suuuuuper detailed so nooooone realistically was ever gonna read it.

The TPP just got me thinkng about that.

1%ers bank on us zoning out at complex economics stuff. Please don’t. It has huge impacts on poor people’s lives.

[popthirdworld]

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[popthirdworld]

"The big losers in the TPP are patients and treatment providers in developing countries."

- Doctors Without Borders

[popthirdworld]

Reasons I dislike the TPP

- it was done in secret. - it sets up secret courts. - these secret courts give foreign corporations the power to sue our government if it passes laws that hurt their profits. - think about that. - our government passes laws to give factory workers' more rights, demand testing on weird new food imports, protect koalas from going extinct - all things that are good for us, but dent corporate profits. - to pass such laws we'd need to transfer our taxpayer money to foreign corporations. - or simply, our government will stop proposing such good laws if it foresees a TPP suing acomin'.

This is a profound shift of power from us to corporations.

[hauntedfirehottub-blog]

TPPA - last gasp

TPPA is the last gasp of corporates to maintain control of economies and weaken environmental protection for their benefit.  A deregulated market begets million dollar corporate salaries, intensification of dairy sector with dirty rivers and leaky home syndrome.

New Zealand nothing left to trade away, and New Zealanders now looking to regain sovereignty with living standards and environment protected through sensible regulation, locally based social enterprise and a share economy.

[hkaiwai]

Our Prime Minister has been Mr Judgy McNegativity lately but he's not gonna dampen the spirits of these TPPA supporters 😬 #TPPAWalkAway

[hkaiwai]

#everthingisawesome at the TPPA rally #TPPAWalkAway