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Tell your member of Congress to support Keith Ellison’s #NoTPP fair trade policies!

January 26, 2017

On January 23, the US announced that it was withdrawing from the anti-democratic, anti-worker Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement [TPP] and seeking a reopening of the North American Free Trade Agreement [NAFTA]. The AFL-CIO praised the moves, saying, “Today’s announcement that the US is withdrawing from TPP and seeking a reopening of NAFTA is an important first…

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TODAY: Call Your Rep. Against the TPP!

September 13, 2016

The fate of the corporate-rigged Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is being decided right now. Dozens of organizations are working together to make TODAY a nationwide TPP Call-In Day to press our Representatives to publicly announce their opposition to the TPP before the election. Call your Representative now at (202) 224-3121. When you reach a staffer or…

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Unions want one thing from Hillary tonight: a stake in TPP’s heart

July 28, 2016

“Unions want one thing from Hillary tonight: A stake in TPP’s heart,” The Hill reports. If Hillary denounces the TPP tonight in her acceptance speech at the DNC in Philadelphia, “labor officials believe it would kill any chance of moving the pact in a lame-duck Congress after the election.” Call your Senator now at (202)…

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Tell Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Stand With Democrats Against TPP!

July 26, 2016

Roll Call reports: “Because of the strength of [Sanders’] campaign, his opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership has now become accepted Democratic policy, even as President Barack Obama continues to support it.” Call Debbie Wasserman Schultz now at 202-225-7931. When you reach a staffer or leave a message, you can say something like, “I urge…

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Luis Gutierrez, Elijah Cummings, and Barbara Lee Voted for TPP & Israeli Settlements?

June 27, 2016

On the TPP and settlement expansion in the West Bank, we mostly lost the first round of the fight over the Democratic Platform. The Platform Drafting Committee rejected an amendment opposed to the TPP and rejected an amendment opposed to settlement expansion in the West Bank. There were five Sanders appointees on the fifteen-member drafting…

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Call Now: Urge Wasserman Schultz to Debate Canova on TPP

February 8, 2016

DNC chair and Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was one of only 28 House Democrats to vote for “fast track” legislation enabling the TPP negotiations to go forward. [1] Her stance on the final TPP agreement will likely have a decisive impact on the Congressional debate. Wasserman Schultz has a Democratic primary opponent, Tim Canova,…

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TPP: No To Post-Election “Etch-a-Sketch”

January 28, 2016

In an interview from Davos with Bloomberg TV on January 20, Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue, a top lobbyist for the pro-corporate-power Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP] agreement, assured viewers that if Hillary Clinton wins the Presidential election, she will support the TPP, even though she opposes it now. Urge Members of Congress to take a…

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How Bernie Sanders Can Kill the 1%’s TPP Trade Deal

June 9, 2015

The DC press says it’s getting down to the wire on a possible vote in the House on fast track to substantially pre-approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership and other pending trade deals, with a vote possible as early as Thursday. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who was a close second in a recent straw poll of Wisconsin Democrats, has called…

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The Big Wins of 2013

December 29, 2013

2013 was a big year for Just Foreign Policy. Here’s a brief summary of our greatest wins. Preventing a US military strike on Syria. When President Obama announced his intention to bomb Syria, Just Foreign Policy was the first progressive organization to say that Obama should go to Congress to seek authorization. We initiated a…

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Trans-Pacific Partnership Makes Activists Sick. Literally.

September 19, 2012

The secrecy with which the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations have been conducted is enough to make anyone nauseous. Outside a small group of international negotiators, few have been allowed access to the negotiating text—and no one is allowed to tell the dirty public what the negotiators are about. We outsiders—or, as the US Trade Representative…

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