[PAA-Discuss] Trade disaster: Congress votes tomorrow

Tue Oct 11 11:46:39 EDT 2011

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October 11,  2011          
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You don’t hear from me  often. Over the past year, I’ve spent most of my 
time on Capitol  Hill, meeting with members of Congress, educating them about 
our  current flawed trade policy and how we can create a trade model that  
works. I’ve been working to get a majority in Congress to say “No!”  to the 
three devastating NAFTA-style trade deals signed by President  Bush that 
President Obama is now trying to ram through Congress.  

Today, I urgently need a favor from you.

It  will take about five minutes. Congress will vote on these  job-killing, 
unsafe-import-flooding deals this  Wednesday.

Take 5 minutes to save jobs.

_Dial  1-800-718-1008 and tell your Representative to vote “No!” on the  
three flawed trade deals with Korea, Colombia and  Panama._ 
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Here’s why:
    *   The Korea trade deal is the largest offshoring deal of its  kind 
since NAFTA. If approved, the deal will displace 159,000  American jobs in the 
first seven years. Even the official U.S.  government study on the Korea 
pact says that it would increase our  trade deficit — meaning more job loss — 
and it hits the “jobs of  the future” sectors hardest — solar, high speed 
trains, computers.  _Learn  more._ 
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    *   We should have never even discussed a new trade deal with  
Colombia, the world capital for violence against workers. More  unionists are 
assassinated every year than in the rest of the  world combined. In 2010, 51 trade 
unionists were assassinated. Do  you think we would consider a trade deal 
with a county where 51  CEOS were murdered? So far in 2011, another 22 have 
been killed,  despite Colombia’s heralded new “Labor Action Plan.” _Learn  
more (PDF)._ 
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    *   The Panama agreement has many of the same problems as the  other 
two deals — undercutting the reregulation of the big banks  and speculators 
who destroyed our economy and empowering foreign  investors to attack U.S. 
health, safety, labor and environmental  laws before foreign tribunals. But, 
Panama is also one of the  world’s largest tax havens. There, rich U.S. 
individuals and over  400,000 corporations dodge paying the taxes our communities  
desperately need. This FTA would take away our current tools to  fight tax 
dodging and money laundering. _Learn  more (PDF)._ 
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Stop the trade deals that replicate the  failed policies of the past.

_Call  your Representative today._ 
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Behind the scenes and  throughout the country, our team has done everything 
we can do to  try and get through to the leaders in Congress to stop these 
trade  agreements. But it looks like many of our leaders in Washington —  
both Democrats and Republicans — are siding with corporate lobbyists  instead 
of learning from the experience of working  Americans.

YOU know the reality of these trade deals better  than corporate lobbyists—
and Congress needs to listen to  you.

_Please  call 1-800-718-1008 right now._ 
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 Thanks for all you do,

Lori  Wallach
Executive Director
Public Citizen’s Global Trade  Watch 
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