worc@worc.org www.worc.org www.Facebook.com/WORCorg @WORCorg This document summarizes key concerns about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. It notes that the TPP is a binding international governance system that covers matters beyond just trade. It also discusses concerns that the TPP's investor-state dispute resolution process threatens regulations and family farms. Additionally, the document outlines strategies for citizens to get involved and oppose the TPP and "Fast Track" trade authority.

1. Exposing the TPP
For What it Really Is
Lacey Kohlmoos
Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch
Liz Moran
Western Organization of Resource Councils

2. Liz Moran
Regional Organizer

3. Lacey Kohlmoos
Global Trade Watch
Senior Field Organizer

4. Meet the TPP
The Trans-Pacific Partnership
“Free Trade Agreement”
NAFTA on Steroids

5. TPP: Who’s Now Involved
Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico,
New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, U.S.,Vietnam
THE TPP IS A “DOCKING” AGREEMENT OPEN TO ANY
COUNRTY THAT AGREES TO ITS TERMS

6. TPP is Not a Trade Agreement, but a Binding
International Governance System
And Those Living with the Results Have No Say

7. Most of TPP is not about “Trade”
but Covers Many Matters Under State Authority
Trade Chapters
Administrative
Chapters
Non-Trade Chapters

8. Most Secretive Trade Negotiation, Ever…
“This is the least transparent trade negotiation I have ever seen.”
-Former U.S. trade official Gary Horlick, a TPP supporter

9. “Investor-State Dispute Resolution”

10. Threatens Family-Owned American Farms
Investor-State Attacks
Patents on Seeds
Ban on “Buy American” & “Buy Local”
Access to Markets

11. New Floods of Unsafe Imported Food

12. Threatens Environmental Reforms

13. Other Ways the TPP Impacts Our Lives
Incentives to Off-Shore Jobs
Financial Deregulation
Attacks on Internet Freedom
Increased Medicine Costs

14. “Fast Track” Only Needed for Bad Agreements
Of 500+ trade agreements since 1974, Fast Track was only used for 16 of
them

15. The Global Resistance has Begun…

16. In-District Meetings

17. Email and Call Your Representative

18. Bird-Dogging

19. Share on Social Media

20. Contact Global Trade Watch
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