Tuesday, 13 September 2016 00:00
Seizing on Popular Support, Dems Unite on Expanding Social Security
'A few years ago, expanding Social Security was considered a radical idea. Now, it's the official position of the Democratic Party'
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Sen. Warren on TPP
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Repealing the Jim Crow law that keeps 1.5 million Floridians from voting. +
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Featured TPP, TITIP and TISA News
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Statement of Lori Wallach, Director, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch on the Demise of the Trans-Pacific Partnership in the Lame-Duck Session of Congress +
The news that the White House and Republican congressional leaders have given up on passing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is… Read More
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No, Trump Didn’t Kill the TPP — Progressives Did +
If you read the headlines, Donald Trump’s election has killed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The headlines have it wrong. Read More
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"It's About Letting Giant Corporations Rig the Rules": Warren Skewers TPP +
Democratic senator from Massachusetts offers fresh criticism of trade deal in new video Read More
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WTO Authorizes Over $1 Billion in Sanctions Unless U.S. Guts Popular Country-of-Origin Meat Labels, Disproving Obama Claim That Trade Pacts Can’t Undermine Public Interest Policies +
Today’s World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling against the U.S. country-of-origin meat labels (COOL) that consumers rely on to make informed… Read More
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Trans-Pacific Partnership: Exporting U.S. Meat, Dairy, and Disease +
Negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership—a trade agreement between 12 nations—ended earlier this week. The likely passage of the agreement means… Read More
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Protesting Big Pharma 'Death Sentence,' Cancer Patient Arrested Outside TPP Talks +
'For thousands of women to die unnecessary of breast cancer because of the TPP is a horrible, cruel, premeditated, and… Read More
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Obama trade agenda inches toward passage with Senate vote on ‘fast track’ +
A razor-thin Senate vote Tuesday put President Obama on the cusp of claiming victory for his ambitious international trade agenda,… Read More
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Fast Track Down +
The Fast Track trade authority package was rejected Friday because two years of effort by a vast corporate coalition, the… Read More
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Shock: Congress Plots to Pay for Reviled TPP Deal by Raiding Medicare +
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Put Trade in the Spotlight
CWA devised a simple plan for which they were united suited: drag TPP out of the shadows and into the light - one city at a time - using a medium they understand intimately: Daily Newspapers!
Two CWA members - Dave Felice in Denver, CO and Madelyn Elder in Portland, OR have started the ball rolling. We just need to keep up the momentum.
