From 350.org:

Leaked text from the deal shows that the TPP, if signed into law, would give foreign fossil fuel corporations the right to sue city, state and national governments if climate action hurts their profits.

It’s an enormous corporate power grab: any time we took action to keep carbon in the ground -- like by banning fracking, or stopping a pipeline, or putting a price on carbon pollution -- the fossil fuel industry could sue for the right to dig it right back out and sell it.

The good news is that this is a plan we can stop. Today, Congress introduced a bill that would allow the TPP to be signed into law. This legislation, called Fast Track, faces a close vote -- if enough Members of Congress come out against this plan in the next few weeks, TPP stops in its tracks.

Today we're calling on all our members of Congress to stand up to the TPP and vote no on Fast Track. Can you send a message to your members of Congress now to stop the TPP?

Click here to send a message to your representatives now: the climate movement opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is being negotiated in secret because it is such a bad idea, and the corporations behind it are hoping it moves forward without too many people noticing. If our representatives know we're watching, they're much less likely to get behind this thing.

TPP could also be used to attack worker's rights, and so many other things that matter. For instance, if Ohio finally raises the minimum wage to $15, multinational corporations could sue the state and make taxpayers pay for lost profit. Every major organization fighting for economic justice for workers opposes it.

There are other ridiculous parts of the TPP. One section would end all environmental reviews of fracked gas export facilities, others would accelerate attacks on workers’ rights to organize.

And if TPP goes through, all of these bad ideas become the new law of the land.

For the past few weeks, hundreds of students and their allies have been marching, rallying and risking arrest to divest their schools from fossil fuels. They're doing it because digging up and burning as much fossil fuel as possible is wrong, and we need to keep carbon in the ground.

The TPP would make that job so much harder by putting us all on the hook to bail out Big Oil when climate action hits their bottom line. It’s bad for every worker struggling to make ends meet, and it’s bad for the climate.

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Albert Gabel writes:

the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to become law.

It would:

• Reduce manufacturing in the U.S.

• Lower wages. Average wage in those countries is 56 cents/hour.

• Weaken our labor unions

• Increase our unemployment

• Secret trade tribunals would override U.S. laws, including labor and environmental protection laws.

• Increase income inequality

• Allow unregulated dangerous food products to come into the U.S.

• Erode safeguards designed to prevent future financial crises   

• Increase our trade deficits

• Increase outsourcing and increase income for multinational corporations which do not pay their fair share of U.S taxes

  TPP is an unfair trade agreement negotiated secretly, with only corporate leaders having input. It is very unfair to have the agreements on a “fast track”, which is having Congress allowed only an up or down vote.

  The Senators and Representatives should have a chance to discuss, propose amendments and vote on them. 

  TPP and the Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) would cause more harm than NAFTA, destroying good jobs and eroding the middle class.

  You were elected to protect ordinary citizens and the poor

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Fukushima Food Fight
With Fukushima’s nuclear pollution still pouring into the global environment over four years after the initial triple meltdown, how can you be sure your food doesn’t contain radioactive pollution? It’s difficult enough now because the U.S. permitted radioactivity levels are among the highest globally, and there isn’t adequate government or independent testing. True food protection will be impossible if the the Obama Administration’s secret trade deal called the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is rammed through Congress on a ‘fast track’ basis that will prevent it even being read by Congresspeople or their staff members.

TPP is a classified trade agreement that would, among many other things, end country of origin labeling of food including potentially radioactive food from Fukushima and other prefectures most immediately impacted by Fukushima Daiichi’s triple nuclear meltdowns. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee has the power to block Fast Track of TPP as early as April 20th. Blocking Fast Track will stop TPP.