To: President Donald Trump
Reveal The Contents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership to the public and Congress
Dear Mr. President,
The negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership are coming to an end. Because the negotiations are being conducted privately, the American people only know what has been leaked. We have serious concerns about provisions within the TPP that will create a corporate tribunal, gut environmental and labor laws, keep the prices of life-saving medications too high, further de-regulate big finance and undermine freedom of speech on the internet. We should know what is being negotiated in this agreement because it will affect our lives.
We ask you, President Obama, to live up to your campaign promise of greater transparency and release the text of the TPP to members of Congress, the media and the public. We are also asking that there be an open democratic review process in Congress including committee hearings, debate and the opportunity for amendment before a vote on the TPP.
The negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership are coming to an end. Because the negotiations are being conducted privately, the American people only know what has been leaked. We have serious concerns about provisions within the TPP that will create a corporate tribunal, gut environmental and labor laws, keep the prices of life-saving medications too high, further de-regulate big finance and undermine freedom of speech on the internet. We should know what is being negotiated in this agreement because it will affect our lives.
We ask you, President Obama, to live up to your campaign promise of greater transparency and release the text of the TPP to members of Congress, the media and the public. We are also asking that there be an open democratic review process in Congress including committee hearings, debate and the opportunity for amendment before a vote on the TPP.
Why is this important?
The aim of this petition is the revelation of the contents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership to the public and to Congress. The Trans-Pacific Partnership are on-going closed-door talks between the U.S. and Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam; with countries like Japan and China potentially joining later. 600 corporate advisors have access to the text, while the public, Members of Congress, journalists, and civil society are excluded. The agreement would offshore millions of American jobs, free the banksters from oversight, ban Buy America policies needed to create green jobs and rebuild our economy, decrease access to medicine, flood the U.S. with unsafe food and products, and empower corporations to attack our environmental and health safeguards.