[CTC] U.S. dairy farmers bring fight against TPPA to Chicago, Washington

[Arthur Stamoulis]

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From: Lori Wallach
Date: April 12, 2013 8:40:31 PM PDT
Subject: Please come: launch event for my new book - Fri April 19  
Busboys & Poets DC





Book Launch Event
THE RISE AND FALL OF FAST TRACK TRADE AUTHORITY
By Lori Wallach

April 19, 2013 6:30-8:00pm
Busboys & Poets 14th and V NW D.C.


Fast Track was an extraordinary procedure hatched 40 years ago to  
consolidate authority in the executive branch to dictate “trade”  
policy – upending 200 years of Congress exercising its exclusive  
constitutional authority to write our laws and set the terms of trade.  
It was used to negotiate and ram through Congress controversial pacts  
such as NAFTA and WTO.

That Richard Nixon cooked up this power grab is no surprise. That some  
in Congress today want to revive it is. And, it’s the same  
congressional GOP who decry Obama as the “imperial president” who want  
to grant him expansive new authority.  Meanwhile, most Democrats in  
Congress and Democratic base groups oppose this move.

Confused? Author Lori Wallach will describe how the outcome of this  
perennial power struggle between Congress and the president will play  
out again starting in 2013 - shaping American food, energy, financial,  
environmental and health policies for decades and the economic  
prospects of most Americans.

In an engaging narrative, the updated and expanded edition of “Rise  
and Fall” explores how the process of designing U.S. trade pacts has  
changed from 1789 to the present, what this has meant for most  
Americans and why a new system is long overdue. Indeed, a new process  
has been created every few decades since 1890.Until now. The result is  
outdated 1970s technology being applied to 21st Century realities with  
avoidable damage to the practice and principle of democratic governance.

The last congressional delegation of Fast Track authority terminated  
in 2007. The book describes an alternative designed to promote  
agreements that reduce political tension about trade policy and secure  
prosperity for the greatest number of Americans, while preserving the  
vital tenets of American democracy in the era of globalization.


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