<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi everyone:</div><div><br></div><div>If you know folks in Texas, Oklahoma or Arkansas, please encourage them to use this form to sign-up to receive information about developing plans for the Trans-Pacific FTA demonstrations in Dallas and bus/caravan options throughout the region: <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHdJX2U5SGpFbEZieTc5X0JKWFF4MHc6MQ">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHdJX2U5SGpFbEZieTc5X0JKWFF4MHc6MQ</a></div><div><br></div>Many thanks,<div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Arthur Stamoulis</div><div>Citizens Trade Campaign</div><div>(202) 494-8826</div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><b><i>Help Head Off Corporate America's Latest Power Grab</i></b></font></div><div><br></div><div><div><a href="http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/trade-policies/tpp-potential-trade-policy-problems/"><b>The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)</b></a> is a massive, new international trade and investment pact currently being negotiated behind closed doors between the United States and countries throughout the Pacific Rim. Wall Street banks and other corporate interests are pushing for the TPP to:</div><div><br></div><div><ul class="MailOutline"><li><b><i>Offshore good-paying jobs </i></b>to low-wage nations and <b><i>undercut working conditions globally</i></b></li><li>Create new tools for <b><i>attacking environmental and consumer safety policies</i></b></li><li>Expand the <b><i>deregulation of banks, hedge funds and insurance companies</i></b></li><li>Institute longer patents that <b><i>restrict access to affordable, generic medications</i></b></li></ul><div><br></div></div><div>Instead of being debated out in the open, the TPP has thus far been negotiated in the shadows. Approximately <u>600 corporate lobbyists have been given special "cleared advisor" status to review negotiating documents</u> and advise negotiators. Meanwhile, <u>the general public has been barred from even reviewing what U.S. negotiators have proposed in our names</u>.</div><div><br></div><div><b>The twelfth major round of TPP negotiations — perhaps one of the last — is taking place at the Intercontinental Dallas Hotel in Addison, Texas, from May 8 to 18. </b> Please join us in dragging these negotiations into the light of day and ensuring that we aren't saddled with a back-room deal that enriches the global 1% at the expense of the economy, the environment, family farms, public health and democracy itself. </div><div><u><br></u></div><div><b><u>Please <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHdJX2U5SGpFbEZieTc5X0JKWFF4MHc6MQ">RSVP</a> for the following events to get involved:</u></b></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><b>TPP Out of the Shadows!</b></font></div><div><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Rally for Good Jobs, Affordable Medicine & a Healthy Environment</font></i></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Save the Date: Saturday, May 12 * Time & Venue to be announced</font></div><div><br></div><div><b>No Back Room Deals for the 1%</b></div><div><i>Press Event & Rally Demanding Transparency</i></div><div>Save the Date: Tuesday, May 8 * Time & Venue to be announced</div><div><br></div><div><b>The TPP Opening Bash</b></div><div><i>Celebratory Teach-In & Activist Reception</i></div><div>Save the Date: Friday, May 11 * Time & Venue to be announced</div><div><br></div><div><b>Other Events in this Fun-Filled "Week of Action" Are Also Being Organized</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><i>*** Buses and Caravans Are Being Organized from throughout the Region ***</i></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHdJX2U5SGpFbEZieTc5X0JKWFF4MHc6MQ"><b>Please RSVP online now</b><b> to learn more about these events, transportation options and other ways to get involved.</b></a><b> </b> (If there's no way you can be in Dallas this May, <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1034/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=9842">you can still help by signing this petition</a> that will be delivered to negotiators.) </div><div><br></div><div><i>For more info, contact the Texas Fair Trade Coalition at (512) 912-6630.</i></div></div></body></html>