<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><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-align: auto; 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: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Please share...</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div></span> </div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Waren, William" <<a href="mailto:WWaren@foe.org">WWaren@foe.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">March 8, 2013 11:50:58 AM PST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Friends of the Earth video: "Peril in the Pacific: No to the TPP"<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; 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; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div><div style="border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding-top: 3pt; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><h1 style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 24pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "></span>Friends of the Earth Blog<o:p></o:p></h1><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span style="font-size: 24pt; ">New video: "Peril in the Pacific"<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Posted March 7, 2013 / Posted by: Bill Waren<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><img width="300" height="226" id="Picture_x0020_3" alt="http://libcloud.s3.amazonaws.com/93/7a/f/1603/detail-300/End-secrecy-in-the-TPP.jpg" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CE1C06.AF214DE0"><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Friends of the Earth, U.S. has released a new video, “Peril in the Pacific: Trans Pacific trade agreement threatens people and the planet.” The video highlights the threats to the<a href="http://www.sierraclub.org/trade/downloads/TPP-Factsheet.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>environment</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and human rights posed by the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.foe.org/news/blog/2012-04-april-fool--but-secrecy-in-trans-pacific-trade-negot" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">secret</a><a href="http://justinvestment.org/" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>negotiation of the TPP deal<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>and in particular its draft<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.foe.org/news/blog/2012-06-hazmat-trade-deal-negotiators-in-san-diego-to-focus" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">investment chapter</a>. (Contro click on theYouTube image below to watch the video.)<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">The video illustrates these threats by telling the story of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Chevron v. Ecuador</i>,<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/09/120109fa_fact_keefe?currentPage=all" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>a cautionary tale</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>about an international investment suit brought under an existing U.S. treaty that raises important questions like: Who should pay to clean up<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.citizen.org/documents/Human-Rights-Brief-Article-%20%282010%29.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">what has been called</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.foe.org/news/blog/2012-02-the-rainforest-chernobyl--will-us-investment-treaty" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">“Rainforest Chernobyl”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>in the Ecuadorian Amazon? Why are<a href="http://ran.org/chevrons-toxic-legacy-ecuador" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the people of the rainforest</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>who suffered the most not represented at the international tribunal hearing the case? Is it U.S. policy to favor the financial interests of multi-national corporations over people and the environment in such disputes?<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">The video also asks why the negotiating framework for the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal favors Wall Street and multinational corporations<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.foe.org/news/blog/protest-trans-pacific-trade-negotiations" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">at the expense effective environmental and climate policy</a>. In particular, why does the U.S. proposal for a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.foe.org/news/blog/2012-05-old-trade-deal-wine-in-new-bottle-us-model-for-trans" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">TPP investment chapter<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>allow<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.foe.org/news/blog/2012-04-pay-the-polluter-800-million-trade-deal-injustice-fo" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">transnational corporations to challenge environmental laws<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>that protect our air, land and water? These wealthy<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/right-and-us-trade-law-invalidating-20th-century" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">investors could demand millions</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or even billions of dollars in damages for the cost of complying with such environmental regulations, including lost future profits.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Friends of the Earth is concerned that the TPP deal potentially checkmates many of our past environmental victories, and likewise blocks new initiatives on global climate change and exports of tar sands oil, for example. Friends of the Earth is using the video to encourage people concerned about<a href="http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/mining_for_profits_in_international_tribunals" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the environmental costs of a TPP trade deal</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to talk to their friends, neighbors and fellow environmentalists about it. We are even offering copies of the video to people interested in screening it at local meetings or sharing it with local media. This could move communities, both domestically and abroad, to take action on this issue that reflects local priorities and values.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">For more information about the TPP or organizing a community meeting contact Bill Waren at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:wwaren@foe.org" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">wwaren@foe.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">Control-click on the YouTube image below to watch the video<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; 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"><a href="mailto:williamtwaren@gmail.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">williamtwaren@gmail.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has shared a video with you on YouTube<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "></p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr style="height: 16.5pt; "><td style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; height: 16.5pt; "></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "></p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr style="height: 16.5pt; "><td style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; 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padding-left: 0in; height: 12pt; "></td></tr><tr><td width="498" style="width: 373.5pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW-TEHIScvw&feature=em-share_video_user" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="text-decoration: none; "><o:p></o:p></span></a></div><div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 15pt; "><b><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW-TEHIScvw&feature=em-share_video_user" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; ">Peril in the Pacific: No to the TPP</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; "><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></b></div></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 15pt; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); ">by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/FriendsoftheEarthUS?feature=em-share_video_user" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-decoration: none; ">FriendsoftheEarthUS</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "></p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr style="height: 12pt; "><td style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; height: 12pt; "></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "></p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td width="498" style="width: 373.5pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 15pt; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">A short film on the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement that analyzes what is at stake in the negotiations in general, the implications of the proposed investment chapter and the growing campaign to challenge the TPP.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td><td width="40" style="width: 30pt; 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