<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><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">Lori Wallach </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">April 12, 2013 8:40:31 PM PDT</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>Please come: launch event for my new book - Fri April 19 Busboys & Poets DC</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 style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><img width="246" height="369" align="left" hspace="12" alt="Fast Track Book Cover" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CE37D6.720803E0"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 32pt; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face', serif; ">Book Launch Event<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 28pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; ">THE RISE AND FALL OF FAST TRACK TRADE AUTHORITY<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; ">By Lori Wallach<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><b><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; ">April 19, 2013 6:30-8:00pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; ">Busboys & Poets 14<sup>th</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and V NW D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; ">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; ">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<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; ">new<i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>authority.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i> Meanwhile, most Democrats in Congress and Democratic base groups oppose this move.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; ">Confused?</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; ">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.<i>Until now.</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The result is outdated 1970s technology being applied to 21<sup>st</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Century realities with avoidable damage to the practice and principle of democratic governance.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; ">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.</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div></span></div><br></body></html>