<div dir="ltr">Here's a meme if anyone would like to use it:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Rose Espinola <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:respinola@citizen.org" target="_blank">respinola@citizen.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Thanks for sending this Arthur! This is a good moment for our organizations to promote Black Lives Matter’s broader platform.
They’re using the hashtag <span> </span>#Vision4BlackLives.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">For those with Spanish-language handles, the text is also available in Spanish - <a href="https://policy.m4bl.org/m4blplatformspanish/" target="_blank">https://policy.m4bl.org/m4blplatformspanish/</a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Rose Espinola | National Field Director<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Office: <a href="tel:202-454-5129" value="+12024545129" target="_blank">202-454-5129</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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[mailto:<a href="mailto:ctcfield-bounces@lists.citizenstrade.org" target="_blank">ctcfield-bounces@lists.citizenstrade.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Arthur Stamoulis<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 02, 2016 10:37 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> CTC Field Field<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [CTC] Black Lives Matter platform calls for end to TPP<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:white">An End to the Trans-Pacific Partnership and a Renegotiation of All Trade Agreements to Prioritize the Interests of Workers and Communities<u></u><u></u></span></h3>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1e1e1e;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">What is the problem?</span></b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1e1e1e"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Global trade policy, strongly supported by the U.S.,
is structured almost exclusively around the needs of capital, rather than people. So trade barriers are lowered through changes in tariffs to ensure easier flow of capital and goods or regulations that protect local economies, workers or the environment are
often weakened to address the needs of an international competitor in a market. </span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1e1e1e;vertical-align:baseline;margin:1rem;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit">
<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Workers in the global economy and the environment are
both at best secondary considerations in global trade agreements. Wages are pulled down internationally by the trade scheme and labor standards are weak with little protection for unionization. </span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1e1e1e;vertical-align:baseline;margin:1rem;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit">
<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">The rules for trade determine who benefits or suffers
losses in the global economy, often privileging some countries, companies or sectors over others. For example, rules such as those governing intellectual property rights enrich some, while depriving groups of people of even fundamental needs such as essential
medicines because it puts costs out of reach. </span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1e1e1e;vertical-align:baseline;margin:1rem;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit">
<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Existing trade agreements also tend to increase inequality
providing greater mobility for those with high-paying jobs but not those with low-paying jobs who cannot easily travel to new locations for higher pay. </span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1e1e1e;vertical-align:baseline;margin:1rem;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit">
<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">While low-wage workers face barriers and costs to mobility,
the increasing ease of mobility of capital leads to a race to the bottom where capital follows the lowest wage levels and worst working conditions. – and low wage workers with barriers and costs to mobility. </span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1e1e1e;vertical-align:baseline;margin:1rem;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit">
<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">The TPP, like most free trade policies, will destroy
economic opportunity for Black people and the working class.</span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1e1e1e;vertical-align:baseline;margin:1rem;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit">
<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">The TPP will decrease access to health care and exacerbate
an already exploding health crisis facing Black people and poor people throughout the world.</span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1e1e1e;vertical-align:baseline;margin:1rem;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit">
<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">The TPP will grant corporations control over the online
platforms essential to the Black Lives Matter Movement </span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1e1e1e;vertical-align:baseline;margin:1rem;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit">
<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">The TPP will allow corporations to avoid domestic courts
and challenge economic and social reforms won by the Black Lives Matter Movement in a corporate-driven foreign tribunal.</span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1e1e1e;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">What does this solution do?</span></b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1e1e1e"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Trade agreements have successfully standardized how
products, such as automobiles, are made. This power to create standards should be utilized to ensure the human rights of people here and around the world, beginning with the rights and needs of Black people everywhere because our communities have faced the
most severe marginalization globally. The United States should announce its intention to withdraw from its current trade agreements within five years unless they are renegotiated to include: </span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Higher labor standards and wage minimums as a condition
of participating in free trade;</span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1e1e1e;vertical-align:baseline;margin:1rem;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit">
<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Protection for the ability to organize and unionize,
including across borders</span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1e1e1e;vertical-align:baseline;margin:1rem;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit">
<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Stringent environmental standards</span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1e1e1e;vertical-align:baseline;margin:1rem;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit">
<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Racial equity standards in the sectors covered</span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1e1e1e;vertical-align:baseline;margin:1rem;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit">
<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Transparency in all trade agreements so the public
is fully aware of all of an agreements’ components at every stage of the treaty development process</span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1e1e1e;vertical-align:baseline;margin:1rem;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit">
<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">An effective enforcement scheme that would penalize
and exclude companies, and countries where appropriate, when worker rights and environmental standards are violated. Enforcement shall including standing for those impacted by violations of the agreement to challenge the company or country at issue.</span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1e1e1e;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Federal Action:</span></b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1e1e1e"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Call on the Executive Branch and Congress calling for
renegotiation of agreements including but not limited to, FTAA, CAFTA, and NAFTA and a call for renegotiation the terms of TPP prior to any ratification by the United States.</span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1e1e1e;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">State Action:</span></b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1e1e1e"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Call on state legislatures to demand federal action
renegotiating treaties according to the goals described above. </span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1e1e1e;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Local Action:</span></b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1e1e1e"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Call on City Councils and Mayors to demand federal
action renegotiating treaties according to the goals described above. </span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1e1e1e;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">How does this solution address the specific needs of some of the most marginalized
Black people?</span></b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1e1e1e"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Black people have been forced into the lowest wage
work available, when they have been afforded work at all. By transforming the trade framework, Black people will enjoy higher wages and dignified conditions of work, as well as be afforded some protection against environmental injustice, which disproportionately
sickens Black communities. </span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif""><a href="http://www.aflcio.org/content/download/158221/3936941/TPPandworkersofcolor-Updated.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color:#cc6600;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">http://www.aflcio.org/content/download/158221/3936941/TPPandworkersofcolor-Updated.pdf</span></a><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, </span><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1e1e1e;vertical-align:baseline;margin:1rem;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit">
<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif""><a href="http://www.aflcio.org/Issues/Trade/Trans-Pacific-Partnership-Free-Trade-Agreement-TPP/Report-on-the-Impacts-of-the-Trans-Pacific-Partnership" target="_blank"><span style="color:#cc6600;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">http://www.aflcio.org/Issues/Trade/Trans-Pacific-Partnership-Free-Trade-Agreement-TPP/Report-on-the-Impacts-of-the-Trans-Pacific-Partnership</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1e1e1e;vertical-align:baseline;margin:1rem;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit">
<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">What does the Trans-Pacific Partnership Mean for Black
People, Rachel Glimer (Ebony) See: <a href="http://www.ebony.com/news-views/what-does-the-trans-pacific-partnership-mean-for-black-people-503#axzz4Der6qMZ9" target="_blank">
http://www.ebony.com/news-views/what-does-the-trans-pacific-partnership-mean-for-black-people-503#axzz4Der6qMZ9</a></span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Cathy Albisa, NESRI</span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1e1e1e;vertical-align:baseline;margin:1rem;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit">
<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Marbre Stahly Butts, Center for Popular Democracy</span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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