After the TPP, Heres a Progressive Vision for Trade

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After the TPP, Here’s a Progressive Vision for Trade

By Ilana Solomon and Ben Beachy - November 16, 2016

Opposition to status-quo trade deals has reached unprecedented heights. The entire 2016 election cycle featured a widespread, trans-partisan rebuke of trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership that prioritize corporations over the rest of us. And while Donald Trump eventually, and tragically, ascended to power, he did not stop the TPP. That was the work of an international movement, including millions of Americans and thousands of diverse organizations that fought for six years against the TPP’s threats to workers, communities, and the environment.

The question now is: What should come next? Since Trump's approach to trade is rooted in the same xenophobia and hypocrisy that drove his campaign, we, as progressives, must offer our alternative -- one that’s rooted in fighting inequality, respecting workers’ rights, fostering healthy communities, and seeking climate justice.

Today, the Sierra Club is unveiling a discussion paper that presents fresh, bold ideas for one component of a broad new approach: how to move from polluter-friendly deals to ones that support tackling climate change.

The template for trade deals like the TPP was written decades ago under the advisement of fossil fuel and other corporations. These deals serve one function: to boost corporate profits. They seek to maximize trade and investment even if the goods traded or the investments protected spell more climate pollution. They even empower corporations to sue governments in private trade tribunals over climate and other protections that affect corporate bottom lines....

Read more:
http://www.sierraclub.org/compass/2016/11/after-tpp-here-s-progressive-vision-for-trade

Link to PDF of the trade policy discussion paper:

http://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/uploads-wysiwig/climate-friendly-trade-model.pdf

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1. On one side, sanity.

On the other side, billions in bribes from the Koch brothers and connected groups. And fake news from the various Koch funded institutes and research groups.