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not on the fast track, not in a hurry
this lady walked gracefully (thanks to that, I had slightly more time to compose my shot) with her miraculous balancing act
as if life, not on the fast track, finds its way to balance things out too
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
Shining Light on Secret TPP agreement & calling on Congress to
STOP Fast Track
For Immediate Release: Day before Wikileak of TPP Document - 13 Cities
Mobilized to Shine a Light on Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership "Trade"
Deal Telling Congress "Don't Fast Track a Train Wreck - FLUSH the
TPP!"
CONTACT: Bill Moyer 206-356-9980 | bill@backbonecampaign.org
| or Eric Ross 805-776-3882 | eric@backbonecampaign.org
| 805-776-3882 | VoteNoFastTrack.org
SEATTLE - On Tuesday evening citizens in Seattle and 12
other cities appeared on overpasses and roadsides to pull the
Trans-Pacific Partnership, aka TPP, out of the shadows and into the
light of public scrutiny. From Dallas to DC, San Diego to Seattle,
Tucson to Detroit, Baltimore to Bellingham, Spokane to Chicago
people took their messages to interstate overpasses, prominent
monuments, and busy city streets using coordinated daytime and
nighttime, high visibility tactics.
They deployed giant banners saying No New NAFTA, mobilized LED light
panels saying "(thumbs up) Democracy, STOP The TPP," and projected with
spotlights messages like "Don't Fast Track A Train Wreck." These
coordinated citizen's actions coincided with ongoing TPP negotiations
taking place in Salt Lake City, Utah from November 12-24
and today's anticipated release by Congressperson Rosa DeLauro and
George Miller detailing the growing opposition to "Fast Track" among
Congress, and preceded today's surprise release by Wikileaks of a leaked
chapter of the secretive "TPP" agreement. [Here
is Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch initial interpretations of the
chapter on intellectual property.]
The TPP has been called NAFTA on steroids, a "Corporate Coup," and
concerned citizens from across the nation are calling on Congress to
"Flush It!" and to oppose President Obama's request to renew "Fast
Track" authority to commit our country to this secretive agreement that
has less to do with trade, than it does with dismantling any domestic
policies that undermine future profits for transnational capital and
corporations.
Bill Moyer, Executive Director of the Backbone Campaign stated "Only a
bought a sold government would sign a treaty that sacrifices our
capacity as communities and country to pass laws for workers benefit,
and the protection of our communities and our natural resources."
The Trans-Pacific Partnership has been negotiated under secrecy for 3
years. Obama is now pushing to have it swiftly approved to much to the
dismay of members of Congress, most of whom haven't even been allowed to
see the text. While Congress is constitutionally required to negotiate
any international treaties, Fast Track or granting Obama Trade Promotion
Authority would forfeit the Congress' responsibility and the public's
right to weigh in on the TPP negotiations.
Perhaps in response to growing citizen outrage letters were release
today from both Democrats and Republicans challenging President Obama's
request for renewal of Fast Track authority. [From Today's Public
Citizen announcement: The
151-signature DeLauro-Miller letter, additional
letter from Democratic Ways & Means members, One
of two letters, this led by Representative Walter Jones (R-NC)]
One of the illuminated messages on Tuesday read "Corporate Tribunals
WTF?" This referred to how the TPP would give more power to corporate
interests including the ability for foreign companies to sue for
taxpayer compensation if any domestic law diminished the company's expected future profits.
Masked as a trade deal, the agreement has been negotiated under
supervision of 600 unelected corporate "trade advisors" while the text
has been hidden from members of Congress, the press, and the public.
What has been learned about the TPP has come through leaked texts, and
is alarming to members of Congress worried about sovereign powers being
negotiated away, public health officials, labor representatives,
environmental groups, and advocates of consumer issues.
"The TPP, the largest ever of it's kind, is a race to the bottom
international agreement on domestic and international policies of food
safety, internet freedom, medicine costs, financial regulation, and the
environment," says Kristen Beifus, executive director of Washington Fair
Trade Coalition."
Trade Justice organizations have declared December 3rd a "Global Day of
Action Against the TPP to resist toxic trade agreements." Citizens are
urged to take action in their own community, contact their
congressperson, and learn more about the TPP's dismantling of democracy
by visiting VoteNoFastTrack.org.
Citizens can find out where their congressperson stands and tweet them
Tuesday's coordinated actions were organized by the Backbone Campaign,
which specializes in "amplifying citizen engagement with creative
tactics and artful activism" in collaboration with Public Citizen's
Global Trade Watch, PopularResistance.org, Fair Trade Coalitions in
Washington and Oregon, and more.
The coordinated day of action follows on the heals of an action in
September when to the surprise of secret service, members and allies of
PopularResistance.org and the Backbone Campaign "redecorated"
the United States Trade Representatives office by scaling the building
and unfurling giant banners demanding a release of the TPP text. The
Backbone Campaign is grateful to Wikileaks for beginning that process.
View the growing collection of photos from the 11-12-13 actions HERE.
To speak with organizers of yesterday's day of action please contact
Bill Moyer at 206-356-9980 or Eric Ross at 805-776-3882.
Info and Collaborator Web Sites:
Thanks to our many awesome collaborators both mentioned and not!
Watch
Coalition
Coalition
Brigade
Diego Overpass Light Brigade
Rising Tide
Talking Points
###
Backbone Campaign's mission is to provide creative strategies, artful
activism trainings, and creative action support to progressive
activists, organizers and organizations around the US and beyond in
order to invigorate and nurture a people-power, community-based, and
internationally-networked nonviolent social movement for human rights,
thriving communities, and ecological well being. Backbone Campaign's
vision is a world where human dignity, community resilience, and
ecological well being is built upon a foundation of democratic
economic and political systems and diverse, thriving culture where
human rights, the rights of communities and nature are truly
inalienable and honored.
- Photos by
Benji Bao Vương and imagery mobilized by Overpass Light Brigade PDX
and Oregon Fair Trade
For Immediate Release: Day before Wikileak of TPP Document - 13
Cities Mobilized to Shine a Light on Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership
"Trade" Deal Telling Congress "Don't Fast Track a Train Wreck - FLUSH
the TPP!"
CONTACT: Bill Moyer 206-356-9980 | bill@backbonecampaign.org
| or Eric Ross 805-776-3882 | eric@backbonecampaign.org
| 805-776-3882 | VoteNoFastTrack.org
SEATTLE - On Tuesday evening citizens in Seattle and 12
other cities appeared on overpasses and roadsides to pull the
Trans-Pacific Partnership, aka TPP, out of the shadows and into the
light of public scrutiny. From Dallas to DC, San Diego to Seattle,
Tucson to Detroit, Baltimore to Bellingham, Spokane to Chicago
people took their messages to interstate overpasses, prominent
monuments, and busy city streets using coordinated daytime and
nighttime, high visibility tactics.
They deployed giant banners saying No New NAFTA, mobilized LED light
panels saying "(thumbs up) Democracy, STOP The TPP," and projected with
spotlights messages like "Don't Fast Track A Train Wreck." These
coordinated citizen's actions coincided with ongoing TPP negotiations
taking place in Salt Lake City, Utah from November 12-24
and today's anticipated release by Congressperson Rosa DeLauro and
George Miller detailing the growing opposition to "Fast Track" among
Congress, and preceded today's surprise release by Wikileaks of a leaked
chapter of the secretive "TPP" agreement. [Here
is Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch initial interpretations of the
chapter on intellectual property.]
The TPP has been called NAFTA on steroids, a "Corporate Coup," and
concerned citizens from across the nation are calling on Congress to
"Flush It!" and to oppose President Obama's request to renew "Fast
Track" authority to commit our country to this secretive agreement that
has less to do with trade, than it does with dismantling any domestic
policies that undermine future profits for transnational capital and
corporations.
Bill Moyer, Executive Director of the Backbone Campaign stated "Only a
bought a sold government would sign a treaty that sacrifices our
capacity as communities and country to pass laws for workers benefit,
and the protection of our communities and our natural resources."
The Trans-Pacific Partnership has been negotiated under secrecy for 3
years. Obama is now pushing to have it swiftly approved to much to the
dismay of members of Congress, most of whom haven't even been allowed to
see the text. While Congress is constitutionally required to negotiate
any international treaties, Fast Track or granting Obama Trade Promotion
Authority would forfeit the Congress' responsibility and the public's
right to weigh in on the TPP negotiations.
Perhaps in response to growing citizen outrage letters were release
today from both Democrats and Republicans challenging President Obama's
request for renewal of Fast Track authority. [From Today's Public
Citizen announcement: The
151-signature DeLauro-Miller letter, additional
letter from Democratic Ways & Means members, One
of two letters, this led by Representative Walter Jones (R-NC)]
One of the illuminated messages on Tuesday read "Corporate Tribunals
WTF?" This referred to how the TPP would give more power to corporate
interests including the ability for foreign companies to sue for
taxpayer compensation if any domestic law diminished the company's expected future profits.
Masked as a trade deal, the agreement has been negotiated under
supervision of 600 unelected corporate "trade advisors" while the text
has been hidden from members of Congress, the press, and the public.
What has been learned about the TPP has come through leaked texts, and
is alarming to members of Congress worried about sovereign powers being
negotiated away, public health officials, labor representatives,
environmental groups, and advocates of consumer issues.
"The TPP, the largest ever of it's kind, is a race to the bottom
international agreement on domestic and international policies of food
safety, internet freedom, medicine costs, financial regulation, and the
environment," says Kristen Beifus, executive director of Washington Fair
Trade Coalition."
Trade Justice organizations have declared December 3rd a "Global Day of
Action Against the TPP to resist toxic trade agreements." Citizens are
urged to take action in their own community, contact their
congressperson, and learn more about the TPP's dismantling of democracy
by visiting VoteNoFastTrack.org.
Citizens can find out where their congressperson stands and tweet them
Tuesday's coordinated actions were organized by the Backbone Campaign,
which specializes in "amplifying citizen engagement with creative
tactics and artful activism" in collaboration with Public Citizen's
Global Trade Watch, PopularResistance.org, Fair Trade Coalitions in
Washington and Oregon, the Overpass Light
Brigade network, and more.
The coordinated day of action follows on the heals of an action in
September when to the surprise of secret service, members and allies of
PopularResistance.org and the Backbone Campaign "redecorated"
the United States Trade Representatives office by scaling the building
and unfurling giant banners demanding a release of the TPP text. The
Backbone Campaign is grateful to Wikileaks for beginning that process.
View the growing collection of photos from the 11-12-13 actions HERE.
To speak with organizers of yesterday's day of action please contact
Bill Moyer at 206-356-9980 or Eric Ross at 805-776-3882.
Info and Collaborator Web Sites:
Thanks to our many awesome collaborators both mentioned and not!
Watch
Coalition
Coalition
Brigade
Brigade
Diego Overpass Light Brigade
Rising Tide
Talking Points
###
Backbone Campaign's mission is to provide creative strategies, artful
activism trainings, and creative action support to progressive
activists, organizers and organizations around the US and beyond in
order to invigorate and nurture a people-power, community-based, and
internationally-networked nonviolent social movement for human rights,
thriving communities, and ecological well being. Backbone Campaign's
vision is a world where human dignity, community resilience, and
ecological well being is built upon a foundation of democratic
economic and political systems and diverse, thriving culture where
human rights, the rights of communities and nature are truly
inalienable and honored.
Shining Light on Secret TPP agreement & calling on Congress to
STOP Fast Track
For Immediate Release: Day before Wikileak of TPP Document - 13 Cities
Mobilized to Shine a Light on Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership "Trade"
Deal Telling Congress "Don't Fast Track a Train Wreck - FLUSH the
TPP!"
CONTACT: Bill Moyer 206-356-9980 | bill@backbonecampaign.org
| or Eric Ross 805-776-3882 | eric@backbonecampaign.org
| 805-776-3882 | VoteNoFastTrack.org
SEATTLE - On Tuesday evening citizens in Seattle and 12
other cities appeared on overpasses and roadsides to pull the
Trans-Pacific Partnership, aka TPP, out of the shadows and into the
light of public scrutiny. From Dallas to DC, San Diego to Seattle,
Tucson to Detroit, Baltimore to Bellingham, Spokane to Chicago
people took their messages to interstate overpasses, prominent
monuments, and busy city streets using coordinated daytime and
nighttime, high visibility tactics.
They deployed giant banners saying No New NAFTA, mobilized LED light
panels saying "(thumbs up) Democracy, STOP The TPP," and projected with
spotlights messages like "Don't Fast Track A Train Wreck." These
coordinated citizen's actions coincided with ongoing TPP negotiations
taking place in Salt Lake City, Utah from November 12-24
and today's anticipated release by Congressperson Rosa DeLauro and
George Miller detailing the growing opposition to "Fast Track" among
Congress, and preceded today's surprise release by Wikileaks of a leaked
chapter of the secretive "TPP" agreement. [Here
is Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch initial interpretations of the
chapter on intellectual property.]
The TPP has been called NAFTA on steroids, a "Corporate Coup," and
concerned citizens from across the nation are calling on Congress to
"Flush It!" and to oppose President Obama's request to renew "Fast
Track" authority to commit our country to this secretive agreement that
has less to do with trade, than it does with dismantling any domestic
policies that undermine future profits for transnational capital and
corporations.
Bill Moyer, Executive Director of the Backbone Campaign stated "Only a
bought a sold government would sign a treaty that sacrifices our
capacity as communities and country to pass laws for workers benefit,
and the protection of our communities and our natural resources."
The Trans-Pacific Partnership has been negotiated under secrecy for 3
years. Obama is now pushing to have it swiftly approved to much to the
dismay of members of Congress, most of whom haven't even been allowed to
see the text. While Congress is constitutionally required to negotiate
any international treaties, Fast Track or granting Obama Trade Promotion
Authority would forfeit the Congress' responsibility and the public's
right to weigh in on the TPP negotiations.
Perhaps in response to growing citizen outrage letters were release
today from both Democrats and Republicans challenging President Obama's
request for renewal of Fast Track authority. [From Today's Public
Citizen announcement: The
151-signature DeLauro-Miller letter, additional
letter from Democratic Ways & Means members, One
of two letters, this led by Representative Walter Jones (R-NC)]
One of the illuminated messages on Tuesday read "Corporate Tribunals
WTF?" This referred to how the TPP would give more power to corporate
interests including the ability for foreign companies to sue for
taxpayer compensation if any domestic law diminished the company's expected future profits.
Masked as a trade deal, the agreement has been negotiated under
supervision of 600 unelected corporate "trade advisors" while the text
has been hidden from members of Congress, the press, and the public.
What has been learned about the TPP has come through leaked texts, and
is alarming to members of Congress worried about sovereign powers being
negotiated away, public health officials, labor representatives,
environmental groups, and advocates of consumer issues.
"The TPP, the largest ever of it's kind, is a race to the bottom
international agreement on domestic and international policies of food
safety, internet freedom, medicine costs, financial regulation, and the
environment," says Kristen Beifus, executive director of Washington Fair
Trade Coalition."
Trade Justice organizations have declared December 3rd a "Global Day of
Action Against the TPP to resist toxic trade agreements." Citizens are
urged to take action in their own community, contact their
congressperson, and learn more about the TPP's dismantling of democracy
by visiting VoteNoFastTrack.org.
Citizens can find out where their congressperson stands and tweet them
Tuesday's coordinated actions were organized by the Backbone Campaign,
which specializes in "amplifying citizen engagement with creative
tactics and artful activism" in collaboration with Public Citizen's
Global Trade Watch, PopularResistance.org, Fair Trade Coalitions in
Washington and Oregon, and more.
The coordinated day of action follows on the heals of an action in
September when to the surprise of secret service, members and allies of
PopularResistance.org and the Backbone Campaign "redecorated"
the United States Trade Representatives office by scaling the building
and unfurling giant banners demanding a release of the TPP text. The
Backbone Campaign is grateful to Wikileaks for beginning that process.
View the growing collection of photos from the 11-12-13 actions HERE.
To speak with organizers of yesterday's day of action please contact
Bill Moyer at 206-356-9980 or Eric Ross at 805-776-3882.
Info and Collaborator Web Sites:
Thanks to our many awesome collaborators both mentioned and not!
Watch
Coalition
Coalition
Brigade
Diego Overpass Light Brigade
Rising Tide
Talking Points
###
Backbone Campaign's mission is to provide creative strategies, artful
activism trainings, and creative action support to progressive
activists, organizers and organizations around the US and beyond in
order to invigorate and nurture a people-power, community-based, and
internationally-networked nonviolent social movement for human rights,
thriving communities, and ecological well being. Backbone Campaign's
vision is a world where human dignity, community resilience, and
ecological well being is built upon a foundation of democratic
economic and political systems and diverse, thriving culture where
human rights, the rights of communities and nature are truly
inalienable and honored.
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
Yay! The boys finally made it here! Anyways, here's the requisite in-box shots before I untie their pretty little ribbons and get creative.
FINALLY! I love the new doll smell. I miss it to much. And the new slim-line FR boxes are adorbs.
Initial reaction: Hot! Love the Burberry-esque trench and the mushroom head he got on.
Adesivo - Adesivo Decorativos para unhas
Esmaltação :
2x Fast Track China Glaze
Plaquinha BM 321
1x Extra brilho risqué techonology
Boa noite meninas!
Ai, esse esmalte é divo!!!
Eu já tenho um na mesmo vibe, que é o Irreplaceable, mas nem preciso dizer que amo nude com brilhinhos e sempre vai ter espaço para mais um na minha coleção, né?!
Achei que ficou muito fofo nas minhas unhas curtinhas e que foi um dos esmaltes que mais curti de usar esse ano!
Super fácil de passar e limpar, apesar dos brilhinhos.
Bjoo
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
Hipstamatic shot of kiddie coaster blur through hoop of larger coaster in background. Trimper park at Ocean City Maryland boardwalk.
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
Michael Beasley of Spokane Coalition Builders
For Immediate Release: Day before Wikileak of TPP Document - 13
Cities Mobilized to Shine a Light on Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership
"Trade" Deal Telling Congress "Don't Fast Track a Train Wreck - FLUSH
the TPP!"
CONTACT: Bill Moyer 206-356-9980 | bill@backbonecampaign.org
| or Eric Ross 805-776-3882 | eric@backbonecampaign.org
| 805-776-3882 | VoteNoFastTrack.org
SEATTLE - On Tuesday evening citizens in Seattle and 12
other cities appeared on overpasses and roadsides to pull the
Trans-Pacific Partnership, aka TPP, out of the shadows and into the
light of public scrutiny. From Dallas to DC, San Diego to Seattle,
Tucson to Detroit, Baltimore to Bellingham, Spokane to Chicago
people took their messages to interstate overpasses, prominent
monuments, and busy city streets using coordinated daytime and
nighttime, high visibility tactics.
They deployed giant banners saying No New NAFTA, mobilized LED light
panels saying "(thumbs up) Democracy, STOP The TPP," and projected with
spotlights messages like "Don't Fast Track A Train Wreck." These
coordinated citizen's actions coincided with ongoing TPP negotiations
taking place in Salt Lake City, Utah from November 12-24
and today's anticipated release by Congressperson Rosa DeLauro and
George Miller detailing the growing opposition to "Fast Track" among
Congress, and preceded today's surprise release by Wikileaks of a leaked
chapter of the secretive "TPP" agreement. [Here
is Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch initial interpretations of the
chapter on intellectual property.]
The TPP has been called NAFTA on steroids, a "Corporate Coup," and
concerned citizens from across the nation are calling on Congress to
"Flush It!" and to oppose President Obama's request to renew "Fast
Track" authority to commit our country to this secretive agreement that
has less to do with trade, than it does with dismantling any domestic
policies that undermine future profits for transnational capital and
corporations.
Bill Moyer, Executive Director of the Backbone Campaign stated "Only a
bought a sold government would sign a treaty that sacrifices our
capacity as communities and country to pass laws for workers benefit,
and the protection of our communities and our natural resources."
The Trans-Pacific Partnership has been negotiated under secrecy for 3
years. Obama is now pushing to have it swiftly approved to much to the
dismay of members of Congress, most of whom haven't even been allowed to
see the text. While Congress is constitutionally required to negotiate
any international treaties, Fast Track or granting Obama Trade Promotion
Authority would forfeit the Congress' responsibility and the public's
right to weigh in on the TPP negotiations.
Perhaps in response to growing citizen outrage letters were release
today from both Democrats and Republicans challenging President Obama's
request for renewal of Fast Track authority. [From Today's Public
Citizen announcement: The
151-signature DeLauro-Miller letter, additional
letter from Democratic Ways & Means members, One
of two letters, this led by Representative Walter Jones (R-NC)]
One of the illuminated messages on Tuesday read "Corporate Tribunals
WTF?" This referred to how the TPP would give more power to corporate
interests including the ability for foreign companies to sue for
taxpayer compensation if any domestic law diminished the company's expected future profits.
Masked as a trade deal, the agreement has been negotiated under
supervision of 600 unelected corporate "trade advisors" while the text
has been hidden from members of Congress, the press, and the public.
What has been learned about the TPP has come through leaked texts, and
is alarming to members of Congress worried about sovereign powers being
negotiated away, public health officials, labor representatives,
environmental groups, and advocates of consumer issues.
"The TPP, the largest ever of it's kind, is a race to the bottom
international agreement on domestic and international policies of food
safety, internet freedom, medicine costs, financial regulation, and the
environment," says Kristen Beifus, executive director of Washington Fair
Trade Coalition."
Trade Justice organizations have declared December 3rd a "Global Day of
Action Against the TPP to resist toxic trade agreements." Citizens are
urged to take action in their own community, contact their
congressperson, and learn more about the TPP's dismantling of democracy
by visiting VoteNoFastTrack.org.
Citizens can find out where their congressperson stands and tweet them
Tuesday's coordinated actions were organized by the Backbone Campaign,
which specializes in "amplifying citizen engagement with creative
tactics and artful activism" in collaboration with Public Citizen's
Global Trade Watch, PopularResistance.org, Fair Trade Coalitions in
Washington and Oregon, the Overpass Light
Brigade network, and more.
The coordinated day of action follows on the heals of an action in
September when to the surprise of secret service, members and allies of
PopularResistance.org and the Backbone Campaign "redecorated"
the United States Trade Representatives office by scaling the building
and unfurling giant banners demanding a release of the TPP text. The
Backbone Campaign is grateful to Wikileaks for beginning that process.
View the growing collection of photos from the 11-12-13 actions HERE.
To speak with organizers of yesterday's day of action please contact
Bill Moyer at 206-356-9980 or Eric Ross at 805-776-3882.
Info and Collaborator Web Sites:
Thanks to our many awesome collaborators both mentioned and not!
Watch
Coalition
Coalition
Brigade
Brigade
Diego Overpass Light Brigade
Rising Tide
Talking Points
###
Backbone Campaign's mission is to provide creative strategies, artful
activism trainings, and creative action support to progressive
activists, organizers and organizations around the US and beyond in
order to invigorate and nurture a people-power, community-based, and
internationally-networked nonviolent social movement for human rights,
thriving communities, and ecological well being. Backbone Campaign's
vision is a world where human dignity, community resilience, and
ecological well being is built upon a foundation of democratic
economic and political systems and diverse, thriving culture where
human rights, the rights of communities and nature are truly
inalienable and honored.
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
Would have loved to take photos of this beast in action (after all, it is capable of doing 170 kilometres per hour across the Sahara desert), but I only spotted it inside the stone storage building.
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
D3 639 leading A2 986 and R761 enjoying a bit of fast running after having a lengthy stop at Rockbank. The train is on the approach to Melton where it was once again held for another stop to cross a V/Line service.
Steamrail's Steam Spectacular 2017.
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
Trade policies adopted under Fast Track have cost us more than 1 million jobs. Visit www.afge.org/stopTPP for more information.
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
Another fine addition to my collection! He's a handsome fellow. Some people don't like his hair but I do!!
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.
On April 30th Startup MENA had the pleasure of hosting Startupbootcamp FastTrack Dubai in collaboration with MENA Private Equity and DIFC as part of it’s international tour to support the world’s top startup cities.
10 FinTech startups are invited to get on the fast track by meeting top Startupbootcamp mentors during a series of 20 minute 1-1 feedback sessions.