DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER - Backbone Campaign

On February 26th the FCC will cast their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the month of February, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing throughout the congressional recess and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents is paying visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members will take to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. In more than 10 cities across the U.S. activists will use guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast

Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch:

The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Today activists will unveil a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real

democracy.

Photos by Rick Barry of Broken Shade Photo

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC will cast their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the month of February, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing throughout the congressional recess and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents is paying visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members will take to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. In more than 10 cities across the U.S. activists will use guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast

Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch:

The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Today activists will unveil a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real

democracy.

Photos by Rick Barry of Broken Shade Photo

Backbone Campaign teamed up with our friends the Mosquito Fleet, 350 Seattle, Rising Tide, Women of Color Speak Out, the Raging Grannies, Lush, and many more to demand action on climate and an equitable transition away from fossil fuels on May 13-15th, 2016. The protests were part of the #BreakFree global wave of actions calling for our society to “Transition Together” towards "Energy Without Injury,” “100% Renewable Energy Now” and “No More Casualties” by extractive fossil fuel industries. Because of these actions Shell and Tesoro refineries suspended all fossil fuel transport by tankers and rail for 3 days.

Support Artful Activism at backbonecampaign.org/donate

office: 206-408-8058

breakfreepnw.org/

The thousands who participated and organized Break Free actions on land and sea in Anacortes, WA made it abundantly clear that our best chance to avert the worst effects of climate change lies in people with a conscience stepping into their courage to take collective action.

Break Free exemplified the spirit of resistance and resilience, our courage, creativity, deep listening, perseverance and the reverence we hold for what is beautiful and sacred. These traits embodied by the people you call your friends, comrades, and kindred spirits are exactly what Big Oil, and their ilk who profit off of the unjust status quo, fear the most. They are terrified of people moving beyond the shackles of powerlessness and hopelessness and instead exercising their moral imagination to lock arms together and demand change outside of the traditional pathways of redress.

To stop the poisoning of our communities and Exxon's cooking of our climate, we need ordinary heroes courageously stepping outside of what is comfortable and familiar to take action regardless of the odds. Together let's rise to this momentous occasion!

Deepen your resolve and join fellow change agents to study, practice, and take seriously the science and art of effecting positive social change by participating in 2016's Localize This! Action Camp

Register for action camp at LocalizeThis.org

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC made their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the months of February and March, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents payed visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members took to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. Across the U.S. activists are using guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple actions were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch: The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Then, activists unveiled a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real democracy.

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC made their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the months of February and March, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents payed visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members took to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. Across the U.S. activists are using guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple actions were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch: The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Then, activists unveiled a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real democracy.

Backbone Campaign teamed up with our friends the Mosquito Fleet, 350 Seattle, Rising Tide, Women of Color Speak Out, the Raging Grannies, Lush, and many more to demand action on climate and an equitable transition away from fossil fuels on May 13-15th, 2016. The protests were part of the #BreakFree global wave of actions calling for our society to “Transition Together” towards "Energy Without Injury,” “100% Renewable Energy Now” and “No More Casualties” by extractive fossil fuel industries. Because of these actions Shell and Tesoro refineries suspended all fossil fuel transport by tankers and rail for 3 days.

Support Artful Activism at backbonecampaign.org/donate

office: 206-408-8058

breakfreepnw.org/

The thousands who participated and organized Break Free actions on land and sea in Anacortes, WA made it abundantly clear that our best chance to avert the worst effects of climate change lies in people with a conscience stepping into their courage to take collective action.

Break Free exemplified the spirit of resistance and resilience, our courage, creativity, deep listening, perseverance and the reverence we hold for what is beautiful and sacred. These traits embodied by the people you call your friends, comrades, and kindred spirits are exactly what Big Oil, and their ilk who profit off of the unjust status quo, fear the most. They are terrified of people moving beyond the shackles of powerlessness and hopelessness and instead exercising their moral imagination to lock arms together and demand change outside of the traditional pathways of redress.

To stop the poisoning of our communities and Exxon's cooking of our climate, we need ordinary heroes courageously stepping outside of what is comfortable and familiar to take action regardless of the odds. Together let's rise to this momentous occasion!

Deepen your resolve and join fellow change agents to study, practice, and take seriously the science and art of effecting positive social change by participating in 2016's Localize This! Action Camp

Register for action camp at LocalizeThis.org

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC will cast their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the month of February, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing throughout the congressional recess and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents is paying visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members will take to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. In more than 10 cities across the U.S. activists will use guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast

Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch:

The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Today activists will unveil a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real

democracy.

Photos by Rick Barry of Broken Shade Photo

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC will cast their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the month of February, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing throughout the congressional recess and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents is paying visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members will take to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. In more than 10 cities across the U.S. activists will use guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast

Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch:

The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Today activists will unveil a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real

democracy.

Photos by Rick Barry of Broken Shade Photo

Group: Backbone Campaign and the Localize This! Action Camp participants

Facebook event page HERE

Racism: The Elephant in the Room (or Park)

Seattle, Washington, August 17, 2015 - People are invited to participatein a public interactive art installation to expose racism as the"elephant in the room".

On Monday, August 17, 2015, from 11:00 am to 1:30 pm, at Westlake Parkin Seattle, the public is invited to join us in learning about racismand white privilege through visually rich, interactive art andengagement in positive dialog and seek skills for addressinginstitutional racism.

At 2 pm, the action moves from Westlake to the City Council chambers. There, activists will challenge City Council members to combatinstitutional racism by protecting Hookah Lounges, predominantly ownedby people of color and currently under attack. They will also call onthe Council to reject zoning that will permit the construction of anexpanded juvenile detention center, misleadingly called the "King CountyFamily and Children's Justice Center," stop the city-sponsoredgentrification of areas in the city that are home to people of color,and to end police brutality.

This interactive art exhibit and challenge to the City Council arecoming from a collection of activists who are from the Pacific Northwestand around the country that met at a Backbone Campaign's Localize This! Action Camp. As a group, we are predominantly white activists who are looking inwardsand reaching out to our peers to join us in this action. We arechallenging ourselves and others to move beyond denial and defensivenessto commit to taking one concrete step towards racial justice and toshare our challenge.

Find more at hashtags #ICommit2 and #SEARacismHear.

email: info@backbonecampaign.org

web: backbonecampaign.org/

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC made their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the months of February and March, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents payed visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members took to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. Across the U.S. activists are using guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple actions were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch: The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Then, activists unveiled a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real democracy.

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC will cast their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the month of February, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing throughout the congressional recess and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents is paying visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members will take to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. In more than 10 cities across the U.S. activists will use guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast

Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch:

The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Today activists will unveil a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real

democracy.

Photos by Rick Barry of Broken Shade Photo

On Monday, October 23rd, more than 30 Vashon Islanders, including 17 youth, protested at Chase Bank, joining the global call to action #DivestTheGlobe. In 50 communities across the U.S. and on Vashon, concerned community members demanded financial institutions stop financing fossil fuel pipelines, due to their repression of indigenous rights, human rights abuses, the fueling of climate change, and the desecration of the earth.

Vashon’s colorful protest included youth marching in song with a 10 foot inflatable globe, a banner that read “Vashon Green School Supports Standing Rock - All Life Is Equal” and a 30 foot long banner that read “Stop Desecration of the Earth, Stop Funding Climate Destruction, Honor Indigenous Rights.” Youth sang inside Chase Bank. A letter (linked below), signed by some of the largest environmental organizations, was read, calling on Chase Bank CEO, Jamie Dimon, to divest the Bank’s holdings from investments in fossil fuels. Then account holder Mike McGrath cut his bank card in half, breaking the chains wrapped around him. Mike McGrath closed his account and severed his ties with Chase Bank until the bank ends all current and future investments in fossil fuel infrastructure.

October 23rd through the 25th, 92 of the world's largest banks meet in São Paolo, Brazil to discuss policies on the climate and Indigenous People's rights to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC). The Indigenous-led coalition of Mazaska (Money) Talks and Standing Rock leaders called on allies everywhere to join them for three days of mass global action.

Vashonites with a conscience joined this global call for action to show the banks that financing climate disaster and the abuse of Indigenous Peoples is not an acceptable business practice.

The solidarity actions across the world target the banks that fund the desecration of Mother Earth. These banks include Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) financiers such as Wells Fargo, Bank of America, J.P. Morgan Chase. They fund the destructive Canadian tar sands oil extraction that is seriously affecting First Nations' health, lands, and water, as well as worsening the climate crisis.

The action was organized by members of the Backbone Campaign. Participating youth were from the Vashon Green School as well as part of a homeschool network. This action is being called the largest bank protest ever. Organizers of 350Seattle aimed to mobilize actions at 100 bank branches. Protests continue in Europe, Australia and New Zealand on October 24th and in Africa and Asia on October 25th.

For more information about #DivestTheGlobe visit mazaskatalks.org

To join Vashon Islands home-grown artful activism you can visit backbonecampaign.org.

For more information on this local event, contact the Backbone Campaign, 206-408-8058.

Press Release Available HERE: docs.google.com/document/d/1x3BJSlFWbHAyEVAzBCNQAKaUwyjnL...

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC will cast their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the month of February, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing throughout the congressional recess and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents is paying visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members will take to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. In more than 10 cities across the U.S. activists will use guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast

Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch:

The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Today activists will unveil a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real

democracy.

Photos by Rick Barry of Broken Shade Photo

Backbone Campaign and NYC allies marked the kickoff of a nationwide tour of a giant Donald Trump puppet head on December 30,2017; by staging “The Citizen’s Arrest of Donald Trump” outside Trump’s residence in Midtown Manhattan, demanding the United States impeach and remove Donald Trump and set a national standard for leadership and accountability. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

The People's Puppets of Occupy Wall Street, Rise and Resist and the Backbone Campaign are creative partners-in-crime fighting. Together, they staged a hilarious, people-powered arrest of Donald Trump at Trump Tower in NYC.

Bring this tool to your community to resist Trump's assault on our liberties and society's slide towards tyranny. With the equivalent of a renegade corporation at the helm of the highest office in the land, we've got to pull out all the stops.

The people of NYC helped Special Counsel Robert Mueller understand what We the People are demanding! Take your pick from the long list of arrestable offenses. Everyone who met the Embarassment-In-Chief Trump were happy for a chance to perform a Citizen's Arrest.

We gathered at the William Tecumseh Sherman statue at Central Park to stage a Citizen's Arrest of the Trump papier-mâché bobble-head.

After letting people take some photos with the head and their messages to the President on a dry erase board we marched to Trump Tower with allies in police costumes "protecting" "Trump". At Trump Tower the people threw off the costumed "police" protecting "Trump" and allowed one of the children participating to effect a Citizen's Arrest of "Trump" by handcuffing him.

"Trump" was promptly escorted by the NYPD out of the area and they accompanied us the rest of the way. Back at the park "Trump" put on his prison stripes outfit and posed for more pictures with participants. We let everyone know we are looking to take the Trump head on tour around the country to have Citizen's Arrests and grow momentum for the impeachment movement.

Check out the Guardian article that featured the photo from this action : www.theguardian.com/law/2018/jan/01/trumps-clown-fascism-...

Lock arms with Backbone Campaign to be a part of Bold and Creative action! - backbonecampaign.org

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC made their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the months of February and March, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents payed visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members took to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. Across the U.S. activists are using guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple actions were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch: The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Then, activists unveiled a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real democracy.

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC made their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the months of February and March, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents payed visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members took to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. Across the U.S. activists are using guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple actions were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch: The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Then, activists unveiled a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real democracy.

Rally for Tenant Rights demanded "Don't Lock Us Out" of decent and affordable housing!

Backbone Campaign locked arms with Washington CAN and a host of other groups to shift the power imbalance and Washington laws that make tenants fearful of asserting their rights to decent and affordable rental housing.

Renters, and landlords acting in solidarity, took the action and our demands right to where 1,500 landlords and their landlord associations were meeting. Complete with a trash can drum brigade, they demanded an expansion of tenant rights to protect families and renters. This is a crucial step on the path of "Housing For All" and an end to housing injustices that exploit and abuse people in our communities.

The rally was co-hosted by Washington Community Action Network, Tenants Union of Washington, Real Change Homeless Empowerment Project, Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action-PSARA, Seattle Transit Riders Union, UFCW 21, Socialist Alternative Seattle, Seattle Democratic Socialists of America, Gender Justice League, Councilmember Kshama Sawant, Stop the Sweeps Seattle.

Earned Media: www.capitolhillseattle.com/2017/12/macri-to-introduce-leg...

Photos by Alex Garland of Capitol Hill Seattle Blog and Backbone Campaign

Lock arms with Backbone Campaign to be a part of Bold and Creative action! - backbonecampaign.org

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC will cast their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the month of February, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing throughout the congressional recess and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents is paying visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members will take to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. In more than 10 cities across the U.S. activists will use guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast

Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch:

The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Today activists will unveil a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real

democracy.

Photos by Rick Barry of Broken Shade Photo

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC will cast their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the month of February, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing throughout the congressional recess and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents is paying visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members will take to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. In more than 10 cities across the U.S. activists will use guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast

Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch:

The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Today activists will unveil a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real

democracy.

Photos by Rick Barry of Broken Shade Photo

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC made their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the months of February and March, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents payed visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members took to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. Across the U.S. activists are using guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple actions were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch: The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Then, activists unveiled a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real democracy.

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC will cast their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the month of February, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing throughout the congressional recess and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents is paying visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members will take to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. In more than 10 cities across the U.S. activists will use guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast

Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch:

The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Today activists will unveil a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real

democracy.

Photos by Rick Barry of Broken Shade Photo

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC will cast their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the month of February, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing throughout the congressional recess and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents is paying visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members will take to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. In more than 10 cities across the U.S. activists will use guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast

Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch:

The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Today activists will unveil a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real

democracy.

Photos by Rick Barry of Broken Shade Photo

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC made their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the months of February and March, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents payed visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members took to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. Across the U.S. activists are using guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple actions were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch: The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Then, activists unveiled a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real democracy.

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC made their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the months of February and March, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents payed visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members took to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. Across the U.S. activists are using guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple actions were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch: The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Then, activists unveiled a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real democracy.

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC will cast their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the month of February, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing throughout the congressional recess and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents is paying visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members will take to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. In more than 10 cities across the U.S. activists will use guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast

Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch:

The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Today activists will unveil a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real

democracy.

Photos by Rick Barry of Broken Shade Photo

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC will cast their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the month of February, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing throughout the congressional recess and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents is paying visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members will take to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. In more than 10 cities across the U.S. activists will use guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast

Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch:

The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Today activists will unveil a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real

democracy.

Photos by Rick Barry of Broken Shade Photo

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

at pdamerica.org/tpp.

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!

Backbone Campaign

www.flushthetpp.org/

Popular Resistance

Public Citizen's Global Trade

Watch

Washington Fair Trade

Coalition

Oregon Fair Trade

Coalition

Luminous Intervention

Expose The TPP

Overpass Light Brigade PDX

Occupy Bellingham

Occupy Rogers Park

Chicago Overpass Light

Brigade

North Texas Light Brigade

San

Diego Overpass Light Brigade

Occupy Tucson

Occupy Spokane

South Sound

Rising Tide

TPPXBorder

TPP

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.

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC made their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the months of February and March, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents payed visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members took to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. Across the U.S. activists are using guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple actions were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch: The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Then, activists unveiled a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real democracy.

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC will cast their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the month of February, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing throughout the congressional recess and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents is paying visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members will take to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. In more than 10 cities across the U.S. activists will use guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast

Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch:

The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Today activists will unveil a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real

democracy.

Photos by Rick Barry of Broken Shade Photo

Backbone Campaign teamed up with our friends the Mosquito Fleet, 350 Seattle, Rising Tide, Women of Color Speak Out, the Raging Grannies, Lush, and many more to demand action on climate and an equitable transition away from fossil fuels on May 13-15th, 2016. The protests were part of the #BreakFree global wave of actions calling for our society to “Transition Together” towards "Energy Without Injury,” “100% Renewable Energy Now” and “No More Casualties” by extractive fossil fuel industries. Because of these actions Shell and Tesoro refineries suspended all fossil fuel transport by tankers and rail for 3 days.

Support Artful Activism at backbonecampaign.org/donate

office: 206-408-8058

breakfreepnw.org/

The thousands who participated and organized Break Free actions on land and sea in Anacortes, WA made it abundantly clear that our best chance to avert the worst effects of climate change lies in people with a conscience stepping into their courage to take collective action.

Break Free exemplified the spirit of resistance and resilience, our courage, creativity, deep listening, perseverance and the reverence we hold for what is beautiful and sacred. These traits embodied by the people you call your friends, comrades, and kindred spirits are exactly what Big Oil, and their ilk who profit off of the unjust status quo, fear the most. They are terrified of people moving beyond the shackles of powerlessness and hopelessness and instead exercising their moral imagination to lock arms together and demand change outside of the traditional pathways of redress.

To stop the poisoning of our communities and Exxon's cooking of our climate, we need ordinary heroes courageously stepping outside of what is comfortable and familiar to take action regardless of the odds. Together let's rise to this momentous occasion!

Deepen your resolve and join fellow change agents to study, practice, and take seriously the science and art of effecting positive social change by participating in 2016's Localize This! Action Camp

Register for action camp at LocalizeThis.org

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC will cast their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the month of February, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing throughout the congressional recess and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents is paying visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members will take to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. In more than 10 cities across the U.S. activists will use guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast

Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch:

The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Today activists will unveil a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real

democracy.

Photos by Rick Barry of Broken Shade Photo

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC will cast their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the month of February, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing throughout the congressional recess and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents is paying visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members will take to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. In more than 10 cities across the U.S. activists will use guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast

Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch:

The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Today activists will unveil a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real

democracy.

Photos by Rick Barry of Broken Shade Photo

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC made their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the months of February and March, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents payed visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members took to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. Across the U.S. activists are using guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple actions were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch: The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Then, activists unveiled a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real democracy.

- 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

at pdamerica.org/tpp.

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!

Backbone Campaign

www.flushthetpp.org/

Popular Resistance

Public Citizen's Global Trade

Watch

Washington Fair Trade

Coalition

Oregon Fair Trade

Coalition

Luminous Intervention

Overpass Light

Brigade

Expose The TPP

Overpass Light Brigade PDX

Occupy Bellingham

Occupy Rogers Park

Chicago Overpass Light

Brigade

North Texas Light Brigade

San

Diego Overpass Light Brigade

Occupy Tucson

Occupy Spokane

South Sound

Rising Tide

#TPPMediaMarch

TPPXBorder

TPP

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.

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC made their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the months of February and March, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents payed visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members took to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. Across the U.S. activists are using guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple actions were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch: The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Then, activists unveiled a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real democracy.

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC will cast their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the month of February, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing throughout the congressional recess and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents is paying visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members will take to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. In more than 10 cities across the U.S. activists will use guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast

Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch:

The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Today activists will unveil a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real

democracy.

Photos by Rick Barry of Broken Shade Photo

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC will cast their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the month of February, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing throughout the congressional recess and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents is paying visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members will take to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. In more than 10 cities across the U.S. activists will use guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast

Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch:

The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Today activists will unveil a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real

democracy.

Photos by Rick Barry of Broken Shade Photo

- 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

at pdamerica.org/tpp.

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!

Backbone Campaign

www.flushthetpp.org/

Popular Resistance

Public Citizen's Global Trade

Watch

Washington Fair Trade

Coalition

Oregon Fair Trade

Coalition

Luminous Intervention

Overpass Light

Brigade

Expose The TPP

Overpass Light Brigade PDX

Occupy Bellingham

Occupy Rogers Park

Chicago Overpass Light

Brigade

North Texas Light Brigade

San

Diego Overpass Light Brigade

Occupy Tucson

Occupy Spokane

South Sound

Rising Tide

#TPPMediaMarch

TPPXBorder

TPP

Talking Points

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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.

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC will cast their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the month of February, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing throughout the congressional recess and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents is paying visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members will take to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. In more than 10 cities across the U.S. activists will use guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast

Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch:

The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Today activists will unveil a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real

democracy.

Photos by Rick Barry of Broken Shade Photo

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC will cast their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the month of February, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing throughout the congressional recess and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents is paying visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members will take to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. In more than 10 cities across the U.S. activists will use guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast

Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch:

The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Today activists will unveil a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real

democracy.

Photos by Rick Barry of Broken Shade Photo

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC will cast their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the month of February, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing throughout the congressional recess and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents is paying visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members will take to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. In more than 10 cities across the U.S. activists will use guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast

Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch:

The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Today activists will unveil a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real

democracy.

Photos by Rick Barry of Broken Shade Photo

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC made their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the months of February and March, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents payed visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members took to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. Across the U.S. activists are using guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple actions were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch: The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Then, activists unveiled a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real democracy.

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC will cast their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the month of February, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing throughout the congressional recess and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents is paying visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members will take to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. In more than 10 cities across the U.S. activists will use guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast

Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch:

The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Today activists will unveil a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real

democracy.

Photos by Rick Barry of Broken Shade Photo

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC will cast their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the month of February, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing throughout the congressional recess and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents is paying visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members will take to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. In more than 10 cities across the U.S. activists will use guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast

Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch:

The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Today activists will unveil a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real

democracy.

Photos by Rick Barry of Broken Shade Photo

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

at pdamerica.org/tpp.

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!

Backbone Campaign

www.flushthetpp.org/

Popular Resistance

Public Citizen's Global Trade

Watch

Washington Fair Trade

Coalition

Oregon Fair Trade

Coalition

Luminous Intervention

Expose The TPP

Overpass Light Brigade PDX

Occupy Bellingham

Occupy Rogers Park

Chicago Overpass Light

Brigade

North Texas Light Brigade

San

Diego Overpass Light Brigade

Occupy Tucson

Occupy Spokane

South Sound

Rising Tide

TPPXBorder

TPP

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.

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER

On February 26th the FCC will cast their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.

Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”

Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.

Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”

With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

In the month of February, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing throughout the congressional recess and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.

In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents is paying visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members will take to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. In more than 10 cities across the U.S. activists will use guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast

Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch:

The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Today activists will unveil a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.

The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.

If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.

Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.

Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real

democracy.

Photos by Rick Barry of Broken Shade Photo

-Photos by

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

at pdamerica.org/tpp.

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!

Backbone Campaign

www.flushthetpp.org/

Popular Resistance

Public Citizen's Global Trade

Watch

Washington Fair Trade

Coalition

Oregon Fair Trade

Coalition

Luminous Intervention

Overpass Light

Brigade

Expose The TPP

Overpass Light Brigade PDX

Occupy Bellingham

Occupy Rogers Park

Chicago Overpass Light

Brigade

North Texas Light Brigade

San

Diego Overpass Light Brigade

Occupy Tucson

Occupy Spokane

South Sound

Rising Tide

#TPPMediaMarch

TPPXBorder

TPP

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.

Backbone Campaign and NYC allies marked the kickoff of a nationwide tour of a giant Donald Trump puppet head on December 30,2017; by staging “The Citizen’s Arrest of Donald Trump” outside Trump’s residence in Midtown Manhattan, demanding the United States impeach and remove Donald Trump and set a national standard for leadership and accountability. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

The People's Puppets of Occupy Wall Street, Rise and Resist and the Backbone Campaign are creative partners-in-crime fighting. Together, they staged a hilarious, people-powered arrest of Donald Trump at Trump Tower in NYC.

Bring this tool to your community to resist Trump's assault on our liberties and society's slide towards tyranny. With the equivalent of a renegade corporation at the helm of the highest office in the land, we've got to pull out all the stops.

The people of NYC helped Special Counsel Robert Mueller understand what We the People are demanding! Take your pick from the long list of arrestable offenses. Everyone who met the Embarassment-In-Chief Trump were happy for a chance to perform a Citizen's Arrest.

We gathered at the William Tecumseh Sherman statue at Central Park to stage a Citizen's Arrest of the Trump papier-mâché bobble-head.

After letting people take some photos with the head and their messages to the President on a dry erase board we marched to Trump Tower with allies in police costumes "protecting" "Trump". At Trump Tower the people threw off the costumed "police" protecting "Trump" and allowed one of the children participating to effect a Citizen's Arrest of "Trump" by handcuffing him.

"Trump" was promptly escorted by the NYPD out of the area and they accompanied us the rest of the way. Back at the park "Trump" put on his prison stripes outfit and posed for more pictures with participants. We let everyone know we are looking to take the Trump head on tour around the country to have Citizen's Arrests and grow momentum for the impeachment movement.

Check out the Guardian article that featured the photo from this action : www.theguardian.com/law/2018/jan/01/trumps-clown-fascism-...

Lock arms with Backbone Campaign to be a part of Bold and Creative action! - backbonecampaign.org