Stop Fast Track;TPP

Fight For The Future:

Good news this time. Today we’re launching a massive, coordinated effort to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership Internet censorship plan in its tracks and make history by taking down this secretive, corporate fueled trade agreement once and for all.

We can win this, but only if everyone speaks out right now. Are you in?

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Just yesterday, the media reported that the White House is doubling down and pressuring Congress to vote to “Fast Track” the TPP (1). “Fast Track” is DC-speak for an anti-democratic process where Congress gives full authority to the Executive Branch to negotiate trade deals, with no meaningful debate or transparency (2).

If the Fast Track bill passes, it’s a death blow for democracy and Internet freedom.

But here’s the awesome part. If Fast Track fails -- and it’s going to be a really close vote -- there’s a very good chance that the entire TPP will fall apart (3). The U.S. negotiators are trying to bully other countries into adopting SOPA-like copyrigh t policies that would lead to a more expensive, censored, and policed Internet (4), but if we defeat Fast Track, the U.S. loses their biggest bargaining chip, and the corporate lobbyists who are driving this deal won’t have the leverage they need to get what they want.

We won’t get another chance like this to bring down the TPP and stop Internet censorship. Click here to add your voice.

We’ve been researching the crap out of this and developing our strategy and it’s clear to us that we win or lose the war against the TPP with this battle against Fast Track. That’s why we’ve pulled out the big guns. For the last few weeks we've be en quietly building an epic coalition of groups from across the political spectrum to oppose this. It’s an unlikely list of names: reddit, the AFL-CIO, EFF, the Sierra Club, Imgur, the Pirate Party, 350, BoingBoing, and the Teamsters -- these are groups and companies that rarely agree on much of anything, but they can all agree that Fast Tracking the TPP is a terrible idea. So together, we’ve launched “10 Days to Stop Fast Track.”

Click here to read -- in their own words -- why more than 50 organizations have joined our effort to derail Fast Track for the TPP.

The next ten days are going to be awesome for us, and terrible for the corporate lobbyists who are so desperate to control the free and open web. We need all hands on deck for this. You’ve read this far, now do what has to be done.

With love for the Internet,
-Evan and Tiffiniy
Fight for the Future

P.S. we’re really proud of this effort and the incredible array of organizations that we’ve been able to bring together. This type of networking can only bode well for the future as we continue to fight governments and corporations that seek to ruin the Internet we love. We’re stronger right now than we’ve ever been before. If that makes you smile, please chip in $15 to keep us fighting.

1) The Hill, Obama: Give me fast track trade
2) Electronic Frontier Foundation, Congress must not fast track TPP to ratification.
3) Public Citizen, Fast Track: an undemocratic path to unfair ‘trade
4) OpenMedia, Top 5 ways that lobbyists win and you lose with the Trans-Pacific Partnership