We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Friday, November 6, 2015

Secret TPP Text Unveiled: It’s Worse Than We Thought....

Click here to access article by Nick Florko and Valerie Holdford from Public Citizen.
Secret TPP Text Unveiled: It’s Worse Than We Thought, With Limits on Food Safety and Controversial Investor-State System Expanded, Rollback of Bush-Era Medicine Access and Environmental Terms
Because I didn't see anywhere in the article a link to the actual document, I finally accessed a government document which pretended to be the real thing, only it appeared like a sales pitch. I believe the actual document is around 6000 pages, so I think we will have to depend on scholars and lawyers like these authors to find out its actual contents, and the sections that really matter.
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