Desperately Seeking my Friend,
I hate cramming a bunch of stuff into one email, especially since I know each and every one of us is a busy bee, but every part of this email is important when it comes to our children’s future, and the future of the planet, so please read on…
I hate cramming a bunch of stuff into one email, especially since I know each and every one of us is a busy bee, but every part of this email is important when it comes to our children’s future, and the future of the planet, so please read on…
As things heat to a fevered pitch in the imminent Fast Track vote wrangling, we must keep our collective cool and do two things:Call Congress and Call Congress again. 1-855-980-2256, and ask at least 5 of your family, friends and colleagues to do the same.
Tell your rep to “Vote NO on Fast Track and NO on Trade Adjustment Assistance”, a bill meant to aid the passage of fast track in a very devious way. A third very helpful effort would be to do an office drop-by to make sure your member of congress is actually representing YOU. http://www.flushthetpp.org/
Also please join us this Sunday, June 14 for a continuing legislative update with special guest speaker, LGBT activist Cleve Jones, along with coalition partner, Kathryn Johnson, Field Organizer, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch.
NATIONAL TPP TEAM CALL SUNDAY, June 14, 4:30 PACIFIC / 7:30 EASTERN
Cleve Jones on TPP, AIDS & Sharia Law
Join our National TPP Team Call with special guests, LGBT Leader and AIDS Quilt Campaign Developer and hero, Cleve Jones, who will discuss why LGBT Activists worldwide oppose fast-tracking the TPP. Also, with us will be Kathryn Johnson,Public Citizen’s Global Trade National Field Organizer, who will give us a crucial legislative update, along with our other coalition partners.
Please sign up for the national call here:
Call-in number: 605-562-3140 Access code: 951146#.
Please note: we use Free Conference Call HD for audio and the online meeting room for visuals and interactive chat feature. This call is very important; please join us!
How You Can Help Today
Right now, the Republican leadership along with the administration are busy making bogus promises that used to be called earmarking (scandalous practice of offering representatives special interest financing for their districts) along with bait-and switch tricks with the rules votes associated with certain measures accompanying the Fast Track bill, attempting to make offshoring jobs and killing wages look more appealing.
The message to our reps who are considering becoming Free Traitors by voting “YES” on Fast Track and Trade Adjustment Assistance? “We won’t forget!”
Here are two articles that will put the current debates into perspective:
The absolute most important thing you can do today, and every day is to call your congressperson and courteously tell them their future positions as your representatives will be in peril if they don’t vote NO on Fast Track and the Trade Adjustment Assistance bill (TAA) which is simply meant to grease the skids of fast track.
Republicans are planning to use the vote for TAA that slashes Medicare against Democrats in 2016, essentially calling them two-faced, and my feeling about this is that I tend to agree. So tell your Democratic Reps to “stand tall and vote NO for both Fast Track and NO for Trade Adjustment Assistance or TAA.”
Here is a list of undecided Democrats we should work especially hard to convince:
AL: Terri Sewell
CA:
Costa
Davis
Farr
Pelosi
Peters
CO: Perlmutter
DE: Carney
LA: Richmond
MA: Moulton
MD: Hoyer
MN: Peterson
NC: Price
SC: Clyburn
TX:
Castro
Hinojosa
O’Rourke
WA:
Heck
Smith
We can win this fight if we all work together,
Harriet Heywood
Regional Organizer,
MoveOn.org
Kill Fast Track Campaign
The TRUTH will set you FREE.
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