{"id":38386,"date":"2013-11-14T11:20:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T18:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=38386"},"modified":"2013-11-14T11:20:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T18:20:57","slug":"congressional-reps-say-no-to-fast-track-authority-on-the-tpp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/11\/14\/congressional-reps-say-no-to-fast-track-authority-on-the-tpp\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Reps Say No To &#8216;Fast-Track&#8217; Authority on the TPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20131114Uprising\/2013_11_14_TPP.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20131114Uprising\/2013_11_14_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/tpp_secret.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Activists opposing a far reaching trade plan are cautiously optimistic about a new development that could spell the end of the TPP, or at least slow it down. The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secret trade deal being negotiated by the Obama administration directly with various nations. Leaked portions of the TPP have angered many people who fear a subservience of human rights, environmental protections, labor laws, and intellectual property rights to corporate interests. <\/p>\n<p>Now, a bi-partisan group of 174 House Representatives have signed onto a letter opposing what is called \u201cFast-Track authority\u201d for the President to negotiate the deal. Under Fast-Track, elected representatives are only allowed to vote on the entire agreement without being party to negotiations over the details. Congressional opposition comes at a tricky time for Obama who is readying for a meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah next week with country representatives. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tpp\/\">Wikileaks has just published<\/a> a leaked draft chapter of the agreement which has confirmed some of the worst suspicions of activists opposing it. One expert called it \u201cA Christmas wish-list for major corporations.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Ben Beachy, Research Director of Public Citizen\u2019s Global Trade Watch<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exposethetpp.org\">www.exposethetpp.org<\/a> for more information. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists opposing a far reaching trade plan are cautiously optimistic about a new development that could spell the end of the TPP, or at least slow it down. The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secret trade deal being negotiated by the Obama administration directly with various nations. Leaked portions of the TPP have angered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38399,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38386\/revisions\/38399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}