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PDX should join Seattle and denounce Fast Track and Trans Pacific Partnership
The Oregon Progressive Party issued this press release today
:
Oregon Progressive Party asks Portland City Council to Join Seattle and Denounce Trans-Pacific Partnership and Fast Track
April 3, 2015
Contact:David Delk [email protected] 503-232-5495
This week the Seattle City Council voted 9-0 in favor of a resolution to oppose the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership and the proposed “Fast Track” method of adopting it in Congress. See the article in the Seattle Times. The full text of the Seattle resolution is below.
Seattle is a major port city. International trade is a foundation of its economy. The Seattle City Council took this action, despite phone calls from President Obama and opposition from Ed Murray, mayor of Seattle.
“We urge the Portland City Commission to pass a similar resolution against the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Fast Track,” said Jason Kafoury for the Oregon Progressive Party. “The Trans-Pacific Partnership would destroy the environmental, labor, and social justice laws of the United States and all of the states and localities within it. TPP puts the corporations in charge of both the economy and the government.”
David Delk, chair of the Oregon Progressive Party stated, “The Trans Pacific Partnership would undermine the rule of law based on nation states, replacing it with rule of, by and for multi-national corporations. The ability of local governments like Portland's to make decisions would be subject to attacks by multi-national corporations, making a mockery of democracy.”
http://www.progparty.org/
Source: http://www.progparty.org/node/472
