Jill Stein presidential campaign, 2016/Trans-Pacific Partnership
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See what Jill Stein and the 2016 Green Party Platform said about the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Stein on the Trans-Pacific Partnership
- On July 9, 2016, Jill Stein criticized the Democratic Party for not opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal in their platform. She tweeted, "It is shameful that the the [sic] Democratic Party cannot bring itself to reject the #TPP which puts corporations over people. #DemPlatform."[2]
- On June 22, 2016, Stein tweeted, "Purpose of TPP is to ⬆️ profits for corporations & ⬇️ wages for workers. We need just trade policies that benefit all. #LibertarianTownHall."[3]
- On May 9, 2016, Stein tweeted, "We must stop the sovereignty-stealing TPP & TPIP. Existing corporate trade agreements like NAFTA must be replaced w/ fair trade agreements."[4]
| "Flush The TPP," March 24, 2015. |
- On March 24, 2015, Stein released the ad, "Flush the TPP." In the ad, she said, "If you think corporate personhood is a bad idea, just wait for corporate nationhood. In fact right now, the Obama administration and bipartisan supporters are trying to ram through Congress a secret global deal, the Trans Pacific Partnership or TPP. This backroom deal gives corporations more power than nations. It lets multinational corporations, foreign powers, overrule our laws including critical protections for workers, our health and the environment. For the safety of our food, our air and our water, the security of our bank accounts, our access to the Internet and so much more; it even overrides the Constitution. People call it NAFTA on steroids because it intensifies the offshoring of our jobs and the downward pressure on wages. It enforces this new world governance by creating a special global court, consisting of three super-judges appointed by the World Bank. In short the TPP is a Trojan horse for a global corporate coup."[5]
- During a debate in October 2012, Stein called the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal "an absolute outrage against American sovereignty, democracy and our economy." She said, "So, if the question is how to stop the outsourcing of our jobs, you know, it’s very clear we need to stop expanding the free trade agreements that send our jobs overseas and which also undermine wages here at home by effectively threatening workers that if they don’t drop their wages and their benefits, that their jobs are gone. So, we saw the first free trade agreement, NAFTA, enacted under Bill Clinton, a Democrat. We saw it carried out under George Bush, but then we saw Barack Obama expand three free trade agreements and is now negotiating a secret free trade agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that will continue to offshore jobs, undermine wages, and, as well, this time compromise American sovereignty with an international corporate board that can rule on our laws and regulations and say whether or not they pass muster. This is an absolute outrage against American sovereignty, democracy and our economy. We need to turn the free trade agreements into fair trade agreements. And again, the Green New Deal will create the community-based jobs we need here, supporting small businesses, worker co-operatives, and public services and worker—and public works to put people back to work right now, for the cost—less than the cost of the first stimulus package."[6]
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Amaju Baraka on the Trans-Pacific Partnership
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| Your World News, Ajamu Baraka on the "Trans Pacific Partnership & Obama Disillusionment," June 30, 2015 |
- Calling it an "assault on U.S. workers and democracy," Ajamu Baraka wrote on May 12, 2015, "The TPP is just one of measures the elite hopes to conclude using Barack Obama – their most effective weapon since Ronald Reagan for convincing the middle-class and working people to support policies that are objectively against their interests. Like the North American Free-trade Agreement ( NAFTA) concluded under Bill Clinton that promised jobs, balanced economic growth and prosperity but instead created economic devastation in the agricultural sector of Mexico and the loss of jobs in the U.S., the TPP promises more of the same but on a grander scale. If concluded, the TPP will continue the process of concentrating economic power in the hands of U.S. based transnational corporations and financial institutions. And while the 1% who have no allegiance to any national territory or state will grow richer, the agreement will pit workers in the U.S. — especially Black and Brown workers — into cut-throat competition with exploited workers, this time in Asia, who will be paid slave wages to produce for the U.S. and European markets – this agreement producing increased exports from the U.S. is a blatant lie. That is why for African Americans as the group that objectively has suffered more than any other group domestically as a result of the turn toward neoliberal globalization in the 1970s and the economic crisis in 2008, we should reject all neoliberal proposals, be it in the form of Obama’s phony urban 'promise zones' to trade agreements. Opposition to neoliberal trade agreements, like broad opposition to neoliberal capitalism in general must be embraced as fundamental for our resistance movement and survival as a people."[9]
- In a May 21, 2015, post on his website, Baraka explained why African Americans should oppose the TPP. He wrote, "Opposition to the TPP and free-trade must be seen as one front in the resistance to further U.S. imperialist consolidation. ... African American oppose the TPP because we understand that the workers in Vietnam, who will be primarily women, are being primed for super-exploitation under the terms of that agreement. We understand that under North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), millions of farmers were driven from their land in places like Oaxaca, Mexico and ended up landless urban dwellers in Mexico or working for slave wages as undocumented workers in the U.S. We oppose the TPP because neoliberal free trade between the U.S. and Colombia has resulted in the accelerated loss land for Afro-Colombians as their lands are stolen for illegal mining and the corporate expansion of palm oil and sugar cane processing for bio-fuel production for the markets in Europe and the U.S. And even though the elites of those countries who are part of the agreement prostrate themselves before Uncle Sam, we oppose the TPP in the name of the people of the global South. For those who might ask why African Americans would question and oppose free trade agreements, we point to history and say that if there any people on the planet who should question so called free trade it should be the descendants of the people victimized by the most barbaric trade regime in the history of the planet."[10]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Democracy Now, "Green Party’s Jill Stein Announces She Is Running for President," June 22, 2015
- ↑ Twitter, "Jill Stein," accessed July 11, 2016
- ↑ Twitter, "Jill Stein," accessed July 11, 2016
- ↑ Twitter, "Jill Stein," accessed July 11, 2016
- ↑ P2016.org, "Jill Stein for President: Flush the TPP," accessed July 11, 2016
- ↑ Democracy Now, "Exclusive: Expanding the Debate with Third-Party Candidates Jill Stein, Virgil Goode, Rocky Anderson," October 17, 2012
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Green Party, "The 2016 Green Party Platform," accessed August 23, 2016
- ↑ AjamuBaraka.com, "Stopping the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a 'Black Issue,'" accessed August 23, 2016
- ↑ AjamuBaraka.com, "The Political Economy of Black Opposition to Free-Trade Neoliberalism," accessed August 23, 2016
