<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px 0px 6px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px">Last week, WikiLeaks released the final text of the TPP’s intellectual property rights chapter and it is absolutely terrifying.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px">These are just a few of its most dangerous pieces:</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px">Compel ISPs to take down websites without any sort of court order, just like SOPA. (Appendix Section I)</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px">Extend the US’s copyright regime to require copyrights stand for life plus 70 years, preventing anyone from using works that belong in the public domain. (Article QQ.G.6)</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px">Criminalize whistleblowing by extending trade secrets laws without any mandatory exemptions for whistleblowers or investigative journalists. (QQ.H.8)</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px">End anonymity online by forcing every domain name to be associated with a real name and address. (Article QQ.C.12)</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px">Make it illegal to unlock, modify, or generally tinker with a device you own. (Article QQ.G.10)</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px">Export the US’s broken copyright policies to the rest of the world without expanding any of the free speech protections, like fair use. (Article QQ.G.17)</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px">The worst part is that this is just one of the TPP’s 30 chapters.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px">The final text confirms our worst fears — click here to take action demanding Congress vote NO on the TPP.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px">For years, governments have held critics of the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement in a perfect catch 22. Officials brushed off public outcry and concern by claiming that the dissenters didn’t have all the facts.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px">This was by design—the 12 country trade deal was negotiated entirely behind closed doors by industry lobbyists and government appointees, and even now the text of the agreement is still classified.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px">But late last week, WikiLeaks released the final text of the Intellectual Property chapter, meaning those excuses won’t work anymore.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px">We’re planning to go all out against the TPP, but the first step is to make sure Congress knows just how many people oppose the TPP.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px">Click here to take action demanding Congress vote NO on the TPP.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px">Taking action today is just the beginning, because if all we do is send emails and make phone calls, Congress is not going to reject the TPP. Too many giant industries are seriously invested in making sure Congress ratifies the TPP.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px">If we’re going to win, we need to go big. Which is exactly what we’re going to do.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px">So take action right now. Contact your Congresspeople now and tell them to vote against the TPP. Then get ready to do more because we’re going to unleash some of our strongest campaigns ever.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px">Already we have plans to work with hundreds of different groups as a massive coalition to fight the TPP, coordinate gigantic on-the-ground protests in key cities across the country, and produce compelling content to spread the word to as many different audiences as possible just what is at stake in the TPP.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px">To do all that, we need your help — if you can, pledge to chip in $5 every month between now and when the TPP fight ends so that we can run our biggest, boldest, and best campaign yet.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px">Thanks for all you do,<br>Charlie</p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div><a href="http://www.deepdishwavesofchange.org" target="_blank">http://www.deepdishwavesofchange.org</a></div></div>
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