Support fair trade

As trade negotiators rush to complete the massive new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Free Trade Agreement, we need your help encouraging our elected officials to stand up and declare an end to business-as-usual trade policy.

Senator Jeff Merkley has always been a leading trade justice champion.  Please email Senator Merkley now and urge him to cosponsor critical fair trade legislation called The 21st Century Trade and Market Access Act to ensure we aren't saddled with a new "NAFTA of the Pacific."

As you may know, the Trans-Pacific Partnership is poised to become the largest Free Trade Agreement in U.S. history.  Approximately 600 corporate lobbyists have been granted access to the TPP negotiating texts, while you and I have been barred from even reviewing what U.S. negotiators have been proposing in our names.

First introduced by Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, The 21st Century Trade and Market Access Act reasserts Congressional and public oversight over the TPP and future trade policies.  It sets a range of binding negotiating requirements regarding labor rights, the environment, food safety and other provisions that are needed to ensure that the TPP and other pacts actually improve life for ordinary working people in Oregon and throughout the world.

The bill also establishes commonsense compliance reporting mechanisms and export promotion activities in order to maximize the job creation potential of U.S. trade agreements — transforming "job creation" and "human rights" in U.S. trade policy from cynical hype into reality.

Senator Merkley and other U.S. Senators need to hear from you.  Please email Senator Merkley now and urge him to cosponsor this important trade reform legislation.

In solidarity,

Arthur Stamoulis, Executive Director
OREGON FAIR TRADE CAMPAIGN