5 Short Films About the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

Twelve nations have signed a trade agreement that puts corporate profits before the needs and rights of citizens
By Andrew Butler / filmsforaction.org
Oct 5, 2015
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5 Short Films About the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

As these short films show, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and its European cousin the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) give unprecedented power to corporations, circumventing national legislation to protect people and the environment; putting profit above all else.

6 min · The TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership), TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership), and TISA (Trade in Services Agreement) are currently being negotiated behind closed doors all over the world. They all include ISDS a clause...
8 min · "In March 2014, the Bank of England let the cat out of the bag: money is just an IOU, and the banks are rolling in it. So wrote David Graeber in The Guardian the same month, referring to a BOE paper called "Money Creation in the Modern...
2 min · The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is the largest--and worst--trade deal you've never heard of and Republicans in Congress want to work with the Obama administration to "fast track" its passage.
3 min · Find out more, speak up and spread the word: http://www.StopFastTrack.com; http://www.ExposeTheTPP.org; http://www.sumofus.org/tpp The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) could cost us our internet freedom, labor rights, access to...
11 min · The Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has dubbed the TTIP an "economic NATO," comparing it to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization military alliance. Over the last two years WikiLeaks has published chapters from two other...

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