Surprise new secret TPP talks announced in Atlanta

Update: Send a message to the Lieberal representatives here to can the TPP.

Obama the fuckin stubborn asshole just won't give up on this. New there's been another last ditch effort arranged in secret and announced at the last minute for trade ministers from all the countries to meet in Atlanta, US.

The TPP, a centerpiece of Obama's push to reassert U.S. economic power in Asia, would link a dozen nations stretching from Japan to Chile that account for two-thirds of the world economy and one-third of global trade. more

This is not about trade, it's about US power projection in the Pacific region. Or to put it more bluntly, to export US social failure onto the rest of us giving corporations a massive power grab across much of the free world. This isn't Obama pullung the strings, this is Obama the puppet, doing the bidding of the corporate power that put him in office. 

You can contribute to a frantically late organised campaign to disrupt and protest against the meetings here.

An effort to land a massive Pacific Rim free trade agreement within weeks is under way, raising the prospect the wide-ranging Trans-Pacific Partnership could dominate the final stretch of the Canadian election campaign. 

Chief negotiators for the 12 countries involved, including Canada, will begin meeting in Atlanta on Sept. 26, and trade ministers will join the next week, possibly Sept. 30, a Canadian government official said. 

The chances Canadian voters will be confronted with a sweeping trade deal before they have chosen a new government have suddenly increased tremendously. “I don’t imagine you start talking about a ministerial [meeting] unless you think you’re going to land something,” a Canadian official said of the move to set a date for what is seen as a final push for an accord. more