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State will drop winter campground discount ... Our View: Gray, Black and Cyber ... Officials warn families to keep eye on seniors' care ... State will drop winter campground discount ... Our View: Gray, Black and Cyber ... RELOCATIONS Herb Rothschild: TPP agreement draws opposition from all sides DailyTidings.com Writer Posted Nov. 15, 2014 @ 12:01 am Posted Nov. 15, 2014 @ 12:01 am » Social News This is the second of two columns on the TransPacific Partnership, a trade agreement nearing completion that may speed through congressional ratification using Fast Track, a process that forbids amendments. Some version of Fast Track may be voted on before Christmas. Here are some of candidate Barack Obama’s comments on trade agreements: “I would immediately call the president of Mexico, the president of Canada to try to amend NAFTA because I think that we can get labor agreements in that agreement right now. And it should reflect the basic principle that our trade agreements should not just be good for Wall Street, it should also be good for Main Street. And the problem that we’ve had is, is that we’ve had corporate lobbyists, oftentimes involved in negotiating these trade agreements, but ... ordinary working people have not been involved. And we’ve got to make sure that our agreements are good for everybody, because globalization right now is creating winners and losers.” (AFL-CIO Democratic Presidential Debate, Chicago 8/7/07). And, “I will oppose the Colombia free trade agreement if George Bush is insistent on sending it to Congress because the violence against unions in Colombia would make a mockery of the very labor protections that we’ve insisted be included in these kinds of agreements.” (CNN’s “Ballot Bowl,” 4/5/08) Here is President Obama’s record on trade agreements: No re-negotiation of NAFTA. He pushed through Congress bilateral trade agreements with South Korea, Panama, and Colombia. And he has allowed corporate lobbyists to influence the secret negotiations of the TPP. So much for change we can believe in. Almost the entire Republican Party serves the interests of the 1 percent. Most of the Democratic Party does as well. The immediate question is whether Sen. Ron Wyden will use his pivotal position as chair of the Senate Finance Committee to support the TPP. Wyden has made it difficult to pin him down on the TPP and Fast Track (although he recently tipped his hand on the latter by proposing “Smart Track,” which isn’t much different). When Peace House and Citizens For Transparent Government (CFTG) jointly sponsored an informational meeting on the TPP on Feb. 8, we invited Wyden and Sen. Jeff Merkley, U.S. Representative Greg Walden, and the electoral challengers of Merkley and Walden, to send statements of their positions. Merkley did, and Walden’s primary challenger Dennis Linthicum spoke in person. Wyden and Walden didn’t. On that occasion, Eric Dubin, leader of CFTG (CTG.org), an Oregon-based watchdog group with a sizable following among conservatives and libertarians, said, “We are forfeiting our national sovereignty, handing control over to multinational corporations wielding monopoly and oligopoly positions within their industries.” In my last column I gave one example of what Dubin criticized about these agreements. I promised to give more this week. In 1996, the Canadian government repealed a bill that banned imports of MMT, a gasoline additive, as a health risk. Ethyl Corporation sued Canada, claiming discriminatory treatment under Chapter 11 of NAFTA. On legal advice, Canada settled with Ethyl, paying it more than $13 million to reimburse profits Ethyl never made. The government also had to issue an apology and public statement saying the additive posed no health or environmental risks. In 2010, Namibia passed a tobacco control law, including limiting advertising and putting warnings on cigarette packages. The tobacco industry pledged to sue using trade agreements. Fearful of an unaffordable legal battle, Namibia has yet to carry out a single major provision of the law. Call Wyden. Herb Rothschild Jr. is chairman of the board of Peace House.   DailyTidings.com Writer Posted Nov. 15, 2014 @ 12:01 am » Comment or view comments Reader Reaction » STAY INFORMED Email NewsLetter Sign Up Today Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. calendar Connect with DailyTidings.com Facebook Twitter RSS Back to top Reader Services Reader Services home Subscriptions Subscriber controls Contact us Submissions Photos Events Letters to the editor Corrections Alerts Email alerts RSS feeds Text Alerts Advertise Media Kit Home Products and services Ad rates Advertising contacts Mail Tribune Daily Tidings The Nickel Shop Our Valley Blogs Stay Informed Email newsletter Sign Up Today Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. Your privacy is important, read our privacy policy. © Copyright 2014 Local Media Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 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