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Date: Oct 30, 2016 6:09 PM
Subject: Book Launch - Ignite Changes
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Just weeks before possible consideration of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), one of the countries that signed the deal has demonstrated yet again its complete disregard for human rights.
Vietnam has just arrested a blogger — Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh — on charges of "spreading propaganda against the state."
Ms. Quynh could be imprisoned for up to 12 years. Why? She wrote a blog post criticizing her government's handling of a toxic chemical spill at a foreign-owned steel mill.
If this is what the Vietnamese government does when the TPP is pending and under a spotlight, imagine what would occur if the TPP were passed.
Urge your member of Congress to speak out for Ms. Quynh's freedom and publicly declare opposition to the TPP now.
Unfortunately, Ms. Quynh's arrest is not an isolated incident.
The U.S. State Department has documented Vietnam's human rights violations, including "arbitrary or unlawful killings" and "continued [efforts] to suppress political speech through arbitrary arrest, short-term detentions without charge and politically motivated convictions."
Human Rights Watch has described worsening human rights abuses in Vietnam: "Basic freedoms of expression, association, and assembly are extremely limited. The media and Internet are controlled and censored. The Vietnamese Communist Party controls all public institutions and uses them to maintain its hold on power."
The TPP's proponents claim that the deal will improve the human rights crisis.
But we've heard such platitudes about past trade agreements improving human rights — and then once a trade deal is passed, children, workers and activists languish without conditions improving.
Enough is enough: Tell your representative to speak out for human rights for Ms. Quynh and others, and to oppose the TPP today.
That Vietnam would make such a baseless and high-profile arrest right now — when countries are making their final appeals for the TPP — underscores that the TPP would not help Ms. Quynh or the many others enduring the violation of their basic freedoms.
We can do better. And we must.
We must stop the corporate-rigged TPP and ensure that Vietnam is not granted privileged access to the U.S. market, despite the country's jailing of political dissidents like Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh.
Urge your representative to side with human dignity and against the TPP.
Thanks for all you do.
In solidarity,
Melanie Foley
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
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The research reported, ... "that most women wanted 2.2 kids in their lifetime, the researchers said this is down slightly from a 2002 survey."
Mike Krauss, Chairman of the PA Project just sent out this news:
John
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Friends,
Phil Murphy is the leading candidate for Governor of New Jersey. And a former Wall Street Banker. Read this !!!
Mike Krauss
A few weeks ago, the Star-Ledger reported that New Jersey's combined pension portfolio lost more than $6 billion last year as hedge fund returns plummeted. These hedge fund managers are paid millions
Mike --
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NOW LET'S GET PHILLY, PITTSBURGH AND PENNSYLVANIA ON BOARD !!
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Mike
Mike Krauss
Chair, the Pennsylvania Project
Founding Director, the Public Banking Institute
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I urge everyone to read the attached ARTICLE from The Guardian newspaper as it is both timely and, I believe, very important if we are to come to grips with who we as a people really are.
The author examines just who the Trump supporters really are; and, at the same time, excoriating main stream media both for its failure to identify the breadth of Trump’s support and claiming it is comprised mainly of poor “white trash” uneducated folk who just aren’t smart enough to see what’s really at stake in the election. The article supports my belief that much of his support is coming from middle and upper-middle class mainly white folks with a rather different perspective on the state of the nation as well as a very different viewpoint on how things should be run. It also discusses the fact that many more elements of society were and still are impacted by the financial crisis than is commonly reported or believed. One of the most important elements addressed in the article is who really is racist in our society and how this is not the subject of media coverage. This is not a trivial point and should be examined in greater depth than is offered when filtered through the biases which dominate main stream media.
John H.
ARTICLE