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Pacific Islands oppose TPP enclosure. No TPP/TPA
Moana N.
started this petition to
US Senator Ron Wyden
As informed Pacific Island Peoples we request that you oppose Trade Promotion
Authority, also known as Fast Track, granting President Obama the authority to
pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. This is an agreement being
negotiated with the interests of Chambers of Commerce and of over 600 of the
largest US corporations with no input or consultation with the peoples
throughout the Pacific. In Oceania, we believe that the TPP is a policy of
enclosure that adversely impacts our ecological biodiversity, peoples and
regional resources.
The TPP will further increase disparities resulting from unfair trade, mainly benefitting large transnational finance and industry groups whose assets and revenues far exceed our small island economies. We seek to join in the growing chorus of voices from labor, environmental and health advocacy, peace organizations, food and water sovereignty and other CSOs opposing the TPP.
A twelve-country strategic and economic partnership, the TPP includes Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam, and amounts to a combined GDP of about $28 trillion dollars.
While our small island economies may be beneath the notice of industrial and commercial nations as markets or producers, we are not beneath the notice of their fishing fleets, transnational agriculture or mining companies, armed forces and their need for land, water, harbors, detention centers, military bases, airfields, missile ranges, and mineral resources.
We are representatives of 24 Pacific Island nations or island groups. As peoples in Pacific Islands Countries and Occupied Territories, we are farmers, fishermen, cultural practitioners, clergy, and environmental, trade and social justice advocates from: A’otearoa (New Zealand), American Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia (Tahiti), Guam, Hawaii, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Samoa, Solomon Islands, South Moluccas, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and West Papua. Our combined territory in land and sea is over 36 million square kilometers, greater than the combined land size of the TPP countries and we share a regional ocean commons well over 150 million square kilometers.
We oppose the TPP as it encloses upon our land and shared ocean commons that we depend on for our livelihood and subsistence. This enclosure will reduce our options for us to decide upon the economic futures that benefit us and will result in Pacific Peoples becoming indigenous renters and spectators in our own land.
http://mnaa-ca.org/24-pacific-island-countries-and-occupied-island-territories-say-no-tpa-no-tpp/
The TPP will further increase disparities resulting from unfair trade, mainly benefitting large transnational finance and industry groups whose assets and revenues far exceed our small island economies. We seek to join in the growing chorus of voices from labor, environmental and health advocacy, peace organizations, food and water sovereignty and other CSOs opposing the TPP.
A twelve-country strategic and economic partnership, the TPP includes Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam, and amounts to a combined GDP of about $28 trillion dollars.
While our small island economies may be beneath the notice of industrial and commercial nations as markets or producers, we are not beneath the notice of their fishing fleets, transnational agriculture or mining companies, armed forces and their need for land, water, harbors, detention centers, military bases, airfields, missile ranges, and mineral resources.
We are representatives of 24 Pacific Island nations or island groups. As peoples in Pacific Islands Countries and Occupied Territories, we are farmers, fishermen, cultural practitioners, clergy, and environmental, trade and social justice advocates from: A’otearoa (New Zealand), American Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia (Tahiti), Guam, Hawaii, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Samoa, Solomon Islands, South Moluccas, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and West Papua. Our combined territory in land and sea is over 36 million square kilometers, greater than the combined land size of the TPP countries and we share a regional ocean commons well over 150 million square kilometers.
We oppose the TPP as it encloses upon our land and shared ocean commons that we depend on for our livelihood and subsistence. This enclosure will reduce our options for us to decide upon the economic futures that benefit us and will result in Pacific Peoples becoming indigenous renters and spectators in our own land.
http://mnaa-ca.org/24-pacific-island-countries-and-occupied-island-territories-say-no-tpa-no-tpp/
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