The TPP Next Steps Conference Call is on Tuesday at 8-10 pm EST

The TPP Next Steps Conference Call is on Tuesday at 8-10 pm EST

http://myaccount.maestroconfer ence.com/conference/register/W XNRS39Q9FROW58

 TPP Next Steps Conference Call Tuesday 5-7 pm EST

We only have 31 people registered for the conference call tomorrow night. Yet we have 160 people on this email list. We have a great line up of speakers who are all talking about actions we can take not educating us on the TPP. We are familiar with what the TPP does and why it is bad.

Margaret Flowers - Popular Resistance, Flush the TPP campaign
Evan Greer - Fight for the Future, organizer of current Rock Against the TPP tour
Celeste Drake - AFL-CIO, Trade and Globalization Policy Specialist
Elizabeth Warren - People Demanding Action
Rose Espinola - Global Trade Watch, National Field Director
Eric Ross - Backbone Campaign, organizing director

Once we hear what plans they have in the works, we can decide to join any or all of their efforts or plan some things on our own. The first half hour of the call will be to hear from them, and then we can open it to questions and discussion. We can discuss which actions we want to take as a group and how different strategies would be better for different Congress members. We are looking for YOUR ideas. Please sign up for this important call. http://myaccount. maestroconference.com/ conference/register/ WXNRS39Q9FROW58

I am sure you have been following the press on the TPP and have noticed that almost every article features a photo of us holding up the TPP signs on the floor of the Democratic Convention. There were more articles published in July about the TPP than in the previous two years, and many of them were about our protest.

Many delegates have expressed a willingness to stay together as a group to fight to TPP going forward. And as Bernie said in his livstream the other night, job one is making sure the TPP does not come up for a vote in the lame duck session of Congress. Mitch McCon nell said yesterday that it won't, and Paul Ryan has also said as much. But Obama is bound and determined to push it through, and here is an article that I think best explains why.

http://downwithtyranny.blogspo t.mx/2016/08/tpp-democratic- party-and-obamas.html

In any case, we need to work to make sure the TPP doesn't come up for a vote in the lame duck, and then we have to make sure to kill it again when Hillary brings it up. And she will, because she has essentially said what McConnell said yesterday, that she doesn't like it in "its current form." So she will probably make some "tweaks," as McConnell says, and bring it up next year.

The purpose of this call is to present to you the campaigns of existing organizations who have been fighting the TPP for years. As an organizer, I always try to join an existing campaign where I agree with the strategy and tactics. Already confirmed are the following speakers:

Margaret Flowers - Popular Resistance, Flush the TPP campaign

Evan Greer - Fight for the Future, organizer of current Rock Against the TPP tour

Celeste Drake - AFL-CIO, Trade and Globalization Policy Specialist

I have also invited Lori Wallach from Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch and Arthur Stamoulus from Citizens Trade Campaign and am waiting to hear back.

Once we hear what plans they have in the works, we can decide to join any or all of their efforts or plan some things on our own. The first half hour of the call will be to hear from them, and then we can open it to questions and discussion.

Here is the link to register. Hope to see as many of you on the call as possible. And feel free to invite other Bernie delegates or any folks for that matter who are passionate about fighting the TPP.

http://myaccount.maestroconfer ence.com/conference/register/W XNRS39Q9FROW58

Lauren Steiner

"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth." William Faulkner