This ISN'T what Democracy looks like!

from the Sierra Club (via Cathy):

This is a reminder that the TPP signing will take place tomorrow, Wed 3 at 5:30 ET (which will be Thursday, Feb 4 in Auckland, New Zealand, where the signing will take place). This means today and tomorrow morning we'll want to get ready to respond!

As you know, Congress will ultimately determine if the TPP passes or fails, but this is a key moment in time to show widespread public opposition.

Below are reminders of ways you can respond, as well as some talking points if you are able to write an op-ed or letter to the editor. You can also find even more talking points, tweets, facebook posts, and more on the recent TransCanada announcement that it will sue the US under NAFTA here.

Thanks!

Ways You Can Respond:

-Op-eds in your local paper highlighting the threats of the TPP and urging your member of Congress to oppose the TPP

-Tweet your opposition to the TPP after the signing (on the 3rd or 4th)

-Calling your member of Congress urging them to oppose the TPP and help stop the TPP in Congress. You can find your member of Congress, as well as a TPP message, here: 1-888-701-6507. You are also welcome to share this number with others.

DRAFT Talking points for TPP signing

Jan./Feb. 2016

Sierra Club

• The U.S. Trade Representative is gambling with our jobs, our clean air, our clean water, and our future by signing the [toxic/polluter-friendly/corporate-friendly] Trans-Pacific Partnership. It’s not worth the risk.

• Signing the toxic Trans-Pacific Partnership is an affront to the communities, clean air and water, and climate that would be threatened by the deal’s polluter-friendly rules.

• The TPP would expand the very trade rules under NAFTA that Big Oil company TransCanada is using to challenge the rejection of the dangerous Keystone XL pipeline.

• The TPP would expand this dangerous system to thousands of new foreign-owned firms, including some of the world’s biggest polluters, nearly doubling the number of foreign corporations that could follow TransCanada's bad example and challenge our climate protections in private tribunals.

• NAFTA allowed TransCanada to throw a $15 billion temper tantrum; the TPP could make us pay for the oil industry's next bad idea. We can’t let that happen.

• It's more important than ever before to urge Congress to reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

• Congress must stand up for clean water, clean air, climate action, and healthy families by rejecting the toxic Trans-Pacific Partnership.

• We came together to defeat the Keystone XL pipeline, and we will defeat the Trans-Pacific Partnership.