{"id":3692,"date":"2015-06-11T09:15:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T13:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=3692"},"modified":"2015-06-11T09:55:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T13:55:38","slug":"fast-track-vote-friday-call-congressman-moulton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/11\/fast-track-vote-friday-call-congressman-moulton\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Track Vote Friday, Call Congressman Moulton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATED EVENT INFO BELOW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The House will vote on Fast Track Trade Authority (FTTA) Friday.\u00a0 The Hill <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/finance\/trade\/241114-whip-list-dems-bucking-obama-on-trade\">reported<\/a> that only Congressman Moulton (6th CD district) has not committed to opposing this bill.\u00a0 Please call him today at\u00a0(202) 225-8020 and urge him to oppose Fast Track Trade Authority. Telling him to oppose this destructive bill on <a class=\"extern\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SethMoultonForCongress\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> or on Twitter at <a class=\"extern\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/sethmoulton\" target=\"_blank\">@<\/a><span><a class=\"extern\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/sethmoulton\" target=\"_blank\">sethmoulton<\/a> will also help.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> There is a rally to stop Fast Track at Congressman Moulton&#8217;s office today at 3:30pm sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massaflcio.org\/\">AFL-CIO<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/gbclc.com\/\">Greater Boston Labor Council<\/a>.\u00a0 The address is <\/span>17 Peabody Square, Peabody, MA 01960. \u00a0<span> Show up and lend them a hand.\u00a0 Also, an AFL-CIO\/GBLC <a href=\"http:\/\/gbclc.com\/rally-stop-fast-track\">Rally to Stop Fast Track<\/a> is scheduled for Friday, 5-6pm at Suffolk University, 73 Tremont Street, Boston.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2015\/06\/10\/wikileaks-releases-section-of-secret-trans-pacific-partnership-agreement-that-would-affect-health-care\/\">More leaks reveal<\/a> that the TPP could be used by pharmaceutical companies to challenge the ability of governments to regulate the drug prices they pay leading to higher prices and more profits for big pharma.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/10\/stop-fasttrack-this-week\/\">We have already talked<\/a> about TiSA and its ability to prevent governments from using Free Software as well as ISDS and all of the copyright monopoly giveaways.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/business\/news\/ttip-vote-postponed-as-european-parliament-descends-into-panic-over-trade-deal-10310965.html\">European Parliament is starting to turn against TTIP<\/a> &amp; TiSA.\u00a0 Without the FTTA, it will be harder to get these corporate welfare bills passed.<\/p>\n<p>Now is the time to tell Congressman Moulton that our rights should not be traded away in secret.\u00a0 Pick up the phone and call him at (202) 225-8020.\u00a0 Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATED EVENT INFO BELOW The House will vote on Fast Track Trade Authority (FTTA) Friday.\u00a0 The Hill reported that only Congressman Moulton (6th&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,32,22,12,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-copyright","category-slider","category-patents","category-secrecy","category-tpp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tppwhysosecret.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-Xy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3692"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3696,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions\/3696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}