Ask Whitehouse.gov to Add "Trade Policy" to their Agenda

Ask Whitehouse.gov to Add "Trade Policy" to their Agenda

The Issue

As Zarah wisely pointed out in her most recent article, whitehouse.gov makes no mention of trade policy. We all know that free trade is a broken system, which exploits millions of people in the name of profit. It is an assault on international human and labor rights and it must be addressed appropriately. Please contact whitehouse.gov through their website to ask why trade policy reform is not part of their agenda. Fair trade must replace free trade. We need whitehouse.gov to recognize this and make trade policy reform part of their official Agenda.

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D WPetition StarterThere is still very limited awareness of the nature of the threat. This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits. It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged. When the public protests, confused with some obvious evidence...it is fed little tranquilizing pills of half-truths. We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks...The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts. In the words of Jean Rostand, "The obligation to endure gives us the right to know." - Rachel Carson
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The Issue

As Zarah wisely pointed out in her most recent article, whitehouse.gov makes no mention of trade policy. We all know that free trade is a broken system, which exploits millions of people in the name of profit. It is an assault on international human and labor rights and it must be addressed appropriately. Please contact whitehouse.gov through their website to ask why trade policy reform is not part of their agenda. Fair trade must replace free trade. We need whitehouse.gov to recognize this and make trade policy reform part of their official Agenda.

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D WPetition StarterThere is still very limited awareness of the nature of the threat. This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits. It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged. When the public protests, confused with some obvious evidence...it is fed little tranquilizing pills of half-truths. We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks...The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts. In the words of Jean Rostand, "The obligation to endure gives us the right to know." - Rachel Carson
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Petition created on January 21, 2009