Urge your Congressional Members to co-sponsor the 2009 TRADE Act!

Urge your Congressional Members to co-sponsor the 2009 TRADE Act!

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<b>Let's keep on top of this on!&nbsp; Please take action!<br /><br />The 2009 TRADE Act</b></p>
<p><a href="http://www.citizenstrade.org/tradeact.php"><b>Trade Reform, Accountability, Development and Employment (TRADE) Act</b></a></p>
<p>What is the 2009 TRADE Act?</p>
<p><b>A Balanced Way to Expand Trade</b></p>
- The TRADE Act maps out a fair path forward, explaining what we care about in a good agreement.&nbsp;- It lays out the blueprint for how we can fix the existing model, showing what a responsible pacts would look like, and the procedures needed to get us there.- The bill shifts the debate towards discussing a new and improved globalization model.- It moves beyond repeatedly fighting against expansions of failed policies, and sets a marker for where new discussion should start later this year.
<p><b>Answering Failed Policies of the Past</b></p>
- Pacts such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)&nbsp;and &nbsp;the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) have not met up to their basic promises.&nbsp;- These agreements should be serving a majority of people on issues such as wages, public health, the environment, human rights, food and consumer safety and access to essential services.&nbsp;- Instead, these "free trade" policies have come at great costs.&nbsp;The price we&rsquo;ve paid in offshoring of jobs, downward pressure on wages, and damage to our environment and loss of family farms is far too great.&nbsp;
<p><b>The Purpose of the Trade Act</b></p>
- This initiative sets forth what we are for &ndash; shutting down the bogus claim that we oppose trade or have no alternative vision because we oppose these old failed agreements of the past- This bill sets forth concrete ways to push our shared conviction that trade and investment are not ends unto themselves, but must also serve as a means for achieving greater societal goals.- This bill also serves as a litmus test.&nbsp;By seeing who cosponsors -- and who does not -- we know who our trade champions (and chumps) are in the future.
<p>We cannot lose the hope brought about in 2008 elections, and need to continue the fight for future trade agreements now more than ever.&nbsp;Trade can serve a majority of people on public health, the environment, human rights, food safety and access to essential services, and the 2009 TRADE act can help us realize these goals.</p>
<p><b>Please contact your congressional members today and urge them to co-sponsor the 2009 TRADE Act!<br /><br /><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1034/t/537/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27343">http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1034/t/537/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27343</a><br /></b>

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