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Join the Global Fight-Back Against TPP

Trade officials from the U.S. and eight Pacific Rim nations—Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam— have been in negotiations cloaked in secrecy. They want to complete a new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) "free trade" agreement that could eventually include every Pacific Rim nation from China and Russia to Indonesia and Mexico. America's worst job-offshoring corporations, major global banks, agribusiness, and pharmaceutical giants want this deal to be a corporate power tool with unprecedented attacks on our most basic rights and needs..


You can make the difference before it's too late. Take action today!

Write Your Senators: Make Them Aware of TPP Secrecy

  • Help raise awareness of the dangers and secrecy of the TPP in Congress by writing your senators requesting a copy of the TPP draft text.

Send a Letter to the Editor Demanding Coverage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership

  • Let Your Local Paper Know That The TPP is Too Big and Too Dangerous to Ignore! Use our simple tool to send a letter to the editor of your local newspaper to demand coverage of the TPP deal that is swiftly becoming “NAFTA-on-steroids” with the world.

Call Your Representative Today and Request the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Draft Texts

  • Working behind closed doors, unelected negotiators are rewriting wide swaths of our domestic food safety, Internet freedom, medicine pricing and other non-trade policies through the TPP “trade” agreement. By calling your member of Congress and requesting a copy of the TPP texts, you can help make your representative realize he or she is being shut out, and that negotiators are trying to do an end run around the Constitution – which gives Congress exclusive authority over the terms of trade agreements.

Want to do more in your community to spread the word and alert your members of Congress? Contact Lacey at gtwinfo@citizen.org or call us at 202.454.5134.

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