Lucas,
The moment we all fought to delay is here.
Yesterday President Obama sent Bush's NAFTA-style trade deals with Korea, Colombia and Panama to Congress asked for approval. Votes are expected on all three pacts next week.
THIS IS IT: We must get our House members to vote no on these deals! Join union, faith and green activists ...Tell your Representative to vote NO. And keep calling until he or she commits!
Next week, the House will vote on these three damaging Bush-era NAFTA replicas. If we do not get a majority to vote no and stop these deals, we know that they increase our trade deficit and kill more U.S. jobs -- at a time when 25 million Americans are still searching for full-time jobs and unemployment is 9 percent.
You may be as disgusted, angry and heartbroken as we are with this news. But united we can still stop these trade deals. Congress decides. Together, with millions of hard-working Americans and diverse groups from across the aisle, we have an opportunity to flood the congressional phone lines with our voices of opposition before the vote.
Your House member must hear: A vote for these flawed trade deals is a vote against YOU! Tell your Representative to vote NO on the NAFTA-style deals.
We're preparing for the biggest fight this autumn. As the Obama administration prepares to submit the flawed trade agreements with Korea, Colombia and Panama, we need to up the pressure on Congress.
Every member of Congress is aware of the growing groundswell of public discontent. This is a time when raising your voice can deliver. Keep calling until you get a commitment that your Representative will oppose each of the agreements -- Korea, Colombia, and Panama.
Unite with civil-society, labor and community groups from across the spectrum to stop the NAFTA expansion. All you need is one phone number to be connected to your Representative: 1-800-718-1008.
Until he or she commits to oppose all three, dial 1-800-718-1008 and tell your Representative to vote against the three unfair deals.
Speak out with millions of Americans against the job-killing trade deals that only reward fat cats, off-shore our jobs and undermine our environmental and financial stability safeguards.
Beatriz Lopez and Brooke Harper
Senior Field Organizers
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
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