Lucas,
You may have trouble believing this.
Big Business, in fact, is counting on your disbelief — and your inaction.
Read on to disappoint them.
Multinational corporations think they have an inalienable right to make unlimited profits — even to the detriment of our jobs, our health and the environment.
They don't, of course.
But Big Business is scheming nonetheless for new powers to sue governments — in secret foreign tribunals — demanding taxpayer compensation for profits they allegedly lose over health and safety, environmental, financial and worker protections we all rely on.
Sign our petition if you oppose allowing foreign corporations to sue governments over public interest protections they claim limit their profits.
This brazen assault on commonsense safeguards is one of the worst components of so-called "free trade" agreements — like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement and others — that are being negotiated behind our backs.
Its technical-sounding name, "Investor-State Dispute Settlement," masks an incredibly insidious corporate power-grab.
Join us in calling on governments to reject Investor-State Dispute Settlement in any current or future trade agreements.
Do you want the air you breathe, the water you drink and the food you eat to be free of poisonous contaminants?
Do you want limits on Big Tobacco's marketing of its deadly products and the Big Banks' risky and discriminatory practices?
Do you want to preserve Internet freedom, buy-local policies and access to affordable medicines?
All of that, and much more, is threatened by the extraordinarily expansive terms of Investor-State Dispute Settlement agreements that empower foreign corporations to sue governments, in secret tribunals, for compensation over revenue purportedly lost as a result of vital public safeguards.
Critical safeguards in the U.S. and elsewhere could be decimated by a calculus that credits foreign corporations with a "right" to expected profits.
Add your name to those demanding that international trade agreements exclude provisions that would permit foreign corporations to dismantle public interest protections by suing countries in mysterious, unaccountable tribunals.
Thank you for taking action today.
Robert Weissman
President, Public Citizen