Call your representatives and tell them 80% of Americans say NO GOVERNMENT OR CORPORATE CONTROLS OVER OUR INTERNET – net neutrality now.

Apple slowed down my phone and I’m pissed off.

With the threat of sneaky TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) passage just after the election still a looming threat, we must do all we can to continue the resistance and help more and more people become educated on how bad it really is.

Harrison doing an amazing job of finding knowledgeable people to
interview on stopping the TPP, and here is where you can catch his
latest show on UTalk.

Harrison Against The TPP: https://www.utalk.us/?s=jvZplwqq24

Harrison leads off this week with Andrew Goldman, Counsel for Policy
and Legal Affairs at Ecology International, specializing in fighting international drug price gouging. They discuss the extreme secrecy of how it was written entirely by corporate interests with only corporate interests in mind, the literal corporate takeover of government the ISDS (Investor State Dispute Settlement) chapter
represents and more.

And Harrison continues the TPP conversation, and other related
issues, with prominent national activist Jay Ponti, with more
surprise guests.

There is also a action page link right on the same listening page
above where you can continue to speak out against the TPP, so that we can put maximum pressure on Congress not to do this.

Encourage Harrison to keep hitting this as hard as possible, by
becoming a credited producer of the Go Harrison show, and there are
special links on the listening page dedicated for that, and Harrison will personally thank you on the air for a whole year.

But even if all you can do is kick in a buck or two, feel free to
browse our wide selection of UTalk progressive policy message gift
items, because it all helps to support Harrison’s original
journalistic work. Especially we encourage you to pickup one of our
widely distributed “Expressway To Trade Hell TPP” bumper stickers,
and there are links for bulk packs for that and all our issue related
bumper stickers right on this page.

Anti-TPP Bumper Stickers: https://www.utalk.us/?g=1:SE

We heard on the news yesterday a bunch of progressive groups just
presented a petition to Hillary Clinton calling on her to reiterate her opposition, insincere as it is, to the TPP and pledge to fight it during the lame duck session.

The problem is that Clinton is NOT the pressure point, at least not
anymore.

In the first place, Clinton does not have POWER to stop the TPP
during the lame duck session, even if she wins the election.

In the second place, Clinton does not WANT the power to stop the TPP.

She could have done something meaningful in that regard by putting express opposition to it, by name, in the Democratic platform which she controlled, and which represents the whole party. But she fought aggressively against that, aided and abetted by some of the same labor unions petitioning now, who put forward a watered down piece of nothing instead then.

If a bunch of Bernie delegates had brought forward a minority
platform plank on this at the Democratic convention, as we urged, we would have won on the spot. On our own initiative we emailed a number of key Bernie delegates on the platform committee to step forward and
press for this. But we could not find anyone to actually do it.

So that opportunity was lost.

Now, were she even to be elected, Clinton will make a token show of
wringing her hands, and President Obama will sign it regardless, as
he is so clearly determined to do, with the collusion of enough corporate Democrats to make up for the Republicans who don’t want
that permanent stain on their own records, though the vast majority
will still be Republican votes.

What must happen in addition to anything else, and it must happen
now, BEFORE the election, is for us to demand, in person, that
members of CONGRESS pledge to oppose the TPP. You can find out
exactly who voted for Fast Track in your district on this page.

TPP Lame Duck Hunt: https://www.utalk.us/?a=lame_duck_hunt

This is NOT a regular petition page.

ONLY submit the page above if you are down for doing more than
clicking a mouse, and are ready to attend an event for a
congressional candidate in your area and ask them a tough question
about the TPP in person.

Because the most powerful way to stop the TPP now is for actual
constituents to get in the faces of members of Congress NOW at their public events, town halls, debates, etc., and put them on the spot and on the record live so we can post cell phone video of their
hemming and hawing, and flak dodging and lame justifications, for all the rest of their constituents to see pre-election.

Nearly a thousand people have submitted the sign up page directly above for the lame duck hunt we proposed to do this. The bad news is that not one, not one, NOT ONE SINGLE person has followed up to say, “Hey, I’ve determined a place and time where we can run this member of Congress down at an event.”

We need to do better than this, folks. Can we find a couple hundred people who seriously want to win, and will take a step outside their front doors to join this mission?

Can we?

If the answer to that question is “Yes” we can change the world.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/terry-mcauliffe-hillary-clinton-tpp-trade-226253

She lost this Democrat’s vote. Trump won’t. He’ll get mine. This only issue that counts for me.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/business/trans-pacific-partnership-trade-deal-is-reached.html?_r=1

From the article…The pressure now builds on Hillary Rodham Clinton…She promoted the trade talks as Mr. Obama’s secretary of state…

….Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders called it disastrous and a bad deal…

2. “U.S. Internet users pay more and have fewer choices than Europeans,” The Center for Public Integrity, 4/1/15

3. “Census: Computer ownership, internet connection varies widely across U.S.,” Pew Research Center, 9/19/14

Why aren’t people listening??

Go read it. http://act.demandprogress.org/go/1520?t=5&akid=3054.3300762.4-QnhR

We need to convince President Obama to act now to protect the Internet — and his legacy — even as his FCC goes rogue.

Call a White House staffer and demand that President Obama rein in the FCC and protect Net Neutrality.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/write-or-call

The Wall Street Journal reports that Pres. Obama’s FCC head Tom Wheeler is trying to ram through a sham deal that would allow Internet Service Providers (ISP’s) to discriminate between online content and charge sites extra fees if they want to avoid being slowed down. And it’s being enacted under an authority that means that even these weak rules would likely be struck down in court.

In light of the electoral results, it’s going to be terribly difficult for Obama to move a progressive agenda through the Congress.

But he can still save Net Neutrality by making sure that his FCC enacts strong rules this fall.

Tell Pres. Obama to rein in his FCC before it’s too late! This is a problem he created through weak leadership and being in bed with big business. Fix it now!

The FCC is spitting in the eyes of the millions of Americans who demanded real Net Neutrality by reclassifying ISP’s as Title II services.

We need the FCC to implement a strong Title II rule that bans fees and discrimination.

If they don’t, President Obama will go down in history as the president who broke the Internet.

Please call the White House right away!

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/write-or-call

Thanks for defending the Internet.