These organizations oppose Fast Track.
Here's why, in their own words.
(Click an organization's logo to learn why they oppose Fast Track.)
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Fight for the Future
We oppose Fast Track because it's fundamentally undemocratic and the TPP would censor the Internet.
We built this page and helped organize this diverse range of groups to fight back because the TPP is bad for everything you care about. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for updates.
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Sierra Club
We oppose fast track because it could push trade pacts through Congress that would devastate our environment.
Secret trade agreements will flood our communities with fracking; let’s flood the inboxes of Congress and say ‘no’ to fast track! Take action!
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Communication Workers of America
We oppose Fast Track because it is critical that we work to stop the global race to the bottom that's been the result of old-style trade agreements.
Trade agreements are about the food we eat, the air we breathe, the jobs we hold. We cannot cede this process to non-elected representatives.Learn more and take action.
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reddit
We oppose Fast Track because it is an undemocratic agreement that threatens the Open Internet.
We oppose Fast Track because it is an undemocratic agreement that threatens the Open Internet.
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AFL-CIO
We oppose Fast Track because it doesn’t provide the necessary transparency, accountability & oversight to do trade right
Fast track will bring more trade deals that increase corporate power & CEO bonuses while pushing down wages for the rest of us.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
We oppose Fast Track because copyright doesn't belong in secret, undemocratic agreements. It's up to Congress to hold our negotiators accountable.
Trade agreements like TPP have dangerous copyright provisions that would harm the Internet and users' rights to access, share, and remix media. Read more.
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American Civil Liberties Union
We oppose fast track for TPP because any change to our intellectual property laws affecting free speech must be subject to open and vigorous debate.
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imgur
We oppose Fast Track.
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Corporate Accountability International
We oppose Fast Track because it railroads the TPP through Congress, putting corporate profits above public health.
Big Tobacco is lobbying behind the scenes of the TPP so they can sue countries for passing laws that protect kids from cigarettes. Act now.
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Teamsters
We oppose Fast Track because we don't want thousands of more U.S. jobs shipped overseas
Congress shouldn't abdicate its responsibility to workers by punting their future away. Fast track is the wrong track for America!
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Rainforest Action Network
We oppose Fast Track because the TPP is a dangerous, unacceptable corporate power grab that endangers people and planet.
The TPP would prioritize private profit at the inevitable expense of the environment, human rights and the stability of our climate.
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Public Citizen
We oppose Fast Track because it skirts Congress to use “trade” deals to rewrite policies that affect our daily lives.
Fast Track has empowered foreign corporations to attack health and environmental policies, enabled drug firms to raise medicine prices, and more.
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International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
We oppose Fast track because it does not represent the new, transparent trade policy that our economy desperately needs
The TPP would wreak havoc on U.S. manufacturing workers as thousands of more jobs will be outsourced to countries that do not respect human rights.
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Private Internet Access
We oppose Fast Track because Fast Track undermines democracy. We're serious about protecting civil liberties of people in our world.
If we stay quiet, it will be too late. Let our voices be heard! Read more.
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Sea Shepherd
We oppose Fast Track because the economics of extinction must be reigned in.
The emphasis of these agreements must balance both economic and environmental priorities carefully without rush. Read more
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GMO Action Alliance
We oppose FastTrack because the TPP threatens the safety of our food and the future of humanely-raised, organic farming.
We believe this is an issue of consumers’ rights to an informed choice superseding corporate rights to a nontransparent profit. - Pamm Larry Read more
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Demand Progress
We oppose Fast Track because TPP was constructed in secret, and undermines the open Internet, and labor and environmental standards.
Read More
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Progressive Democrats of America
We oppose Fast Track because multinational special interests should not be empowered to control our ability to Tax Wall Street.
Stable financial markets are critical to economic recovery. The $350 Billion raised each year supports jobs, housing and human needs. Tax Wall Street.
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Popular Resistance
We oppose Fast Track because trade agreements should be negotiated openly and through a democratic process.
On critical issues, the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) being negotiated in secret by the Obama administration will undermine democracy in the United States and around the world and further empower transnational corporations. Read more
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Citizens Trade Campaign
We oppose Fast Track because we want a just and sustainable global economy.
Citizens Trade Campaign is a national coalition of labor, environmental, family farm, consumer and human rights groups working together to stop Fast Track. Tweeting @citizenstrade
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Free Press
We oppose Fast Track for the TPP.
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Cheezburger Inc.
We oppose Fast Track because laws that affect our freedoms need to be written in daylight, with elected officials, and vigorous debate. Period.
Fast Track is yet another special interest end-run to SOPA the American public. Let's do this the right way.
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Flush the TPP!
We oppose Fast Track because it’s a tool of corporate colonialism, harming local economies and worker rights everywhere.
Communities across the world are resisting trade that puts profit over people and the planet.
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350.org
We oppose Fast Track because the TPP would give corporations incentive to dig up and burn more fossil fuels, making climate change much worse.
Legislation designed to address climate change, curb fossil fuel expansion and reduce air pollution could be subject to attack by corporations.
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350.org Seattle
We oppose Fast Track because trade deals should raise the bar for environmental and labor standards; the TPP will lower it.
We work hard for climate justice. By undermining national sovereignty in favor of corporate profits, the TPP threatens everything we care about.
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Global Justice for Animals and the Environment
We oppose Fast track because it'll push trade deals that harm animals, environment, food & human rights thru Congress.
Fast Track will push TPP, resulting in more factory farms, genetically modified food, fracking and rainforest-killing palm oil plantations. Read More
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The Episcopal Network for Economic Justice
We oppose Fast Track because it will stress to our already fragile environment, and will drive working communities into deeper poverty.
Environmental and worker integrity is at risk.
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Washington Fair Trade Coalition
We oppose Fast Track because Fast Track is undemocratic and contrary to our Constitution, since Congress is given the responsibility for regulation of foreign trade, not the Executive branch.
Furthermore, the TPP is the multinationals' greatest dream: less regulation, ways to circumvent domestic laws and regulations, environmental and labor standards be damned. Read More
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United for Action
We oppose Fast Track because the TPP could easily overturn all of United for Action's efforts to ban hydrofracking.
TPP would also greatly encourage the export of LNG overseas. United for Action.
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SOA Watch
We oppose Fast Track because militarization and trade liberalization have gone hand in hand (e.g. Chile)-- Human rights not corporate rights!
This is an opportunity to ally with partners invested in the global human rights struggle and link neoliberalism with militarization. Read More.
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Progressive Congress
We oppose “Fast Track” because the procedures usurp Congress’s authority over trade matters.
The United States cannot afford another trade agreement that replicates the mistakes of the past.
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Pirate Party Oklahoma
We oppose Fast Track because in these secret negotiations, no one is representing the valid interests of the people.
This secret deal encourages a surveillance state, is a handout to patent trolls and promotes the outsourcing of even more US jobs. Let them know!
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SumOfUs
We oppose TPP because secretive trade agreements are undermining our democracy to enrich corporations.
We shouldn't stifle debate about a deal that could endanger everything from environmental protections to affordable medicines to internet freedoms. Read More.
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Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
We oppose Fast Track because Fast track authority is undemocratic, favors corporations, and poses great risks for food sovereignty and international development.
Fast track authority is undemocratic, favors corporations, and poses great risks for food sovereignty and international development.
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ThoughtWorks
We oppose Fast Track because most US legislators, citizens and companies have been locked out of the process affecting complex changes to internet, copyright and patent law.
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International Forum on Globalization
We oppose Fast Track because NAFTA has been a disaster for North America and TPP's expansion of free trade to the Pacific will be even more horrific.
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Jobs With Justice
We oppose Fast Track because it is anti-democratic.
Fast Track would prevent public hearings and open discussion of the most important action by Congress this year.
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techdirt
We oppose Fast Track because it will enable the USTR to complete secretive agreements that hold back innovation
Trade agreements that impact a very large percentage of our economy need to be negotiated and debated in public, not secret. TechDirt.
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Fair World Project
We oppose Fast Track because a full and open discussion is the only way we will ensure fairness for farmers, workers, and consumers.
FWP advocates for fair trade policies and TPP as currently stands will have a negative impact on farmers, workers, and consumers globally.
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Water Keeper Alliance
We oppose Fast Track because it threatens Waterkeeper Alliance's values of environmental protection and democracy.
Waterkeeper Alliance believes in clean water, democracy and the right of communities to protect themselves.
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Organic Consumers Association
We oppose Fast Track because secret trade agreements threaten food safety and subvert democracy.
If these deals are rammed through Congress without scrutiny or debate, we could lose our right to regulate factory farms and GMOs.
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GMO Free USA
We oppose Fast Track because the TPP gives corporations the ability to undermine popular sovereignty.
The TPP would unravel our movement’s work with GMO labeling, GMO cultivation bans and gut food & environmental safety standards. Read More
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Free Software Foundation
We oppose Fast Track because TPP would promote Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) to enforce draconian copyright law.
DRM undermines free software development and unethically restricts the freedom of all computer users.
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MoveOn.org
We oppose Fast Track due to our focus on getting big money out of politics. We are very concerned with the secrecy and intent of the act to negate our laws,regulations and court sovereignty. The TPP would mean the end of our democracy.
We have held informational demonstrations with other groups, visited our legislators' offices, delivered letters to them, joined the twitter storm and presented workshops to other progressive groups. Read more
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Ask Them
We oppose Fast Track because our non-profit organization believes in public input & questions on important policy.
PPF enables anyone to communicate ideas to people in power. Our forthcoming questions-and-answers platform is AskThem.io. Participatory Politics Foundation
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Backbone Campaign
We oppose Fast Track because the TPP is a Train Wreck for Workers, Communities, Democracy and the Planet. FLUSH the TPP!
Humanity, Community, and Nature are Sacred. We MUST Fight and Win the battle against their commodification. The Corporatocracy STOPS Here!
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Delaware Riverkeeper Network
We oppose Fast Track because it will harm environmental protection. A healthy environment is good for healthy trade, water, food, air & our future.
15 million drink Delaware River water. We must protect it. Read more
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Citizen's Environmental Coalition
We oppose Fast Track & Trade Deals that are planned OF, BY and FOR Corporations in Secret.
The Danger: the public will lose jobs, health, safety and environmental protections, as well as our democracy while corporations gain more power. Read more.
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St. Pete for Peace
We oppose Fast Track because peace isn't real peace without the presence of economic justice.
Democracy, justice, peace. Read more
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Occupy Coachella Valley
We oppose Fast Track because it subverts the democratic process and nullifies checks and balances.
Signing away constitutional authority and oversight of Congress to the executive branch is both unconscionable and irresponsible.
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boingboing
We oppose fast track because in America, Congress makes the laws, not the US Trade Representative and his corporate cronies.
TPP is bad for the world's digital environment and the physical one, but even if it was an unassailably perfect confection made from unicorn hair and chocolate-coated bananas, we'd *still* want Congress to review and debate every provision. Because that is Congress's job.
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Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
We oppose fast track because it’s a path to bad trade deals that put corporate profits ahead of people and the planet.
(Great things often come from the slow track: Ben and Jerry met in 7th grade gym class - they were the slowest two kids on the mile run!)
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YourAnonNews
We oppose Fast Track because corporations are using their political contributions to gain influence over trade negotiations, whereas the public has no voice.
It is entirely undemocratic for a government to negotiate and pass laws in secret. The public has a right to be made aware, in advance, of how the TPP will effect them. Our demand is transparency. Tweeting from @YourAnonNews.
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Pirate Party
We oppose Fast Track because it disallows time for citizens to read the fine-print of the agreement.
We have every right to see what our elected officials vote on and must be able to provide sufficient time to contact them and inform others.
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Progressive Change Campaign Committee
We oppose Fast Track because the TPP is a threat to working families and our democracy.
The TPP was written in secret by corporate lobbyists, and now is being rammed through Congress without debate. This is unacceptable. Click here to read more about the work we do.
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BCTGM International Union
We oppose fast track because it is undemocratic and will elevate corporate interests at the expense of working people.
Fast Track is license to continue trade and economic policies that have failed America’s working families for 30 years.
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Namecheap
We oppose Fast Track because at Namecheap, we stand up to protect your rights and privacy.
Namecheap is a proponent of the open web and we'll do what it takes to protect it. Please reach out to your reps to urge them to stop Fast Track!
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Thunderclap
We oppose TPP because a binding international agreement shouldn't be negotiated in secret.
We oppose Fast Track because a binding international agreement shouldn't be negotiated in secret.
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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
We oppose Fast Track because it unconstitutionally silences the voices of men, women and children who will greatly suffer under the TPP
The TPP will limit access to safe water and food, affordable medicine, and the well-paying jobs women need to provide for their families. Under the TPP, peace and freedom across the Pacific Rim will be impossible to achieve. Read more.
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Labor Notes
We oppose Fast Track because the TPP will foment competition among workers in different countries.
TPP will be discussed at the Labor Notes Conference April 2-4 in Chicago. Unless Fast Track is dead by then!
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Democracy for America
We oppose Fast Track because the TPP would endanger working families, the environment and internet freedom.
Congress must ensure that any trade agreement is a fair deal for all Americans, not just the rich and powerful. Take action now!
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Code Pink
We oppose Fast Track because it is without debate, proving the US is run by corporations and democracy is officially dead.
The TPP regulates information sharing and, most alarmingly, limits the ability of communities to control local resources like food and water.
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Food and Water Watch
We oppose Fast Track because public and environmental health shouldn't be trumped by corporate profits.
Fast track could have disastrous implications for American consumers. - Wenonah Hauter
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Friends of the Earth
We oppose Fast Track because it will rush the environmentally hazardous TPP and TTIP deals past Congress.
Don't fast track a polluter's bill of rights. Learn more about Friends of the Earth and Fast Track by clicking here.
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US Action
We oppose Fast Track.
More info.
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Firedoglake
We oppose Fast Track because it fundamentally violates essential checks and balances in our democracy, vesting a tremendous amount of power in the executive to craft sweeping trade agreements away from the public eye.
Join the thousands of Firedoglake activists working to stop this veritable "NAFTA-on-steroids" from giving corporations free-reign to reap massive profits, regardless of the consequences for the people, environment or the economy.
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South Florida Voices for Working Families
We oppose Fast Track because it silences the Voices of democracy.
Trade issues directly affect our lives. Fast Track cuts out any meaningful role for Congress, silencing the Voices of Working Families.
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Campaign for America's Future
We oppose Fast Track because it sets aside Congress’ duty to represent the interests of We, the People.
Fast Track is a rigged process for the benefit of multinational corporations. A real “trade" agreement would lift the world’s economy. Read more.
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American Friends Service Committee
We oppose Fast Track because it allows legislation to be passed without full due process
Congress should set a new approval process to ensure that all requirements are met before the Executive Branch signs an international deal.
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NuWorld Media
We oppose Fast Track because it undermines the rights of a falsely democratic society in what only perception says is a free world.
Fast Track is a rigged process for the benefit of multinational corporations. A real “trade" agreement would lift the world’s economy. Read more.
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GMO Inside
We oppose Fast Track because under the TPP GMO labels for US food would not be allowed.
GMO Inside is a campaign dedicated to removing GMOs from the food system. Read more.
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International Rivers
We oppose Fast Track because rivers and other ecosystems should not be sacrificed for short-term profits
Find out more.
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New York Working Families
We oppose Fast Track because its policies negatively effect working people.
Find out more.
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NorthWest Media ULC
We oppose Fast Track because It's just a overall bad bill, I would expect to see Child-Birth patented if this was passed.
It would be hard to get our stuff out there and be bad for everyone if this passes.
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CyberGuerrilla AnoNneXus collective
We oppose Fast Track and the TPP. The TPP is a backhanded slap directed across the face of the world.
The TPP will be defeated, whether legislatively or by computer coding work. It is neither about trade nor freedom.
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Witness for Peace
We oppose Fast Track because we've seen from experience that free trade causes devastation across the Americas.
We've been witnessing the effects of FTAs on the people of Latin America for decades. It's time to say no!
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Jewish Voice for Peace
We oppose Fast Track.
More info.