This is a web of corporate law written by the corporations and for the corporations.

And if this is allowed to be put into place, it's going to be a multi-generational effort

to correct this mistake.

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Now welcome to the award-winning Best of a Left podcast with Coups today from Laurie

Wallach, Jim Hightower, the Tom Hartman program, the majority report, and Kevin Zees.

Laurie Wallach is the reason that we almost defeated FastTracked and that we can defeat

the TPP.

She's the Director of Public Citizens Global Trade Watch.

You might have read about her in the New York Times or several other places.

The Wall Street Journal called her Trade Debates Gorilla Warrior.

The fights that have happened have happened because of my colleagues here because our colleagues

all around the world and the same fight because of all of you.

And that is actually the story of how we're going to stop the TPP, which is totally doable,

actually.

The one thing about that agreement, especially now that we've actually seen the text and

we can see how really heinous it is, is it's a major overreach.

It is so beyond the pale that actually we have the ability to put together the biggest

coalition ever because almost every goal, not just a progressive people, but of people who

would not even identify themselves in the political spectrum, but who just care about having

a decent standard of living and having a good job, who care about making sure their kids

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