[BITList] Fwd: TTIP

[Michael Feltham]

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> Dear Michael,
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> Today, over 7,500 38 Degrees members just like you are taking to the streets to spread the word about TTIP.
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> The politicians and big businesses behind this deal are trying to keep it out of the spotlight. They're now hiding the one copy of TTIP by locking it away in a room in Brussels, just for officials to look at. [1] So 38 Degrees members are coming together this weekend to drag it out of the shadows.
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> You might not be hitting the streets with other 38 Degrees members today, but there’s one very important thing we can all do to get TTIP out into the open.
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> Please can you forward the email below to five friends and ask them to sign the petition against TTIP? It’ll take less than two minutes.
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> Across Europe, ordinary people are coming together to fight this scary corporate power grab. We're hitting the streets, hounding our MPs, and over two million people have signed the Europe-wide petition. It’s working: 38 Degrees members have helped turn more than half of our UK MEPs against the deal. [2] Imagine them coming back from their holidays and the first thing they see is tens of thousands more signatures calling on them to stop this dodgy deal.
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> The huge petition will be delivered in a couple of weeks so please will you share the email below with five people you know now? If you’ve got time, you could add a quick personal message about why it’s so important.
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> Thanks for being involved,
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> Bex, Sarah, Amy and the 38 Degrees team
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> NOTES:
> [1] The Independent: TTIP controversy: Secret trade deal can only be read in secure 'reading room' in Brussels:
> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ttip-controversy-secret-trade-deal-can-only-be-read-secure-in-reading-room-in-brussels-10456206.html <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ttip-controversy-secret-trade-deal-can-only-be-read-secure-in-reading-room-in-brussels-10456206.html>
> [2] 38 Degrees: TTIP who voted for what:
> https://home.38degrees.org.uk/2015/07/08/ttip-who-voted-for-what/ <https://home.38degrees.org.uk/2015/07/08/ttip-who-voted-for-what/>
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> Email to forward to your friends (feel free to edit the text!):
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> Dear friends,
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> I'm writing to tell you about a really important issue and asking you to join me in taking one very simple action.
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> TTIP is a frightening trade deal between the US and EU, which our politicians are negotiating in secret right now. The deal is like a wishlist for big corporations, but would be a disaster for ordinary people and our democracy.
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> This deal could:
> - make it nearly impossible to reverse privatisation in our public services, such as our NHS or schools
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> - give big businesses the power to sue our government if it chose to make laws that would harm their profits, like raising the minimum wage or putting plain packaging on cigarettes.
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> - let thousands of currently banned nasty chemicals into our food and cosmetics
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> - put more bee-killing pesticides onto our fields
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> I don’t know what you think, but it paints a terrifying picture for our future - and our children and grandchildren’s futures.
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> Fortunately, there’s a growing people-powered campaign to stop TTIP. More and more people across the UK and Europe are hearing about this dangerous deal, and getting behind the campaign to stop it. If ordinary people shout loud enough in every town and city, our MPs and MEPs will have to listen. So will you join me and sign the petition against TTIP now?
> https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/TTIP-petition-emailshare <https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/page/m/74c07855/2d4724dd/7d3d7f61/463c3012/2450760505/VEsF/>
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> Thanks,
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> PS. You can find out more here:
> https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/pages/ttip_more_information <https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/page/m/74c07855/2d4724dd/7d3d7f61/463c3013/2450760505/VEsC/>
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