{"id":20303,"date":"2015-04-10T23:11:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T03:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20303"},"modified":"2015-04-10T23:11:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T03:11:56","slug":"stand-with-bernie-sanders-tell-the-senate-to-reject-fast-track-authority-for-the-tpp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/04\/10\/stand-with-bernie-sanders-tell-the-senate-to-reject-fast-track-authority-for-the-tpp\/","title":{"rendered":"Stand with Bernie Sanders: Tell the Senate to reject Fast Track authority for the TPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Democracy For America<\/em> has the petition <a title=\"Place to sign the petition\" href=\"http:\/\/act.democracyforamerica.com\/sign\/sanders_stop_tpp\/?t=2&amp;akid=6097.2884044.B2uVlh\" target=\"_blank\">Stand with Bernie Sanders: Tell the Senate to reject Fast Track authority for the TPP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bernie Sanders is taking a bold stand against the the Trans-Pacific Partnership. A bill to give the president Fast Track authority, designed to push through the TPP with little public debate, is about to be introduced in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The TPP is a disastrous trade agreement designed to protect the interests of the largest multi-national corporations at the expense of workers, consumers, the environment and the foundations of American democracy. It will also negatively impact some of the poorest people in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Stand with Bernie Sanders: Tell the Senate to vote NO on Fast Track for the TPP!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many people wonder how even Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren can possibly beat the people with all the money and power.\u00a0 Well, as they both have explained, this is where you come in.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t have wealth and power, but we\u00a0 do have votes and voices.\u00a0 If we don&#8217;t step in and back Sanders and Warren when they are fighting our fights, then there is little likelihood that the powerful will feel the need to even care what you think.<\/p>\n<p>People keep asking, what&#8217;s it going to take to turn this country around.\u00a0 Well here is the beginning of the answer.\u00a0 It is going to take enough people to stand-up to these bullies, before anything will ever change.\u00a0 You can be part of history, or you can take a pass on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy For America has the petition Stand with Bernie Sanders: Tell the Senate to reject Fast Track authority for the TPP. Bernie Sanders is taking a bold stand against the the Trans-Pacific Partnership. A bill to give the president Fast Track authority, designed to push through the TPP with little public debate, is about to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20305,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20303\/revisions\/20305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}