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<td>TTIP secret courts</td>
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<td>Fri, 04 Jul 2014 08:30:51 +0000</td>
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<td>Martin Caldwell, SumOfUs.org <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:us@sumofus.org"><us@sumofus.org></a></td>
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<td>Reni Hofmueller <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:reni@mur.at"><reni@mur.at></a></td>
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<p>The US is determined to<strong>
force Europe to adopt
rules that let
corporations sue
governments in secret
courts, </strong>under
the dangerous TTIP trade
deal. </p>
<p>But facing pressure,
the EU has agreed to a
public consultation on
the dangerous rules.</p>
<p>Comments close in just
a few days -- <strong>let's
make sure the EU can't
ignore our views and
says no to secret
corporate courts!</strong></p>
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<p>Reni,</p>
<p>This week, we have a huge opportunity
to<strong> stop one of the worst parts
of the risky TTIP trade deal </strong>between
Europe and the US.</p>
<p>The US is determined to include rules
that will <strong>allow corporations to
sue our elected governments</strong>
in secret courts, or "investor state
dispute settlement". But under pressure,
the EU have committed to ask citizens
what they think.</p>
<p><strong>The deadline for submissions is
in just a few days</strong>, so we’ve
not got long to make sure the EU knows
what we think about secret corporate
courts. Now, the SumOfUs community has
built a tool to make submitting your
official comment easy -- it won’t take
more than 3 minutes to complete. <strong>This
could be our best chance to stop one
of the worst parts of the dangerous
TTIP trade deal</strong>.</p>
<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
style="font-size: 14px; font-weight:
bold; color: #00abbd;"
href="http://act.sumofus.org/go/4934?t=2&akid=6041.6321485.WgtYjA">Click
here to let the EU know what you think
about the secret corporate courts
proposed in TTIP.</a></p>
<p>These secret courts would be created
under rules called “Investor-State
Arbitration Settlement”, or ISDS. It
would set up a system of tribunals where
corporations could take our governments
to court if they didn’t like a
particular law that they thought harmed
their business.</p>
<p><strong>We’ve seen how this system
works already around the world -- it’s
not good.</strong> Ecuador is being
sued by Chevron because the country is
requiring it to clean up a huge toxic
oil spill in the heart of the Ecuadorian
rainforest. Australia is being sued by
Phillip Morris because it wants to take
action to curb teenage smoking. Even
Germany is being sued by Swedish energy
giant because it wants to phase out
nuclear power. This is what ISDS would
mean for Europe -- more corporate
lawsuits against the things we care
about.</p>
<p>The EU’s consultation is a great first
step - and it shows that pressure to
drop the deal from all over the EU is
starting to work. <strong>Now the EU
have said they’ll listen, we need to
make sure they hear from us. </strong>We
know the public is against these rules
-- but the EU needs to hear that loud
and clear. </p>
<p>Making a comment is easy with this new
tool, and it's our best chance of
stopping these secret corporate courts.</p>
<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
style="font-size: 14px; font-weight:
bold; color: #00abbd;"
href="http://act.sumofus.org/go/4934?t=3&akid=6041.6321485.WgtYjA">Can
you take 3 minutes to tell the EU to
stop the secret corporate courts in
TTIP?</a></p>
<p>Thanks for all you do,<br>
Martin, Hannah, Jon and the rest of us.<br>
<br>
<br>
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More Information:</p>
<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://act.sumofus.org/go/4886?t=4&akid=6041.6321485.WgtYjA">EU
Commission Trade Public Consultation
on Investor-State Dispute Settlement</a>,
European Commission, Jun 2014.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://act.sumofus.org/go/4887?t=5&akid=6041.6321485.WgtYjA">Business
v state investment disputes in EU
spotlight</a>, BBC News, 12 June 2014.</p>
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