I realise this is a very cynical comment, but I honestly don't believe even a sufficiently motivated populace would have any recourse at this point.
I realise this is a very cynical comment, but I honestly don't believe even a sufficiently motivated populace would have any recourse at this point.
"Enlisting a core band of labor, environmental, and community allies, the dozen trade-watching stalwarts at Public Citizen divided into five teams and went after the Brobdingnagians of global corporate power ... it's important to spread the story of the progressive coalition's successful confrontation with the Global Goliath. Its methods and achievements give us a new template for organizing (and winning) future populist challenges to the corporate order. And the breadth, depth, and intensity of this effort show what it will take to forge a real populist movement--multifaceted and with the long-term capacity to pursue our country's deep democratic principles. We can get there if we build on what we learn--and keep pushing."
Do you remember Jon Oliver's video on tobacco lobbyists suing Australia for plain-paper packaging, https://youtube.com/watch?v=6UsHHOCH4q8? That ISDS video got so much attention that the TPP excludes the entire tobacco industry from suing government with lawsuits like http://isdscorporateattacks.org.
To slow/stop the TPP, public interest stakeholders need to lobby corporations to take a stand and declare their position on freedom of speech, freedom to tinker, freedom to compete against all business models. Wikipedia can go dark for one day a week, to raise awareness of the TPP. If the TPP passes, it will be easier to censor future online protest and raising of awareness on any issue. If the Web as we know it is about to change, now is exactly the time to use the Web in its own self-defence.