We’ve just learned that the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations have come to Canada for an intersessional round of talks. iPolitics is reporting that negotiators are in Vancouver this weekend to discuss the TPP’s investment chapter. These “mini-negotiations” were not publicized by Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade –
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OpenMedia.ca: U.S. Senator calls for more transparency around the Trans-Pacific Partnership
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts has called on the current U.S. government to release documents being used to negotiate the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. In her letter to U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman, Warren says: “If transparency would lead to widespread public opposition to a trade agreement, then that
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: A good agreement is a transparent one: Is the secretive TPP agreement a good deal?
A good trade agreement must be transparent and include public input. Is the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) a good deal? You decide. Check out our edited version of a produced by our friends at the Electronic Frontier Foundation explaining why everyone should be concerned about the TPP. read more
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: A big THANK YOU from all of us at OpenMedia!
We just wanted to say THANK YOU to everyone who donated to our special ad campaign! We are publishing our ad in a key Washington paper in order to urge US Trade Rep Froman to reject copyright proposals that will criminalize our daily use of the Internet. Thank you again
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: LAST CHANCE: Your contribution will help place this ad in a key Washington paper!
YOUR CONTRIBUTION WILL HELP PLACE THIS AD in a key Washington paper, but we need everyone to contribute in these final hours of our donation drive! The ad demands that US Trade Minister Michael Froman reject provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership that can criminalize our daily use of the Internet!
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Less than 24 Hrs remain to have your contributions matched! Demand a Fair Deal!
Only 24 hours remain to have your contributions matched for our special ad campaign calling on US Trade Rep Michael Froman to reject provisions of the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement that will infringe on our fundamental rights! Please donate what you can today: http://openmedia.org/donate For more information on this time-limited
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Stop selling out our free expression online in TPP talks, OpenMedia.ca urges Trade Minister
stand against TPP.png Secretive, industry-driven copyright proposals could wreck Canada’s digital economy, restrict our open Internet, and undermine our fundamental rights May 28, 2013 – Led by Canadian Internet freedom group OpenMedia.ca, members of a diverse international coalition have written to Trade Ministers in several countries to demand a ‘Fair
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: This won’t last
You won’t believe this. We just found out that anti-Internet lobbyists are hosting happy hour parties in Washington to increase their influence over key TPP decision makers.1 They’re sipping cocktails and literally making their careers out of criminalizing our day-to-day Internet use. But we have a unique opportunity to push
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Don’t Let Trade Shut Down the Internet | Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
Hello! Here’s Arielle with your update: Watch Arielle’s video update to hear this week’s news. This week, International organizations have banded together to form the Our Fair Deal International Coalition, advocating for a fair deal to come out of TPP negotiations. As it stands, proposed copyright provisions in the TPP threaten
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: That’s amazing
Over 138,000 of you worldwide have spoken out against the TPP’s global threat to Internet freedom. That’s amazing and our voice is getting stronger – but as we gain momentum lobbyists are also ramping up the pressure for Internet censorship rules though closed-door meetings with our government representatives in Peru.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Canadian organizations join new coalition concerned with Internet censorship in controversial international agreement
stand against TPP.png As officials meet in Peru for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Canadian groups are helping launch an international “Fair Deal” coalition May 21, 2013 – Today, OpenMedia.ca and a coalition of organisations representing a diversity of interests have come together from around the world to ask for a fair
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Canadian organizations join new coalition concerned with Internet censorship in controversial International agreement
As officials meet in Peru for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Canadian groups are helping launch an International “Fair Deal” coalition May 21, 2013 – Today, OpenMedia.ca and a coalition of organisations representing a diversity of interests have come together from around the world to ask for A Fair Deal on intellectual
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