Dear Supporter of Digital Freedom,

When trade agreements are negotiated in secret, the public loses out. There’s a new bill in Congress that would require the U.S. to make drafts of trade agreements available to the public.

The highly secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would have locked the United States into its current, broken copyright rules. It contained provisions that could have easily been abused by repressive regimes to prosecute human rights defenders. The TPP is dead, but with the reopening of NAFTA, and other new trade deals on the horizon, powerful corporations are lobbying for equally restrictive measures.

Our only hope is to demand transparency in U.S. participation in trade negotiations. If public interest groups and ordinary citizens have access to the text of trade agreements as they are being written, then we can more effectively urge the government to demand better agreements.

Tell your representative: give the public a place at the table.

Demand transparency in trade deals

Thank you,

Elliot Harmon
Activism Team
Electronic Frontier Foundation

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