Green Party Releases International Joint Statement Criticizing the TPP

Dangerous_Minds writes "The New Zealand, Australian, and Canadian Green Parties have released a joint statement on the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP). Among the concerns are the secretive nature of the talks and 'could hinder access to safe, affordable medicines, weaken local content rules for media, stifle high-tech innovation, and even restrict the ability of future governments to legislate for the good of public health and the environment.' ZeroPaid also notes that the statement is starting to appear in New Zealand and Australian media."

How about NO!

[Anonymous Coward]

"The Intellectual Property Rights chapter of the TPPA was leaked in draft form in February 2011. We anticipate that unless a more moderate and balanced version is adopted, NZ, Canada and Australia's shoppers, schools and libraries would end up paying more for their books and DVD's because it would let copyright holders veto parallel importing. Small and medium-sized software and IT businesses would have their innovative visions stifled by constraining patent laws. Finally, large pharmaceutical companies could use the legislation to deny state drug-buying agencies like those in Australia and NZ access to reliable, low cost medicines."

Re:Honestly

[c0lo]

info [wikipedia.org] - essentially, it is only a bit worse than ACTA (including the secrecy of negotiation), with some elements of SOPA thrown in.

Do you have the same reaction to EFF [eff.org]?

Speaking for myself... if the internet freedom comes only in green colours (i.e. no other parties would support them), I'm fully green then (possibly with the black-sail of the local pirate party)

Re:Honestly

[c0lo]

BTW guys, the page that I linked on the EFF site has a take action [eff.org] link down the page... (looks like it's a page for US citizens - asks for a simple ZIP code).

Now, in case you don't live in US (or don't like Greens but you may like some others)...
OpenMedia.ca and a good bunch of many others run an international site [stopthetrap.net] which sends the message to some of the ministers in govts of all the countries involved in the TPP negotiations (I've done it and received some auto-confirmation emails from the .gov type of domains)

Com'on guys, doesn't ask for that much of an effort, don't wait for a "Wikipedia blackout day" to take a minimal action.