Barrack Obama

What Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement? (TPP)

What Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement? (TPP)

ByCitisun Hours Categories Politics Reading Time: 6 minutes

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secretive, multinational trade agreement that threatens to extend restrictive intellectual property (IP) laws across the globe and rewrite international rules on its enforcement.

The main problems are two-fold:

(1) Digital Policies that Benefit Big Corporations at the Expense of the Public: The IP chapter would have extensive negative ramifications for users’ freedom of expression, right to privacy and due process, as well as hindering peoples’ abilities to innovate. Other chapters of the agreement encourage your personal data to be sent borders with limited protection for your privacy, and allow foreign corporations to sue countries for laws or regulations that promote the public interest,

(2) Lack of Transparency: The entire process has shut out multi-stakeholder participation and is shrouded in secrecy.

Eight Years Later, This Isn’t Change I Believed In

Eight Years Later, This Isn’t Change I Believed In

ByCitisun Hours Categories Politics Reading Time: 4 minutes

Will Obama’s Legacy Be The “Hateful Eight” Years of Change?

Now that more than eight years have passed since the days when Barack Obama made his meteoric rise in politics, it’s fair to say that he’s had his chance to deliver on his campaign promise of “change you can believe in.”  The effects of his Presidency will be felt for decades no doubt, and his legacy has yet to be written, but for this snapshot in time in September of 2016, what positive and meaningful change has Barack Obama delivered?

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