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		<title>Philippines and TPPA primer</title>
		<link>http://statehoodhawaii.org/2012/04/02/philippines-and-tppa-primer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philippines and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free-Trade Agreement (TPPA) Primer *information presented at ProPeopleYouth KmB meeting in Long Beach, CA Currently, the Philippines are not eligible to join the TPPA. Washington and the EU are both willing to engage with the Philippines in joint initiatives like the recent US trade facilitation agreement that was signed at APEC 2011 in Honolulu. Trade and investment facilitation agreements create important building blocks toward potential membership in regional free-trade agreements . The Philippines have investment barriers (see below) that prevent them from participating in trade initiatives like the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. &#8220;As your government continues to consider the prospect of pursuing potential membership in the TPP, we want to be helpful,&#8221; US Trade Representative Marantis said. &#8220;We have made that clear privately and publicly.&#8221; &#8220;We are willing to provide our views on the kinds of commitments and policy reforms that are likely to be required of the Philippines to join,&#8221; he added. The TPPA is what US president Barack Obama describes as a “landmark, 21st Century Trade Agreement” that improves upon and rectifies past problems in US trade and investment treaties. The TPPA is a free-trade agreement currently being negotiated by nine countries: the United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vacuuming Up the Pacific&#8217;s Resources</title>
		<link>http://statehoodhawaii.org/2012/03/05/vacuuming-up-the-pacifics-resources/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.fpif.org/articles/vacuuming_up_the_pacifics_resources The 11th round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations is currently taking place in Melbourne, Australia. Although negotiators have agreed to the broad outlines of the TPP agreement, a new trade issue has created a snag in the process: the inclusion of investor-state dispute settlement provisions. Australia has refused to accept the investor-state dispute settlement, and U.S. industry associations are urging President Barack Obama to overcome these objections. These investor-state dispute settlement provisions have been included in U.S. investment treaties and trade agreements with more than 50 countries, and there are over 2,500 of these accords currently on record. These provisions, however, give advantages to large economies and can cripple small island states like Pacific Island nations. Obama describes the TPPA as a &#8220;a trade agreement for the 21st century&#8221; that improves on and rectifies past problems in U.S. trade and investment treaties. Nine countries are currently negotiating the TPPA: the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Peru, Brunei, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Singapore. Japan is in preliminary talks, and Canada and Mexico are looking to join. Although the negotiations are being held in secret, leaked documents confirm that the TPPA is a “NAFTA on steroids.” Contrary to democratic practice, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regarding Economic Statecraft: U.S. Foreign Policy in an Age of Economic Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/plrmo/2012/184182.htm Fact Sheet Bureau of Public Affairs February 16, 2012 “…our problems have never respected dividing lines between global economics and international diplomacy. And neither can our solutions. That is why I have put what I call economic statecraft at the heart of our foreign policy agenda.” –Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton The world’s economic system has evolved. So must America’s foreign policy. Emerging nations increasingly deal in economic power as their primary means of measuring and exercising influence. At the same time, America’s global leadership is linked to the vitality of its domestic economy. Simply put, America’s economic strength and its global leadership are a package deal. A strong economy always has been a pillar of American power, and we must position ourselves to lead in a world where security is shaped in boardrooms and on trading floors, as well as on battlefields. The Secretary&#8217;s Vision Secretary Clinton is placing economics and market forces at the center of U.S. foreign policy. Economic Statecraft means both harnessing global economic forces to advance America’s foreign policy and employing the tools of foreign policy to shore up our economic strength. We have backed this vision with an ambitious agenda, covering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West Papua Action</title>
		<link>http://statehoodhawaii.org/2011/12/29/west_papua-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moana Nui Action Alliance (MNAA-CA), West Papua Action, January 17, 2012. On January 17th, 2006, forty-three West Papuans circumnavigated their homeland before beaching their traditional canoe ‘Exodus’ on the Australian mainland at Mapoon in far north Queensland. In solidarity with the 43 who have risked their lives to expose the corruption and human rights abuses in West Papua by Indonesia, and in support of their 50 year struggle for independence,  the Moana Nui Action Network will be staging an action at the Indonesian Consulate in Los Angeles. Draft of West Papua statement West Papua, lying just off the northern coast of Australia and east of Indonesia is part of a Pacific ethno-linguistic region called Melanesia by its early Western scholars. Melanesia comprises over 300 indigenous peoples with distinctive ethno-linguistic features. Currently, West Papua is struggling for independence from Indonesia and, in the interim, suffers serious and ongoing human rights abuses. The United States has been complicit in this abuse leading us to demand an end to this complicity here, as in the rest of the Pacific. West Papua harbors the US-based Freeport-McMoRan Gold and Copper mine that was imposed on it via U.S.-Indonesian collaboration. It is the largest gold mine, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moana Nui Statement vs. TPP Leaders Statement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moana Nui Statement 2011/11/29 Sign the Moana Nui Statement Petition We, the peoples of Moana Nui, connected by the currents of our ocean home, declare that we will not cooperate with the commodification of life and land as represented by APEC’s predatory capitalistic practices, distorted information and secret trade negotiations and agreements. We invoke our rights to free, prior and informed consent. We choose cooperative trans-Pacific dialogue, action, advocacy, and solidarity between and amongst the peoples of the Pacific, rooted in traditional cultural practices and wisdom. E mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono. A mama. Ua noa.” This statement was conjured at the Moana Nui 2011 conference, a gathering of peoples of the Pacific to connect and grow our relations with each other. We ask you to join us in shifting away from neoliberal, profit-driven relations and sign-on to this statement. Trans-Pacific Partnership Leaders Statement 12 November 2011 We, the Leaders of Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States, and Vietnam, are pleased to announce today the broad outlines of a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement among our nine countries. We are delighted to have achieved this milestone in our common vision to establish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whose Pacific Century?</title>
		<link>http://statehoodhawaii.org/2011/10/11/whose-pacific-century/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lines in the sand have been drawn, let&#8217;s hope the wave of resistance can wash them away&#8230; Haven&#8217;t done a repost in a long time&#8211; but this sets the stage. If we do not voice our opposition, that line in the sand may very well be our prison.  This is the new Pacific Plan, see previous versions here. Here&#8217;s the Pacific Island Forum&#8217;s Pacific Plan. America&#8217;s Pacific Century Op-Ed Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State November Issue of Foreign Policy Magazine October 11, 2011 The future of politics will be decided in Asia, not Afghanistan or Iraq, and the United States will be right at the center of the action. As the war in Iraq winds down and America begins to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan, the United States stands at a pivot point. Over the last 10 years, we have allocated immense resources to those two theaters. In the next 10 years, we need to be smart and systematic about where we invest time and energy, so that we put ourselves in the best position to sustain our leadership, secure our interests, and advance our values. One of the most important tasks of American statecraft over the next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hawai&#8217;i Statehood and the APEC investment regime</title>
		<link>http://statehoodhawaii.org/2011/08/19/statehood_apec/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, in 2009, Hawai&#8217;i sovereignty rights and independence advocates made a public stand in opposition to Hawai&#8217;i Statehood. What Statehood represented was the forced or unwitting coercion of Hawaiians to accept statehood by the United States as the legitimate form of governance without receiving any understanding of what alternatives were afforded through the UN as a result of Chapter XI, Article 73 of the UN Charter, the Declaration Regarding Non-Self-Governing Territories.  As the state continues to assert that 94% of  the citizenry voted for statehood, we know that the real numbers for eligible voters supporting statehood were closer to 36%. Two generations earlier, in 1893, the kingdom of Hawai&#8217;i, was overthrown through coercion of threats.  Queen Lili&#8217;uokalani signed her unofficial title&#8211;her married name (Lili&#8217;uokalani Dominis) to the document presented her by the white oligarchy businessmen of Hawai&#8217;i, calling themselves the Republic of Hawai&#8217;i&#8211; and she stepped down to avoid bloodshed.  Queen Lili&#8217;uokalani and most of Hawai&#8217;i believed that the U.S. would restore the throne, since after all, Hawai&#8217;i was recognized by the family of nations as a sovereign state. Earlier in 1843, when a British captain had attempted to claim Hawai&#8217;i for England, British Admiral Thomas formally apologized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Waves- Victor Menotti from IFG</title>
		<link>http://statehoodhawaii.org/2011/08/11/making-waves-victor-menotti-from-ifg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Making Waves Video with Victor Menotti on APEC Hawaii 2011, Moana Nui, militarization, the U.N. Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and Pacific economic opportunities, and fundamentals on trade and globalization. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/27565235[/vimeo]]]></description>
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		<title>APEC views: Jon Osorio and Victor Menotti</title>
		<link>http://statehoodhawaii.org/2011/08/09/apec-views-jon-osorio-and-victor-menotti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What You Haven&#8217;t Heard About APEC View on Olelo Net Manu Kai&#8217;ama moderates a discussion about APEC, Hawai&#8217;i, and the negative effects of globalization with Jon Osorio, Professor of Hawaiian History at the University of Hawai&#8217;i, Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies and Chair for Pua Mohala I Ka Po, and Victor Minotti, director of the International Forum on Globalization. Both organizations are co-directing a counter-forum to APEC called Moana Nui to be held on November 9-11th in Honolulu.  More info here: http://moananui2011.org or find discussions on facebook. Your browser does not support iframes.]]></description>
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		<title>How APEC Harms</title>
		<link>http://statehoodhawaii.org/2011/07/28/how-apec-harms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Does APEC Benefit or Harm Hawaii and other Pacific Islands? download pamphlet The impact of the APEC forum will provide Hawaii’s business and finance community with some economic gains, but it will do so at the expense of long-term environmental consequences while furthering economic disparities. Behind the friendly appearance of its website and the aloha welcoming committee, is there anyone asking who APEC is and what these new investment agreements mean for our future. There will be many people gathering to protest the APEC forum, many of them representing the millions of people who have been negatively impacted by APEC, and we need to ask why the U.S. host country has put on an aloha shirt to say, “E komo mai.” This November 8th to the 13th, APEC, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation will be holding a 21-nation forum in Hawaii that expects to draw over 10,000 visitors under the big tent of the Convention Center and Ko Olina. There you’ll find trade ministers, government leaders, CEOs of transnational corporations, the banking and financial institutions, representatives of the IMF, the World Bank, government and private equity stake-holders, chambers of commerce and manufacturing, development and aid NGOs, investors of the [...]]]></description>
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