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NZ Govt's position on GATS confusing
Wednesday, 5 February 2003, 6:46 pm | Arena
"The New Zealand government's hypocrisy on the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) becomes more extraordinary by the day," Professor Jane Kelsey told the Second International Meeting of Cultural Professional Organisations in Paris yesterday. More >>
Kelsey on GATS: "Spread the word!"
Thursday, 30 January 2003, 12:16 am | Arena
More than 100 people crowded into Wellington City Council chambers yesterday evening to attend the launch of Professor Jane Kelsey's 'Serving whose interests?', a shocking expose on what the secretly negotiated GATS (the General Agreement on Trade in Services) ... More >>
Cover Blown: GATS report launches today
Wednesday, 29 January 2003, 9:32 am | Arena
Serving Whose Interests?, Professor Jane Kelsey's detailed guide to what the secretly-negotiated GATS (General Agreement on Trade in Services) means for New Zealand, is being launched in Wellington today (Wednesday). It will dangerously raise the blood pressure in ... More >>
Finalists Named For The Roger Award
Thursday, 23 January 2003, 6:51 pm | Arena
The US and its allies (including little old New Zealand) are currently reverting to a very old form of “globalisation”, namely that enforced at the point of a gun. Starting with Afghanistan, and in preparations for Iraq, it is aiming to reshape ... More >>
Govt in shambles over WTO services negotiations
Monday, 20 January 2003, 10:58 am | Arena
“Six months ago the government received ‘requests’ from other WTO members to commit more services to the free trade rules of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). With ten weeks to go before it has to reply, it still hasn’t released its ... More >>
ARENA applauds growing resistance to GATS
Friday, 13 December 2002, 9:22 am | Arena
ARENA applauds growing resistance to GATS by local government - The Action, Research and Education Network of Aotearoa (ARENA), a long-time opponent of free-trade rules, has welcomed resolutions from both North Shore City Council and Christchurch City ... More >>
New Zealand Government On Horns Of Dilemma
Friday, 22 November 2002, 1:43 pm | Arena
Closing doors, burning bridges, and the search for a mythical holy grail. Bill Rosenberg con-siders the country's mad rush to more free trade. More >>
Diary Of A Protest – A NZer At WTO Sydney
Monday, 18 November 2002, 9:42 am | Arena
"Diary of a protest" are the verbatim email reports from Garrick Martin of Wellington who attended the WTO mini-ministerial protests in Sydney last week, which has been largely misreported and misunderstood. More >>
WTO Overrules GE Free New Zealand
Monday, 18 November 2002, 9:35 am | Arena
"The biggest obstacles to a GE-Free New Zealand are not just the politicians and the biotech lobby; they include the so-called free-trade rules of the WTO," Professor Jane Kelsey from the Action, Research and Education Network of Aotearoa ... More >>
Clark’s ‘guns for butter’ deal morally wrong
Friday, 15 November 2002, 3:31 pm | Arena
"Helen Clark’s admission that US references to possible free trade negotiations with New Zealand are linked to her support for the US-led war against Iraq exposes the bankruptcy and immorality of this government and its trade policy," says Leigh Cookson ... More >>
Reality check needed on a US-NZ free-trade deal
Friday, 15 November 2002, 3:29 pm | Arena
"Those who claim that New Zealand will open the doors to US agricultural markets need a reality check," says Dr Bill Rosenberg, on behalf of the Action, Research and Education Network of Aotearoa (ARENA). More >>
Your Medicine And The WTO
Friday, 15 November 2002, 10:03 am | Arena
"Claims that the current invitation-only meeting of WTO ministers in Sydney is focused on helping poor countries access life saving medicines is a cynical deception," says Leigh Cookson on behalf of the Action, Research and Education Network of Aotearoa ... More >>
Geneva report slams WTO power politics
Tuesday, 12 November 2002, 5:53 pm | Arena
A new report Power Politics in the WTO by Aileen Kwa, the Geneva-based analyst for the Thailand-based group Focus on the Global South, was launched in Sydney during the lead-up to the ‘informal’ meeting of WTO ministers on Thursday and Friday. More >>
Storm Clouds Gather Over Sydney's WTO Ministerial
Monday, 11 November 2002, 9:21 am | Arena
"The first salvos were fired in Sydney today against the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) invitation-only ‘mini-ministerial’ meeting later this week," reports Professor Jane Kelsey of the Action, Research and Education Network of Aotearoa (ARENA). More >>
Abolishing tariffs is a 'betrayal' of NZ workers
Monday, 11 November 2002, 9:20 am | Arena
"The government's ‘we-will-if-you-will’ zero tariff proposal to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) this week tells New Zealand industry ‘you can’t count on our support’," says national secretary of the Clothing Workers Union Maxine Gay. "It is telling ... More >>
WTO Mini-Ministerial this week in Sydney
Monday, 11 November 2002, 9:18 am | Arena
Professor Jane Kelsey will be speaking on "The MAI Revisited: WTO Negotiations on Investment and Procurement" at the Seminar on Alternatives to the WTO Agenda, organised by the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network (AFTINET) in Sydney ... More >>
'Bold move' to abolish tariffs viewed with dismay
Tuesday, 5 November 2002, 8:40 am | Arena
Most people who work for a living will view the New Zealand government's "bold move" to bolster flagging international support for the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and globalization with dismay, Maxine Gay, Secretary of the Clothing Workers Union ... More >>
Free-trade protests rock South American capital
Monday, 4 November 2002, 9:17 pm | Arena
The Free Trade protests that brought Equador's capital city Quito to a standstill this weekend is a portent of things to come, warns one of New Zealand's leading anti-globalization experts. More >>
Time APEC and WTO saw what’s on their doorstep
Wednesday, 30 October 2002, 4:47 pm | Arena
Ministers at this year’s Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Mexico have expressed their anguish about threats to security and promised more economic globalisation as the solution. They refuse to recognize the link between their free ... More >>
Clothing union rep on China trade
Tuesday, 29 October 2002, 12:40 am | Arena
The impact on the New Zealand clothing industry of China’s accession into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the end of the Multi Fibre Agreement will be studied by Clothing Workers Union Industry Officer Robert Reid in a visit to east Asia during ... More >>
