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Bryan Gould Named Patron of Network to Fight TPPA
Tuesday, 8 February 2011, 4:00 pm | CAFCA
Bryan Gould, the well known economic commentator and author, former Vice-Chancellor of Waikato University and senior British Labour MP, has accepted the invitation to become Patron of the New Zealand Not For Sale Campaign, a network of groups formed ... More >>
Transnationals’ Profits Down, So Money Actually Stays in NZ
Friday, 24 December 2010, 9:54 am | CAFCA
The news just keeps getting better. Not only did the Overseas Investment Office and the Government refuse the application by Natural Dairy to buy the Crafar Farms but taxpayers got another Christmas present this week with the announcement that the ... More >>
2010 Roger Award Finalists Named
Friday, 10 December 2010, 12:57 pm | CAFCA
The six finalists for the 2010 Roger Award for the Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand are (in alphabetical order): BUPA, Imperial Tobacco, Telecom, Vodafone, Warner Brothers and Westpac. There is one finalist for the Accomplice ... More >>
PM's Statement On Trade Significant
Thursday, 18 November 2010, 8:30 am | CAFCA
The Prime Minister has unintentionally made a significant announcement on New Zealand's approach to negotiating the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). More >>
NZ Not For Sale Campaign Launch November 11
Monday, 8 November 2010, 3:11 pm | CAFCA
The New Zealand Not For Sale Campaign will be formally launched in Christchurch on November 11, in conjunction with the launch of Professor Jane Kelsey's book on the Transpacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement. More >>
Hillary Clinton Comes Bearing A Poisoned Chalice
Tuesday, 2 November 2010, 3:23 pm | CAFCA
As if 2,000 earthquakes haven’t been enough punishment for Christchurch , now we’re going to have Hillary Clinton visiting us (and Wellington ) this week. A major focus for her NZ visit will be the negotiations which are well underway for the US and ... More >>
Filipino Progressive Leaders Visiting Waihopai
Friday, 22 October 2010, 5:09 pm | CAFCA
The Waihopai spybase is currently in the news because the media shy agency which runs it, the NZ Government Communications Security Bureau, is suing for more than $1m damages the three Christian peace activists who were acquitted of criminal charges ... More >>
Blatant Political Advocacy From OIO
Tuesday, 15 June 2010, 4:33 pm | CAFCA
Blatant Political Advocacy & None Too Subtle Implied Threat From OIO Since When Did NZ’s “Image Overseas” Become Any Of Its Business? More >>
Treasury Urges Liberalisation Of Investment Act
Monday, 31 May 2010, 5:36 pm | CAFCA
The fact that Treasury Secretary John Whitehead supports yet more liberalisation of the 2005 Overseas Investment Act is hardly surprising.It’s been more than a year now since Bill English announced that the Act was being reviewed. More >>
Don’t Be Fooled - Infratil not a NZ company
Tuesday, 30 March 2010, 11:05 am | CAFCA
The sale of Shell NZ’s downstream assets to a joint venture of NZ Superannuation and Infratil has been hailed as returning this chunk of vital infrastructure to New Zealand ownership. It would be a good story if only it were true. More >>
Why the Waihopai Domebusters’ Trial Was Moved
Monday, 22 March 2010, 9:05 am | CAFCA
The reason that the venue change application was granted is obvious – and borne out by Councillor Hope. Adrian Leason, Peter Murnane and Sam Land would not have got a fair trial in Blenheim, they would not have got an unprejudiced jury. They ... More >>
Trans-Pacific Partnership: Jumping on Sinking Ship
Monday, 15 March 2010, 5:12 pm | CAFCA
Talks started in Melbourne today for the US, Australia, Peru and Vietnam to join an expanded Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (TPP, currently comprising NZ, Chile, Brunei, and Singapore, known as the P4 Agreement), with November 2011, ... More >>
Thursday March 11– The Roger Award Ceremony
Monday, 22 February 2010, 4:19 pm | CAFCA
Drinking Liberally presents the annual CAFCA/Gatt Watchdog Roger Award ceremony. More >>
The Roger Award Ceremony
Wednesday, 20 January 2010, 3:20 pm | CAFCA
The Roger Award is presented each year to the worst transnational corporation operating in New Zealand, and the winner of the 2009 Roger Award will be announced at a ceremony in Wellington on Thursday March 11 2010, at the Southern Cross Bar, 39 Abel Smith ... More >>
CAFCA's Historic Comalco Comic Now Online
Tuesday, 19 January 2010, 9:51 am | CAFCA
“Power Junky”, CAFCA’s famous historic Comalco comic (1977; updated 1982; text by Pete Lusk, drawing by Ron Currie) is now available online. Obviously some of the facts and details have changed in the ensuing 30+ years but, sadly the great bulk ... More >>
2009 Roger Award Finalists Named
Monday, 7 December 2009, 3:20 pm | CAFCA
The nine finalists for the 2009 Roger Award for the Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand are (in alphabetical order): ANZ, BNZ, Infratil, Newmont, Rio Tinto Aluminium NZ, Rymans, Telecom, Transpacific and Westpac. There ... More >>
Foreign “Investment” Leaving NZ
Thursday, 1 October 2009, 3:22 pm | CAFCA
Statistics New Zealand has quietly announced that $8.9 billion of net foreign investment was withdrawn from NZ in the last financial year. According to John Morris, of SNZ: “This is the first time that there has been a net withdrawal of foreign investment ... More >>
1990s Issues Of "Foreign Control Watchdog" Online
Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 10:45 am | CAFCA
In a major addition to the Watchdog Website, 11 historic issues have been uploaded to it. More >>
Nominations Open For 2009 Roger Award
Thursday, 18 June 2009, 4:46 pm | CAFCA
Nominations are now open for the 2009 Roger Award for the Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand, which is organised the Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa and GATT Watchdog. More >>
Horton: The Global Economic Crisis
Thursday, 11 June 2009, 1:52 pm | CAFCA
You don’t need me to tell you that the world is in a once in a century economic crisis right now. As capitalism (which is usually misleadingly labelled as “democracy”) was declared the winner of the nearly 50 year long Cold War, and capitalist triumphalism ... More >>
