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Stop Impotently Begging Banks To Behave: Make Them
Thursday, 14 May 2009, 4:46 pm | CAFCA
First it was Reserve Bank Governor, Alan Bollard, urging the four big Australian-owned banks to play the game, be good chaps, don’t let the side down, and other similar clichés. So now we have the spectacle of the Minister of Finance, Bill English, ... More >>
ANZ, Give Them Back Their Money!
Wednesday, 6 May 2009, 5:05 pm | CAFCA
The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) fully supports the Frozen Funds Group in its campaign (which now includes pickets of ANZ branches) to get this Australian - owned bank to repay hapless small NZ investors whose money has been ... More >>
Close Waihopai Spybase!
Thursday, 30 April 2009, 9:53 am | CAFCA
It is one year today since the Ploughshares peace activists deflated one of the two domes at the top secret Waihopai spybase (and, in the process, severely deflated the supposed top security of that base). No date has yet been set for the trial of ... More >>
Government’s Desperate Cargo Cult Mentality
Wednesday, 18 March 2009, 10:29 am | CAFCA
News that the Government plans to urgently review the 2005 Overseas Investment Act, with a view to further liberalising it, comes as no surprise. Nor was it any surprise that the Prime Minister made the announcement at the Act Conference. This is another ... More >>
Roger Awards: British American Tobacco NZ Ltd Wins
Tuesday, 3 March 2009, 5:25 pm | CAFCA
The Judges’ Statement on BAT says: “Its product kills 5,000 people every year and ruins the lives of tens of thousands. It perennially refuses to take responsibility for the social and economic consequences of its activity, while maintaining a major ... More >>
Roger Award To Be Revealed On March 2
Tuesday, 10 February 2009, 10:49 am | CAFCA
CAFCA Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa Box 2258, Christchurch, New Zealand cafca@chch.planet.org.nz www.cafca.org.nz Press Release 09.02.09 More >>
2008 Roger Award Will Be Announced March 2
Monday, 2 February 2009, 3:04 pm | CAFCA
The event will feature: • The announcement of the winner by chief judge, Geoff Bertram, of Wellington • A 30 minute episode of a well known comedy relating aptly to this years winner • Speaker Murray Horton (Campaign Against Foreign Control ... More >>
Don’t Just Stop At Saving St James Station
Thursday, 9 October 2008, 3:16 pm | CAFCA
The Campaign Against Foreign of Aotearoa (CAFCA) congratulates the Government for buying the St James Station for the explicit purpose of keeping it from falling into foreign ownership. More >>
CAFCA Releases Suppressed Figures
Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 11:57 am | CAFCA
The Campaign Agaisnt Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) receives the monthly Decisions (i.e.approvals, plus the very rare refusals) from the Overseas Investment Office. More >>
Putting Politicians On Notice About Privatisation
Friday, 4 July 2008, 11:37 am | CAFCA
We didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when told that Bill English had claimed that our unassuming little anti-privatisation postcards are part of a “covert campaign” by Labour and the Greens and apparently on a par with the infamous Exclusive Brethren ... More >>
No Corporate Welfare For Telecom
Thursday, 24 April 2008, 10:35 am | CAFCA
While it’s commendable that John Key wants everybody to have access to broadband, his proposed method of going about it leaves a lot to be desired. If spending $1.5 billion of taxpayers’ money on it is his definition of a public private partnership, ... More >>
CAFCA Commends John Key on Privatisation Pledge
Monday, 14 April 2008, 11:58 am | CAFCA
The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) believes in giving credit where it’s due, so we take the rare (possibly unique) step of commending National for backing away from privatisation of State assets. But Honest John Key has only ... More >>
Privatisation By Stealth
Tuesday, 11 March 2008, 11:09 am | CAFCA
Sunday, March 16th 2008 11.00 a.m. – 5.30 p.m. TRADE UNION CENTRE 199 Armagh Street, Christchurch More >>
CAFCA Congratulates Government But Don’t Stop Now
Friday, 7 March 2008, 10:54 am | CAFCA
The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) congratulates the Government for its moves this week to prevent strategic assets on sensitive land from being sold into foreign ownership. Our only question is – what took you so long? It’s ... More >>
Roger Award Winner To Be Announced in Christchurch
Thursday, 28 February 2008, 3:47 pm | CAFCA
The 2007 finalists are: ANZ; APN News & Media (ANM); British American Tobacco (BAT); GlaxoSmithKline; Independent Liquor; Pike River Coal; Spotless and Telecom. More >>
Privatisation By Stealth Conference Christchurch
Thursday, 28 February 2008, 3:24 pm | CAFCA
Auckland Airport Company, Lyttelton Port Company, toll roads, Public Private Partnerships for Auckland roads and for housing, Christchurch’s new rubbish/recycling collection contract –suddenly privatisation in all its various guises is back in today’s ... More >>
CIA Actively Assisted Suharto's Genocide
Tuesday, 29 January 2008, 10:31 am | CAFCA
Mainstream media coverage of the unlamented Suharto, mass murderer and kleptocrat par excellence, has conceded that the West turned a blind eye to his murderous excesses, which killed well over a million people during his 30+ year reign of terror. More >>
Latest "Peace Researcher" Online Now
Thursday, 24 January 2008, 12:51 am | CAFCA
A Bad Case Of “Terrorism” Hysteria – by Murray Horton; At Long Bloody Last: A Happy Ending To Ahmed Zaoui’s Ordeal – by Murray Horton; The Privatisation Of Spying Part 2 – by Mark Eden ; Who’s Watching You? – by Frances Mountier, ... More >>
Updated News Media Ownership paper available
Friday, 11 January 2008, 9:39 am | CAFCA
A revised version of my paper “News media ownership in New Zealand” is now available which includes updates to the 15 October 2007 version, including some suggestions from readers (many thanks). The changes are outlined below. It is available either ... More >>
ABC & CAFCA Salute Philip Agee, American Hero
Thursday, 10 January 2008, 4:54 pm | CAFCA
The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) and the Anti-Bases Campaign (ABC) salute Philip Agee, whose death has been reported . He was one of the real global heroes of the latter decades of the 20th Century. More >>
