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ANZ, Give Them Back Their Money!
Wednesday, 6 May 2009, 2:59 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
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 >>
Flogging Assets Does Not Help NZ's Foreign Debt
Thursday, 23 April 2009, 10:11 am | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
Don’t take our word for it. Sir Roger Douglas is nothing if not brutally honest and he said, in a book praising the 1980s’ and 90s’ State forest sales: "I am not sure we were right to use the argument that we should privatise to quit debt. ... More >>
OECD Prescription Is The Problem, Not The Solution
Friday, 17 April 2009, 10:02 am | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
The old witch doctors of the OECD have issued another one of their repeat prescriptions for New Zealand and once again it’s based on that discredited old maxim – the operation was a success but the patient died. This slash and burn approach to economics ... More >>
2008 Roger Award Winner To Be Announced Monday
Thursday, 26 February 2009, 3:07 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
The Roger Award for The Worst Transnational Corporation operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand in 2008 to be announced Monday. ANZ; BAT (British American Tobacco NZ); Contact Energy; GlaxoSmithKline; Infratil; McDonalds; Rio Tinto Aluminium NZ (nominated under ... More >>
CAFCA - Heeeere’s Johnnny!
Friday, 28 November 2008, 10:11 am | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
The definitive scene in Stanley Kubrick’s classic supernatural horror film “The Shining” was when the character played by Jack Nicholson has gone mad and is hunting his terrified family with an axe. He uses it to smash his way through the bathroom ... More >>
US Free Trade Agreement A Poisoned Chalice For NZ
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 3:32 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
The proposed expansion of the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (NZ, Chile, Brunei, and Singapore, commonly known as the P4 Agreement) to include investment and financial services, and to add the US to its membership, was bad enough. More >>
Foreign Control Watchdog 118
Monday, 8 September 2008, 12:35 am | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
Sharks In The Water: Privatisation Rears Its Ugly Head Again, by Murray Horton Danger Ahead! Back Door US Deal Threatens All Remaining Foreign Investment Rules, by Bill Rosenberg Round And Round The Mulberry Bush: Auckland Airport And Treasury Advice, ... More >>
Rio Tinto, Stop Crying Wolf
Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 3:59 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
Here we go again. Every time that Rio Tinto, the gargantuan mining and processing transnational which owns 80% of the Bluff smelter feels that its charmed existence in New Zealand is going to become less cushy, it threatens to pull the plug, close ... More >>
April "Foreign Control Watchdog" Now Online
Friday, 9 May 2008, 10:27 am | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
It’s A Start: But Don’t Stop Now, There’s An Awful Lot More To Be Done, by Murray Horton Government Vetoes Takeover Of Auckland Airport: A Tale Of High Adventure And Limpets, by Quentin Findlay International Pressures To Privatise, by Bill Rosenberg ... More >>
Govt Congratulated for Preventing Airport Takeover
Friday, 11 April 2008, 12:44 am | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) congratulates the Government for its decision today to veto the sale of Auckland International Airport to the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board. We fully agree, as does a substantial chunk ... More >>
Roger Award: Telecom Wins; BAT & Spotless 2nd
Monday, 17 March 2008, 8:35 am | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
Judges’ Statement included the comments: “...an obscene $5.4 million final year payment to outgoing CEO Theresa Gattung, the scrapping of concessions for NGOs and the School Connection scheme. These sins and more ensured Telecom was in top form ... More >>
Roger Award 2007 To Be Announced
Sunday, 17 February 2008, 12:27 am | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
The 2007 finalists are: ANZ; APN News & Media (ANM); British American Tobacco (BAT); GlaxoSmithKline; Independent Liquor; Pike River Coal; Spotless and Telecom. The criteria for judging are by assessing the transnational (a corporation which ... More >>
2007 Roger Award’s Eight Finalists Named
Sunday, 18 November 2007, 7:11 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
The finalists for the annual Roger Award For the Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand in 2007 are (in no particular order of preference): More >>
Philippines' Political Prisoner Freed
Thursday, 12 July 2007, 2:36 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
The Philippines Solidarity Network of Aotearoa (PSNA) is delighted to announce that Congressman Crispin Beltran (universally known as Ka Bel) has been freed this week. More >>
Nominations Open For The The Roger Award
Wednesday, 27 June 2007, 11:14 am | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
The Roger Award For The Worst Transnational Corporation Operating In Aotearoa/New Zealand In 2007 More >>
Nominations Open For The The Roger Award
Tuesday, 26 June 2007, 5:35 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
Nominations are now open for this most prestigious and keenly contested annual Award (won by Progressive Enterprises in 2006; the previous winners are: Westpac/BNZ, Telecom, Juken Nissho, Carter Holt Harvey, TransAlta Monsanto and TranzRail - 3 times). Nominations ... More >>
Don’t Flog Off Ak Airport - Learn From Transrail
Thursday, 21 June 2007, 1:57 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
What a timely coincidence that the Fay/Richwhite “no liability” $20 million payment to settle charges of insider trading in TranzRail shares should have been announced in the same week as reports that a Canadian pension fund is making moves to buy out ... More >>
Anton Right On Comalco; Richie Wrong On Westpac
Thursday, 14 June 2007, 5:05 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
A contrasting tale about two All Blacks this week, both captains (one current, one former). Anton Oliver on Comalco's Tiwai Point smelter. And, the All Black captain lending his considerable mana to Westpac More >>
Coms Commission Should Throw The Book At Telecom
Tuesday, 12 June 2007, 4:04 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
Telecom risks a fine of up to $300,000 from the Commerce Commission for failing to meet this week’s deadline to provide the Commission with a document spelling out how its competitors will be able to access its copper local loop, which is the vital ... More >>
Peters Needs To Walk The Walk On Investment
Friday, 11 May 2007, 1:49 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) is delighted that Winston Peters has found his long lost speech notes opposing the relentless takeover of New Zealand by transnational corporations. More >>
