On Sunday 4th of March hundred’s of people around the country gathered to protest the government signing the TPPA in Chile on the 8th of March. Below are the speakers from the Auckland Rally; Mikey Brenndorfer – speaking on the health analysis Moana Maniapoto – speaking on holding the lines, and Te Tiriti, …
Speeches from Auckland anti-TPPA Rally March 2018 Read More »
Auckland RCEP Consultations 14-17 June The thirteenth round of consultations were held in Auckland from the 12-18 June. Parallel meetings were held by the Working Groups on Trade in Goods and Trade in Services including their respective Sub-Working Groups, as well as the Working Groups on Investment, Economic and Technical Cooperation, Intellectual Property, Competition, e-Commerce, …
The Labour Party’s health spokesperson Maryan Street revealed that National Party members on the Health Select Committee have twice refused to allow experts to brief the committee on possible effects of the TPP on New Zealand’s ability to determine its own health policies. This follows the earlier rejection of a petition led by the NZCTU for a …
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Joseph Damond, a senior vice-president of the Washington-based Biotechnology Industry Organisation, was in Wellington last month to convince Trade Minister Groser and the New Zealand negotiators to throw PHARMAC to the wind in the TPPA. Damond struggled to convince us that PHARMAC — which ensures New Zealand pays a lot less for medicines — is somehow bad …
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Actress Q’orianka Kilcher was arrested at the Leesburg venue of the last TPP round while delivering the Avaaz petition,at that pointed signed by over 350,000 people, now by twice as many. In a statement before her arrest Q’orianka said: “The Trans Pacific Partnership would be devastating for people around the world and it is being negotiated …
A Trans-Pacific Partnership Cartoon Competition has been launched to encourage the country’s satirists and graphic artists to engage creatively with its many issues. The co-sponsors are Scoop Independent News (publishers of Scoop.co.nz), the Society of Authors, the Bruce Jesson Foundation and BizDojo, who will also host an exhibition of the cartoons in Auckland during the negotiation. …
Having fun with the TPPA: National Cartoon Competition Launched Read More »
As we predicted, the next TPPA negotiating round will be taking place in Auckland from the 3rd to the 12th of December. This is our best chance to mobilise opposition against the TPPA, so let’s get organising!
Deb Gleeson, an Australian public health expert on TPP, will speak in Wellington on public heath issues at 5.30pm, Wednesday 26th September with Prof Susy Frankel at Rutherford House, with Simon Terry from the Sustainability Council on Thursday, 27th September at 12.30 pm at City Art Gallery, and 6.00pm at 19 Tory Street with Rainbow …
Hear Australian Public Health expert on TPP Auckland & Wgtn 24-27 September Read More »
On Thursday 27 Sept at 6.30pm the US Consul Dana Decree will hold a ‘Town Hall meeting’ for American citizens at the US Embassy, 29 Fitzherbert St, Thorndon. US citizens must RSVP. Inside or outside, it seems a good opportunity to tell the US what you think about the TPPA.
There are strong rumours the next round of negotiations will be in Auckland starting on 3 December. If that’s true, we need to put creating thinking caps on! More in the next bulletin. Anyone with any further information please get in touch.
The super-power contest is heating up. Negotiations for a competing mega-FTA between 10 ASEAN countries and China, India, Korea, Japan, Australia and New Zealand have just been launched. China is in and the US is not! NZ wants to keep a foot in each camp. Trade Minister Tim Groser is putting his eggs in the …
