Press Release – Electronic Frontier Foundation After years of secret trade negotiations over the future of intellectual property rights (and limits on those rights), the public gets a chance to looks at the results. For those of us who care about free speech and a balanced intellectual property system …
US Negotiators Still Trying to Trade Away Internet Freedoms Read More »
Press Release – Wikileaks Today, 13 November 2013, WikiLeaks released the secret negotiated draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter . The TPP is the largest-ever economic treaty, encompassing nations representing more …
Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) IP Chapter Read More »
Article – Creative Freedom Foundation Last week the Creative Freedom Foundation participated in a group briefing and Q&A session with David Walker, NZs Chief Negotiator in the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement , and officials Angela Strahl and Yvonne Woutersen.
TPPA looks set to secretly extend NZ’s Copyright Term Read More »
Article – Gordon Campbell Hi and welcome to the 44th edition of Werewolf. Our cover story this month has been timed to co-incide with the looming Citizens Initiated Referendum on the government’s asset sales programme .
Werewolf Edition #44 : Referendum On A Robbery Read More »
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey Every ounce of political pressure will come on the negotiators during a special round of talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) that are scheduled for Salt Lake City from 19 to 24 November, according to Professor Jane Kelsey …
Crunch Time for TPPA at Salt Lake City Meeting 19-24 Novembe Read More »
Column – Gordon Campbell It seems to be a basic law of political thermodynamics that centre left parties can only lurch or swing when they begin to sound more assertive. This lateral motion always takes them further leftwards, allegedly in response to the primal, …
Gordon Campbell on the Labour Party annual conference Read More »
Speech – New Zealand Government First, I would like to congratulate the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, NZ Inc and all the agencies and sponsors for putting this event together.
Hon Tim Groser Address: China Business Summit Read More »
Press Release – Association of Salaried Medical Specialists Senior doctors endorse the concerns raised by nurses about the secret negotiations over the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, today. Mr Powell was commenting …
Senior Doctors Endorse Nurses Concerns Over Secret TPP Read More »
Press Release – Association of Salaried Medical Specialists Senior doctors endorse the concerns raised by nurses about the secret negotiations over the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, today. Mr Powell was commenting …
Senior Doctors Endorse Nurses Concerns Over Secret TPP Read More »
Press Release – New Zealand First Party Rt Hon Winston Peters has warned that the secrecy surrounding the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement negotiations means future New Zealand governments could be trapped, without warning, at the mercy of multinationals.
TPP Secrecy Creates Serious Risks Read More »
Column – New Zealand National Party APEC Leaders’ Meeting – Bali; East Asia Summit – Brunei; Trans-Pacific Partnership; Affordable Housing
Key Notes: My week in Bali and Brunei Read More »
Article – Hadyn Green Trade negotiations are tense affairs. There are always interested parties trying to get your ear, long nights spent arguing small but technical points, and the invisible but ever present political pressure. So it was in Brunei late August where the latest …
TPP: This is a fight worth joining Read More »
