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Why you must march against the TPPA on Saturday 29th
The first round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement was in Melbourne on 15 March 2010 – four years almost to the day. Four years is enough. Believe me, four years IS ENOUGH!!!! Kiwis in at...
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Great work on 29th and the ANZAC spirit deserts the TPPA
Groser and co would have been spitting tacks last week as the ANZAC spirit deserted the TPPA negotiations. Australia has done a deal directly with Japan which undercuts the demand for Japan to...
View ArticleMainstream media silence on investor-state dispute settlements in the TPPA
I am writing this in the midst of a strategy meeting of activists from over thirty countries to discuss how to build on the current momentum to put an end to the foreign investors’ ‘bill of rights’ in...
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In the shadow of TPPA lurks TISA – and another GFC
Remember the global financial crisis? Banks ‘too big to fail’ were allowed (not) to regulate themselves. Toxic products traded in an unregulated shadow banking system proved worthless. Households were...
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Which Party Would (not) Walk Away from a Crap TPPA?
Trick question. Any TPPA would be crap. But a future government will try to sell it to us anyway. It is clear that there won’t be any deal until well after the election and the new government is...
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US ‘CERTIFICATION’: THE ULTIMATE OUTRAGE AGAINST DEMOCRACY
The US is driving the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). The demands it makes on behalf of its corporations have dominated the negotiations. US officials now chair many of the more...
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Who said Kiwis couldn’t get a fire in their bellies over an arcane...
An amazing team of activists has taken the campaign on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) to local governments throughout the country. Their latest triumph came last Monday when the...
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The time for TPPA weasel words is over
Almost every day of the election campaign there has been a policy announcement that would potentially run foul of what I understand is currently in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA):...
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Why you should join the TPPA Action on 8 November
On 8 November 2014, thousands of Kiwis will take part in the International Day of Action to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). The rally cry for us is TPPA – Corporate Trap, Kiwis...
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YES – it really DOES matter that you turn out this Saturday for the...
There is a mythology that the TPPA will never happen. That is a reckless assumption. It encourages complacency and inaction. And it is seriously wrong. The political leaders of the twelve countries...
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Latest secret TPPA leak reveals mass surveillance plans
When the GCSB debate was in full flight I warned that a seemingly innocuous e-commerce chapter in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) could become a stalking horse for the NSA to get its...
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Two things you can do to stop the TPPA
If you were one of the 10,000 plus Kiwis who joined the national day of action against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) last November, we need you to join us again on Saturday 7 March –...
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Support NZ First’s Fighting Foreign Corporate Control Bill and stop the TPPA
What do New Zealand’s Chief Justice, Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, Argentina’s chief legal adviser, The Economist, Business New Zealand, and the thousands of Kiwis who have taken...
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Dangers of Fast-tracking TPPA
I hope this is the third-last blog I will write on the TPPA – the final one being its obituary. D-Day is expected to be a meeting of ministers from the 12 countries around 25 May, probably in...
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Latest TPPA setback another black eye for John Key
Yesterday the US Senate dealt another blow to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). It’s too soon to say if it will be terminal. Already Obama’s wingmen – led by Republicans – are plotting a...
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How many leaks does it take to sink a dodgy ship?
Yesterday Wikileaks posted 17 texts and documents from the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) negotiations (www.wikileaks.org/tisa). We reckon it is the largest leak from a so-called ‘trade’...
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The FIRE Economy
How would New Zealanders respond if we faced a crisis of the magnitude confronting Greece today? Or that of Iceland or Ireland in 2009, or Argentina in the early 2000s? That question is at the heart...
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Tell Labour to stop equivocating and reject the TPPA
A story appeared on Politik yesterday (16 July) by Richard Harman headlined ‘Why Labour might reluctantly support the TPP’, claiming that Labour was unlikely to oppose the final deal. Whether this is...
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Jane Kelsey responds to Labour’s TPPA announcement
Labour’s attempt to spin this announcement to appear to take a principled position that meets its members’ concernsm is disingenuous at best. There is only one red line in this list. The rest you can...
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10 days till Groser swallows the TPPA rat?
We will know on 3 October (2 October US time) whether the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) will conclude or faces collapse. According to a calculated drip-feed of unofficial information,...
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