Posts Tagged ‘TPPA’
TPPA Protests this week – Its our future
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, August 13th, 2015 - 33 comments
A large anti TPPA protest is scheduled for Saturday in Auckland and throughout the country during this week.
National’s terrible deal making
Written By: - Date published: 10:20 am, August 9th, 2015 - 114 comments
A brief analysis of a number of deals that National has negotiated suggests that its reputation as a supposedly tough dealmaker is misplaced.
TPPA hopefully sinking again
Written By: - Date published: 12:52 pm, August 1st, 2015 - 52 comments
Looks like the TPP press conference has been delayed. Good. Lets hope this restraint of trade agreement stays that way. I had time to look at the varied opinions in the Herald this morning. A range from the good to the pathetic…
Malaysia are better negotiators
Written By: - Date published: 1:39 pm, July 31st, 2015 - 46 comments
Looks like (ht Danyl Mclauchlan) Malaysia is smarter than us.
Shut up and take your medicine
Written By: - Date published: 7:30 am, July 31st, 2015 - 26 comments
As commentators and dairy industry insiders warn of TPP disaster, the Nats’ message to we the people is shut up and take our medicine – oh and by the way the price just went up.
We’re going to sign a rubbish deal
Written By: - Date published: 8:58 am, July 30th, 2015 - 106 comments
We’re not making progress on dairy in the TPP negotiations, but the smart money reckons we’re going to sign anyway.
Update: Read what a real journalist has to say on the current state of negotiations.
Giving away the shop for nothing
Written By: - Date published: 9:29 am, July 29th, 2015 - 144 comments
We are giving away the shop and we don’t know what if anything we will get in terms of dairy access yet. Our negotiators have signaled that they are weak. And even if we get what we want it is probably worth bugger all anyway.
What will National give away?
Written By: - Date published: 9:14 am, July 28th, 2015 - 108 comments
Labour has set out its bottom lines for supporting the TPP. My question to National and its supporters – which of Labour’s bottom lines are you prepared to give away, and why?
Update: We can cross off point 1, Key sells out Pharmac.
Andrew Little: TPPA no way …
Written By: - Date published: 7:23 am, July 24th, 2015 - 180 comments
Andrew Little has outlined five bottom lines that have to be met before Labour will support the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement. These include protecting Pharmac, no investor state dispute resolution procedure, New Zealand retains the right to restrict land sales to overseas entities, the Treaty of Waitangi is upheld and there are meaningful gains for farmers in tariff reductions and market access.
TPP designed to cripple our health system
Written By: - Date published: 10:31 am, June 11th, 2015 - 80 comments
“[The TPP] appears to be designed to cripple New Zealand’s strong public healthcare programme and to inhibit the adoption of similar programmes in developing countries.”
TPPA and sovereignty
Written By: - Date published: 10:23 am, May 21st, 2015 - 13 comments
Grosser has confirmed that the TPPA (if it ever happens) will contain “ISDS” provisions that could limit the scope of our sovereignty by allowing foreign corporations to sue NZ.
TPPA circling the drain
Written By: - Date published: 2:58 pm, May 13th, 2015 - 40 comments
As widely reported today, the TPPA has taken a probably fatal hit in the US Senate. Good riddance.
Stop TPPA – clever placement
Written By: - Date published: 2:31 pm, May 12th, 2015 - 11 comments
Full marks to these folk for clever protest placement.
Wikileaks releases TPP chapter
Written By: - Date published: 12:28 pm, March 26th, 2015 - 26 comments
Another chapter of the secret draft TPP agreement has been leaked.
TPP protest reports
Written By: - Date published: 4:05 pm, March 7th, 2015 - 33 comments
For any accounts from the TPP protest marches today.
Anti TPPA Rallies this Saturday
Written By: - Date published: 3:00 pm, March 6th, 2015 - 11 comments
For details of protest action nearest to you check out the itsourfuture website.
Sacrificing our Sovereignty in the name of Free Trade
Written By: - Date published: 1:24 pm, January 15th, 2015 - 30 comments
The United Kingdom is debating entry into the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which like the TPPA will allow investor-state disputes to be resolved by unappealable unaccountable private arbitration. George Monbiot in the Guardian describes the issue well and has suggestions on how the proposal can be challenged.
The TPPA – big business plans to fight back
Written By: - Date published: 8:10 am, November 11th, 2014 - 74 comments
Big business is planning a fighting fund to extol the virtues of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement. And they want there to be a debate about the benefits of the TPPA. But only after the treaty has been concluded …
“Marching in the streets”
Written By: - Date published: 5:15 pm, November 8th, 2014 - 129 comments
Thousands of people protested and marched around the country against the secret and anti-democratic TPPA negotiations. Reports & pics. Updated
NRT: TPPA would criminalise journalism
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, October 18th, 2014 - 15 comments
I/S at No Right Turn on how “the TPPA would criminalise investigative journalism”.
Polity: Free trade fundies
Written By: - Date published: 12:17 pm, June 19th, 2014 - 2 comments
The great tragedy in New Zealand trade policy came in the 1990s when we almost literally gave away the farm, dismantling most of our tariffs unilaterally to “demonstrate” how much fun life is with no tariffs. You can’t get much more fundie than that. And now – quelle surprise – we have basically no cards to play when negotiating with other countries. Who would have thought it?
NRT: An agreement for the sake of an agreement
Written By: - Date published: 3:42 pm, May 22nd, 2014 - 19 comments
The more you look at the Trans Pacific ‘Partnership’, the more you realise that unlike the trade agreements of the past 20 years, this agreement isn’t a agreement about freeing up trade. It is about putting restraints on trade. For NZ especially, it appears that we will not receive anything from it. All it does is makes it harder for our businesses. No Right Turn looks at the latest disaster of NZ diplomacy..
Go Annette!
Written By: - Date published: 9:35 am, April 4th, 2014 - 53 comments
Mana Party candidate Annette Sykes has been developing an effective organisation in her electorate. Her speech at the TPPA rally laid out its threats to livelihoods in the Bay of Plenty. Her views on the Internet Party will be listened to when discussed by the Mana Party.
Stand up for fairness in & for NZ – TPPA, March 29
Written By: - Date published: 11:02 am, March 13th, 2014 - 6 comments
International, cronyist, corporate capitalism skews democratic processes in NZ, making it harder for the majority of battling Kiwis to get a fair go – harder to ensure all New Zealanders live in a society that works for them. The TPPA is a power-play between the US and other powerful countries. There’s nothing in it for NZ. National Day of action March 29th, 2014.
NRT: National hates transparency
Written By: - Date published: 7:54 am, February 12th, 2014 - 56 comments
Yesterday Labour tried to put forward a Parliamentary motion calling on the government to release the draft text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement before signing it, on the simple democratic grounds that the public deserved to know what agreements were being made in our name. National refused to. The upshot: National hates transparency. It also hates democracy.
Obama’s TPPA bid to over-ride democracy
Written By: - Date published: 6:47 pm, January 10th, 2014 - 16 comments
There’s a tussle going on as Obama pushes to seal the deal and to limit Congress’s say on TPPA deals. But, Congress would still have more say about the deals than NZ MPs. It’s about democracy & sovereignty. It could slip under the radar over summer.
TPPA: Kelsey vs Mapp debate
Written By: - Date published: 5:51 pm, October 18th, 2013 - 21 comments
Last week there was a Fabian debate between Wayne Mapp and Jane Kelsey about the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement that New Zealand started originally as a free trade agreement. Bearing in mind the short notice there were a quite credible audience. However to enhance the audience, Lyn Collie was inveigled into filming and editing the debate. Here is the film of the debate..
The Guardian on Dotcom, GCSB, Key & US power
Written By: - Date published: 9:37 am, October 10th, 2013 - 21 comments
An article in today’s UK Guardian highlights the role of Key’s, US-supporting, government in the GCSB, Dotcom, surveillance saga (and TPP). It is chilling & shows why we need to continue to campaign against NZ’s surveillance state legislation and for TPPA transparency.
The TPPA removes free trade
Written By: - Date published: 12:52 pm, October 9th, 2013 - 20 comments
Hadyn Green was at the Brunei TPPA talks in August for Consumer NZ and a couple of other groups. His post on Public Address today is an excellent run through many of the points that bother me. For instance a section on intellectual property where the TPPA will restrict the current freedom of trade! Arrgghh!.
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