New Zealand Is Not For Sale - Murray Horton speaking tour
New Zealand Is Not For Sale - Murray Horton speaking tour
Monday 18 April, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Main Hall, St John's Church, corner Willis and Dixon Streets
Murray Horton, spokesperson of the Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) will speak on:*
- The Trans-Pacific
Partnership Agreement and the dangers it poses to the New
Zealand economy and to our very democracy.
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Privatisation of our public assets.
- The relentless
takeover of New Zealand businesses and land by transnational
corporations.
- The re-absorption of New Zealand into US
Empire.
- And, most, importantly, how the New Zealand
people can fight back; it's too important to be left up to
the politicians.
The November 26 election is one of
the most important in decades. Both major parties are
committed to policies by which the New Zealand economy is
even more dominated by transnational corporations; more and
more of our farmland is owned by foreigners; publicly-owned
assets are privatised; and the country is locked ever more
tightly into disadvantageous “free” trade and foreign
investment agreements, of which the biggest one being
negotiated, in secret, is the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Agreement – this is the means to effect a free trade
agreement with the US.
There are some differences between National and Labour on these issues, but they are only ones of degree, not principle. A change in government will not, in itself, be enough to change the disastrous course on which this country is set, one of domination by global Big Business and the US. This country needs People Power to let the world know that New Zealand is not for sale!