Stand Up: 14 November
Gisborne route:
Begin outside Te Wananga o Aotearoa on Childers Road close to the Elgin shops. We will proceed down Childers road through the round about and on to Roebuck Road. We will then go up Roebuck Road to Gladstone Road and march the full length of town to Heipipi Park next to the Courthouse. We meet outside the Wananga at 12.30pm to get ready for a 1pm start.
Spread the word to everyone!!!
“The TPPA can’t be signed for at least another three months. Until then New Zealand has not been committed in any formal legal manner to the political deal. Even then, the country won’t be bound irrevocably to the TPPA for probably another two years.
“This is no time for surrender or fatigue. Other countries are fighting to ensure the political price is too high for their governments to do so and that opposition parties make an uncompromising commitment to reject the still-secret deal. We need to do that here, starting with a mass turnout to the protests around the country…”
NZ sued by Chinese company
What was that they were saying about NZ never being sued?
Chinese company Shanghai Pengxin is to seek a a judicial review in the High Court of the Government’s rejection of its bid to buy Lochinver Station.
The only difference between scenarios envisaged under the TPPA and the Lochinver Station-Shanghai Pengxin-OIO case is that the latter is being tested under the jurisdiction of a New Zealand Court of law instead of an extra-judicial, and often-secret, corporate tribunal overseas.
TPP far from done
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Yesterday’s announcement by negotiators confirmed only that they had made a deal; not that the TPP is a done deal.
Trade Minister Tim Groser has agreed to a substandard deal that won’t give us the gains on dairy they had touted to allay sceptics.
Negotiators say they have been able to ban cigarette companies from suing us under the Investor State Dispute Settlement clause but didn’t say anything about the oil companies that can sue us if we try to stop them from fracking or deep-sea oil drilling. Neither a word about the likes of Monsanto suing us for loss of income if we bring in a policy to stop the introduction and production of GMO foods. So they can introduce initiatives to stop people from smoking but not from eating genetically engineered food on oil-slicked beaches.
How about our inability to stop overseas investors from buying up land under this deal? Where is the gain for us in losing control of our lands?
“No change on the current patents for biologic medicines but an extension on copyright by 20 years will be phased in.”
A classic example of giving with one ridiculously high-paid hand and taking with the other. This deal means only to create gains for the wealthy, with no gain for the average New Zealander. It’s a bust in my opinion.
While the TPP has been agreed by negotiators, it is far from done and dusted. Each participating country needs to ratify it via their respective governmental procedures.
The US Congress is divided over the TPP and it will be a massive task getting them to agree to it.
Our government process allows us to present submissions in opposition to this deal. Myself and many thousands of concerned Kiwis will be doing this. Opposition parties are objecting to this agreement and so they should be. Thank goodness for the likes of NZ First and the Greens making a stand.
Yes a deal was struck between the desperate negotiators but the fight for the preservation of our country and our basic freedoms is far from over.
TANIA BARBARICH
NOV 14: TPPA – Stand Up! GISBORNE
It’s time for NZ to unite and take the biggest stand that we have seen in our history! It’s time to STAND UP against the TPPA!
Stand Up for our Sovereignty!
Stand Up for Democracy!
Stand Up for Human Rights!
Stand Up for the Environment!
Stand Up against Corporate Control!
Save the date of Saturday 14 November! More details to come!
Gisborne says TPPA? Walk Away
Gisborne says “TPPA no way”
Gisborne Herald 12/8/15
“TPPA no way” was the message to the Government from protesters at Heipipi Endeavour Park yesterday.
About 40 people rallied to express their concern and outrage with New Zealand’s involvement in the Trans- Pacific Partnership, a massive free-trade agreement being negotiated with 11 other nations including the United States and Australia.
Economist Predicts: TPP Is Dead
The chief economist of The Economist, Simon Baptistis has pronounced that the TPPA is dead.
It is important to add that in every country where the TPPA is being negotiated there is intense and growing opposition. This makes it very difficult for elected officials and trade negotiators to compromise their economy in order to get an agreement.
It is critical that the people continue to increase the pressure on politicians to ensure the TPPA is unable to be completed.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Could Lead to Less Trade
We were called anti-Trade when we approached the Gisborne District Council to adopt resolutions that would protect our Gisborne community. But analysis from New York Times shows the TPPA could actually slow trade.
“As a practical matter it is entirely possible that the TPP will lead to less trade. The rules that the United States is trying to impose on patents and copyrights and other forms of intellectual property claims will lead to considerably higher prices for the protected items. For example, the hepatitis C drug Sovaldi would sell for less than $1,000 per treatment without protection, but sells in the United States for $84,000 per treatment with patent protection.”
Spotted in New Lynn
Gisborne TPPA Action Group 