Category Archives: TPPA
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.
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
Protest: Tuesday 11th August, 4.30pm, at Heipipi park outside the Courthouse
Make a stand with us against the TPPA. Tuesday 11th August at 4.30pm at Heipipi park outside the Courthouse. We will be lining the street to share our message that the TPPA is NO GOOD FOR OUR COUNTRY!! Share Share Share this post to get more people there.
Gisborne TPPA Action Group 