CAFCA ~ ABC 2014 Speaking Tour

Who’s Running the Show?

And in Whose Interests

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What we produce

Peace ResearcherPublished by ABC and issued twice a year.

ABC is also the organiser of the annual Waihopai Protest.

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foreign control WATCHDOGPublished by CAFCA and issued 3 time a year as part of your membership.

CAFCA organises the annual Roger Award

for the Worst Transnational operating in Aotearoa/NZ.

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Who’s running the show ?

Not Us in whose interests?

Not Ours

The FactsAll data underpinning our position is available;

Around the walls

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In the flyers

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“ O u r s p i e s ’ p r i n c i p a l m i s s i o n u s e d t o b e t h e d e f e n c e o f t h e r e a l m . To d a y ’s G C S B i s a b o u t t h e p r o t e c ti o n o f c o r p o r a t e p r o p e r t y ” National Business Review in March 2013

It is time to put People back at the centre of the economy

People’s Rights Before Corporate Profit

Public Service Not Private Profit

An Independent Foreign Policy

No Unjust Secret Treaties

People’s Rights Before Corporate Profi tIt is time to put People back at the centre of the economy

po l i c ies that

open ly put the in te res ts o f o rd inary work ing peop le

ahead o f those o f cap i ta l and B ig Bus iness

“Big Business . . .sets the agenda – indeed it has a firm grasp of it by the short and curlies . . .“experts” rigorously attack anything put up by mainstream politicians that looks like it might not be in the interests of Big Business”

Example:

look at the reaction to

Labour and the Greens’

eminently sensible

proposal to establish a

single buyer to bring some

order and fairness to the

chaotic and profiteering

electricity market

the short and curlies

The Government should help its own people, not TNCs.

“ We f o u n d a r a n g e o f d e fi c i e n c i e s i n t h e a d v i c e p r o v i d e d a n d s t e p s t a k e n l e a d i n g u p t o [ t h e ] d e c i s i o n .”

Phillippa SmithDeputy Controller and Auditor-General

18 February 2013

Google, Facebook & Apple

• estimated income in New Zealand

$750 million• tax paid (less than)

$ 3 million•tax rate

0.4% the company tax rate in New Zealand

28%

When people are N OT at the centre of the economy

The legacy•c h i l d p o v e r t y •fo o d b a n k s•h o m e l e s s n e s s•i n e q u a l i t y•u n e m p l o y m e n t•l o w w a g e s•u n s a fe w o r k p l a c e s•t h e l o n g s u ff e r i n g p e o p l e o f C h r i s t c h u rc h

Public Service Not Private Profi t It is time to put people back at the centre of the economy

Forget about Nigerian scams; this is the much worse New Zealand scam.

Overseas Investment Act definition

What's a foreign-owned or controlled company ?

‘25% foreign shareholding ’

‘ I ' d hate to see New Zea landers as tenants in the i r own count ry ’

John KeyJuly 2010

" I a m n o t s u r e w e w e r e r i g h t t o u s e t h e

a r g u m e n t t h a t w e s h o u l d p r i v a ti s e t o q u i t d e b t . W e k n e w i t w a s a p o o r a r g u m e n t b u t w e

p r o b a b l y f e l t i t w a s t h e e a s i e s t t o u s e p o l i ti c a l l y " .

P r i va ti s a ti o n i s a b o u t

ideologyNot

Money

Socialising the losses (Solid Energy).

privatising the gains (Power Companies)

We need to fi ght to

re ta in what we ’ve got

l e f t that p rov ides a

public service

An Independent Foreign Pol icy It is time to put People back at the centre of the economy

T h e W a s h i n g t o n D e c l a r a ti o n

T h e W e l l i n g t o n D e c l a r a ti o n

Riding with cowboys makes us complicit

Waterboarding Extraordinary Rendition

Iraq war was illegal and b r e a c h e d UN charter,

Kofi Annan

War CrimesExtrajudicial Killing

Unexploded Munitions

Chemical WeaponsGlobal surveillance

Cut the ti es that cr iminal ise

Wa i h o p a i

Ta n g i m o a n a

US transport base at Christchurch Airport

s h u t t h e l o t

a l l o f t h e m

free trade agreement = investment agreement = transnational's Trojan horse

J u m p ! H o w H i g h ?

No Unjust Secret Treati es It is time to put People back at the centre of the economy

Five Eyes binds New Zealand to U.S. intelligence and military arms. •it pre-dates ANZUS

•It’s more important than ANZUS

•it has carried on uninterrupted despite NZ being kicked out of ANZUS a generation ago

“But I t was not unt i l I

r ead th i s book that I

had any idea that we

had been commit ted

to an in te rnat iona l

in tegrated e lec t ron i c

ne twork…i t i s an

out rage that I and

o ther M in i s te rs were

to ld so l i t t l e , and th i s

ra i ses the quest ion o f

to whom those

concerned saw

themse lves

accountab le” . Secret Power

Nicky Hager

www.itsourfuture.org

,

Doomsayers predicted that the sky would fall without nukes in our ports

I t D idn ' t

What Can We Do About

usIts down to us

We’ve done it before

We can do it again

P u t P e o p l e B a c k A t T h e C e n t r e O f T h e E c o n o m y

put People back at thecentre of the economy

fo r an independent Aotearoa based on po l i c ies o f economic , m i l i t a ry and po l i t i ca l se l f - re l i ance ,

us ing Aotearoa ’s resources fo r the benefi t o f the peop le o f Aotearoa

People’s Rights Before Corporate Profit

Public Service Not Private Profit

No Unjust Secret TreatiesAn Independent Foreign Policy

Where you ’ l l fi nd us

Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa www.cafca.org.nz

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Anti Bases Campaign

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