The following link explains the TPPA in a bit more detail than our slides:
Go HERE for a concise explanation of the issues around the TPPA
SOLUTION?
Send letters or postcards cards to the Government – not just John Key, but your own MP
and Tim Groser, the Minster for Trade and Industry
Email: Tim.Groser@national.org.nz
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) is the means to effect a Free Trade Agreement with the US.
Labout initiated TPPA negotiations so they need letters or cards too.
For full details on why this would have a very negative impact on NZ, check www.nznotforsale.org
There is no bigger issue this election.
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Dear name MP
I urge the Government to withdraw from negotiations for the TPPA and instead put New Zealand’s national interest at the heart of all trade and investment negotiations, rather than the interests of transnational corporations and the US government.
The TPPA will, among other things: undermine what little NZ has left in the way of any controls of foreign investment; institutionalise the very same horrendous financial practices which led to the global financial crisis; allow American corporations to sue the New Zealand government in private international tribunals; attack Pharmac and drive up the cost of prescription medicines; make access to digital recordings more expensive and copying more restricted; attack our GE and tobacco controls and food labeling and food and appliance safety standards; and weaken our controls of food imports where they might carry disease. The whole process is both secret and fundamentally undemocratic in the way in which it is being negotiated and then ratified by Executive decree.
I will be voting for a party which puts our national interest first, not those of foreign corporations under a TPPA.
Yours Sincerely
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You can also order postcards from CAFCA (Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa) with the above text, which came from their postcards.
These cards can be ordered from CAFCA, Box 2258, Christchurch. For orders of 50 – 500 of each or both, we would expect a koha towards copying and postage. Of orders of more than 500 of each or both, we would expect full reimbursement for copying and postage. Payment is to CAFCA. Our bank account details are available upon request.
Please specify whether you are ordering both cards or one version only (and, if so, specify which one). Allow at least several days for them to be copied and posted.
The cards are also online at http://www.box.net/shared/ju1gxifyio and people are welcome to download and print their own. Bear in mind that they are meant to be on light card, not paper
Let the politicians know that the New Zealand people don’t want a free trade agreement with the US!
