Decisions, By us, For us, Made here!
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Kia ora tatou,
Welcome to the NZ Not For Sale Campaign's February Teach-In web page. On this page you will find details about the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Teach-In in Christchurch on February 20, plus links to a registration page, and more information on the TPPA.
Information on why the NZ Not For Sale Campaign was set up and why we are holding this Teach-In is directly below. If you can't come to the Teach-In, please check the NZ Not For Sale Campaign's website for other ways in which you can become informed and active.
Christine Dann,
Welcome to the NZ Not For Sale Campaign's February Teach-In web page. On this page you will find details about the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Teach-In in Christchurch on February 20, plus links to a registration page, and more information on the TPPA.
Information on why the NZ Not For Sale Campaign was set up and why we are holding this Teach-In is directly below. If you can't come to the Teach-In, please check the NZ Not For Sale Campaign's website for other ways in which you can become informed and active.
Christine Dann,
Secretary,
NZ Not For Sale Campaign Working Group
What we want
Trade and investment decisions which significantly affect our standard or living and our quality of life made by all of us, for all of us - here
Why we want it
One of the most important issues in this year’s election is whether New Zealanders will end up as tenants in our own country (to quote the Prime Minister).
That becomes a much more likely prospect if this country enters into a Free Trade Agreement with the US (which is being effected by means of the multilateral Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement [TPPA], including NZ and the US, which is being negotiated now and which is scheduled to be signed late this year).
A national campaign is being built to both expose and oppose the TPP, and this teach-in is an important part of that campaign.
It is timed to coincide with the Christchurch meeting of the US-NZ Partnership Forum, a major gathering of senior politicians, businesspeople and policy makers from both countries, where the TPP will be a top agenda item. Please come to our teach-in to learn about both the issue and to join the campaign to stop it. The TPPA is the worst such Agreement to threaten NZ’s sovereignty since the proposed Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) of the 1990s, which was defeated by an international and national campaign. We need to do that again and we need as much help as we can get.
Murray Horton,
Convenor,
NZ Not For Sale
Campaign Working Group
