2008 Roger Award Winner Will Be Announced On March 2, Auckland

The 2008 Winner(s) will be announced on Monday March 2nd; 7.30 p.m.

Trades Hall, 147 Great North Rd, Grey Lynn, AUCKLAND

The event will feature:

The announcement of the winner by chief judge, Geoff Bertram, of Wellington
A 30 minute episode of a well known comedy relating aptly to this years winner
Speaker Murray Horton (Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa)
An address from representatives of a group relating to the winner
Some musical numbers from local Auckland artists

The 2008 finalists are (in alphabetical order):

ANZ; BAT (British American Tobacco NZ); Contact Energy; GlaxoSmithKline; Infratil; McDonalds; Rio Tinto Aluminium NZ (nominated under its former, better known, name of Comalco); Telecom

The criteria for judging are by assessing the transnational (a corporation which is 25% or more foreign-owned) that has the most negative impact in each or all of the following categories: Economic Dominance - Monopoly, profiteering, tax dodging, cultural imperialism. People - Unemployment, impact on tangata whenua, impact on women, impact on children, abuse of workers/conditions, health and safety of workers and the public, cultural imperialism. Environment - Environmental damage, abuse of animals. Political interference - Cultural imperialism, running an ideological crusade

The 2008 judges are:

Geoff Bertram, from Wellington, a Victoria University economist; Brian Turner, from Christchurch, immediate past President of the Methodist Church and social justice activist; Paul Corliss, from Christchurch, a life member of the Rail and Maritime Transport Union; Cee Payne, from Dunedin, Industrial Services Manager for the NZ Nurses’ Organisation and health issues activist; Christine Dann, from Banks Peninsula, a writer and researcher; Bryan Gould, from Bay of Plenty, a former Waikato University Vice-Chancellor.

CAFCA

Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa

Box 2258, Christchurch, New Zealand

cafca@chch.planet.org.nz