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The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) believes that the independence of most countries is being eroded away. This erosion has taken place because most of the world's economy is now owned and controlled by a relatively small number of huge transnational corporations (TNCs). 

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11:20AM
A Dotcomedy Of Errors. GCSB Illegally Spies On New Zealanders. We Told You So. This is the lead article in Peace Researcher 44, to be published this month. 1084 views

4:17PM
Who owns the South Island power grid? Good question. Don't Assume It Is Transpower The Government’s proposed partial privatisation of Mighty River Power, Meridian and Genesis Energy has focused attention on the ownership of our State-owned electricity generation companies. 371 views

7:57AM
We Musn't Rest On Our Nuclear Free Laurels The 25th anniversary of NZ's Nuclear Free law is a worthy cause for celebration for what was, and is, a fantastic achievement. 429 views

11:11AM
It's Time For Truth About NZ Land Is Foreign-Owned The endlessly fascinating Crafar Farms soap opera focuses attention once again on the political hot potato of foreign ownership of New Zealand land. 238 views

5:39PM
Windflow & General Dynamics: The Old Proverbial Hits The Turbine The announcement that Christchurch wind turbine manufacturer Windflow Technology has signed a ten year licensing agreement with General Dynamics' subsidiary SATCOM is eyebrow-raising in itself. 303 views

3:22PM
Roger Award Finalist Transgresses On A Global Scale The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) declares its solidarity with the Canadian members of the United Steelworkers Union who are currently visiting New Zealand (Invercargill today; Wellington tomorrow) to gain support for their struggle against contracting out by their employer, Rio Tinto Alcan. 251 views

4:38PM
Roger Award Finalists Just Keep On Digging Themselves A Deeper Hole Old habits die hard. 305 views

11:05AM
Crafar Court Decision A Welcome Outbreak Of Sanity Justice Miller’s decision to order a review of the decision to approve the sale of the Crafar Farms to the appropriately named Milk NZ, owned by Shanghai Pengxin of China, is a welcome outbreak of sanity in this whole sorry saga. 273 views

7:05PM
Increase The Tax On Profiteering Aussie Banks News that the Big Five Australian-owned banks made a combined NZ profit of $3 billion in 2011 means only one thing – they’re making too much money out of us. 322 views

11:36AM
No Corporate Welfare For Coca Cola And Other Transnational Bludgers Speaking at the opening of Coca Cola Amatil’s Christchurch bottling plant, group managing director Terry Davis called on the Government to consider “incentives” for food and beverage manufacturers (Press, 19/1/12; “Coca-Cola calls for incentives”). 210 views

1:22PM
Time For Government To Get Back Into Insurance Business The Government announced this week that it has no plans to help Ansvar Insurance customers left in the lurch by their insurer’s December 31st exit from the New Zealand insurance market. 242 views

6:21PM
Welcome To Johnkeyistan! Don't Worry, She'll Be Right (In Every Sense Of The Word) There was never any doubt that National was going to win the 2011 election; the only question was by how much. 482 views

12:44PM
Roger Award: 2011 Finalists Named The eight finalists for the 2011 Roger Award for the Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand are: Adidas, Newmont Waihi Gold, Oceania, New Zealand Aluminium Smelters Ltd/Rio Tinto Alcan NZ Ltd, Sajo Oyang Corporation, Sky City, Telecom and Westpac. 298 views

2:32PM
Message from the grass roots – Pharmac is non-negotiable 267 views

3:02PM
No Selloff Of Christchurch's Public-owned Assets. Looters Stay Away The revelation that all of Christchurch’s publicly-owned trading assets could be in danger of being sold due to a “legal loophole” in the law establishing the new State authority to run the city whilst it is rebuilt after the earthquakes should set alarm bells ringing loudly. 188 views

9:14AM
The 2010 Roger Award - 'and the winner is...' WARNER BROTHERS WINS 240 views

3:21PM
Roger Award Winner/s To Be Announced In Auckland April 4th The six finalists for the 2010 Roger Award for the Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand are (in alphabetical order): BUPA, Imperial Tobacco, Telecom, Vodafone, Warner Brothers and Westpac. 317 views

11:11AM
Bryan Gould Named As Patron Of Network To Fight Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement 245 views

1:21PM
End involvement in US wars People from all around New Zealand will be converging on Blenheim and the super-secret Waihopai satellite interception spybase, in Marlborough, on the weekend of January 21-23. 214 views

8:47AM
Refusal Of Natural Dairy Bid For Crafar Farms Sets Precedent For Overseas Investment Office The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) congratulates both the Overseas Investment Office (OIO) and the Government for having refused the application of Natural Dairy to buy the Crafar Farms. 417 views

12:50PM
2010 Roger Award Finalists Named The six finalists for the 2010 Roger Award for the Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand are (in alphabetical order): BUPA, Imperial Tobacco, Telecom, Vodafone, Warner Brothers and Westpac. 310 views

10:44AM
Visiting Philippine Peace Negotiator Objects To NZ Government's "Terrorist" Listing Luis Jalandoni and his wife Coni Ledesma (see below for contact and itinerary details) are in Christchurch now, at the start of a national speaking tour (they leave Christchurch on the morning of Wednesday 27th for Blenheim and to view the Waihopai spybase that afternoon). 220 views

7:49AM
Why Didn't Labour Do Something About Foreign Investment When It Was In Power? The Campaign Against Foreign Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) congratulates Labour for seeing the light and announcing a policy that recognises the glaringly obvious fact that unrestricted foreign “investment” (meaning takeover or economic recolonisation) is a disaster and for starting to take some painfully modest steps towards rectifying that (should it be returned to office). 241 views

3:15PM
If All Else Fails, Call Them Racists Maurice Williamson, the Minister of Land Information, is obviously having none of this PC nonsense being spouted by his boss. 220 views

11:42AM
CAFCA Says Save The Farms - And The Rest The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) congratulates the newly formed Save The Farms group, which has called for an immediate moratorium on farm sales to foreigners “so we can have a national debate”. 245 views

5:33PM
Treasury Fundamentalists Still Blindly Wedded To "Foreign Investment" Cargo Cult Tell Us Something We Don’t Know. 212 views

2:50PM
Cost Of Damage To Waihopai Dome Is Peanuts Compared To Hundreds Of Millions Of Taxpayers' Dollars Wasted On Spybase Sanity has briefly broken out with the Government’s announcement that the Crown will not, indeed cannot, appeal the acquittal of the Waihopai Domebusters. 288 views

10:46AM
Don't Be Fooled Into Thinking That Infratil Is A "New Zealand" Company The sale of Shell NZ’s downstream assets to a joint venture of NZ Superannuation and Infratil has been hailed as returning this chunk of vital infrastructure to New Zealand ownership. 323 views

6:00PM
Chinese Buyup Of Dairy Farms. Get Used To It, This Is What A "Free" Trade Agreement Looks Like The most unbelievably naïve reaction to the news that a mysterious Chinese company is hoping to buy up to $1.5 billion worth of dairy farms came from Federated Farmers, which said that this is an “unintended consequence” of the NZ/China Free Trade Agreement. 773 views

5:26PM
Why The Waihopai Domebusters' Trial Was Moved From Blenheim To Wellington Marlborough District Councillor Gerald Hope is quoted in today’s Press (“Spy-base verdict irks locals”, http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/3474157/Waihopai-spy-base-verdict-irks-locals): “If I was a juror I would have wanted a conviction…”. 501 views