CAFCA ~ ABC 2014 Speaking Tour

1. CAFCA ~ ABC 2014 Speaking Tour Who’s Running the Show? And in Whose Interests the www.tinyurl.com/cafcatour

2. Where you’ll find us Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa Home Page www.cafca.org.nz Blog www.tinyurl.com/watchblog Facebook www.tinyurl.com/cafcafb Twitter @NZN4S Anti Bases Campaign Home Page http://www.converge.org.nz/abc/ www.facebook.com/AotearoaABC Facebook

3. What we produce Peace Researcher Published by ABC and issued twice a year. ABC is also the organiser of the annual Waihopai Protest. http://bit.ly/ 1dqvYKd foreign control WATCHDOG Published 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. http://bit.ly/ PQc4Uf

4. Who’s running the show ? Not Us in whose interests? Not Ours

5. The Facts All data underpinning our position is available;  Around the walls  On the tour webpage www.tinyurl.com/cafcatour  In the flyers

7. “Our spies’ principal mission used to be the defence of the realm. Today’s GCSB is about the protection of corporate property”National Business Review in March 2013

8. It is time to put People back at thecentre of the economy • People’s Rights Before Corporate Profit • Public Service Not Private Profit • An Independent Foreign Policy • No Unjust Secret Treaties

9. People’s Rights Before Corporate ProfitIt is time to put People back at the centre of the economy

10. policies that openly put the interests of ordinary working people ahead of those of capital and Big Business

11. the short and curlies “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

12. The Government should help its own people, not TNCs.

13. “We found a range of deficiencies in the advice provided and steps taken leading up to [the] decision.” Phillippa Smith Deputy Controller and Auditor-General 18 February 2013

14. 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%

15. When people are NOT at the centre of the economy • The legacy • child poverty • food banks • homelessness • inequality • unemployment • low wages • unsafe work places • the long suffering people of Christchurch

17. Public Service Not Private Profit It is time to put people back at the centre of the economy

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

19. What's a foreign-owned or controlled company ? ‘25% foreign shareholding’ Overseas Investment Act definition

20. ‘I'd hate to see New Zealanders as tenants in their own country’ John Key July 2010

21. "I am not sure we were right to use the argument that we should privatise to quit debt. We knew it was a poor argument but we probably felt it was the easiest to use politically". Privatisation is about ideology Not Money

22. Socialising the losses (Solid Energy) . privatising the gains (Power Companies)

23. We need to fight to retain what we’ve got left that provides a public service

24. An Independent Foreign Policy It is time to put People back at the centre of the economy

25. The Washington Declaration The Wellington Declaration

26. Riding with cowboys makes us complicit Iraq war was illegal and breached UN charter, Kofi Annan Waterboarding Extraordinary Rendition Extrajudicial Killing War Crimes Chemical Weapons Unexploded Munitions Global surveillance Cut the ties that criminalise

27. shut the lot Waihopai Tangimoana all of them US transport base at Christchurch Airport

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

29. Jump! How High ?

30. No Unjust Secret TreatiesIt is time to put People back at the centre of the economy

31. 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

32. “But It was not until I read this book that I had any idea that we had been committed to an international integrated electronic network…it is an outrage that I and other Ministers were told so little, and this raises the question of to whom those concerned saw themselves accountable”. Secret Power Nicky Hager

33. www.itsourfuture.org

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35. Doomsayers predicted that the sky would fall without nukes in our ports It Didn't

36. What Can We Do About Its down to us We’ve done it before We can do it again us Put People Back At The Centre Of The Economy

37. for an independent Aotearoa based on policies of economic, military and political self-reliance, using Aotearoa’s resources for the benefit of the people of Aotearoa put Peopleback at thecentre of the economy • Public Service Not Private Profit • People’s Rights Before Corporate Profit • An Independent Foreign Policy • No Unjust Secret Treaties

38. Where you’ll find us Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa www.cafca.org.nz Anti Bases Campaign www.converge.org.nz/abc Check out the Activist Toolkit On the tour webpage www.tinyurl.com/cafcatour  don’t forget to grab some of the postcards www.facebook.com/AotearoaABC