Local rally to oppose TransPacific Partnership

March 25th, 2014
[Press release]

Motueka's climate action group The Renewables have organised a local version of a nationwide anti-TPP (TransPacific Partnership) rally in Nelson on 29th March.

Concerned people from all over the Nelson and Tasman region will assemble at the Millers Acre i-Site at 12.30pm to demonstrate their opposition to secret negotiations that threaten New Zealand's interests:

Loss of sovereignty
Overseas courts to challenge NZ law to protect corporate profits and given the ability to sue NZ
Eroding environmental protection, workers rights and financial control of NZ
Higher medicine costs; Dismantling of Pharmac
End of GE prohibition and country-of-origin labelling
Internet censorship; strict USA copyright laws favouring large USA corporations.

The protesters will march peacefully up Trafalgar Street to the base of the Cathedral steps at the '1903' square where they will gather for a rally to hear speakers talk of with the implications of TPP.

Protests are also being organised in Hokianga, Whangarei, Auckland, Hamilton, Taranaki, Tauranga, Whanganui, Palmerston North, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Geraldine, and Invercargill, with several more being finalised.

Speakers at the Nelson rally include representatives of the Greens, Labour, Unions and the Community. Also musicians will entertain the gathered protesters with songs and poetry with appropriate themes.

"The message is that if governments are doing deals in our name then we ought to be informed and enabled to influence the resulting outcome," says a Renewables spokesman. "TPP must only be concluded in the interests of Kiwis. We do not sanction an agreement that sells out to Transnational Corporations."

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