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Foreign Control Watchdog.
Text of Watchdogs since number 92, December 1999. Every member of CAFCA receives a copy of each issue of this magazine.

Historical Foreign Control Watchdog website
Archives of Foreign Control Watchdog from their beginning in 1974 as the newsletter of the then-named Campaign Against Foreign Control in New Zealand, to 1999. (Watchdogs since December 1999 are available at the above site.)

Watchblog
A blog for CAFCA issues.

Anti-Bases Campaign
ABC campaigns against the foreign military and intelligence installations in New Zealand.  There are three - the US "Deep Freeze" military base at Harewood (Christchurch Airport); and the NZ intelligence gathering installations at Tangimoana (Manawatu) and Waihopai (Marlborough). It holds protests, researches all aspects of these bases, and publishes Peace Researcher.

Action, Research and Education Network of Aotearoa (ARENA)
Arena is an Aotearoa/New Zealand network of individuals and organizations committed to resist ‘globalisation’ in all its forms.  Arena stands for an alternative development model based on self-determination, social justice, genuine people-centred development and environmental sustainability. Growing information source on WTO, GATS, the proposed Hong Kong free trade and investment agreement, Drop the Debt and more.

The Fight For A Global Tobacco Control Treaty
In 2000, CAFCA was approached by INFACT (now Corporate Accountability International), one of our highly valued American contacts, and invited to join the worldwide, American-based Network for Accountability of Tobacco Transnationals (NATT). Corporate Accountability International and NATT’s global campaign focused on getting an enforceable global treaty on tobacco. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has been proactive on this, and debated a Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). For the first time ever, WHO held public hearings on a public health matter, recognising it as a huge public health issue. It is estimated that, by 2030, smoking will kill ten million people per year. The tobacco TNCs and their allies (tobacco growing countries, governments that reap huge tax revenues from tobacco – outright ownership of tobacco companies and/or monopolies, in some cases – advertising TNCs, etc) recognised the dangers from this proposed treaty, and did their level best to defeat it, subvert it, co-opt it, and sideline it. However, despite the immense power and ruthlessness of the tobacco TNCs, the treaty was completed. NATT and Corporate Accountability International continue to campaign for ratification and implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). The treaty will soon reach 40 ratifications and take effect as international law.  

GATT Watchdog - see the ARENA website under the BIG PICTURE.
The BIG PICTURE is a publication of GATT Watchdog, a coalition formed in Otautahi (Christchurch), Aotearoa (New Zealand) in 1990. It networks locally and internationally with other groups and organizations working for a fairer world order.

Keep our Port Public - the coalition campaigning against the proposal by the Christchurch City Council to sell a 49.9% share and control of the Port of Lyttelton to Hutchison Port Holdings of Hong Kong.

New Zealand Not For Sale Campaign - In September 2008 the Government took the country by surprise by announcing it was opening negotiations for a full blown Free Trade Agreement with the US. The US has been brought into negotiations to extend a two year old trade and investment agreement, the grandly named Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership – often known as the P4. An earlier proposal to open negotiations with the other current signatories Singapore, Chile and Brunei to extend the P4 into investment and financial services, and to invite the US to join, has become the means to open negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement with the US. This is a campaign against New Zealand signing any such agreement.

Philippines Solidarity Network of Aotearoa
Philippines Solidarity Network of Aotearoa works to build active links between the progressive movements in the Philippines and New Zealand. It publishes a regular newsletter, Kapatiran (Solidarity), which can be read online.

Exchanges

CAFCA exchanges publications with a number of organisations. The following have web sites.

Australia Asia Worker Links - www.aawl.org.au
Australia Asia Worker Links works to build international solidarity links between workers as the best means to develop and strengthen workers' rights in the Asia Pacific region.

Asia-Pacific Network - www.asiapac.org.fj
Asia-Pacific Network provides news on the Pacific, including David Robie's Café Pacific, which links news media, independent information sources, progressive movements, environmental groups and Pacific research sites in the region, and to Pacific Journalism Review and other news sites.

Bougainville Freedom Movement - www.eco-action.org/bougainville
An Australian support group for Bougainvillean independence.

Focus on Trade - www.focusweb.org
Focus-on-Trade is a regular electronic bulletin providing updates and analysis of trends in regional and world trade and finance, with an emphasis on analysis of these trends from an integrative, interdisciplinary viewpoint that is sensitive not only to economic issues, but also to ecological, political, gender and social issues. It is published by Focus on the Global South, whose web site contains extensive material on related issues.

Multinational Monitor - multinationalmonitor.org
The Multinational Monitor is published ten times a year and tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment.

New Internationalist - www.newint.org
The monthly New Internationalist is one of the most lively independent international publications reporting on what lies behind international events. New Internationalist Publications is a communications co-operative based in Oxford with editorial and sales offices in Toronto, Canada; Adelaide, Australia; Christchurch, Aotearoa/New Zealand; and Lewiston, USA. It exists to report on issues of world poverty and inequality; to focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless in both rich and poor nations; to debate and campaign for the radical changes necessary if the basic material and spiritual needs of all are to be met.

It even lists CAFCA on its web pages.

New Internationalist also has a New Zealand events blog.

PARTIZANS - www.minesandcommunities.org/Aboutus/partizans.htm
Partizans has been campaigning since 1978 against the damage wreaked by the world's most powerful mining company, Rio Tinto. In the process, it has become one of the leading practitioners of corporate campaigning, shareholder's action and disinvestment strategies. Most important, Partizans pioneered the practice of enabling community and workers' representatives to challenge massive corporate bodies directly on their home ground.

Their web site is part of the Mines and Communities Website, which seeks to empower mining-affected communities so they can struggle successfully against damaging proposals and projects.

Pacific Institute of Resource Management - www.pirm.org.nz
PIRM organises public forums and makes submissions to the New Zealand government on environmental and social issues, as well as publishing Pacific Ecologist, formerly Pacific World, which can be viewed on this site.

Public Services International - www.world-psi.org
The international trade union federation Public Services International, PSI, unites public sector workers in more than 600 trade unions in over 140 countries. Twenty million women and men in a variety of public service jobs are members of PSI. It has taken a strong interest in privatisation and deregulation - particularly of utilities such as electricity and water. It publishes Focus on Public Services.

PSI researches multinationals in utilities and health services in co-operation with the Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, which has some of the most detailed information in the world on transnationals and their activities. Extensive material is available on the PSIRU web-site www.psiru.org.

Note: CAFCA has a policy of independence from all political parties and therefore does not include links to their web sites on this page. The views expressed in the above web sites do not necessarily reflect those of CAFCA.

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