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SUPPORT ANTI-FREE TRADE MARCH
APRIL 5 CALLED BY GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AUCKLAND AND
UNITE UNION
Meet at Aotea Square, Auckland, 12noon, Saturday 5th April
The Prime Minister has left New Zealand on a trip which will include the signing
of a free trade agreement with China in the second week of April. Global Peace
and Justice Auckland and Unite Union are organising a protest march to take
place shortly before the FTA (Free Trade Agreement) is signed.
The proposed FTA has wide implications for New Zealand. It will cause the
further loss of quality jobs here (particularly in the manufacturing sector)
following the lost of hundreds of thousands of such jobs when tariffs were first
slashed in the 1980s.
The proposed FTA also comes at a time of intense struggle by the people of Tibet
against Chinese occupation. Chinese and multinational corporations are active in
exploiting minerals in the region while the Tibetan people live under a brutal
occupation.
Meanwhile Chinese workers continue to work in slave-like conditions of long
hours for pitiful pay while Chinese and international businesses make handsome
profits. The only way this exploitation is possible is through violent,
repressive state control of Chinese workers such as a ban on workers organising
independent trade unions.
The march will call for:
“Free Tibet – not free trade”
“Save jobs in New Zealand – Support workers rights in China”
For the protest to be as successful as possible we need widespread endorsement
of the march. Please let us know if the organisation you belong to will support
this march and its objectives. We also need support to spread the word about the
march as widely as possible. Look forward to hearing from you.
JOHN MINTO
Much more info at Website
http://www.gpja.pl.net/
Contact details: Forums - John Minto, (09)846 3173,
jbminto@xtra.co.nz;
Newsletter Editor - Mike Treen 027 525 4744/ 09 845 4027
mike@unite.org.nz;
Web page -
bobo@enzyme.org.nz.
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