{"id":3741,"date":"2011-03-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/urgent-wake-up-call-for-all-new-zealanders\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T19:17:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T06:17:50","slug":"urgent-wake-up-call-for-all-new-zealanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/greenplanetfm\/urgent-wake-up-call-for-all-new-zealanders\/","title":{"rendered":"URGENT WAKE UP CALL FOR ALL NEW ZEALANDERS!"},"content":{"rendered":"

No one wishes to pull the rug out from underneath or mortgage their children and grand children's future do they?
\n \n <\/p>\n

By educating ourselves and taking action we can support our common future!<\/p>\n

NEW ZEALAND NOT FOR SALE!<\/a><\/p>\n

The November 26 election 2012 is one of the most important in decades. Both major parties are committed to policies by which the New Zealand economy
\n is even more dominated by transnational corporations; where more and more of our farmland is owned by foreigners; publicly-owned assets are privatised;
\n and the country is locked ever more tightly into disadvantageous free trade and foreign investment agreements, of which the biggest one being negotiated,
\n in secret, is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.<\/p>\n

This so called agreement is the means to effect a free trade with the US, but is in effect enfolding the NZ economy into<\/p>\n

There are some differences between National and Labour on these issues, but they are only ones of degree, not principle. A change in government will not,
\n in itself, be enough to change the disastrous course on which this country is set, one of domination by global Big Business and its proxy the US military
\n media industrial complex..<\/p>\n

This country needs 'Conscious' People Power to let the world know that New Zealand is not for sale!<\/p>\n