APEC 2021 is coming with the first official meetings beginning in
December 2020 in Wellington. But in the lead-up to that there's the APEC 2021 Bill going through parliament with submissions due 12
th February. This law is being passed to allow extreme security and surveillance from 1 July 2020 until 21 November 2021. Many local groups are calling for submissions to oppose the Bill,
Auckland Peace Action has information on how do a submission.
APEC's goal is global free market and trade liberalisation. It emerged in 1989 in the Asia-Pacific region after major trade blocks were established in Europe and North America. During the APEC 1999 summit in Auckland it was described as '
white knights of colonisation'.
APEC's aim is profit at the expense of people and the environment.
- APEC’s agenda worsens poverty and climate change
- APEC’s agenda enables massive corporate sell-offs of land and resources
- APEC increases the ease with which transnational corporations can exploit resources and open mining up
- APEC listens and responds to corporate interests, not to the needs of workers, farmers, and indigenous people
- APEC costs millions to host: money that could go to our communities in need of housing, health care and social services
- APEC means welcoming warmongers, mass murderers, human rights abusers and corporate criminals to New Zealand
We've put together a little pamphlet with information about APEC, including from
Communalism Aotearoa about the APEC Bill and a timeline.
Have a read of
APEC 2021 Haere Atu!
