APEC 2021 – Haere atu!

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 12th 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!