The Roger Award
The Roger Award For The Worst Transnational Corporation operating in New Zealand has run annually since 1997. There are no prizes for guessing whom it is named after. It is organised by CAFCA and GATT Watchdog, both Christchurch-based groups.
The judges have awarded prizes for runners up, continuity and collaborators. The Award has attracted considerable interest since its inception (even from the corporate media), and has had a succession of distinguished and completely voluntary judges. The events to announce the winners have become highly memorable in their own right.
Winners of previous awards and judges' reports can be seen here.
The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa
The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) believes that the independence of most countries is being eroded away. This erosion has taken place because most of the world's economy is now owned and controlled by a relatively small number of huge transnational corporations (TNCs).
Today these TNC's have monopoly control over most of the world's resources, its trade, its industrial production, and the booming services sector, which covers everything from finance to transport. With this control TNC's can use the economies of individual nations for their own benefit in a way which is against the interests of the people of those nations. Most Third World countries are totally at the mercy of the TNC's. CAFCA is most concerned at the local effects of this worldwide trend. Aotearoa's independence is rapidly disappearing and with its "free market" policies, including encouragement of foreign investment and unrestricted foreign capital flows, the New Zealand Government is actively promoting this process.
CAFCA promotes the concept of an independent Aotearoa based on policies of economic, military and political self-reliance, using Aotearoa's resources for the benefit of the people of Aotearoa, and refusing involvement in the self-serving military and economic treaties of big foreign countries.
We oppose foreign control, irrespective of which country it involves. We oppose the exploitation of Aotearoa's people and resources by foreign companies, and any foreign military or intelligence activities in Aotearoa. CAFCA does not support the replacement of foreign exploiters with local ones. New Zealand big business interests are collaborating with foreign companies in the exploitation of its own country - its only loyalty is to improve profits.
CAFCA IS NOT RACIST. They do not oppose the people of foreign countries, only the transnational corporations (TNC's) exploiting the people of New Zealand.
For a fuller statement of what we stand for, see their Charter.
