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2008 Roger Award Winner To Be Announced Monday
The Roger Award for The Worst Transnational Corporation operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand in 2008
Organised by CAFCA & GATT Watchdog
The 2008 Winner(s) will be announced on
Monday March 2nd; 7.30 p.m.
Trades Hall, 147 Great North
Rd, Grey Lynn, AUCKLAND
The event will feature:
• The
announcement of the winner by chief judge, Geoff Bertram, of
Wellington
• A 30 minute episode of a well known comedy
relating aptly to this years winner
• Speaker Murray
Horton (Campaign Against Foreign Control of
Aotearoa)
• An address from representatives of a group
relating to the winner
• Some musical numbers from
local Auckland artists
The 2008 finalists are (in alphabetical order):
ANZ; BAT (British American Tobacco NZ); Contact Energy; GlaxoSmithKline; Infratil; McDonalds; Rio Tinto Aluminium NZ (nominated under its former, better known, name of Comalco); Telecom
The criteria for judging are by assessing the transnational (a corporation which is 25% or more foreign-owned) that has the most negative impact in each or all of the following categories: Economic Dominance - Monopoly, profiteering, tax dodging, cultural imperialism. People - Unemployment, impact on tangata whenua, impact on women, impact on children, abuse of workers/conditions, health and safety of workers and the public, cultural imperialism. Environment - Environmental damage, abuse of animals. Political interference - Cultural imperialism, running an ideological crusade
The 2008 judges are:
Geoff Bertram, from Wellington, a Victoria University economist; Brian Turner, from Christchurch, immediate past President of the Methodist Church and social justice activist; Paul Corliss, from Christchurch, a life member of the Rail and Maritime Transport Union; Cee Payne, from Dunedin, Industrial Services Manager for the NZ Nurses’ Organisation and health issues activist; Christine Dann, from Banks Peninsula, a writer and researcher; Bryan Gould, from Bay of Plenty, a former Waikato University Vice-Chancellor.
CAFCA
Campaign Against Foreign Control
of
Aotearoa
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