Nominations are now open for the 2011 Roger Award for the Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

All details are on the attached nomination form.

You can use it to send us your nomination/s, either electronically, or print it it, fill it in and post it to us at the below postal address.

And please distribute it far and wide.

Murray Horton
Secretary/Organiser

CAFCA
Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa
Box 2258 , Christchurch , New Zealand
cafca@chch.planet.org.nz
www.cafca.org.nz

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Form: Roger75.doc

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Criteria:
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

Environment - Environmental damage, abuse of animals

Political interference – Interference in democratic processes, running an ideological crusade

Judging:
The judges for 2011 are: Joce Jesson, a Senior Lecturer in Critical Studies in Education, University of Auckland, and a community activist; Paul Corliss, from Christchurch, an organiser with the Tertiary Education Union and a life member of the Rail and Maritime Transport Union; Paul Maunder, cultural worker, curator of Blackball Museum of Working Class History and a founding member of Unite!; Sam Mahon, an artist, author and activist from North Canterbury; and Wayne Hope, Associate Professor, Communications Studies, Auckland University of Technology They will be given a shortlist of finalists. The winner(s) will be announced at a Christchurch event in early 2012.

Nominations:
You can nominate the same transnational as last year as long as the nomination is about their misdeeds in 2011. Please send as much detail as you can, including newspaper clippings and reports, but you do not have to do all the research. Just quote sources if you can.

Accomplice Award:
You may also nominate an organisation (not an individual) which has been the worst Accomplice in 2011 in aiding and abetting transnational corporations in New Zealand to behave as described in the criteria. The Accomplice’s award is in addition to the Worst Transnational Corporation award and will not necessarily be awarded every year. You may nominate for either or both awards.

Nominations close on October 31, 2011.

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