Arena is an Aotearoa/New Zealand network of individuals and organizations committed to resist corporate ‘globalization’ in all its forms.
Arena stands for an alternative development model based on self-determination, social justice, genuine people-centered development and environmental sustainability.

Added on 26 September 2007

Added to Union Work Page:

Workers of the World, Unite Agaunst Starbucks! - Lisa Featherstone, The Nation

Added to Free Trade & Investment Page:

EU Denies Pressure on CAP - AFP
Don't Flog off Auckland Airport - CAFCA Media Release
EU Uses Strong Arm Tactics - Unattributed, undated media release
US Eyes APEC Bilateral Deals - AFP
Customers Reject IMF, World Bank - Bretton Woods Project

Added on 1 September 2007

Added to Union Work Page:

Auckland Hotel Workers Locked Out - Report from EPMU, Photos from The Standard

Added on 27 April 2007

Added to Union Work Page:

Ka-Bel Elated at Chance to Put His Case - Media Release
Beltran Slams Boorish Behaviour - Media Release
Ka Bel Condemns Attempt to Slay Southern Tagalog and Human Rights Advocate Delfin Mallari - Media Release

Added to Free Trade & Investment Page:

WTO Talks Go Round in Circles - Martin Khor, SUNS

Added on 13 April 2007

Added to Upcoming Events Page:

Invitation to Mayday in Blackball, May 4-5 - from the Blackball Museum of Working Class History Trust and Unions West Coast

Added to Union Work Page:

Union Flags Top Auckland's Prime Real Estate - Joseph Barratt, Te Waha Nui Online
Hotel Restaurant Occupied Over Missing Wages - NewsRoom.co.nz

Added on 12 April 2007

Added to Tino Rangatiratanga Page:

Coromandel Land Sale on Shaky Ground - Jon Stokes, NZ Herald
Tribe occupies $10m Landcorp block on the Coromandel - Jon Stokes, NZ Herald
School sale withdrawn as Maori protest grows - Tracy Watkins, Dominion Post
Landcorp Sale of Maori Blocks Deferred - Radio NZ
Row brews over who owns NZ's water - Vernon Small, The Dominion Post
Water Ownership and the Wider Context - Mike Smith

Added to Free Trade & Investment Page:

Gaddafi says fear drives world economic system - William MacLean, Reuters
Private Equity 'a Plague of Locusts' - Nick Mathiason, Observer

Added to Union Work Page:

Birth of the First Global Super-union - Oliver Morgan, Guardian (UK)

Added on 11 April 2007

Added to Union Work Page:

Coca-Cola Attacks Workers Rights - IUF Media Release/Appeal for Solidarity

Added to Free Trade & Investment Page:

Crude Designs: The Rip-off of Iraq's Oil Wealth - Exec Summary of and link to a major report from Unravelling the Carbon Web
Free Trade Means Empty Oceans - Greenpeace
The Recolonization of NZ - Murray Horton, CAFCA
Not Under the Same Sky - Bilateral Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), Agriculture and Food Sovereignty. (Link to a report by Aziz Choudry)

Added on 4 April 2007

Added to Union Work Page:

Free Ka-Bel - an appeal for the release of Philippino trade unionist Crispin Beltran

Added to Roger Award Page:

2006 Roger Award Winners Announced - CAFCA/GATT Watchdog Media Release

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