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Article: Interview about: the roger award.(Making Waves)
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- New Internationalist
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- June 1, 2004
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MAKE way Golden Globes. There's a new international trophy strutting the world stage. Step aside Oscar. Here comes The Roger.
Each year four or five eminent judges--academics, community leaders, artists, even sportspeople--come together to confer The Roger on a transnational corporation operating in New Zealand/Aotearoa. And the worst must win. US agriculture giant Monsanto, British American Tobacco (which claims a whopping 80 per cent of New Zealand's tobacco market) and the Canadian power company TransAlta are amongst the prestigious list of previous award winners.
Murray Horton has helped to co-ordinate the award since it started in 1997. ...