Wanganui will join high-profile members of It's Our Future in rallies around New Zealand on Saturday in a move to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.
Local organiser Raewyn Roberts says the mobilisation will be held in 15 towns and cities, and in Wanganui local councillor Hamish McDouall and environmental sustainability consultant Nelson Lebo will speak on how the terms of the agreement will affect them.
The rallies would express opposition to the secrecy of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations and the potential threat it posed to New Zealand's national sovereignty and Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Ms Roberts said.
The high-profile It's Our Future (IOF) members include Lisa's Hummus founder Lisa Er, musician Don McGlashan, Warren Lindberg, CEO Public Health Association and economic commentator; musician Moana Maniapoto, Professor Jane Kelsey, Faculty of Law, Auckland University; Society of Authors president Tony Simpson, Public Health practitioner Gay Keating, former Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimmons and Auckland City Councillor Cathy Casey.
New Zealand School of Export director and IOF member Dr Romauld Rudzki says the "secret negotiations are anti-democratic over which New Zealanders have no say, and could well be treasonable".