Month: April 2013

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Letter to Australian High Commission re Sri Lankan refugees

GLOBAL PEACE & JUSTICE AUCKLAND http://www.gpja.org.nz 24 April 2013 His Excellency Michael Potts, High Commissioner for Australia Australian High Commission in Wellington PO Box 4036 Wellington 6140 Email: janet.beams Dear Mr Potts, Deportation of Sri Lankan asylum seekers We are writing to you to convey our concern over your government’s deportation of thirty-eight of the sixty-six Sri Lankan asylum seekers who landed in Geraldton, Western … Continue reading Letter to Australian High Commission re Sri Lankan refugees

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GPJA #460 (Part 2 of 2): International news and views

QUOTES OF THE WEEK “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” – Chief Seattle, Duwamish (1780-1866) Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. … Whatever affects one directly, affects … Continue reading GPJA #460 (Part 2 of 2): International news and views

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GPJA #460 (Part 1 of 2): Mobilise against asset sales this Saturday!

GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AUCKLAND NEWSLETTER No. 460, April 26, 2013 POWER TO THE PEOPLE – DAY OF ACTION APRIL 27 Time for the Government to listen to the majority of New Zealand. a National Day of Action organised by the Aotearoa is Not For Sale Coalition to stop Asset Sales. Now endorsed by the Labour party, NZ First, the Mana Movement, CTU, Unions Auckland, … Continue reading GPJA #460 (Part 1 of 2): Mobilise against asset sales this Saturday!

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GPJA Letter to David Shearer re Super Fund Investments

24 April 2013 David Shearer Leader of the Labour Party, Member of Parliament for Mount Albert david.shearer Dear Mr Shearer, We are writing to you in the hope of enlisting the support of you and your party in our campaign to persuade the New Zealand Superannuation Fund to divest itself from three Israeli banks (Bank Hapoalim, Bank Leumi and Mizrahi Tefahot Bank) and an Israeli … Continue reading GPJA Letter to David Shearer re Super Fund Investments

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GPJA #459 (Part 3/3): International news and views

STATS OF THE WEEK Gun deaths in the U.S. in 2011: more than 11,000; in Japan that year, seven. From foreign terrorism in the U.S. that year: 0. “What should shock and outrage us is that as the top 1 percent has grown extremely rich, the effective tax rates they pay have markedly decreased. ” Joseph Stiglitz, A Tax System Stacked Against the 99 Percent, … Continue reading GPJA #459 (Part 3/3): International news and views

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GPJA #459 (Part2/3): News from Aotearoa

BEST ON THE WEB NEW ZEALAND NZ Born Father Michael Lapsley, Victim of Terrorism, Sends a Letter to Obama in Support of the Five http://www.cubaminrex.cu/en/father-michael-lapsley-victim-terrorism-sends-letter-obama-support-five Run, John, Run! By Chris Trotter http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2013/04/15/run-john-run/ John Minto after mayoralty http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10877369 John Minto for Auckland mayor? http://www.3news.co.nz/John-Minto-for-Auckland-mayor/tabid/1607/articleID/294449/Default.aspx Eight Out of Ten Want Sea Protest Move Halted http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1304/S00170/eight-out-of-ten-want-sea-protest-move-halted.htm Oil protesters shut down Shell meeting http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/252387/oil-protesters-shut-down-shell-meeting ‘Please explain’ on prosecution rates … Continue reading GPJA #459 (Part2/3): News from Aotearoa

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GPJA #459 (Part 1/3): What’s On in Aotearoa

GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AUCKLAND NEWSLETTER No. 459, April 17, 2013 ANNOUNCEMENTS NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PALESTINE Kia Ora Koutou supporters of Palestine Aotearoa wide. This is an open call to be involved in organising the countries FIRST EVER national conference on the question of Palestine and building an organised, coordinated BDS (Boycott Divestment Sanctions) movement with long-term goals/ strategy to ensure our institutions and companies … Continue reading GPJA #459 (Part 1/3): What’s On in Aotearoa

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GPJA 458: Education action this weekend

GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AUCKLAND NEWSLETTER No. 458, April 10, 2013 ANNOUNCEMENTS NZEI NATION-WIDE DAY OF ACTION – THIS WEEKEND NZEI is running a nation-wide day of action against the government’s GERM agenda (charter schools, league tables, national standards – not to mention the disaster that is Novopay) this coming Saturday, 13 April. There are events in all the main centres not to mention many … Continue reading GPJA 458: Education action this weekend

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