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Today 5pm Dinner & Conversation with the Cuban Ambassador

🍽 Dinner & Conversation with the Cuban Ambassador to New Zealand 🗓 Sunday, April 27, 2025 ⏰ 5:00 PM – Dinner, followed by Q&A 📍 First Union Conference Room, 120 Church Street, Onehunga, Auckland (Koha would be appreciated for the dinner; suggested $10) Join the Auckland Cuba Friendship Society for a special evening with: 🎙 His Excellency Luis Morejón Rodríguez, Cuban Ambassador to New Zealand … Continue reading Today 5pm Dinner & Conversation with the Cuban Ambassador

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Newsletters

Solidarity Spotlight – May Day 2025

A recommended newsletter by UnionAID that can be subscribed to here Standing together this May Day Issue 40 Standing together this May Day Next week’s International Workers’ Day (May Day) will see workers worldwide unite in their continued fight for decent work and fair wages. Despite more than a century of progress since the historic struggles that gave birth to May Day, the fundamental issues … Continue reading Solidarity Spotlight – May Day 2025

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Events, Newsletters

Stand with Cuba! Join Us for Two Important Events – April 24 and 27

📜 Information Picket at the U.S. Consulate 🗓 Thursday, April 24, 2025 ⏰ 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM Britomart Place, corner of Quay Street, opposite the Ferry Building Join us for an informational picket to raise awareness about U.S. policies towards Cuba and their impact on New Zealand. We will be distributing leaflets and engaging with the public to expose the ongoing economic war against … Continue reading Stand with Cuba! Join Us for Two Important Events – April 24 and 27

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“Sanction Israel for genocide” – nationwide protests continue in 2025

3 January 2025 Media Advisory: “Sanction Israel for genocide” – nationwide protests continue in 2025 While the stench of decaying morality hangs over the coalition government and its MPs after 15 months of complicity with genocide, nationwide protests against Israel’s genocide continue in 2025. “Over 15 months of weekly nationwide protests is unprecedented in New Zealand history on any issue at any time” says PSNA … Continue reading “Sanction Israel for genocide” – nationwide protests continue in 2025

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Events, Newsletters

How to join this week’s Treaty Hikoi

NAU MAI, HAERE MAI HĪKOI DETAILS: Te Ika-a-Māui Everything you need to know about the upcoming Kotahitanga activation and Hikoi mō te Tiriti. Below you’ll find the TIMINGS and LOCATIONS of each activation as well as the end point for each day / leg of the hīkoi. “KOTAHITANGA MŌ TE TIRITI” TE IKA A MĀUI WHEN: 10th – 19th November 2024 WHERE: Starting at Te … Continue reading How to join this week’s Treaty Hikoi

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Events, Newsletters

Australasian Southern Cross Brigade to Cuba – 2025 dates confirmed! Register now!

The 40th Southern Cross Brigade (2025), will be held from the 4th until 22nd of January 2025 (inclusive). You can expect a cost of around $2,500AUD (excluding flights) for all Brigade accommodation, basic food and internal travel expenses. Register via the 2025 information booklet! The Southern Cross Brigade offers Australian and New Zealand friends of Cuba the opportunity to learn more about the island nation’s … Continue reading Australasian Southern Cross Brigade to Cuba – 2025 dates confirmed! Register now!

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Events, Newsletters, Press Releases

Banned by Stuff! – the add Stuff doesn’t want you to see – 40 Protests this weekend

3 October 2024 Media release from John Minto Yesterday Stuff told us they would not print this full-page advertisement which had been booked and paid to go in all Stuff newspapers next Tuesday. At this stage Stuff has given no official reason for banning the add aside from saying they won’t do so “while the ongoing conflict is developing” It seems that for Stuff, pro-Israel … Continue reading Banned by Stuff! – the add Stuff doesn’t want you to see – 40 Protests this weekend

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Global News, Newsletters, Petition

Call to action: US President Biden must end the designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism

An American classic car makes its way down a street in Havana, Cuba, Nov. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File) Ignacio Ramonet, academician and former editor of Le Monde diplomatique, has written an open letter to President Joe Biden. It offers nations, organizations, and individuals a golden moment for getting rid of a critical piece of the U.S. system of economic blockade of Cuba. Ramonet … Continue reading Call to action: US President Biden must end the designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism

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Events, Newsletters, Press Releases

As the 12-month anniversary of Israel’s genocide approaches, in 28 centres thousands of people will protest this weekend.

A Palestinian woman at the site of Israeli strikes on a camp sheltering displaced people at al-Mawasi in Khan Younis, on September 10, 2024 [Mohammed Salem/Reuters] Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa 13 September 2024 Media Advisory: As the 12-month anniversary of Israel’s genocide approaches, in 28 centres thousands of people will protest this weekend… Over 30 Palestine solidarity protests across 28 centres around the country this … Continue reading As the 12-month anniversary of Israel’s genocide approaches, in 28 centres thousands of people will protest this weekend.

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Global News, Newsletters, Opinion

The Pacific Lands and Seas Are Neither Forbidden nor Forgotten: The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2024)

Mahiriki Tangaroa (Kūki ’Airani), Blessed Again by the Gods (Spring), 2015. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Since May, a powerful struggle has rocked Kanaky (New Caledonia), an archipelago located in the Pacific, roughly 1,500 kilometres east of Australia. The island, one of five overseas territories in the Asia-Pacific ruled by France, has been under French colonial rule since … Continue reading The Pacific Lands and Seas Are Neither Forbidden nor Forgotten: The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2024)

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