Hi everyone – thanks for all your help getting THE 5TH EYE finished and onto big screens at the Film Festival. The feedback so far has been excellent! The Festival is still trucking around the country and we have a bunch of screenings over the next week in some smaller centres. Please help us to promote these screenings if you can – you can forward … Continue reading Important update about THE 5TH EYE screenings!

Kia ora koutou katoa, and welcome to Child Poverty Action Group New Zealand’s regular round-up of our news and views. In this issue Invite:Summit Investing in Children Invite: Child poverty and social justice Park up for Homes Fix Working For Families Campaign Annual General Meeting Laybying our future report Kathyrn’s Story report CPAG blog update CPAG news update The Ballot Box event Acknowledgements CPAG summit … Continue reading CPAG August Newsletter | Summit investing in children l Wellington Seminar l Park up for homes & more

Having trouble viewing this email? Click here 23/08/2016: News from #Parkupforhomes Park Up For Homes: Parnell signifies time for change The #ParkUpForHomes protests will be drawing to a close over the next fortnight, with a final Auckland event happening this Thursday August 25, in the central suburb of Parnell. The #ParkUpForHomes protests will be drawing to a close over the next fortnight, with a final … Continue reading Park up for homes: Parnell signifies time for a change

A reminder of this Sunday’s dinner and entertainment evening to raise funds for the Women’s Boat to Gaza Flotilla setting sail next month. Please help to make this event a great success, and come along to enjoy Afghani cuisine, coffee and desserts, as well as performances by Moana Maniapoto, Tigilau Ness, Palestinian dancers and others, plus speaker Marama Davidson, Green Party MP, who will be … Continue reading Fundraising dinner for Women’s Boat to Gaza – Sunday 28 August (Auckland)

Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) will hold its Social Security Summit Investing in Children on Friday, September 2 at the University of Auckland. Building on the inaugural event last year, the Summit will focus on the Government’s proclaimed ‘social investment approach’ to welfare reform. This social investment approach to New Zealand’s welfare system is a business model which focuses on reducing the cost of welfare … Continue reading CPAG Welfare Summit 2016: Investing in our Children

Hey folks! It has been two months since the announcement that we’d have the first increase to the refugee quota in three decades. We’ve been taking a break since then and thinking about where to from here. At the same time New Zealanders are still interested in the issue and the campaign. To that end Murdoch will be speaking at three events around New Zealand … Continue reading Three refugee and asylum seeker events

State Housing Action Incorporated 15 August 2016 Media release: Legal challenge to government plans to sell state houses in Tauranga A High Court legal challenge is being prepared to tackle the government’s plans to sell state houses in Tauranga. State Housing Action Incorporated was registered as an incorporated society last week and will become the plaintiff in the planned judicial review. SHA Inc. is being … Continue reading Legal challenge to government plans to sell state houses in Tauranga

Your SOUL campaign update. Can’t see our lovely images? View this email in your browser A big week for heritage decisions in Auckland We have come to the end of a week that saw a rather overwhelming array of decisions being made as Councillors work through the final changes to the Auckland Unitary Plan. But, wait! Before your eyes glaze over at the words “Council” … Continue reading A big week for decisions impacting the land

​ The Cuban Ambassador to New Zealand Mario Alzugaray Rodríguez will be speaking at two public events in Auckland On Thursday, August 11 at 6pm Mario Alzugaray will be presenting a public lecture at the University of Auckland on “Economic and political relations between Cuba and the USA in a time of upheaval”. The venue is Old Government House, Lecture Theatre 102-G36, Princes Street, Auckland … Continue reading Hear Cuban Ambassador: 6pm Thurs 11th and 7pm Fri 12th, Auckland

Please forward on through your networks, thank you 71st anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Commemorative events in Aotearoa New Zealand Link to share: https://web.facebook.com/notes/peace-movement-aotearoa/71st-anniversary-of-the-atomic-bombings-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-commemorative-/1080265745354127 This year marks the 71st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima (6 August) and Nagasaki (9 August) – details of the commemorative and related events in Auckland, Napier, Wellington and Christchurch are included below. This year, … Continue reading Hiroshima & Nagasaki: Commemorative events in Aotearoa New Zealand