Hear a speaker from Cuba Yexenia Calzado End the U.S. embargo Return Guantánamo No interference in Cuba’s internal affairs In December 2014 Cuba and the United States resumed diplomatic relations and the Cuban Five were freed from U.S. jails. This reflected the continuing strength of the Cuban revolution. The U.S. still wants to destroy the Cuban revolution, as it has for more than 56 years, … Continue reading Wed, April 27: Public meeting for Cuban Yexenia Calzado, 7pm, Auckland Trades Hall

Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Save the date NATIONWIDE POST BUDGET BREAKFAST SERIES Friday 27 May Whangarei * Auckland * Wellington * Christchurch * Dunedin Wednesday 1st June * Nelson * This year we are excited to announce we will be holding an additional post budget event in Nelson on the 1st June. Each year Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) provides child-focused analysis … Continue reading Save the date: Nationwide Post Budget Breakfasts 2016

2015 ROGER AWARD PEOPLE’S CHOICE Cast your vote at http://tinyurl.com/2015roger The organisers of the Roger Award for the Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand in 2015 invite you to have your say by voting online for the People’s Choice winner. This is an online poll only. The field is restricted to the six finalists for the 2015 Roger Award listed at the People’s Choice … Continue reading 2015 Roger Award People’s Choice & Event To Announce Roger Winner, Palmerston North, April 30th

Support our campaign to give ALL low income children a fair chance Today Child Poverty Action Group will be launching a campaign calling on Government to fulfill the best interests of our children and asking them to Fix Working For Families. In particular to make the In-Work Tax Credit ($72.50 from 1 April 2016) available to ALL low-income families, and not just a ‘deserving few’ … Continue reading Help Fix Working For Families #FWFF

Kia Ora, We are very pleased to invite you to our upcoming ‘Conference on Palestine’ series, with events in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. Ali Abunimah, a US-Palestinian journalist, author and editor, will visit New Zealand at the beginning of April to join us in a discussion on Palestine, its history in a middle eastern as well as a global context, through to contemporary questions, … Continue reading NZ Conference on Palestine series 3-8 April 2016

This Thursday, the 31st of March, 2,800 state homes are to be transfered to the Tāmaki Housing Association. This affects 2,800 households that will be anticipating eviction, and subsequent demolitions of state housing in Tāmaki in favour of the government’s proposed ‘urban renewal’ promise to build more homes. Mixed tenure communities is used as a way of socially cleansing low-income communities through a process of … Continue reading URGENT: Housing protest call to action – 3pm Thursday

State tenants to protest the transfer of their homes to the Tāmaki Redevelopment Company On the 31st March 2,800 state houses in Glen Innes, Panmure and Point England are going to be transferred to the Tāmaki Housing Association (the social landlord component of the Tāmaki Redevelopment Company). The Tāmaki Housing Group are holding a rolling picket beginning Tuesday 29 March and ending with a protest … Continue reading State tenants to protest the transfer of their homes

Get the SOUL updates you want: Reply to let us know if you want to receive minutes from meetings or monthly campaign news instead (pls write weekly or monthly in the subject box) View this email in your browser On Sunday 13 March, over 400 people came out to demonstrate how much the community cares about protecting Ihumātao, forming a human chain. -Jaqui Geux (c) … Continue reading SOUL update and minutes 23 March

This Friday the Stop the Spies Surveillance Film Festival begins with a screening of Farenheit 451. 6pm at Thistle Hall, upper Cuba St, – then onwards for after-film discussion at a local pub. Ray Bradbury’s ‘Farenheit 451’ is set in a society at war, a war that is easily ignored as only distance noise that always affects other people. Surveillance is total with people living … Continue reading Surveillance Film Festival begins Friday, 25 March