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

It’s been three months since we took to the streets to call for immediate action on climate change – its time to do it again. View this email in your browser Kia ora Mike, It’s been three months since we took to the streets in the thousands to call for immediate action on climate change – and it was BIG! However, since Paris, we have … Continue reading Big oil companies meet at SkyCity 21st March

Please find below information on a public talk on West Papua with visiting speaker Rev Robert Stringer. All welcome, please attend if you can and share with your networks. ‘West Papua in Crisis’ Peace Place 22 Emily Place, Auckland Central 6pm Friday 11 March 2016 ALL WELCOME Hear Rev Robert Stringer from Melbourne talk about his recent visit to West Papua where he met with … Continue reading Public Talk Auckland_ West Papua in Crisis_ 11 March 2016

Good Afternoon! Apologies for the late notice. I am writing to you from the New Zealand branch of the International Women’s Peace Group. We are co-hosting a Peace Walk and Peace Picnic on Tuesday 8 March, International Women’s Day, in Auckland CBD. This will be an uplifting event with many inspirational women in attendance, as well as some fantastic up and coming kiwi artists performing … Continue reading International Women’s Peace Group- Auckland Peace Walk, 8th March