Take a stand, for the land! Show Auckland Council your opposition to SHA 62 at Ihumātao Weds 3 Feb View this email in your browser If you have been following this campaign and want to help, please join SOUL 9-10am this Wednesday 3 Feb! Show Auckland Council your opposition to SHA 62 at Ihumātao. Foreign-owned company Fletcher has a hearing to get the Council consents … Continue reading SOUL needs your presence this week: Take a stand for the land!

PM John Key and his National government say most Kiwis support the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and those who don’t are ignorant or manipulated. Show him he’s wrong. Help us to fill the Auckland Town Hall tomorrow, Tuesday 26th at 7pm in the first TPPA: Don’t Sign public meetings. Hear dynamic, funny, and scary US former trade attorney and TPPA expert Lori Wallach, Director of Public … Continue reading TPPA:Don’t Sign – Fill the Auckland Town Hall tomorrow (Tues) 7pm – pls forward

View this email in your browser Bulletin #82 20 January 2016 TPPA signing Auckland, 4 February The secrecy-obsessed New Zealand government finally admitted that the signing would take place in Auckland but still hasn’t confirmed the date (although Chile and Peru governments did) or a location, although it almost certainly won’t be at Sky City as previously rumoured. Apparently the delay in confirming a date … Continue reading It’s Our Future Bulletin #82 – Upcoming Events

7pm Saturday 27 February Mangere Arts Centre Bader Drive, Mangere Free Entry, Koha welcome Nominated for an Oscarr, 5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal first-hand account of life and nonviolent resistance in Bil’in, a West Bank village where Israel is extending its apartheid wall/ security fence. Palestinian Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, … Continue reading 5 Broken cameras filmmaker in NZ in February. Save the date!

It’s Our Future: TPPA News Bulletin #81 11 January 2016 In this Bulletin: TPPA signing Auckland, 4 February Auckland Actions for 4 February Other actions around Aotearoa NZ Lori Wallach & Jane Kelsey speaking tour 26-29 January ‘Don’t sign’ Petition to PM to be launched tomorrow Fact Sheets Expert Papers Labour Party position Media Articles TPPA Latest TPPA signing Auckland, 4 February Rumours that TPPA … Continue reading It’s Our Future: TPPA News Bulletin #81

2015 has seen further explosive revelations about the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB). Not only does it systematically spy on New Zealanders – but, as the ongoing revelations from US whistleblower Edward Snowden show, it routinely spies on any number of other countries, on behalf of the US National Security Agency (NSA). And the NSA spies on everyone. It is essential that more pressure is … Continue reading Come To The Waihopai Spybase Protest, January 22-24

WHAT’S ON IN AOTEAROA Thursday, December 10, 6.00 – 8.30pm (Light refreshments at 6.00pm), WG 801, Sir Paul Reeves Building, AUT, Wellesley Campus, Auckland What chance for democracy in BURMA? Updates on Burma – come along to hear our speakers: Stanley Saw – Burmese migrant in NZ since 1977. He works in administration at Auckland University. He is an observer and commentator on Burmese politics. … Continue reading What’s on in Aotearoa/NZ (10/12/15)

2015 has seen further explosive revelations about the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB). Not only does it systematically spy on New Zealanders – but, as the ongoing revelations from US whistleblower Edward Snowden show, it routinely spies on any number of other countries, on behalf of the US National Security Agency (NSA). And the NSA spies on everyone. It is essential that more pressure is … Continue reading Come To The Waihopai Spybase Protest, January 22-24

Hi All, As the Paris climate talks reach their crucial final days, international experts have rated the New Zealand Government’s target as being at the bottom of the pack, and embarrassingly, put us in the “inadequate” category. The New Zealand Government effectively has no policies in place that will reduce emissions, and plenty in place that will make things worse. Individuals like you, businesses owners, … Continue reading Real Climate Action

WHAT’S ON IN AOTEAROA Thursday, December 3, 7pm at Unite , 6a Western Springs road, Morningside, Auckland Forum on Climate Change and Capitalism. Heads of State are in Paris right now for UN COP21. The 21st meeting since 1990 to decide on how to tackle climate change. Why has it taken so long for an agreement and why will it likely failure again to reach … Continue reading What’s on in Aotearoa/NZ (02/12/15)