Kia ora koutou, My comments on Mandela’s passing are in this link: http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2013/12/09/nelson-mandela-the-triumph-and-the-tragedy/ I’ve been moved and humbled by the many messages calling for me to be included in the official delegation to attend Mandela’s funeral service. If I was invited to be a part of the delegation I’d be very happy to accept because it would better reflect New Zealand and the reality of … Continue reading Mandela’s death and the New Zealand delegation to his funeral

Please make sure you have signed and encourage everyone to get us up to 25,000 – we are almost at 24,000 now REMINDER: SIGN THE PETITION FOR RELEASE OF TEXT NOW Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.   FINAL CHANCE TO SIGN TPPA SECRECY PETITION – CLOSES 12 NOV Sign the petition here at http://www.itsnotright.org.nz We now have over 23,000 … Continue reading Final days to sign TPPA secrecy petition – closes 12 Nov

The waste of failure – the case for a just economy THIS EVENT HAS A CORRECTED DATE & REVISED CONTENT Thursday 7th November, 6pm Venue – Edith Winstone Blackwell Case Room. (Room 223) Owen Glen Building, University of Auckland It would help us plan if you registered your interest here. New Zealand’s failure to provide safe, affordable loans and its inadequate credit laws condemn the … Continue reading Nov 7:

Tamils killed by Sri Lankan armed forces May 2009 GPJA Media Release: John Key urged to join Canada and boycott CHOGM meeting in Sri Lanka GPJA is supporting a march in Auckland this Saturday organised by the New Zealand Tamil Society to protest war crimes and on-going human rights abuses in Sri Lanka and to call for Prime Minister John Key to boycott this month’s … Continue reading March this Sat for boycott of CHOGM in Sri Lanka

Justice Goddard – Public lecture poster (6).pdf Continue reading Law-academic Public Lecture by The Honourable Justice Goddard – 6 November

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 5TH 5.30 – 7.00PM CAFFE L’AFFARE 27 College St, WellingtonRSVP NOW Be inspired & empowered. Find out how your choices make a real difference. Join us as we welcome banana farmer Wilson Sanchez & his daughter Kelly to New Zealand for the first time. We’ll show you how consumers buying All Good Fairtrade Certified Bananas, have helped to change the lives of Wilson … Continue reading lac-news Join Fairtrade farmer who grows your bananas TUESDAY NOVEMBER 5TH 5.30 CAFFE L’AFFARE 27 Colle ge St, Wellington

Monday, November 4, 7.30pm, Trades Hall, 147 Great North Rd Grey Lynn, Auckland Florent Eurisouke and his uncle Jojo are from a prominent Kanak family from the province of Houailou on the east coast of Grande Terre, the large island of New Caledonia, Kanaky. Their people’s ancestral tribal land includes the rugged and nickel rich Cap Boccage, a peninsula appropriated in the 19th century by … Continue reading Forum Mon: Kanak activists talk environmental protest and independence

2013 Jesson Lecture – Sir Edmund Thomas – Reducing Inequality: A Strategy for a Cause 2013 Bruce Jesson Lecture:Sir Edmund Thomas – Reducing Inequality: A Strategy for a Cause The speaker, a Distinguished Fellow at the Law School at The University of Auckland, argues that the gross inequality in income and wealth which besets New Zealand is the outcome of the neo-liberal economic measures of … Continue reading Tonight: 2013 Jesson Lecture – Sir Edmund Thomas – Reducing Inequality: A Strategy for a Cause

Had enough of the secrecy of the negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement the proposed mega-deal for foreign corporations? So have a number of prominent Kiwi actors, musicians and commentators – Don McGlashan, Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Russell Brown, Michele A’Court, Julia Deans, Moana Maniapoto, Michael Hurst, Willy Jackson, Te Radar and Simon Prast. They have made a video calling for the government to release the TPPA … Continue reading Join Kiwi celebs call for release of the TPPA text. Sign the petition NOW!