GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AUCKLAND NEWSLETTER No. 415, March 8, 2012 PORTS OF AUCKLAND DISPUTE Rally to Save Our Ports – Saturday 10 March, 4pm – Britomart Join port workers and their families, unions and community groups to rally to Save Our Port and stand up for job security for the port workers and their families and for a publically owned, sustainable and successful port. … Continue reading GPJA #415: Rally to Save Our Ports – Saturday 10 March, 4pm – Britomart

GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AUCKLAND NEWSLETTER No. 414, March 2, 2012 PORTS OF AUCKLAND DISPUTE Thank-you for showing your continued support for the MUNZ workers in the Ports of Auckland dispute. While the Maritime Union continues to work for a settlement of the dispute via collective bargaining, we are seeing no movement from the Port Company except to progress the contracting out process. As a … Continue reading GPJA #414: Solidarity with Ports of Auckland Workers

GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AUCKLAND NEWSLETTER No. 413, February 22, 2012 JOIN WHARFIES STRIKE TO PROTECT JOB SECURITY AND FAMILY TIME Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 7:00am until Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 7:00pm, Teal Park, Tamaki Drive, Auckland Join striking Wharfies, their families and supporters to protect job security and to keep the Ports of Auckland in public hands. The event is family friendly … Continue reading GPJA #413: SAT FEB 25 – JOIN WHARFIES TO PROTECT JOB SECURITY AND FAMILY TIME

GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AUCKLAND NEWSLETTER No. 412, February 15, 2012 Friday, February 17, 7pm, Trades Hall, 147 Great North Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland. Aotearoa not for sale – Public meeting. Charter Schools. Crafar Farms. Deep Sea Oil Drilling by Petrobas off the East Coast. Wharfies facing the sack as Ports Of Auckland gears up to privatise. And now no Treaty when it comes to … Continue reading GPJA #412: Aotearoa is not for sale – meeting Friday 7.30pm

7.30pm, Tuesday, Feb 14: Special GPJA Forum: Drop the charges! Trades Hall, 147 Great North Road, Grey Lynn This special GPJA forum will call for the charges against the defendants from the so-called terrorism raids to be dropped. It will discuss the raids, their political context and the legal situation of the defendants. Speakers will be are: Annette Sykes – Lawyer and legal expert who … Continue reading GPJA Forum Tues 7.30pm with Annette Sykes, Valerie Morse, John Minto – “Drop the Charges”

GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AUCKLAND NEWSLETTER No. 411, February 8, 2012 9am, Monday, Feb 13: Protest: Drop the Charges! Auckland High Court, Cnr Waterloo Quadrant & Parliament Streets, Auckland. This marks the start of the trial of the remaining four defendants from the police bungled attempt to charge 17 political activists with offences under our freshly-minted terrorism laws. That attempt failed with the terrorism charges … Continue reading GPJA #411: Monday – Protest outside High Court / GPJA Forum “Drop the Charges!”

GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AUCKLAND NEWSLETTER No. 410, January 27, 2012 FROM OCCUPY AUCKLAND PROTEST SATURDAY, 3PM Defend the Right to Protest in Auckland- stand up for democracy and civil liberties. Rally at Britomart this Saturday Jan 28th at 3pm – forward widely. Occupy Auckland Thursday: 22 people arrested, with 8 people charged with willful trespass. 2 people still held, and 1 person to be … Continue reading GPJA #410: Occupy Auckland – stand up for democracy Sat 3pm

GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AUCKLAND NEWSLETTER No. 409, January 15, 2012 GPJA SPECIAL FORUM: HOW CAN WE SUPPORT THE AUCKLAND PORT WORKERS? THURSDAY 19TH JANUARY, 7.30PM AT TRADES HALL, 147 GREAT NORTH ROAD. Auckland waterfront workers face an all-out assault on their employment and conditions of work. The port company (owned wholly by Auckland City) says the union must either accept a new roster which … Continue reading GPJA #409: SPECIAL FORUM: HOW CAN WE SUPPORT THE AUCKLAND PORT WORKERS? THURSDAY 19TH JANUARY, 7.30PM AT TRADES HALL, 147 GREAT NORTH ROAD.

GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AUCKLAND NEWSLETTER No. 408, December 23, 2011 QUOTES OF THE WEEK "Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion." — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” –Rosa Luxemburg "The ruling … Continue reading GPJA #408: Waihopai Spybase Protest Jan 20-22

GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AUCKLAND NEWSLETTER No. 407, December 16, 2011 RALLY TODAY 6.30PM TO PROTEST THE CLOSURE OF RAPE CRISIS – QE2 SQUARE AUCKLAND As sexual violence surges in New Zealand, thousands join last-ditch campaign to restore funding for Auckland’s 24/7 sexual violence help centre. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W_cNOe3mFNeUAA0wX6SYvCt0j8ad7p2vap3mB2QZTm8/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1 Petition: Stop the closure of Auckland’s 24/7 sexual violence crisis service http://www.change.org/petitions/new-zealand-government-stop-the-closure-of-aucklands-247-sexual-violence-crisis-service 24/7 sexual abuse helpline faces closure … Continue reading GPJA #407: RALLY TODAY 6.30PM TO PROTEST THE CLOSURE OF RAPE CRISIS – QE2 SQUARE AUCKLAND