GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AUCKLAND NEWSLETTER No. 406, December 7, 2011 OCCUPY AUCKLAND VS AUCKLAND CITY COUNCIL – WE WALK FROM AOTEA SQUARE TO THE DISTRICT COURT AT 9:30AM THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, JOIN US!!! We need your help, support and aroha. On Thursday morning we are once again in Court to defend our right to protest, and the right of future protests. Auckland Council is … Continue reading GPJA #406: Auck Council v Occupy Auck 9.30am Thurs / Sat March to Defend GI “stop the Evictions” 12 noon Britomart

GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AUCKLAND NEWSLETTER No. 405, November 30, 2011 SOLIDARITY WITH LOCKED OUT MARTON WORKERS DAY OF ACTION SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3 Dear supporters, We need your help at McDonalds around New Zealand this coming Saturday, from 11am on Saturday 3 December. McDonalds is a major customer of ANZCO Foods. ANZCO stopped 100 of their employees from working and earning an income at their … Continue reading GPJA #405: Solidarity with locked out workers this Saturday Dec 3

GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AUCKLAND NEWSLETTER No. 404, November 25, 2011 Why I am Voting Mana by Mike Treen GPJA Newsletter editor. Dear friends, I have been editing the GPJA newsletter for 404 issues (and 9 years) and have advertised every meeting or event sent to me without exception. I have tried to give a broad range of opinion on the progressive left world view. … Continue reading GPJA #404: Why I am Voting Mana by Mike Treen (Editor)

GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AUCKLAND NEWSLETTER No. 403, November 21, 2011 SOLIDARITY WITH LOCKED OUT MARTON WORKERS http://www.facebook.com/groups/211101752294033/ Day 20: "A fightback for meat workers nationwide" http://socialistaotearoa.blogspot.com/2011/11/day-20-fightback-for-meat-workers.html Support the locked out workers at ANZCO Rangitikei http://union.org.nz/ANZCOlockout The New Zealand lamb processor, CMP, has brutally locked out 111 workers at its plant in Marton in order to force them and their union, the New Zealand Meatworkers … Continue reading GPJA #403: Continuing solidarity with locked out workers

GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AUCKLAND NEWSLETTER No. 402, November 9, 2011 Thursday, November 10, 6pm, Henderson Square, Henderson, Auckland HENDERSON SQUARE (Cathrine St) is not FOR SALE. Keep it as PUBLIC SPACE. Speeches,Buskers, Food, Open Mic. Super City, Hendeson/ Massey Board intend to lease the Square to corporate Mall owners Westfeild. CAP says the Super City Board is doing exactly what it was set up … Continue reading GPJA #402: Henderson protest 6pm Thurs to protect public space

GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AUCKLAND NEWSLETTER No. 401 November 2, 2011 GPJA FORUM WITH NICKY HAGAR Monday, November 7, 7.30pm, Trades Hall, 147 Great North Rd, Grey Lynn, Auckland GPJA Forum: Nicky Hagar on New Zealand’s role in the war in Afghanistan. Investigative journalist and researcher Nicky Hagar will speak about New Zealand’s war in Afghanistan following publication of his acclaimed (by all but a … Continue reading GPJA #401: Nicky Hagar speaks Mon Forum / Solidarity with lockout workers

GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AUCKLAND NEWSLETTER No. 400 October 28, 2011 3PM SATURDAY OCT 29, AOTEA SQ, AUCKLAND: INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION FOR A TAX ON ALL FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS TO ELIMINATE POVERTY AND HUNGER IN THE WORLD. There is no need for 19,000 children to die every day of hunger and preventable diseases. It’s time to take from the rich and give to the poor. … Continue reading GPJA #400: Sat 3pm – Robin Hood tax march / Sun 2pm – protest outside National Party conference

Hi All, there was information overload in the last newsletter which focussed on the OCCUPY movement around the world. The rest of the news dropped off as a consequence. See that below. I also want to feature the Bruce Jesson Lecture tomorrow night and the occupy Auckland events this weekend. Other announcements and what’s on around the country can be accessed by checking newsletter #398 … Continue reading GPJA #399: Wed – Bruce Jesson Lecture / Sat & Sun rally at Occupy Auckland

BRUCE JESSON LECTURE – WEDNESDAY: “RECREATING FULL EMPLOYMENT” – PROF. PAUL DALZIEL Wednesday, October 26, 6.30pm, Maidment Theatre, Alfred Street, The University of Auckland Bruce Jesson Lecture: Recreating full employment – Professor Paul Dalziel, AERU, Lincoln University. Bruce Jesson’s last book Only Their Purpose is Mad tracked the destructive impacts of what he termed “the open slather approach to economic reform”. Twenty years after the … Continue reading BRUCE JESSON LECTURE – WEDNESDAY: “RECREATING FULL EMPLOYMENT” – PROF. PAUL DALZIEL

GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AUCKLAND NEWSLETTER No. 398 October 21, 2011 Saturday, October 22, 2.30pm, Aotea Square (Occupy Auckland) THE WORLD’S FINAL CHANCE: THE ALL BLACK BLOC VS THE 1%. Come together for the biggest game of rugby anyone in NZ has seen. A massive group of anticapitalist rugby players will move against the 1% who hold most of the wealth of the world. The … Continue reading GPJA #398: Occupy Aotearoa news – Sat 2.30 – All Black Bloc v the 1%