2015 ROGER AWARD PEOPLE’S CHOICE Cast your vote at http://tinyurl.com/2015roger The organisers of the Roger Award for the Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand in 2015 invite you to have your say by voting online for the People’s Choice winner. This is an online poll only. The field is restricted to the six finalists for the 2015 Roger Award listed at the People’s Choice … Continue reading 2015 Roger Award People’s Choice & Event To Announce Roger Winner, Palmerston North, April 30th

Stand in solidarity with the East Timorese demanding their rights End Australia’s theft from one of the poorest nations in Asia! By refusing to establish permanent maritime boundaries, the Australian government is short-changing East Timor out of billions of dollars in oil and gas revenue. According to international law, the maritime boundaries between Australia and East Timor should be along the halfway (median) line, but … Continue reading Send a Message to Australia: Hands Off Timor’s Oil! Picket 12 noon, Wed April 20

Stand in solidarity with the East Timorese demanding their rights End Australia’s theft from one of the poorest nations in Asia! By refusing to establish permanent maritime boundaries, the Australian government is short-changing East Timor out of billions of dollars in oil and gas revenue. According to international law, the maritime boundaries between Australia and East Timor should be along the halfway (median) line, but … Continue reading Send a Message to Australia: Hands Off Timor’s Oil! Picket 12 noon, March 20

Jesson Trust seeks alternative to ‘click-bait’ Entries Open for 2016 Jesson Journalism Awards In today’s media world of celebrity and “click-bait”, the Bruce Jesson Journalism Grants are deliberately seeking something different. The grants, now open for applications in their 13th year, aim to fund “critical, informed, analytical and creative journalism or writing which will contribute to public debate in New Zealand on an important issue … Continue reading Jesson Trust seeks alternative to ‘click-bait’

Hear a speaker from Cuba Yexenia Calzado End the U.S. embargo Return Guantánamo No interference in Cuba’s internal affairs In December 2014 Cuba and the United States resumed diplomatic relations and the Cuban Five were freed from U.S. jails. This reflected the continuing strength of the Cuban revolution. The U.S. still wants to destroy the Cuban revolution, as it has for more than 56 years, … Continue reading Wed, April 27: Public meeting for Cuban Yexenia Calzado, 7pm, Auckland Trades Hall

Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Save the date NATIONWIDE POST BUDGET BREAKFAST SERIES Friday 27 May Whangarei * Auckland * Wellington * Christchurch * Dunedin Wednesday 1st June * Nelson * This year we are excited to announce we will be holding an additional post budget event in Nelson on the 1st June. Each year Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) provides child-focused analysis … Continue reading Save the date: Nationwide Post Budget Breakfasts 2016

2015 ROGER AWARD PEOPLE’S CHOICE Cast your vote at http://tinyurl.com/2015roger The organisers of the Roger Award for the Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand in 2015 invite you to have your say by voting online for the People’s Choice winner. This is an online poll only. The field is restricted to the six finalists for the 2015 Roger Award listed at the People’s Choice … Continue reading 2015 Roger Award People’s Choice & Event To Announce Roger Winner, Palmerston North, April 30th

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