Shine a light on the refugee crisis View this email in your browser Dear Joan, In times of crisis, we come together to show the world what we stand for. Leaders around the world around the world are acting quickly to increase help to the millions of people who have been displaced by war or persecution. Germany alone expects to welcome 800,000 refugees and asylum … Continue reading Shine a light on the refugee crisis

Doing Our Bit asks where next? View this email in your browser It has been our biggest week yet. But there’s more to come. We’ve been all over the media this week, but I can guarantee there are a lot of government strategists preparing to hit back hard. Mike Hosking has already laid some ground work this morning by focusing on costs and trying to … Continue reading What a week! Where to from here…

WHAT’S ON IN AOTEAROA Wednesday, September 2, 6.30pm FIRST Union Office, 120 Church Street, Onehunga Beating the Big End of Town: How a Community Defeated the East-West Toll Road Anthony Main, one of the spokespeople of the 2014 Melbourne community campaign, will tour his new book ‘Beating the Big End of Town’; an account of the successful struggle that stopped one of the world’s biggest … Continue reading What’s on in Aotearoa/NZ (01/09/15)

WHAT’S ON IN AOTEAROA Thursday, August 27, 9.30am, Where:At Auckland Town Hall Council Chamber, Auckland City Save Ihumatao, Mangere from SHA. Cost: $18 per person for Breakfast and meeting. Please come and show community support for SOUL (Save Our Unique Landscape), as the Auckland Council Governing Body will be voting to request the Housing Minister revoke the Special Housing Area (SHA) status for a high … Continue reading What’s on in Aotearoa/NZ (26/08/15); Take back the night 2015 – Friday 7pm Auckland

WHAT’S ON IN AOTEAROA Thursday, August 20, 6.30pm – 8.30pm, St Columba Centre, 40 Vermont St, Ponsonby Civic Society and the role of the NGOs – Kim McGregor, Richard Northey & Priyanca Radhakrishnan – AKL – 20th August The political struggle for survival of NGOs is getting as tough as their financial plight. NGOs, the people who work in them and those that manage them, … Continue reading What’s on in Aotearoa/NZ (19/08/15): Farewell Cuban Ambassador Sat 7pm

Dear friends, I am writing on behalf of Peace Action Wellington to seek GPJA support for our campaign opposing the weapons conference planned for Wellington’s TSB Arena on November 17-18. WHAT IS THE WEAPONS CONFERENCE? The weapons conference is a meeting of 200 of the world’s largest weapons manufacturers. They are here for two reasons: first, the conference is a showcase for local and international … Continue reading Let’s stop the NZ weapons conference this year

CPAG healthy and affordable housing campaign It’s the peak of the flu season – and right now staff in New Zealand’s hospitals and medical clinics are run off their feet looking after thousands of children and their families. Many of these children wouldn’t be sick if they lived in warm, dry homes. Urgent action is needed to make sure poor families have decent housing. Most … Continue reading There is no time to waste, every child deserves the best start in a warm, dry, secure home

WHAT’S ON IN AOTEAROA AUGUST 8-14 NATIONAL ACTIONS AGAINST TPPA http://itsourfuture.org.nz/campaigns/tppa-action-week-8-15-august/ Wednesday, August 12, 6.30pm – 8.30pm Lecture Theatre 3, Owen G Glenn Building, Auckland University Jane Kelsey on ‘The FIRE Economy’. Professor Jane Kelsey is one of New Zealand’s best-known public intellectuals. She has taught at the University of Auckland since 1979. She was awarded a Marsden Grant in 2009 to review the neoliberal … Continue reading What’s on in Aotearoa/NZ (12/08/15): Jane Kelsey speaks tonight / Anti-TPPA protests Sat

TPPA BULLETIN #71: TPPA ACTION WEEK! Scroll to bottom for latest details of TPPA Action Week 8 – 15 August! TPPA Ministers: Will they or won’t they meet? After the collapse of the Maui meeting there were many reports that ministers would meet again this month. Now there are reports it may just be too hard. That would make it almost impossible to do the … Continue reading TPPA Bulletin #71: TPPA ACTION WEEK!

WHAT’S ON IN AOTEAROA WORKING TO STAY SAFE ACTIONS ACROSS NZ FROM TODAY http://union.org.nz/health-safety-campaign/towns-were-visiting Wednesday, August 5, 6-7pm, Lecture Theatre 039, Clock Tower Building, University of Auckland Transformative Potential of a Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons: Lecture by Tim Wright. Sponsored by the Faculty of Law, the International Law Association and the NZ Institute of International Affairs, Tim Wright, Asia Pacific Director of the International Campaign … Continue reading What’s on in Aotearoa/NZ (05/08/15): Thurs – Get Smart! The people’s review of the intelligence agencies