GPJA #440 (Part 1): News from Aotearoa New Zealand – 5/9/12

ANNOUNCEMENTS WE ARE BETTER THAN THAT Would you kindly spread this to friends, enemies and everyone in between? I have just put up a new Facebook page called, “We Are Better Than That”, my latest effort to bury this awful, proposed asylum detention bill. Would you kindly ask folks to ‘Like’ the page and then share it with their friends? I have also directed and … Continue reading GPJA #440 (Part 1): News from Aotearoa New Zealand – 5/9/12

GPJA #437: Part 1. News from Aotearoa New Zealand – 7/8/12

NEW ZEALAND GPJA: Bring New Zealand troops home http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1208/S00076/bring-new-zealand-troops-home.htm Gordon Campbell on the haste and waste involved in us staying in Afghanistan http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2012/08/06/gordon-campbell-on-the-haste-and-waste-involved-in-us-staying-in-afghanistan/ Deaths underline need to get out http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10825090 Two more NZ soldiers killed in Afghanistan – why are we occupying this corrupt narco state for America’s war of terror? http://tumeke.blogspot.co.nz/2012/08/two-more-nz-soldiers-killed-in.html Review threatens big rent rises for state tenants http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10824511 Crown admits Treaty breaches … Continue reading GPJA #437: Part 1. News from Aotearoa New Zealand – 7/8/12

GPJA #436: Part 1. News from Aotearoa New Zealand – 26/7/12

QUOTES OF THE WEEK STATS OF THE WEEK “National house price to disposable income rose from 2 in 1980 to around 3 in 2003, before doubling to around six in 2008. It is now 5.” Bernard Hickey, Herald on Sunday, 22/7/12 Of the 161 wealthiest people in NZ (with wealth over $50m), only 67 reported an incokme over $60,000 in 2008. then priority for tax … Continue reading GPJA #436: Part 1. News from Aotearoa New Zealand – 26/7/12

GPJA #432: Part 1. News from Aotearoa New Zealand – 28/6/12

Lucy Lawless Launches Global Campaign To Save The Arctic http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1206/S00307/lucy-lawless-launches-global-campaign-to-save-the-arctic.htm Urewera case far from over http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/ckpt/ckpt-20120621-1743-te_urewera_case_far_from_over_despite_sentencing-048.mp3 Trial ‘to shut down Tuhoe aspirations’ http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/7149790/Trial-to-shut-down-Tuhoe-aspirations Wellington Solidarity With Urewera 4 http://www.indymedia.org.nz/article/82544/wellington-solidarity-urewera-4 Kia Ora Gaza convoy 2012 – Auckland Airport Welcomeback reception:Today saw a nice “Welcome Home” celebration at Auckland Airport for our returning Kia Ora Gaza convoyers. Giving our team to Gaza a heros welcome were 40 … Continue reading GPJA #432: Part 1. News from Aotearoa New Zealand – 28/6/12

GPJA #429: Part 1. News from Aotearoa New Zealand – 7/6/12

GENERAL Pacific people to march for a bigger say http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10810004 Save TVNZ7 meeting Palmerston North & Dunedin this week http://tumeke.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/save-tvnz7-meeting-palmerston-north.html Man hurt after arrest faces possible life in wheelchair http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10810578 ‘Cuban Revolution is example for today’ – New Zealand meeting discusses publication of ‘Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution’ and ‘Cuban 5’ http://www.themilitant.com/2012/7622/762250.html Petitions: Keep University Councils democratic http://teu.ac.nz/2012/05/democratic-councils/ The Foul and Bloody Story … Continue reading GPJA #429: Part 1. News from Aotearoa New Zealand – 7/6/12

GPJA #428: Part 1. News from Aotearoa/New Zealand – 30/5/12

I will try doing the newsletter in 3 parts on different days for a while and see how it goes. That means we can categorise and tag each newsletter more effectively for reference. Mike Treen Editor GENERAL NEWS Government are in breach on their own legal process, says iwi Stuff raising the retirement age, tax the rich instead! http://socialistaotearoa.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/stuff-raising-retirement-age-tax-rich.html NZ Budget 2012 impact on Maori … Continue reading GPJA #428: Part 1. News from Aotearoa/New Zealand – 30/5/12

GPJA #427: Protests tomorrow Saturday – like the Greeks?? 11am and 2pm

GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AUCKLAND NEWSLETTER No. 427, May 25, 2012 Protests tomorrow Saturday – like the Greeks?? 11am and 2pm 11am – Protest social cleansing in GI outside National party Conference 11am Corner Ireland and Tide Close Mt Wellington – It’s the National Party Northern Region conference – protest is against the sale of state houses in Glen Innes so a seaside suburb for … Continue reading GPJA #427: Protests tomorrow Saturday – like the Greeks?? 11am and 2pm

GPJA – outrageous sentences for Urewera Four – prison protest from 6.30 tonight

24 May 2012 Media Release: Judge uses sentencing to retry Urewera Four The prison sentences handed down today in the case of the Urewera Four are an outrage. In his summing up the judge ignored the recent jury trial and cherry-picked the hottest bits of hot air from 67,000 pages of police evidence to stamp the most extreme police interpretation on events at the training … Continue reading GPJA – outrageous sentences for Urewera Four – prison protest from 6.30 tonight