Global Peace And Justice Auckland Newsletter
Global Peace And Justice Auckland Newsletter #135, May 30 , 2006
WHAT’S ON IN AUCKLAND
Thursday, June 1,
7am, Outside Bell Gully, The Vero Building,48
Shortland
Street, Auckland
EMERGENCY PICKET AGAINST ISRAELI FOREIGN
AFFAIRS OFFICIAL – OPPOSE
THE OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE.
The protest is against an important
official and
propagandists for the racist policies of the
Israeli
government being hosted by the law firm bell
Gully and the NZ Israel
Trade Association. The guest
speaker is Ron Prosor, Director General of
the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs. Before assuming this post, Ron
Prosor
acted as Senior Deputy Director General of the
Ministry and Chief of
Policy Staff to the Foreign
Minister.
Thursday, June 1, unite Office 6a Western
Springs Rd, Morningside,
Auckland.
WORKERS CHARTER
MEETING. Could you please email your agenda
suggestions
to interim chair Daph Lawless -
daphlawless@randomstatic.net [4] Spread
the word! Bring
your mates!
Saturday, June 3, 2pm, QEII Square,
Customs Street and Queen St
intersection,
Downtown,
RALLY FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE IN PALESTINE /
ISRAEL On the First Saturday
of Every Month
Outside
Downtown Shopping Centre. Come support JUSTICE and PEACE
based
on:
1. End Israeli Occupation of the Gaza
Strip and the West Bank
including East Jerusalem)
2. Right of Return for Refugees.
3. Sharing
Jerusalem.
4. Removal of all Settlements in occupied
Palestine.
5. Stop construction of Israel's
annexation/apartheid wall
Tuesday, June 6, 7.30pm, St
Columba Centre, 40 Vermont Street, Ponsonby
CAMPAIGN
AGAINST THE TASER (CATT) will be having its first
public
meeting. Sir Paul Reeves will chair the meeting at
the Columba Centre,
Vermont Street, Ponsonby at 7.30pm.
Speakers will include Rodney
Harrison QC, John Minto from
GPJA and a medical expert. Video footage
of tasers being
used by police will also be shown. CATT is a
coalition
which includes the Human Rights Foundation,
GPJA, and peace groups. The
aim is to prevent the NZ
police from conducting a “trial” of taser
use from
September this year. Overseas more than 160 people have
died
following being tasered. The taser works as a gun
which fires two
barbed darts at a person and then gives
an electric shock at 50,000
volts. It has no place in New
Zealand
Wednesday, June 7, 7.30pm, St Columba Centre,
40 Vermont St, Ponsonby
UNITED NATIONS ASSOC OF NZ
MEETING featuring Anthony Ravlich, Chair
Human Rights
Council Inc Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,
As
Important as Civil and Political Rights. Anthony has
followed the
development of human rights instruments
within the UN system over many
years, particularly the
staggered progress of economic, social and
cultural
rights and the recent Open-Ended Working Groups discussions
on
whether to draft an Optional Protocol for the lesser
known International
Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights (a complaints procedure
for those
suffering social injustice). 2006 is the 40th anniversary
of
the adoption of that covenant along with the
International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights and
Tony will outline the need for both
covenants and the
importance of government’s implementing both sets
of
rights not just one or the other.
Friday, June 9, 7.30
– 9.30am, North Shore Electorate Office, Suite
3, 15
Anzac Street, Takapuna
Picket Wayne Mapp's office The
EPMU, on behalf of the CTU, is
organising a demonstration
outside the electorate office of Wayne Mapp
MP to protest
against the grossly unfair 90 day probation Bill.
This is
the Private Members Bill introduced by Mapp which if
passed
into law will allow workers to be sacked for no
reason in the first 90
days of their employment. It was
sent to Select Committee by National,
New Zealand First,
United Future and the Maori Party. This is our
chance to
show the public of New Zealand what the National Party
will
do to them if given the chance. We will be handing
out flyers to
passers by, waving signs and making some
noise. It should be lots of
fun. We need to make this as
visual as possible so come down if you
can.
Monday
June 12, 7.30pm, Trades Hall, 147 Great North Road Grey
Lynn
GPJA FORUM: “Venezuela from the inside – revolution
in progress!”
GPJA spokesperson Mike Treen has just
returned from several weeks in
Venezuela and Bolivia as
part of an Australasian trade union solidarity
brigade.
He joined a million workers in caracas for May Day,
visited
factories under workers control, and met leaders
in liberated
communities where crime has been eliminated
by getting rid of the
corrupt police force. Mike will
tell us about what he saw and show us
some great slides
and film from the trip
Friday, June 16, Ponsonby Rd,
Auckland
THE POLYNESIAN PANTHER PARTY will be taking over
Ponsonby Rd again this
time to celebrate the launching of
their long awaited book on their 35th
anniversary Friday
June 16. Entry fee to their anniversary is by
purchasing
a copy...entrance is restricted for legal and
security
reasons... I myself still can't enter the US of
Amerika because still
listened in the top 20 known
terrorists of the Pacific...For more
information and
bookings contact (09) 6290826 or email
waiata@woosh.co.nz
[5] ....35 years ago a group of young Polynesians
formed
an organisation that later was accredited with ending the
dawn
raids and settling up social change programmes that
has help mould
Aotearoa as we know it
today...
ANNOUNCEMENTS
UNITE UNION ORGANISERS
AUCKLAND AREA
Applications are invited for Union
Organiser positions with the Unite
Union. The positions
require the successful applicants to reside in
Auckland.
These positions would suit someone who has union
organising
experience, either as a union organiser or as
a delegate, or a history
of community activism . The
successful applicants will need to
demonstrate a
commitment to the goals of trade unionism, have
good
communication skills - both written and verbal, work
well within a
small team as well as independently, have a
drivers licence and be
prepared to work flexible hours
occasionally away from home. Written
applications will
close at 5pm Friday 2nd June 2006 and should include
all
relevant work experience and training to be addressed to:
Mike
Treen, Auckland Secretary, Unite Union, 6a Western
Springs Rd,
Morningside, Auckland or email
mike@unite.org.nz [6]
KEEP OUR PORT PUBLIC PETITION -
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 12 - BIG PUSH
NEEDED
The
KOPP petition against the sale of the port of Lyttelton
into
foreign/private ownership needs LOTS more signatures
before it is
presented to the Christchurch City Council.
The deadline has been
extended by 12 days (to June 12) to
give supporters of the cause time
to get out to markets,
shops and other gathering places and meetings
where more
signatures can be gathered. Although the issue seems to
have
gone quiet, please assure people that the Council
has NOT changed its
mind about selling the port at all,
and is still fully committed to
doing so - it is now just
working to a longer time frame. So we still
have to send
a strong message to STOP now.
Please get out with
petition forms (downloadable
from
www.keepourportpublic.org [7]) and send filled
sheets back to Box 2258,
Christchurch by Monday June 12.
Your efforts to protect our assets will
be greatly
appreciated by present and future generations!
CAFCA,
Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa, Box
2258, Christchurch,
New Zealand. cafca@chch.planet.org.nz
[8]
BEST ON THE WEB
[1]
http://www.gpja.org.nz/
[2]
http://gpja.org.nz/mailto:simon@enzyme.org.nz
[3]
http://www.gpja.org/
[4]
http://gpja.org.nz/mailto:daphlawless@randomstatic.net
[5]
http://gpja.org.nz/mailto:waiata@woosh.co.nz
[6]
http://gpja.org.nz/mailto:mike@unite.org.nz
[7]
http://www.keepourportpublic.org
[8]
http://gpja.org.nz/mailto:cafca@chch.planet.org.nz
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