Prisoner advocacy organisation People Against Prisons Aotearoa (PAPA) will be joining the Tāmaki Anti-Fascist coalition in Aotea Square this Friday to mobilise against a public talk by Canadian white supremacists, Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern.

“Molyneux and Southern are here to promote the exclusion of Māori, Pacific, and Muslim people in Aotearoa. As an organisation passionately committed to racial justice, the end of class oppression, and solidarity, we will be present to demonstrate that banal racism is unwelcome here.” says PAPA spokesperson Emilie Rākete.

“These white supremacists are here to rile up New Zealand’s tiny fascist movement. The Tāmaki Anti-Fascist coalition exists to show these people that their views are entirely marginal.”

“Molyneux and Southern are here to convince a handful of acolytes that brown people are what is making their lives hard. PAPA has spent years working with the most dispossessed people in our country, and it is clear to us that immigration and new cultural values are not the problem. Our rotten and corrupt economic system, which creates huge wealth at the same time as it plunges the majority of people into poverty, is the cause of the present crisis.”

“Molyneux and Southern’s noxious blend of white nationalism and outright fascism are an attempt to blame brown people for the way capitalism has made our lives more precarious and more difficult. PAPA absolutely rejects the kind of misdirection that these two present. We are committed to the cause of Māori, of migrants, of refugees, and of the working class as a whole.”

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