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Kia Ora! Apologies for a lack of regular new issues for the past few months. We’re a small team here at Partisan and life gets in the way of things pretty easily.
Nevertheless, we’re resuming our monthly bulletin here and starting in a week you’ll see a fresh new series of articles. Thanks for waiting, see you soon. -The Editors Now, onto the important stuff… Living Wage University Council Action | VUW For Living Wage Where: Victoria University Council chambers When: Monday the 16th of June at 8:45am (meeting in the Hunter courtyard off Kelburn parade) What: Victoria University refuses to pay over 500 of its workers a living wage. By definition, that’s 500 people who are not being paid enough to live off of for their labour. This is completely reprehensible, as is the university’s consistent refusal to so much as acknowledge the issue. Students, teachers, university workers and others who stand in solidarity with the underpaid workers and against their mistreatment will be “attending” Victoria University’s council meeting this Monday morning as a group to make our feelings heard and to call on the University administration to pay their workers enough to live with dignity. Find out more at https://fb.me/e/288q21XQx All Out for Gaza Where: Te Papa Museum Courtyard (Marching to Parliament) When: Thursday the 27th of June at 11am What: Palestinian solidarity demonstrators from all across Aotearoa are coming to Wellington for a mass protest, calling on the government to stand against the genocide of Palestinians by condemning and sanctioning Israel, granting visas to Palestinian refugees and recognising Palestinian statehood. They’re calling on anyone who can make it to gather outside Te Papa museum at 11am on the 27th of June, from where we will march to Parliament. For more information, head to https://fb.me/e/csZHWGD56 Seminar: The Crisis in New Caledonia and the Struggle for an Independent Kanakay | Workers’ Educational Association Where: Trades Hall, 124 Vivian St, Te Aro When: Tuesday the 17th of June at 6pm What: One of a series of “radical seminars” held in Trades Hall and put on by the Wellington Workers Educational Association. This seminar, given by senior lecturer of Pacific History at Victoria University Dr. Adrian Muckle, concerns the current uprising of indigenous Kanak people against French colonialism in Kanakay. For further details, you can take a look at the WWEA’s facebook event here: https://fb.me/e/4sBFNOG2H Summer Peace Picnic | Unions Wellington
Where: Clyde Quay Wharf When: The 25th of February at 11am What: At a time when our country’s leaders seem even keener than they already were to be sucking up to American imperialists–getting us into a military intervention in Yemen and making overtures towards joining the nuclear-armed and spectacularly imperialist AUKUS military alliance–organised resistance is desperately needed. Our country’s Trade Union movement has a history of fighting imperialist elements and we need to see this legacy honoured and revitalised today. Off the back of the Council of Trade Unions voting both to oppose AUKUS participation and Israeli apartheid and genocide, CTU local affiliate Unions Wellington are hosting a social gathering and a series of speeches as a beginning to what will hopefully become a new ongoing peace campaign in the union movment. There’ll be demonstrations in the future, but on Sunday there’ll be banner painting, food, games and speeches. Bring some Kai, a Koha and some comrades. For more info, UW’s facebook event is linked here: https://fb.me/e/1DTuag9L2 Make Some Noise for Palestine | Justice for Palestine Where: Parliament When: The 29th of February at 12:30pm What: Postponed from its original date on the 22nd out of respect for Efeso Collins. Justice for Palestine are running a loud demonstration outside Parliament to make sure that our politicians know that more is demanded of them than vague gestures in the face of a horrific genocide. Wear black in memory of the near-30,000 Palestinians killed and bring some hearing protection and something to make noise with! Justice for Palestine's facebook event for the protest can be found here: https://fb.me/e/5X3OCc5Z6 Inflation 101 | Little Red Reading Group Where: Ernie Abbott meeting room, Trades Hall, 124 Vivian Street When: The 5th of March at 6pm What: A session of the WEA and WSS’s joint-run socialist reading group. This round will be on inflation, economics and combating the anti worker myths around it that drive media discourse and dominated the conversation around the cost of living crisis in the last election cycle. For more information, check out the LRRG’s facebook event https://fb.me/e/1DlUaCAZV URGENT UPDATE: March for Gaza | Justice for Palestine Where: Civic Square When: The 27th of January at 2pm What: Justice for Palestine are holding a march in solidarity with Palestinian people and against US-Backed (and, with the government's recent announcement of its intentions to militarily aid the bombing of Yemen, NZ-Condoned and Supported) Genocide of Palestinians by the Israeli apartheid regime. Protestors will convene in Civic Square before marching to Parliament. Justice for Palestine's facebook event for the protest can be found here https://fb.me/e/4buYwPWSB Protest in Solidarity with ELE Migrant workers | FIRST Union and Migrant Action Trust Where: Outside the Philippine embassy, 50 Hobson Street, Thorndon, Wellington. When: The 19th of January at 12pm What: A protest led by FIRST Union and the Migrant Action Trust (MAT), calling for the protection and fair treatment of as many as 500 migrant worker from the Philippines on temporary work visas who the ELE group kicked to the curb during mass layoffs right before Christmas as part of its going into receivership. The Union and MAT are calling for both NZ and the Philippines' governments to do more for these workers, who are having to suffer and face being thrown out of the country while the bosses will see virtually no consequence themselves for their business failures. They are also calling on the Deloitte company to pay the workers the final pay and annual leave entitlements that they are owed. For more information, you can have a look at the facebook event page here: https://fb.me/e/7Wd2wRloe And a release from the protest organisers can be read here: 
Public Meeting on Water and Asset Sales | Wellington Residents’ Coalition Where: Newtown Hall, on the Corner of Constable and Daniell Streets When: Sunday, the 28th of January at 2pm. What: A public meeting on Councillors’ ongoing plans to install water meters and require Wellingtonians to pay for water by volume, and on municipal asset sales. In a flier linked below, the Wellington Residents’ Coalition describe by-volume bills as a kind of local neoliberalism. One which, in the name of fixing the problems with our broken water infrastructure, will disproportionately and punitively affect Wellington’s poorest residents while doing little to actually address the issue. The Residents’ Coalition want to host a discussion on what can be done to oppose what they see as an attack on “our last little bit of socialism.” Read a PDF copy of their flier here:
Pukehīnau/Lambton Ward by-Election Forum | Unions Wellington Where: Bedlam and Squalor, 13 Garrett St When: Wednesday, the 31st of January at 6pm What: Unions Wellington are hosting a forum on the Pukehīnau/Lambton ward local council by-election, following the resignation of the seat by now-MP Tamantha Paul. As a Unions Wellington-hosted event, the forum will be an opportunity to question candidates from a trade unionist and working class perspective, something which doesn’t always take place in local politics’ usual attempts to appeal to property-owning ratepayers. For more information, have a look at the facebook event page: https://fb.me/e/395rLvmvY |
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