Many migrant workers are not looking simply for better work, propelled by poverty and insecurity, they are looking for ANY work.
Grassroots Activism / Whakahē hira
Eco-prisoners: from the US to the Pacific
Across the globe there have been many brave acts of resistance against those exploiting both humanity and the environment. Unfortunately as global awareness of environmental issues increases so does repression of those brave enough to stand up.
WHAT’S UP WITH COKE?
Elisabeth Perham asks why people are boycotting and protesting against one of the worlds most recognisable brands?
DO TRY: SOME ALTERNATIVE PIE
The Freedom Shop in Wellington is an “infoshop, which started out as a tiny punk-orientated anarchist bookshop, aiming to spread radical information and support DIY anarchist culture.
¡YA BASTA! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
The Zapatistas in Mexico are part of a global wave of people standing up against a system that values profit over people and nature and striving for a global citizenry of dignity, democracy, freedom and justice.
BEYOND FAIR TRADE - BREWING HOPE
“Brewing Hope” is building relationships between student coffee drinkers and Mexican coffee growers. Just Focus member Grace Leung travelled to Chiapas in Mexico to meet the local coffee farmers. She shares her experience and thoughts.
SAVE HAPPY VALLEY
Warm and Toasty: The story of Solid Energy’s sleepless nights. Hannah Newport shares her thoughts on Happy Valley in the South Island. “Ok, so we all like a nice toasty fire in the winter - “put your feet up dear, there’s a good lass”. But that’s no reason to go around killing native animals, now… is it?”
TAKING BACK THEIR RIGHTS
By Omar Hamed.
Youth rise up against low pay and discriminaton with Supersizemypay.com
Interview with an Aotearoa peacebuilder
by Annie Boanas, age 23, Wellington
Pauline Tangiora Q.S.O., Q.S.M. is a Māori elder from the Rongomaiwahine tribe on the East Coast of the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. She has affiliations with many other tribes. She is a Justice of the Peace, a former President and currently Vice President of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (Aotearoa), the former Regional Women’s Representative for the World Council for indigenous peoples, an Earth Charter Commissioner and a member of the Earth Council. She is a life member of the Māori Women’s Welfare League and a Patron of the Peace Foundation. She has represented Aotearoa at many international fora and was a Consultant to the International Steering Committee of the World Court Project, a legal challenge to nuclear weapons.
She has also been recently nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
NZ Sweatshops Inc.
By Cameron Walker, Auckland
So your brand new, highly expensive, major brand jacket actually cost less than two bucks to make in a Thai sweatshop. How cool is that?! Not very. Leading sportswear companies continue to make huge profits from unethical sweatshop labour.
