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Press Release – Joe Carolan
Aotearoa is Not for Sale- Public Forum and organising meeting
7pm this Friday 17th February
Auckland Trades Hall, 147 Great North Road.
Friday night in Auckland will see the formation of a new campaign opposed to asset sales, as speakers from across the Left join together at Auckland Trades Hall, 7pm. Aotearoa is Not for Sale will unite speakers from Labour, the Greens, Mana, the Maritime Union, Unite and the wider union movement, building for a major protest march on 3pm Saturday 28th April, going from City Hall down to Auckland’s Wharfs.
Speakers-
Phil Twyford, Labour MP.
Matt McCarten, Mana Movement.
Denise Roche, Green MP
Russell Mayn, Maritime Union of New Zealand
Joe Carolan- Aotearoa is Not for Sale.
facebook event page for the meeting HERE-
https://www.facebook.com/events/175257735910484/
Organiser Joe Carolan-
“Charter Schools.
Crafar Farms.
Deep Sea Oil Drilling by Petrobas off the East Coast.
Wharfies facing the sack as Ports Of Auckland gears up to privatise.
And now no Treaty when it comes to selling off Public Assets.
There is huge opposition to the government’s plans to privatise state assets. Electricity is already too expensive in this country- we remember when Folole Muliaga died after she was disconnected for getting behind on her bills. Mums and Dads can’t pay the bills on the poverty wages they earn, let alone buy back what they already own. Its not just American and Australian multinationals and the Chinese State we’re worried about- Our concern is that the government will sell off the family silver to their rich friends, the elite 1%, both domestic and international.
We want to mobilise thousands of people to march on the streets of Auckland to say Aotearoa is not for Sale. Friday’s meeting will bring together the political Left with union and community campaigns, such as the GI Tenants resisiting eviction and the Wharfies fighting casualisation.
Our public assets, our schools, our jobs and our homes are all under attack. Its time to draw a line in the sand and defeat the government on the streets.”
New Zealand is for sale. Come to the Forum this Friday to begin organising the fightback to defend Aotearoa.
Content Sourced from scoop.co.nz
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I did not attend this meeting and here is why: I felt great sadness that this campaign has been restricted (by default) to what is called “…speakers from across the Left”. Because I think that the left-right divide is an integral part of undemocratic governments world-wide. Surely there are some conservatives who would be prepared to stand up and to speak against privatisation, asset sales, and the corporatisation of New Zealand in a more neutral venue? As things stand, the meeting will amount to hear the same old voices in the secular pulpit addressing the same old faces in the secular choir with the secular equivalent of halleluliahs. I can’t see any real progress towards a New Aotearoa until the false left-right paradigm becomes obsolete and there is prevailing pressure towards cooperation and (total) unity rather than a pseudo left-right competition and disunity. By ‘unity’, I mean a unity as to aim by diversity of (not uniformity)