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  • Press release: Victoria University arrests peaceful protestors

    At mid-day today Wellington political activists and Workers Party members Heleyni Pratley and Joel Cosgrove were arrested when they attempted to deliver a petition to the administration of Victoria University.  The petition, signed by 50 academics, union officials and educationalists, called for the lifting of a two-year trespass order the university administration had imposed on… Read more

  • University uses state forces against activists

    Statement: I/we call on Victoria University to lift the trespass notices on Heleyni Pratley and Joel Cosgrove. (Organisation/title/institution for identification purposes only) signees Read more

  • Christchurch Meeting: Campaigning to increase the minimum wage

    In Christchurch, the Workers Rights Campaign is heavily-involved in collecting signatures for Unite trade union’s petition for a citizens-initiated referendum to increase the minimum wage. Come along and find out about the petition and the other activities of the Workers Rights Campaign. Speaker: Byron Clark (WRC) 6PM, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28 WEA, 59 Gloucester St (Map) Read more

  • Picket against political targeting by VUW

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  • A strange land with strange customs

    Don Franks Somewhere out there is a strange land with strange customs. The head of an airline in this strange land gets paid $46,100 a week. A bus driver performing the essential job of taking passengers to the airport gets paid $544 a week. This is an experienced bus driver on the top rate. Now… Read more

  • We Must Demand Complete and Immediate Withdrawal from Afghanistan

    Reprinted from Kasama. I think what is posed in Medea Benjamin’s interview is a rather simple and important question: Can U.S. imperialism and its troops play a positive role in some circumstances? The U.S. invades the remote and impoverished Afghanistan in 2001, topples the fragile regime of Taliban theocrats (which never consolidated countrywide power in the civil… Read more