Fridays For Future Aotearoa, Te Upoko Te Ika (Wellington, New Zealand)
We protest at the Parliament Lawn on Tuesdays, from 12.30 to 1.30pm. Join us to talk about your concerns and try catching a Government MP on the hop!
The Government has put out a discussion document seeking feedback on a final set of options for pricing agricultural emissions. Read it here.
The Green Party has produced a a submission guide with background information and key points to make it easy for you to have your say. View it here.
We have until 18 November 2022 to make a submission.
Earlier this month, two of our members took part in a Greenpeace action highlighting our government’s greenwashing.
In fact, they took the two lead roles – playing the parts of James Shaw and Jacinda Ardern, sloshing green paint all over a group of plump dairy cows and a milking shed. All on the Parliament lawn.
Gas-guzzling utes and SUVs are still big sellers. Personally I’d like those types of vehicles to be banned, but a good start would be a ban on advertising them!
Greenpeace has a petition urging the Advertising Standards Authority to consider the inclusion of a rule under Principle 1 of the Advertising Standards Code, that bans the advertisement of products, specifically vehicles such as gas-guzzling utes and SUVs, that are proven to contribute significantly to emissions of air pollutants in Aotearoa.
Voting in the 2022 local elections closes on Saturday 8 October.
If you haven’t voted yet, you can use GenZero’s Vote Local website to find out where the various candidates stand on climate justice.
This is a Google doc that lists upcoming climate justice-related events, including our Friday lunchtime protests.
We alternate between Midland Park (to put pressure on Fonterra) and the Parliament lawn (where our lawmakers are).
Here’s a schedule for the next few Fridays, so you know where to find us (updated 2/12/22).
| Date | Protest location |
| 2/12/2022 | Midland Park |
| 9/12/2022 | Parliament Lawn (if weather is bad, we’ll go to Midland Park instead) |
| 16/12/2022 | Midland Park |
| 23/12/2022 | Parliament Lawn (if weather is bad, we’ll go to Midland Park instead) |
| 30/12/2022 | tbc (to be confirmed) |
| 6/1/2023 | tbc |
| 13/1/2023 | tbc |
| 20/1/2023 | tbc |
We weren’t lucky with the weather, but hey, that’s Wellington for you.
It was so great to see so many groups there to support the school students with their climate protest. They included the PPTA, an anarchist group from Vic Uni, at least two Marxist/socialist organisations and others.
It was a pleasure to support School Strike for Climate Wellington in this event and our admiration for their organisers is immense.
Check out a YouTube video of Caz’s speech.
The New Zealand climate strikes in the media:
Estimated 200 students rally outside of Parliament a part of School Strike for Climate (NewsHub)
Thousands of students take part in school strike for climate: ‘We want a future on the planet’ (RNZ)
Wellington student on why she’s taking part in climate strike (RNZ)
Students flock to climate change rallies (RNZ)
Thousands of students take part in school strike for climate: ‘We want a future on the planet’
Photos: Hundreds turn out for climate strikes across NZ (TVNZ – some great photos here!)
Aotearoa kicks off a worldwide climate change strike (The Spinoff – mostly about the Auckland strike)
Campaigners in Ōtautahi join nationwide School Strike for Climate protests (The Spinoff – mostly about the event in Christchurch)
Heather du Plessis-Allan should be ashamed of how she bullied my daughter (The Spinoff)
If you can’t be in Welly on 23 September, no worries!
There are also climate strikes elsewhere around New Zealand:
Apologies – there was an error in our climate strike post about the placard making.
We originally recorded 2 sessions, one on Sunday 18 September and the other on Thursday 22 September. The Sunday one got cancelled, but we made an error in updating our website.
The placard making is on Thursday 22 September (the day before the climate strike) 12noon till 2pm at the Tim Beaglehole Courtyard.
This event is organised by VUWSA and the Victoria University chaplaincy. See you there!
A new climate campaign is setting up right now in Aotearoa. They plan to use mass mobilisation and civil Resistance to demand the restoration of passenger rail.
Their first meeting is by Zoom on Monday 19 September, 7pm-8.30pm.
Visit their Facebook page for more details.