A one-day workshop for creative rangatahi (that’s you) to come together and envision what Te Whanganui-a-Tara’s food systems could look like by 2050 — the wilder and more whimsical, the better!
We’ll also have: – interactive installations – delicious kai – big fun!
There’ll be urban agriculture experts, artists, and speculative designers (future thinkers) there to guide the generation and communication of future food ideas. Decision-makers will arrive in the evening to hear about the day’s outcomes and meet our young changemakers over a BBQ futures feast produced by local chefs.
The garden will be an in-context site for all of these groups of people to meet, listen, share, and potentially collaborate, moving ideas beyond this initial workshop.
It’s shaping up to be a hugely impactful youth event. We’re looking for young people between the ages of 15 and 25 who are interested in:
– community gardening and urban farming
– indigenous food sovereignty and climate action
– waste minimisation and creative reuse sustainability-focused cooking, foraging and mahinga kai
– eco architecture and urban planning (edible green spaces) storytelling for social change
Please RSVP via email to Alex alex@bgi.org.nz! Please note FFF Aotearoa NZ isn’t involved in organising this event, we are simply standing in solidarity with BGI, Grow Space Wellington and The Sustainability Trust.
Bring your lunch and share kai & korero with people who want more action on climate justice . We will sing action songs and there will be chalk so we can leave our messages for the politicians at parliament.
IF YOU WISH WE CAN CHALK UP MESSAGES TO HOLD PARLIAMENT TO COP26 COMMITMENTS FOR PLANET AND PEOPLE
Taranaki is the ‘energy centre’ of Aotearoa and a major industrial dairy region.
Join Climate Justice Taranaki and a host of other social justice and climate groups for local and online actions during the COP26 international climate negotiations in November, to take direct action against major climate polluters and demand urgent, just transformation of government and big business.
Their demands are:
end extraction of fossil fuels;
ban industrial fertiliser;
end dairy exports; and
no false solutions (like hydrogen).
Due to the Covid-19 situation there will be an online webinar followed by local and online actions across the motu from 3-6 November.The national in-person event is postponed to Easter in early April 2022.
The two days of protest are:
5 November: Parihaka Invasion Day – the day colonial troops invaded Parihaka after 21 years of bloody war across the country to take land and resources from Māori.
6 November: International Day of Climate Action for COP26
During last month’s Global Climate Strike we asked fellow activists ‘Why are you protesting today?’ Watch their reasons in this 90 second video.
Voices from September 24, 2021 Global Climate Strike at New Zealand Parliament Lawn.
The Global Climate Strike in numbers
Close to 1,000,000 people in over 100 countries across 1,900 strikes took their climate concerns to the streets. For the Global Strike in March 2019 it was less than 1,000 strikes; 900 strikes more is a huge leap forward, considering we are still facing the challenges of the global pandemic.
It wasn’t an easy task to get the message out to as many folks as possible for our local strike on Parliament Lawn. The delta outbreak, moving alert levels, the uncertainty that comes with it and the need to keep all of us safe were weighing on our shoulders. Surely you can all sympathise with the difficulties around decision making during these times.
Yet, it felt like a responsibility (at least for us) to do something, even if it is little.
First of all to send a positive message to our fellow New Zealanders in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland who couldn’t protest. Kia kaha Tāmaki Makaurau 💜
And secondly to keep the Climate Crisis in everyone’s mind, especially when witnessing the recent delay tactics from our government despite having declared a Climate Emergency in December last year, that is 9 months ago. Rod Oram found some clear words for it in his newsroom comment article ‘Govt lacks integrity, skill and will on climate’ from September 17, 2021.
With some last minute Fast Chalking action in Pōneke CBD, a social media and email mahi, and support from other wonderful grassroots action groups – a green shout out to Alex and the awesome humans from Picnic in Parks 💚 – we were an energetic crowd of 30. We sang together, we chanted together, we cared together. Sending gratitude to everyone who had a chance to come along and support the action. Ka pai team!
Colourful memories from Parliament Lawn to support Fridays For Future Global Climate Strike #UpRootTheSystem, September 24 2021
A massive thank you again!
PS You can find us every Friday from 12.30 Noon protesting on Parliament Lawn. ✊
Join this action organised by Wellington 350 calling on the government to fund a fast and just transition to 100% renewable energy for all schools in Aotearoa!
DATE: Saturday, October 30, 2021
TIME: 2:00 pm – 3:00 PM
LOCATION: Aro St Park, Aro Street, Aro Valley, Wellington, New Zealand
ASSEMBLY POINT: Aro Valley Community Centre (adjacent to Aro St Park) at 2:00pm
Please note FFF TUI is not involved in organising this Family Fun Day, we are simply standing in solidarity with Wellington 350. Get in touch with them directly via email (see above) if you have any questions.
Singers – this is your moment! Listen to the beautiful song Edna from Tāmaki Makaurau wrote to support Extinction Rebellion’s Open Letter.
Join the XR Rebels in a colourful singing procession through the Pōneke CBD as they go to present their Open Letter to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at Parliament.
Please note FFF TUI isn’t involved in organising this event, we are simply standing in solidarity with the rebels across our beautiful motu. Get in touch with them directly via Facebook (link above) if you have any questions.
The XR Spring Rebellion is coming to a city near you. The rebels in charge bring a loaded programme of how to be a good Extinction Rebel in these challenging times. You can expect workshops, discussions, tours and sit-ins. Here is a list of activities to choose from:
Weekend Camp
Powhiri on Saturday 23/10 at 4pm
Workshops, trainings and discussions on Sunday 24/10
Tuesday 26/10 Draw the line on Fossil Fuels – including presenting Open Letter to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern; sign open letter here: https://www.climatejusticenow.nz/
Wednesday 27/10 Draw the line on Animal Exploitation
Take the opportunity to make your loving rebellious rage heard and seen in the public sphere.
Actions are planned to comply with Covid Level 2, with social distancing and limits on numbers.
Wear your mask! Bring your own drinking and eating tools!
Please note FFF TUI isn’t involved in organising any of the wonderful Spring Rebellion, we are simply standing in solidarity with the rebels across our beautiful motu. Get in touch with them directly via Facebook (link above) or email (see image above) if you have any questions. 💚✊
March with signs and picket at Parliament, for FFF Global Strike
Level 2 – wear masks and maintain social distancing
On the 24th of September, climate activists around the world will unite for a global strike based around #UprootTheSystem. But what does it exactly mean?
When we say Uproot The System, the climate movement puts an emphasis on the intersectionality of the climate crisis. The dominance of the Global North over MAPA (most affected people and areas) through different systems, such as: colonialism, discrimination, and climate injustice – and particularly the Global North’s outsized contribution to global emissions, is at the root of this crisis. Without listening to MAPA, embracing intersectionality, and uprooting this system, we have no hope of stopping the climate crisis. As the published narrative of the strike states, “Other socio-economic crises such as racism, sexism, ableism, class inequality, and more amplify the climate crisis and vice versa. It is not just a single issue, our different struggles and liberations are connected and tied to each other.”
21 October, Newtown: Prepare for Rise Up action in Taranaki
Our friends in Taranaki are organising a huge event in November. Here in Te Whanganui-a-Tara they are aided by Peace Action Wellington. Climate Justice Taranaki are highly respected campaigners and this event will be huge.
This from Valerie Morse of Peace Action.
I’m writing to invite all your members to a critically important climate justice action happening in Taranaki from 3-7 November.
The international climate negotiations (COP26) will be happening then, and we want to be clear that if they don’t take the actions required to keep temperature rise to 1.5, then we will.
We’re teaming up from across Aotearoa to hold four days of skill-sharing, wānanga, networking and non-violent direct actions with other concerned people from across Aotearoa. The 5th of November is the day colonial troops invaded Parihaka after 22 years of bloody war across the country for land and resources. A war which has never ended and links directly to ruling class oppression, white supremacy, extractivism and now global warming. The 6th of November is a Global Day of Action for climate justice.
Our demands are to:
End extraction of fossil fuels
Ban industrial fertiliser
End dairy exports, and
No false solutions (like hydrogen).
What will happen:
The gathering starts on Wednesday evening and ends on Sunday morning. [Note: accommodation will be on marae and there are several campgrounds nearby. More details will be posted soon.]
There will be opportunities for:
connecting to other groups/individuals to build the movement, and time to work with your local groups to plan (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday)
Learning about the local history and its impacts (Thursday evening, all weekend)
Skill-sharing, learning about climate justice and activism from different groups
Making art and props (Friday)
Nonviolent direct action (Friday and Saturday)
Make sure you save the date and make plans to come! Car-pooling and transport arrangements can be organised. We are hoping to fundraise enough to cover the costs of food, accommodation at the marae, and. We request that participants pay $10/day to help cover costs.
Here is the facebook event, and Twitter and Instagram social media links to stay in the loop. Please share these with whanau and friends and update your profile pic from the event pic. There are also posters that can be printed off the website and distributed too if you want.
Gas, Coal, and Industrial Ag: they’re all in this together.
AUCKLAND PROTEST: Victoria Park, cnr Halsey & Fanshawe St, opposite Fonterra HQ at 109 Fanshawe St, at 3 pm on Friday 28 May.
WELLINGTON PROTEST: Midland Park, outside Fonterra’s office at 157 Lambton Quay, at 1 pm on Friday 28 May.
The Parliament protest will start and end a little early this week (12-1 pm) so that people can move to Midland Park and protest Fonterra, our nation’s biggest polluter. Our government has only required the most minimal, token-effort changes from Fonterra.
Since 1990, dairy cattle numbers have increased by 82%, while in Canterbury this expansion was almost tenfold. This despite a growing climate emergency and no solution to the problem of methane emissions.
We now face severe health and water quality issues around the nation, long-term damage to waterways, and heavy metal loading in topsoil, making it unfit for food crops.
Gas and Coal are extracted to dry milk and create fertilizer, while water tables are drained in Fonterra’s race to the bottom.
So this week, make it a little later and join the team as they make the 5-minute walk to Midland Park at 1 pm.
New Zealand now faces the risk of trade barriers in response to this abysmal environmental record. For more information click below:
This is the new flier we intend to share on the lawn. We’ll make others for specific things as they arrive, but this message deserves its own page. There are lots of people lunching at Parliament these days so we want them to know this.
Why we’re here.
There is a PDF version available for any wishing to print it.
