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![]() Action Alert - What's on soon? Peace Movement AotearoaPO Box 9314, Wellington. Tel (04) 382 8129, fax (04) 382 8173, pma@apc.org.nz![]() Issued 3 February 1999 ![]() 3 Feb 1999 Wellington : Say 'NO to APEC' TODAY ! APEC 99 - the $45 million mistake ! ~ 2-30pm - at Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Stafford House, 40 The Terrace - picket the NGO / MFAT 'consultation'. The government wants NGOs to help sell APEC to the community, come and tell them what you think about this. Contact TUF, tel (04) 384 8963. ~ 7.30pm - 'What is APEC?' public meeting with Jane Kelsey, Moana Jackson and others; Aziz Choudry on 'APEC and the SIS', at 7.30pm, St Johns Church Conference Centre, Cnr Willis and Dixon Streets. AND SAY 'NO TO APEC' TOMORROW TOO ! ![]() Programme for the Seminar : 9.00 am Welcome and introduction; 9.15 am Keynote speaker: Malaysian Activist - Confronting APEC in Malaysia; 10.00 am Morning Tea; 10.15 am Panel I - APEC, Trade and Worker Rights; 11.15 am Panel II - APEC and the Education System; 12.15 pm Lunch; 1.00 pm Panel III - APEC and Sovereignty; 2.00 pm Workshops on the three issues; 3.15 pm Beyond APEC - summing-up by Professor Jane Kelsey; 4.0 pm Close. SAY 'NO TO APEC' in Auckland - for details of meetings to discuss possible protests when the APEC circus convenes there, contact AUWRC, tel (09) 302 2496, fax (09) 377 4804, auwrc@ihug.co.nz from 29 January - Bruce Lyon has asked us to advise you that from 29 January he will be on his 'Nation of Spirit' national tour. For more information you can tel 0800 698 687, Tour@SimplySacred.com or check out his website at http://www.simplysacred.com Wellington - Friday, 5 FEB - 'The corporate assault on environmentalism' , Dr Sharon Beder, 7pm, at Aro Valley Hall. Sharon, probably best known for her book 'Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism', will be sharing her research and knowledge about the topic. Contact ECO, tel (04) 385 7545, eco@reddfish.co.nz Saturday, 6 Feb - Waitangi Day, 159th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty. Otepoti / Dunedin- 'A Celebration of Survival and Resistance' concert, stalls and speakers, 11am to 2pm in the Lower Octagon, co-sponsored by Corso Otepoti, Freedom Roadworks, Te Roopu Rangatahi o Otepoti, SCM Otago and Network Waitangi. For more details tel (03) 477 3395, corso@earthlight.co.nz~ Wellington- Tenths Trust day of activities around the Treaty in Frank Kitts Park, Network Waitangi will be having an information stall there.~ Aotea Lagoon, Porirua: 'Festival of the Elements' 9am to 10pm - stalls, bands, and a 'writer's cafe' (2pm-5.30pm) where writers including Roma Potiki, Apirana Taylor and Vivienne Plumb will read.~ Tamaki Makaurau/ Auckland- NFIP Tamaki Makaurau will be travelling to Waitangi, contact Joan (09) 360 8001.Wellington region - 7 & 14 Feb at 11.45 am on ACCESS 783AM - listen to Peace Report, Des Brough interviewing Alyn Ware on issues and challenges facing anti-nuclear activists in the new millennium. Contact Peace Council, PO Box 703, Wgtn. Tuesday, 9 Feb is the NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST THE SIS Amendment Bill , and the day of submissions hearings in Wellington - requests from people opposed to the bill outside of Wellington for oral submissions to be heard in their towns and cities have been refused by the Prime Minister's office. The 1998 SIS Amendment Bill (which will have its third reading in parliament probably in March) will give the SIS the right to break into homes and offices and remove whatever they want. This right will be retrospective. As the 1996 SIS amendment extended the definition of national security to include 'the international and economic wellbeing of New Zealand', those whose homes / offices may be broken into presumably now include anyone who disagrees with the current government's international or economic policy - a considerable proportion of the populace one imagines ! If you wish to have more details about the Amendment Bill, please contact PMA and we will send you our alert 'DO YOU WANT THE SIS IN YOUR HOME ?' - this includes a copy of the Democratic Rights Defence Fund leaflet. The alert is available on our website at http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/a120199.htm In Wellington and Auckland the protests will start at sites linked to APEC - if this bill becomes law, it is likely that those protesting the APEC 99 meetings here will become 'legitimate' targets of the SIS.
- leafletting around the city, contact Corso, tel (03) 477 3395, corso@earthlight.co.nz |
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