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.
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.
As you can see from the new poster, School Strike for Climate Wellington has changed the meeting time and place for the climate strike on 23 September.
Meeting time and place arenow: 12 noon at Parliament.
Placard–making
The Victoria University chaplaincy and VUWSA are jointly hosting a placard-making session oat the Kelburn campus. It’s on Thursday 22 September, 12 noon-2pm, at the Tim Beaglehole Courtyard.
Come and make some protest placards for the climate strike!
“After four months’ protesting outside Fonterra’s Wellington office to raise awareness of the damaging effects of intensive dairying, we want to show our support for School Strike for Climate’s latest protest action,” says Caz Sheldon, spokesperson for Fridays for Future Te Ūpoko O Te Ika / Wellington.
“What we want from Fonterra is what School Strike 4 Climate wants: ban the use of synthetic nitrogen on farms now and halve the dairy herd. Our agricultural industries’ overuse of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser is destroying New Zealand’s soil ecosystems and waterways, and enabling intensive dairying, and the huge numbers of dairy cows is the main source of New Zealand’s methane emissions. Methane is an extremely dangerous and powerful climate-heating gas many times worse than carbon dioxide.
“We also strongly agree with School Strike for Climate’s demands to make public transport free; invest properly in physically separate safe cycling lanes and walking paths; end all oil and gas exploration and extraction in New Zealand; and invest in a just transition.
“If the government takes these demands seriously by immediately implementing policies and enforcing new legislation, New Zealand will finally start to reduce climate emissions — which are actually still increasing – and we would all be a lot healthier too!
“We urge and invite everyone to join us in support of School Strike 4 Climate on Friday 23 September, at 12 noon at Parliament.”
