We, the undersigned residents of the Hauraki rohe and the Thames-Coromandel community, call on the Thames-Coromandel District Council and the Waikato Regional Council to pass the following motion:  MOTION:  A CALL FOR AN IMMEDIATE AND PERMANENT CEASEFIRE IN GAZA TCDC/ WRC call on the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade to: • call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza • call for immediate international humanitarian aid to be allowed into Gaza • provide humanitarian aid to Gaza • condemn all acts of violence and terror against civilians • call for the immediate return of all hostages, Israeli and Palestinian • recognise the State of Palestine as a sovereign state And add the following to their procurement policies: TCDC/ WRC will comply with UN resolution 2334, and will not contract with the list of companies identified by the UN Human Rights Council as involved in building or maintenance of illegal Israeli settlements.

Dear House of Representatives In the 2017 general election, Labour committed, and the other coalition partners stated their intention, to restoring student allowance eligibility for postgraduates. We're calling on the House of Representatives to recommend to the Government that it keeps its promise and gives us a commitment that the postgraduate allowance will be restored before the 2020 election. Sincerely, The Students of Aotearoa New Zealand

Make Aotearoa New Zealand safer for everyone, especially women, by urgently adding stalking to the 1961 Crimes Act. UPDATE! 20 May: 80 groups and individuals in business, politics, law, entertainment, media and academia – including representatives of women, migrants, workers and researchers – have signed an open letter urging the government to make stalking illegal. 

Kia ora Vice Chancellor Professor Jan Thomas, I recently became aware of Massey University’s funding agreement with Chinese company iFlytek. As you are no doubt aware, this company has been tied to the ongoing appalling human rights abuses of the Uyghur people by the Chinese Government. In the face of the continued systemic oppression of the Uyghur people which is alarming the world, it is no longer justifiable for Massey to continue this funding agreement with iFlytek. I emplore you to consider not only the ethical violations involved in this partnership, but the moral imperative to do what we can to signal our opposition as New Zealanders to this horrific treatment of millions of human beings. I ask you to end the partnership with iFlytek as soon as possible, and to be part of the right side of history.

We the undersigned ask you to withdraw plans to extend the Martha open pit mine under Waihi.

Join our call asking the House of Representatives to ensure the Ministry for Disabled people is led and run by disabled people, to ensure disabled people are in leadership roles and their rights are upheld. Nothing about us without us!

Dear Simon Power (CEO, TVNZ), New Zealanders demand better from our public broadcaster. We demand that TVNZ pull the FBoy Island NZ show immediately. Why? Because it normalises and champions predatory and dangerous sexual behaviour that harms people, particularly young people. In July this year, Project Gender released our research results on the state of online dating and sex in Aotearoa. We ran a nationwide survey and heard from over 830 New Zealanders about their experiences with people they had met on a dating app. Many of the results were concerning, in particular: - 30% - nearly one third - of the people we heard from had been choked/suffocated during consensual sex in the past 12 months - This rose to 43% when we looked just at those aged under 30 - Slightly under half (47%) of those that had been choked/suffocated said it happened without their consent at least once Let’s talk a bit more about what our research told us about consent during sex. 29% of those who had been on dates in the past 12 months had been pressured into doing something sexual they weren’t comfortable with. Most commonly, this occurred by the other person: “Wearing you down by repeatedly asking you to do it” “Making promises about the future of your relationship” “Suggesting that you’re boring i.e. “vanilla”, prudish” “Being unhappy and moody unless you agreed to do it” We have shared Project Gender’s research with sexual violence advocates and researchers, and together we’re working (most of us pro bono) to try and address the psychological and physical safety risks that these results highlight. Part of the solution, we all agree, is consent law reform and education about what healthy, positive sexual activity looks like, which especially targets our rangatahi. Your decision, as our state broadcaster, to air in the coming weeks a reality TV show called FBoy Island NZ is not only disappointing, it is dangerous. In your show, 20 young men vie for the attention of three women who must decide if they are “nice guys” or “Fboys”, meaning men who act as if they’re entitled to sexual encounters and who often use manipulation in order to have sex with women. Not to put too fine a point on it, you’re essentially gamifying predatory sexual behaviour. Unsurprisingly, an abuser has been found among the line up of FBoys who made it through the auditions: the Herald on Sunday just broke the news that one of the men who was going to star in the show “appeared in court last year charged with suffocating a woman he admitted to police he lured to his home because she was drunk and he hoped to have sex with her”.

Dear Minister, please implement the Plan to Fix Renting and its 36 recommendations that will make life better for renters. Everyone deserves a home that is safe, healthy, affordable and stable, and the ability to stand up for our rights. People who rent should be no exception. Please make this a reality by reforming New Zealand’s renting laws and putting this Plan into action.

We are calling on Kāinga Ora to immediately purchase land and construct new permanent rental accommodation in Kāpiti for all groups affected by homelessness including youth, families, disabled people, and older people. This includes easier access to Emergency Housing and providing support services for people made homeless including one on one advocacy person's homeless experience.

Stop the destruction of this iconic New Zealand Surf Break: MANGAMAUNU We the undersigned request that the Ministers call in / withdraw the consent that is currently being processed inappropriately under emergency earthquake legislation to create a seawall and a cycle way in the foreshore and coastal hazard zone within the Mangamaunu surf break and bay. We ask the Ministers to direct NCTIR/ NZTA, Kiwirail to put any such plans now and in the future for Mangamaunu surf break and bay through a thorough RMA process to ensure the best chance of developing an appropriate and positive outcome that protects this beautiful and unique surf break, environment and allows community voice to be heard. NCTIR (2017) and now KIWIRAIL & NZTA (9th March 2018) have inappropriately put consents in for a cycle way that will, by their own assessment harm this nationally important surf break. We believe that under the appropriate RMA process, a cycleway could be developed in a way that benefits from community knowledge and does not destroy the unique nature of the surf break and environment. We would support this to occur only under the appropriate RMA process. If the consents were processed using the RMA they would be unable to adversely impact the surf break, However NCTIR (LTSA and Kiwirail ) put both consents in by way of mis-using emergency legislation (which is for opening the road and for restoration). Building a cycle way and sea wall is clearly not restoration work. More importantly the emergency legislation designed for opening roads lapses on the 31st March 2018 so their putting it through 3 weeks before the national safeguards come back in, effectively silences and shuts out the thorough assessments and wider community input required to protect such a nationally important surf break. Mangamaunu is one of 17 nationally significant surf breaks listed in schedule one of the New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement (NZCPS), and the transport alliance (NCTIR) intend to build a cycle way and car park to provide access to Mangamaunu, even though NCTIR’s own technical documents state the surf break is likely to be adversely effected. This stretch of coastline around Mangamaunu point has had only minor impacts from the 2016 Hurinui/Kaikoura earthquakes on the existing road/rail corridor. These proposed works advanced under emergency legislation without consultation or right of appeal are inappropriate and require testing by due process under the Resource Management Act and New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement.