Global Peace And Justice Auckland Newsletter #75, November 24, 2004
Website http://www.gpja.pl.net/ Contact details: Forums - John Minto, (09) 846 3173, jbminto@xtra.co.nz; Newsletter
Editor - Mike Treen 027 5254744 / 3616989 miket@pl.net Web page - bobo@enzyme.org.nz Donations can be sent to GPJA,
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Dear friends,
Help is urgently needed to publicise a major "Free Ahmed Zaoui Now" public rally on December 4. Leaflets are being
distributed and a mass paste-up is planned for Saturday, November 27. Please check out the activities below to see if
you can help. A book detailing the facts around the case is available for only $15 (see below). It can make a good Xmas
present. If you missed the Kim Hill interview with Helen Clark we have a link to the transcript below. Also note the
next GPJA Forum on December 5 has a guest speaker from Wellington - Tony Ellis (who won the recent case against the
Corrections Dept for abuse of prisoners) speaking.
WHAT'S ON IN AUCKLAND
Wednesday-Friday, 12 noon, Outside IMAX Centre, Queen St, City LEAFLETTING FOR THE "FREE ZAOUI NOW" RALLY. To help phone
Karyn 3584104, or 0274417209
Saturday, November 27, 10am, Unite office, Trades Hall, 147 Great North Rd, Grey Lynn MASS POSTER PASTEUP TO ADVERTISE
THE DECEMBER 4 FREE ZAOUI RALLY
Saturday, November 27, 12 noon, Potters Park, cnr Dominion Rd and Balmoral Rd Bring your family, friends, food and
instruments and join the AUCKLAND GE FREE CARNIVAL at Potters Park and tell KFC to say no to GE and help us win the next
step in the GE Free campaign! Carnival protest against KFCs failure to commit to a permanent GE Free policy and thereby
their willingness to threaten our health and the environment and to support the social injustices of biotechnology in
third world countries... etc etc. Please download and distribute the flyer and put up the posters if you live in
Auckland! (flyers and poster available at http://www.stop-inghams-ge.org/carnival Get involved with Auckland Genetix Action Email aga@agean.org or phone 027 4411709
Monday, November 29, 6pm, Unite Office, Trades Hall, 147 Great North Rd, Grey Lynn FREE ZAOUI RALLY ORGANISING GROUP
Saturday, December 4, 12 noon, Mt Eden Remand Prison "TWO YEARS TOO LONG - FREE ZAOUI NOW" - PUBLIC RALLY http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0411/S00124.htm
Monday 6th December, 7.30pm, Trades Hall, 147 Great North Road Grey Lynn. GPJA FORUM: Wellington lawyer Tony Ellis will
deliver a presentation on "SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN NZ: FINDINGS OF THE HIGH COURT AND THE UN COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE".
Tony has recently been successful in challenging the abuse of prisoners in New Zealand jails - much to the embarrassment
of the government and prison authorities. His address will cover both his recent court victories and the continuous law
changes in recent years which have been progressively chipping away at our legal rights under the "law and order" or
"fighting terrorism" banners.
Friday, December 10, 5.30pm, Trades hall, 147 Great North Rd, Grey Lynn "Think and Drink": Guest speaker VIVIENNE
PORZSOLT, from JEWS AGAINST THE OCCUPATION, will give an eye witness report (with slides) on a international human
rights march of women in Palestine/Israel earlier this year.
FREE ZAOUI CAMPAIGN
"I ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT THE MOON" - the disinformation campaign against Ahmed Zaoui - is now available from GPJA at the
UNITE office - $15 with all proceeds to go to the Zaoui family. This book is a brilliant expose by Scoop Media editor
Selwyn Manning of the campaign to discredit Zaoui by Algeria and France and the complicity of New Zealand officials in
this as our country has tried to paint itself as a loyal foot soldier in the war on terror. Get in early for XMAS - no
I'm not joking - and help make the Zaoui XMAS a bit happier! John Minto, Phone 0064 9 8463173, Fax: 0064 9 8463 176
KIM HILL DEBATES ZAOUI WITH PM - TRANSCRIPT http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00265.htm
Scoop Images: The Zaoui Concert!!! http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0408/S00002.htm
BEST OF THE WEB
STRIKERS MASSACRED IN THE PHILIPPINES - YOUR HELP NEEDED NOW Three days ago, on 16 November, fourteen people were killed
by army and police in the Philippines. Those people were strikers, trade unionists like yourselves. They worked on sugar
farms in sugar mills, and had been on strike for ten days. Two of those killed were children, aged two and five, who
died from suffocation as a result of the tear gas used. Some 35 people suffered gunshot wounds, 133 were arrested,
hundreds more were wounded. The trade union movement in the Philippines has called for a massive international protest
condemning the murders, demanding a full investigation of what happened. They are demanding that hundreds of workers
illegally dismissed be rehired, and that criminal charges against the strikers be dropped. Please send on your message
of protest by going here: http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=39
Seize the Time! David Barsamian interviews Arundhati Roy http://www.isreview.org/issues/38/Arundhati_roy.shtml
Starving children pay the price of disorder http://207.44.245.159/article7340.htm
The World Social Forum in 2005 will take place in Porto Alegre. http://www.spectrezine.org/global/WSF2.htm
Afghanistan: a nation abandoned to drugs: Country produces 87% of global opium. One in ten Afghans works in opium trade http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=584408
Mike