Picket today – 10am at Gerry Brownlee’s electorate office
Government refugee response piddling – Let us help!
The picket will be held from 10am today - Saturday 12 September - outside Gerry Brownlee’s electorate office at 283
Greers Road, Bryndwr, Christchurch.
Christchurch Progressive Network supporters will picket the electorate office of Government Minister Gerry Brownlee this
weekend in protest at the government’s piddling response to the latest refugee crisis.
Already many thousands of New Zealanders have shown they are eager and willing to take in a refugee family while they
get settled in New Zealand. Our government response should reflect this kiwi generosity of spirit rather than the harsh
attitudes of National government ministers.
The message from our picket will be “Let us help”.
Over several decades New Zealand governments have been especially miserly and hard-hearted towards refugees. We rank
90th in the world in our per capita acceptance of refugees and what should make us all cringe is that Australia takes
three times as many refugees per capita as New Zealand.
ENDS