This Saturday,
25 July at Pipitea Marae in Wellington.
Representatives
of a wide range of health, social justice an
d environmental organisations will
speak at the seminar to propose an alternative approach to the “business as
usual” proposals of mainstream politics.
We are delighted to have two marvellous New Zealanders, Justice Advocate
Julia Whaipooti and 2020 New Zealander of the Year and President of
Equity New Zealand Jennifer Te Atamira Ward-Lealand, to Co-chair the
day.
Keynote speakers who will set the kaupapa for the day are the Director of Action Station Laura O'Connell
Rapira and Pasifika community activist and Auckland City Councillor Efeso
Collins.
Wellington
City Councillor Tamatha Paul and University of Auckland Law Professor Jane
Kelsey will record and collate the presentations into a final report which
will be available to the media and will be presented in person to each of the
main political parties.
We are
thrilled with the calibre and integrity of the organisations and presenters
throughout the various panels. These groups and individuals are the change-agents
New Zealand so desperately needs at this critical time.
The full final
agenda is pasted at the end of this media advisory. Pasted here also are more
details for each of the speakers.
The best
opportunity for media to speak with the co-chairs and keynote speakers will be
at the lunch break at 12 noon which will be set up as a media conference.
The event will
be livestreamed in several places including thedailyblog.co.nz
The video and
transcribed presentations will be found asap after the seminar at
chchpn.blogspot.com
Details of Speakers
Keynote
Laura O'Connell Rapira – Director of Action Station
Efeso Collins – Pasifika community activist and Auckland
City Councillor
Health Panel
Teresa Wall – Former deputy director-general of
health
Dr Jude Ball – Former chair of the Wellington Branch
of the Public Health Association and a Research Fellow in the Public
Health Department, University of Otago, Wellington
Phil Bagshaw – Phil Bagshaw, General Surgeon
University of Otago Christchurch; Chair, Canterbury Charity Hospital Trust
Jane Stevens – After the preventable death of her son
Nicky while in the care of the mental health system 5 years ago, Jane has
become a passionate advocate for transformational change to our mental health
system
Ian Powell – A health commentator and editor of the
‘Second Opinion’ blog from Otaihanga and former Executive Director of the
Association of Salaried Medical Specialists for 30 years
Workers Panel
Tina Barnett – Former Chair Skycity Employees
Association
Yvette Taylor – Transformational Campaign Team Leader
at E tū, Aotearoa’s largest private sector union. Her work has mostly
focused on organising low pay workers in aged care, cleaning and security to be
active in the Living Wage campaign and building the wider broad based community
movement
Mike Treen – National
Director of Unite Union. Mike has been a campaigner against war and for
economic and social justice since he was a high school student
Anu Kaloti – Anu Kaloti, the President of Migrant
Workers Association, actively fighting against exploitation of migrant workers
and campaigning for better migrant rights since 2012
Youth Panel
Oli Morphew – Year 12 student at Wellington Girls
College and an SS4C (School Strike for Climate) Wellington organiser
Tara Watkins – School strike for Climate
Kalo Afeaki – Pacific Climate
Warriors
Tiana
Jakicevich – Te Ara Whatu
Environmental
panel
Amanda Larsson – Amanda Larsson is a Swedish-born, Tāmaki
Makaurau-based Climate and Energy Campaigner, who has been leading
Greenpeace New Zealand's policy work on the Covid-19 recovery
Dr Mike Joy – Senior
Researcher at Wellingtons Victoria University’s Institute for Governance and
Policy Studies and a founder member the Better Futures Forum. He is a
freshwater ecologist, environmental scientist and activist
Eleanor West – Member of
Generation Zero, a youth-led climate action organisation that mobilises
New Zealanders to engage with decision-making and campaign for
intergenerational climate justice
Haimana Hirini – Extinction Rebellion Te Whanganui a
Tara
Cally O’Neill – Participatory
designer for sustainable architecture and social and environmental activism,
with a focus on promoting participatory design in climate policy and political
process transformation.
Kevin Hague – Kevin is the Chief Executive of Forest & Bird and a
member of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission, and was previously a
Member of Parliament, public servant and community activist
Aaron Packard – Aaron Packard is the chairperson of 350 Aotearoa,
and has spent the last 10 years working on global campaigns and projects for 350.org, from blockading coal ports to supporting
climate activists to organise safely under repressive regimes
Marcus Newton-Howes – Member of 350 Aotearoa for the past four years
Social Panel
Frank Hogan – “A somewhat aging
criminal defence barrister practising for over 45 years mainly in South
Auckland now “transitioning “into an advocate for our most vulnerable-namely
the children beset by inequality”
Kassie Hartendorp – Community Organiser at Action
Station
Liz Gordon – Quality Public Education Coalition
Dani Pickering – Community
organiser for People Against Prisons Aotearoa and the #ArmsDownNZ campaign, and
a PhD candidate at Victoria University of Wellington. Their research covers
political activation and the growth of social movements.
Brooke Fiafia Pao – Daughter
of the Pacific, Mama, and AAAP volunteer and media spokesperson
Michael Sharp – A lawyer who has been involved in a
number of cases challenging government housing policy, helped to found a
housing advocacy service based in Tauranga and is a spokesperson for the State
Housing Action Network
Anjum Rahman – Project Lead of the Inclusive Aotearoa
Collective Tāhono, a project developing a Strategy for Belonging and Inclusion
for Aotearoa and seeking to implement it by bringing diverse communities
together to work on shared goals
Economics Panel
Tania Pouwhare – Tania
(Ngāi Tūhoe) is a social intrapreneur at Auckland Council’s social innovation
team where she leads the strategic thinking on livelihoods, wealth and economic
power in the context of south and west Auckland
Social Intrapreneur at Auckland Council
Geoff Bertram – Geoff
Bertram is an economist at the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies at
Victoria University of Wellington
Susan St John – Economist
with Child Poverty Action Group, Director of the Retirement Policy and Research
Centre
