Love Your Neighbour, Pacific Leaders Climate Tour
We have teamed up with Oxfam, Tearfund, and the Auckland Diocesan Climate Change Action Group to bring Reverend Lusama of Tuvalu, and Pacific Climate Warrior, Starling Konainau of the Solomon Islands, to speak about how climate change is already affecting their nations in Pacific, and how we, as neighbours, can address this injustice and New Zealand's contribution to it.
Invest in Divestment
There’s no doubt now that the fossil fuel divestment campaign is having some serious bite. Last weekend, thousands of individuals, investors, institutions and even the UK Parliament* took part in …
Make Dunedin’s 2014/15 Annual Plan a plan for our future!
Dunedin's city council has announced they want people's opinions and suggestions for their Annual Plan, and they are particularly asking for comments around ethical investing. This is the chance to ask Dunedin City Council to take their money out of fossil fuels.
We are switching from Westpac this week!
This week, people around New Zealand are saying to Westpac in the most concrete way – “It’s me or Bathurst Resources. You wouldn't call in your loan to them, so I’m switching banks.”
New Video: “We are the people who love more”
Couple of week ago we had an amazing opportunity to run a "Training for Trainers" workshop for Climate Organizers together with Daniel Hunter. Daniel is a social change trainer and activist who helps different activist groups around the world - from US to Australia to Lebanon to Poland. We caught Daniel on film, asking him to share some thoughts on climate movement, social change and why we need more workshops like these. What he said really inspires us, and our hope is that it will inspire you, too.
This is why Lynne is switching from Westpac – video
We met up with Lynne couple of weeks ago to have a chat about why she is switching from Westpac. She is one of the over 100 people in New Zealand who are moving their money to another bank, telling to Westpac: "If you are still investing our moeny in dirty fossil fuel projects, we don't want you to be our bank". Watch this video to hear more.
Call to dump Westpac for funding Denniston coal mine
The campaign against Westpac bank’s financial interest in mining on the Denniston Plateau stepped up a notch today when Coal Action Network Aotearoa and we launched our “Make The Switch” campaign encouraging people to dump their Westpac bank accounts.