The Pride Parade is on Saturday 9 March. It includes a parade through Courtenay Place and Dixon Street, a Street Celebration, and the Official Parade After Party.
We’ll be there with our placards and flags. Will you join us?
Fridays For Future Aotearoa, Te Upoko o te Ika (Wellington, New Zealand)
We protest at the Parliament Lawn on Tuesdays, from 12.30 to 1.30pm. And at Midland Park on the last Friday of each month. Join us!
The Pride Parade is on Saturday 9 March. It includes a parade through Courtenay Place and Dixon Street, a Street Celebration, and the Official Parade After Party.
We’ll be there with our placards and flags. Will you join us?
And today (23 Feb) we are also protesting at Midland Park outside the Fonterror office. Come and join us!
On Waitangi Day there will be no FFF protest at Parliament.
Instead, we will be joining the Waitangi Solidarity Hikoi.
This event is organised by the Pōneke Anti-Fascist Coalition. Tangata Tiriti are invited to stand in solidarity with Tangata Whenua and show that we will work to stop any rolling back of Māori rights and progress the Tangata Whenua.
Starts at Pukeahu National War Memorial at 10.30am, walking about 1.5 km.
If you have tried to contact us by email (admin@fridaysforfuture.nz) any time since about Christmas 2023, apologies but we won’t have received it.
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Now we have the most right-wing, climate-denialist government New Zealand has ever had. So we want to be sure they see our protests.
Because Parliament only sits on Tuesdays – Thursdays, from 9 January 2024 we will protest on Tuesdays (not Fridays) at Parliament.
On the last Friday of each month we will also protest against Fonterra at Midland Park.
The protest time remains unchanged at 12.30-1.30pm.
Unfortunately, we have had to cancel today’s protest due to lots of us not being able to make it.
Please check back later for an updated protest schedule.
Fridays for Future Te Upoko o te Ika Press Release
Local climate action group Fridays for Future held an extraordinary demonstration on Parliament grounds on Monday, 27 November.
The Wellington group marked the first day of the new government by holding signs and flags, and talking with the public.
Group member Violet Chong said the demonstration was being held this Monday to mark the new government’s rollback on climate policy.
“Removing the ban on oil and gas exploration licences,the use of ETS money for tax cuts, no plans for emissions reductions from farming, and the removal of the clean car discount, these are a betrayal of younger generations and a dangerously misguided direction for any leadership that cares for children,” she said.
Violet was holding a sign reading “All I want for Christmas is a government that takes climate change seriously.”
The Wellington group usually meets on Friday lunchtimes.
The international movement Fridays for Future grew out of widespread support for Greta Thunberg.
Fridays for Future Te Upoko o te Ika meets on Parliament lawn and in Midland Park on Lambton Quay, on alternate weeks.
This week Fridays for Future will meet in Midland Park from 12:30 to 1:30pm.
Midland Park is a regular venue for protest as it is in front of major polluter Fonterra’s Wellington office.
Violet said all are welcome to join in the regular demonstration of support of climate action.
www.FridaysForFuture.nz
Above: Fridays for Future Te Upoko o te Ika, and guest Suzan, climate activist from Denmark (second from left), on the first day of the new hard right government and its anti climate action policy bonfire.
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