Protect Pūtiki

05/10/2025

You can call it what you want it's an INTIFADA 🇵🇸✊🏽

25/09/2025

UPDATE ~ The Judge will be making their decision over the next few months possibly into 2026... we'll keep you posted! 🐧

🌊 🧜🏽‍♀️ Protectors of Pūtiki Bay go to High Court to argue rights under tikanga ✊🏽⚖️

Three protectors of Pūtiki Bay are having their day in the Auckland High Court on Monday 29th September to argue that, under tikanga Māori, they were right to put their bodies on the line to stop construction of the Kennedy Point Marina.” now known as Waiheke Marina.

“The appellants acted in accordance with kaitiatikanga - the Māori ethic of guardianship - in taking action led by mana whenua to protect Pūtiki Bay, and in particular the colony of at-risk kororā (little blue penguins) who now live beside the marina.”

Their lawyers, Jessica Reid, Scott Fletcher and Sam Vincent, have appealed the District Court’s findings that their clients are guilty of wilfully trespassing in the marina construction area in 2021.

The case raises the issue of Māori customary rights in the takutai moana (coastal marine area). These rights were extinguished under Labour’s Foreshore and Seabed Act in 2004, before being restored through agreement between National and Te Pāti Māori with the Marine and Coastal Area Act 2011.

Protect Pūtiki spokesperson and appellant Julanne Astarte Luz said: "Under the guidance of mana whenua we were protecting Pūtiki Bay in accordance with kaitiakitanga. No marina should be forced into this taonga. It's loss is not only for iwi, but for the entire Waiheke Island community."

In further proceedings over the marina, last year the Court of Appeal recognised that the Ngāti Paoa Trust Board, which has consistently opposed the marina, should have been notified by Auckland Council of the marina’s resource consent application in 2016.

Court will be in session from 10AM
All welcome, nau mai, haere mai!
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📸 ⚡️Hikoi to High Court 26 January 2022

10/09/2025

09/09/2025

Follow for all March for Humanity updates and info. Sanction Israel Now! FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸

29/08/2025

🇵🇸 MARCH FOR HUMANITY – SANCTION ISRAEL NOW!
March over the Auckland Harbour Bridge • 13 September

This march is a united call by Aotearoa for Palestine, Palestinian and tangata whenua led and supported by communities across Aotearoa. Our kaupapa is kotahitanga – bringing together organisations and communities in solidarity for this historic march to demand the New Zealand Government sanctions Israel.

Why now? The facts:
• 62,000+ Palestinians killed since Oct 7; ~90% of Gaza’s 2.1m people displaced—many multiple times.
• The UN-backed IPC has confirmed famine—with approximately 514,000 people in IPC Phase 5 (catastrophe/famine), and spread projected without immediate access and ceasefire.
• The ICJ (World Court) issued binding orders to prevent genocidal acts and ensure humanitarian aid, citing a plausible risk under the Genocide Convention.
• The ICC has issued arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant (allegations include starvation as a method of warfare).

🇵🇸 Sanctions Now. End the Genocide. Free Palestine.

📍 When & Where
🗓 Saturday 13 September
⏰ 9.30am – Gather at Stafford Park, Northcote
🥾 March over Auckland Harbour Bridge
🇵🇸 End at Victoria Park

➡️ Follow for all bridge march updates and info.

➡️ All media enquiries to [email protected]

🗣️ March for Humanity Spokespeople

10/07/2025

In a world quick to forget the women behind the revolutions, let us remember Susi Newborn - a bonfire in our mouths, a warrior of the rainbow.

Before the bombs, before the headlines, before the Rainbow Warrior was a martyr - there was Susi Newborn.

A founding member of Greenpeace UK and Greenpeace International, Susi Newborn played a pivotal role in shaping one of the most iconic symbols of global environmental resistance. In 1977, it was her proposal that set in motion the purchase of a modest North Sea trawler, a vessel she named Rainbow Warrior, inspired by an Indigenous prophecy of earth defenders rising in a time of crisis.

🌈 She wasn’t just behind the ship — she was behind the vision.
✊🏼She helped craft the kaupapa that would define decades of non-violent direct action.
☢️ She stood at the forefront of anti-nuclear activism when silence was safer.
🌿 She challenged patriarchy and power, inside the movement and out.

The Rainbow Warrior would go on to confront whalers, nuclear states, and governments alike until it was bombed by French agents in Auckland Harbour on this day 10 July in 1985, tragically killing comrade Fernando Pereira.

But it never would have sailed without Susi.

Susi Newborn 🌈 🕊️
1950-2023