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rder for the people in their communities to lead the kind of lives that we want for everyone in aotearoa 12 00 doors open and kai 1 00 panel discussion 1 40 questions for the panel 2 00 options to take action connect and meet other organisations this event is a great opportunity for people from all walks of life to come together over shared values and establish a vision for a society that is genuinely focused on meeting people s needs and addressing the drivers of social harm at their root find out more at https carenotcages nz facebook event here monday august 7 2023 alt mānawatia a matariki e hoa mā to celebrate the new year papa in auckland is holding a potluck before our next branch meeting please feel free to join us and bring a plate of something to share we re meeting at 6pm on monday 10 july at 10 abbey street in the rainbow youth drop in center wednesday july 5 2023 alt our justice system is broken it has been for a long time yet this election as always our media and politicians have been feeding a moral panic around crime this moral panic has been used to justify tough on crime policies like increased policing harsher prison sentences and youth boot camps policies like these have never succeeded they fail to reduce crime and social harm they breach te tiriti o waitangi and make marginalisation and inequality worse we re launching care not cages a campaign to oppose tough on crime policies and to transform our criminal justice system into one that centres re habilitation restoration transformation and prevention and honours te tiriti this campaign challenges the government to adopt all 12 recommendations of the turuki turuki report which you can read here register for the online launch on zoom monday 10 july at 11am nzst here speakers include emmy rākete julia whaipooti aphiphany forward taua awatea mita we ll talk about the campaign its goals and what you can do to support it there ll be time for questions as well if you re interested in prison abolition or reform in aotearoa we d love to have you alt sunday july 2 2023 peopleagainstprisonsaotearoa alt prisons can be extremely isolating by connecting incarcerated people with the outside world the prisoner correspondence network pcn offers them a lifeline and a future we are looking for more volunteers to become pen pals with people in prisons across aotearoa join us to learn about the pcn and start the process of becoming a penpal to an incarcerated person come along to ask questions discuss prisoner rights browse our merch table and write to an incarcerated person event details date rāhoroi saturday 27 haratua may time 1 00pm 3 00pm location te pokapū hapori 105 manners street pōneke wellington everybody is welcome please feel free to share the event with friends and whānau there will be some light refreshments and you can bring your own snacks the time has been changed this event now starts at 2pm see you there tuesday may 23 2023 alt prisons can be extremely isolating by connecting incarcerated people with the outside world the prisoner correspondence network pcn offers them a lifeline and a future we are looking for more volunteers to become pen pals with people in prisons across aotearoa join us to learn about the pcn and start the process of becoming a penpal to an incarcerated person come along to ask questions discuss prisoner rights browse our merch table and write to an incarcerated person event details date rāhoroi saturday 27 haratua may time 1 00pm 3 00pm location te pokapū hapori 105 manners street pōneke wellington everybody is welcome please feel free to share the event with friends and whānau there will be some light refreshments and you can bring your own snacks saturday may 20 2023 alt we well kī specifically remembered we have a tumblr if you re in tāmaki makaurau auckland see you on monday april 17 we ll be working on the branch zine that s been in progress for the last few months bring any art supplies you have and let s have a chill evening dm for location or if you re already a papa member check mypapa or your email for the details friday april 14 2023 police uniforms and ball gowns why the police are really boycotting auckland pride last night was the inaugural ceremony of the nzlgbti awards the ceremony organised by a subsidiary of an australian magazine company has been controversial in new zealand s gay community with 9 leading queer and trans community organisations refusing nominations and boycotting the event as a cash grab the new zealand police and their queer and trans diversity liaison officer tracy phillips were given awards at the 200 per head prize gala the prizegiving comes in the wake of the police withdrawing their application to march in auckland s pride parade following a request from the auckland pride organisers that the police not march in uniform auckland pride made the request after a series of community consultation hui in which takatāpui and transgender members of the community made it clear that police violence was a pressing issue in their lives however people watching the prizegiving ceremony last night will note that the police dignitaries present walked on stage not in their uniforms but in civilian formalwear we find ourselves in an odd double bind here on the one hand the police has made it clear they must be allowed to wear their uniforms at pride or else they are under attack on the other hand none of the recipients of prizes last night seemed on the brink of tears because they were up on stage in a nice dress when the police are asked to leave the uniform at home in acknowledgement of the racist violence it represents to many marginalised members of the rainbow community they argue that the uniform is absolutely mandatory and lead a corporate boycott of the pride parade when the police are invited to a swanky gala where hollow praise is heaped on them for symbolically inclusive gestures they are more than happy to turn up in ball gowns and tuxedos why the contradiction because the uniform was never what made the police so angry it was the request made by auckland pride that the police recognise the racist transphobic violence that the most marginalised people in the queer and trans community face at their hands last night the police demonstrated very clearly that they are more than happy to come to lgbti events in whatever clothing is appropriate what they are not willing to do is listen to criticism even when that criticism is as mild as please wear a different shirt it seems the cops aren t insistent on having their uniforms at all just a pair of rainbow coattails to ride emilie rākete is a graduate student at the university of auckland studying the political economy of new zealand s criminal justice system she is the press spokesperson for the people against prisons aotearoa friday november 30 2018 tough on people ending tough on crime policies in aotearoa since the passing of the sentencing and parole reform act 2010 which introduced a three strikes law into our criminal justice system the new zealand government has headed deeper into tough on crime approaches to policy tough on crime is the idea that using harsh sentencing practices and incarcerating more people will reduce the occurrence of crime however tough on crime policy is only leading to stagnating crime rates and an overall increase in the prison population tough on crime is being pursued in new zealand because the majority of our government genuinely believe that harsher punishments will prevent people from commiting crime it is an enticing idea because it taps into our real desires to make our communities safer when we see crime we want something to be done about it so it seems like common sense to just double down on what we re already doing in practice all it does is expose and intensify the deep seated issues within the criminal justice system in the first place evidence suggests that sending people to prison makes them more likely to commit more crime not less keep reading tuesday august 21 2018 no more blood on the tarmac ban police car chases on 28 may the new zealand police killed 15 year old ihaia mcphee maxwell and 12 year old meadow james in an unnecessary and brutal car chase this crash brings the death toll of fatal pursuits up to five in the last month alone on 19 may a 15 year old travelling in the boot of a car died when the vehicle crashed in a police pursuit on 11 may a 25 year old man died in a crash after a police pursuit in kawerau on 7 may yet another driver died crashing into a power pole minutes after a pursuit was called off this is not the way to make communities safe we demand that the new zealand police take responsibility for these deaths and abolish the senseless practice of police chases entirely in 2009 new zealand s pursuit policy was reviewed by the independent police conduct authority ipca in response to growing concern over the high amounts of people being killed during pursuit s it found that the police s eagerness to engage in pursuits especially very high risk ones is excessive in relation to the crime itself these chases tend to cause far more harm than the offence which led to the pursuit in the first place not only to the people being chased but to the wider community the ipca was established as an independent body to investigate police misconduct but it has almost no power to actually hold the police to account in any meaningful way it does not receive enough funding to complete many of its investigations meaning the police will in effect take over and manipulate the narrative in its own favour it also has no power to do anything other than recommend changes to the new zealand police which can choose whether it wants to accept them in response to the ipca s review of pursuits the police simply released their own report disagreeing with it the report argues that pursuits are never unnecessary because in the police s opinion it makes sense to assume that any driver who fails to stop after being signalled is probably covering up evidence of or intending to commit a crime punishable by law therefore according to the police it is always worth the risk even though the overwhelming majority of these crimes end up being small misdemeanors 1 in 4 of these pursuits end in a crash who is the bigger threat to public safety because the police has the power to decide who is a threat to public safety and who is not it also has the power to decide whose lives are worth sacrificing it can therefore decide that any death if it s caused by a police officer is a necessary sacrifice to protect the good order of society it can decide that the death of someone it has deemed a criminal no matter how senseless is not the same as the death of a human being the police is never going to admit that its own risk assessments and procedures are wrong without meaningful pressure from the outside even when it admits that abandoning a pursuit is the safest action to resolve a pursuit it still decides there is not enough evidence to support the banning of police pursuits instead of making any sort of meaningful change the police suggest that the only way to reduce deaths during pursuits is to introduce secondary units and new technology to the carnage not only does the police refuse to scale down on car chases it wants to spend more of its time and money on them the problem is not that the police doesn t have the best tools and conditions to kill people with it s that they can kill people at all the blood of victims killed in car chases is on the police s hands if the police really wanted to protect communities then high speed car chases would be absolutely unthinkable and inexcusable the fact that it continues to engage in these senseless deadly pursuits only shows how little regard it has for people s lives the ipca the only body we have to hold the police accountable for its actions does not have enough funding or authority to do its job this means the police has an unacceptable amount of power to excuse itself from any responsibility when it kills people until all of us have the power to hold the police accountable and control their behaviour officers will continue to chase teenagers into trees and buildings how many more broken bodies have to be cut from mangled car wrecks before we end the bloodshed we demand a complete end to police pursuits and an independent police conduct authority with the power to make binding decisions and truly hold the police to account by jessica lim aaliyah zionov and emilie rākete saturday june 2 2018 last night we held 4 simultaneous candlelight vigils for kaine morrell a young man who committed suicide earlier this year in christchurch men s prison a little over 150 people attended events in auckland wellington christchurch and dunedin including kaine s parents and extended family his mother wrote us a letter about her son detailing his long history of entanglement in new zealand s punitive child protection services and his struggles with mental illness in an environment not compatible with his survival it is standard practice to solitarily confine suicidal prisoners in new zealand when kaine reached out to prison staff for help they put him in an at risk unit cell where he was cut off from all meaningful human contact for kaine as for too many other people in our country s prison system this meant being cut off from all of the human connections that could have kept him alive solitary confinement kills mental health neglect kills kaine morrell died of incarceration and until we abolish solitary confinement and incarceration as a whole the deaths will keep coming to support our work consider joining our organisation as a member or supporter also consider signing our petition calling for solitary confinement of the kind which killed kaine to be banned in new zealand friday march 9 2018 a papa advocate writes part of our work is advocacy for people who are presently incarcerated this week one of these people was unexpectedly released late on friday corrections had lost all of her belongings they released her from the prison without a single possession another ex prisoner gave her a shirt she had no shoes she had no possible way of getting to her bail address she had to spend the night on the street alone trying to find someone who would take her there corrections left her alone penniless and vulnerable to violence after escaping someone who made promises to her but then violently took advantage of her she found a way to contact papa organisers within a few hours she had clothing shoes a phone and a temporary safe place to sleep this is the human wreckage incarceration in aotearoa leaves behind it this is the level of atrocious physical emotional and sexual violence so carelessly facilitated by corrections i took this woman my friend to mcdonalds and sat there quietly eating some fries she looked at me and said i hate being set up to fail we hate it too if you re with us join us in stoppi...