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What does WULSA care about?

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An Editor’s letter.

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Zen peacekeeper: Marianne Elliot.

4F E AT U R E S E C T I O N

A late assignment, staff activism and eating local with Waikato Food Basket

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Intersectionality & Community.

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Jordan.

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A colouring page and Lawyers doing bad things.

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Water and who made your clothes?

T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S

Q U E S T I O N S : 1 . W H AT D O Y O U P E R -

S O N A L LY T H I N K I S A N I M -P O R TA N T J U S T I C E P R O B L E M T H AT E X I S T S ?2 . W H AT A R E Y O U D O I N G T O H E L P O R W H AT D O Y O U W A N T T O D O H E L P ?

K AT E L U N N - P R E S I D E N T

As law students, we’re pret-ty switched on when it comes to understanding our legal rights and responsibilities. Unfor-tunately, a lot of other young people haven’t got that same knowledge. There’s so much in-formation that others should know, from their rights as em-ployees to what the should ex-pect when dealing with the po-lice. While that information is out there, it’s not always easily digestible for most young people and that’s a huge issue.

I’m a firm supporter of or-ganisations looking to combat this issue. A few weeks ago, we sat down and helped Communi-ty Law update its resource books for schools. I’d like to become more actively involved with this by running workshops in local schools once I’m qualified.

What does WULSA careabout ? T H O M A S C A M P B E L L- G E N E R A L

A significant justice issue in New Zealand is our avoidance approach to end of life legisla-tion recognising a persons right to die with dignity when faced with terminal illness leaving them dependent, in intolerable pain and powerless.

It is our responsibility to have that conversation. New Zea-land is our small but proud progressive nation, we need to acknowledge and give the deci-sion making power back to the Kiwi’s facing terminal illnesses. Lecretia Seales bravely opened the door for a candid conversa-tion. The result being the need for direct Parliamentary action. Are we going to take that op-portunity?

Q U I N L E O N G - G E N E R A L

I think that the negative per-ception of Asian people is a big justice problem. I think that this discrimination on the basis of race often results in unfair treat-ment. As a half-Chinese student, I often get told, “Oh but you’re not really Asian so it’s okay” when I hear complaints about Chinese investors or Asian in-ternational students. While I of-ten am able to reap the benefits of my European heritage, and therefore never really experi-ence the extent of racism that

fully Asian people are subjected to, this attitude towards Asian people really bothers me. I feel like the perception that Asian people are any less entitled to an education or investment is very unfair. I think that discrimina-tion on any basis is unjust, but most people don’t quite em-pathise because of the circum-stances that they’ve been born in to. For international students specifically, they have to try and overcome a huge language bar-rier on top of trying to do well at university. This is why I think it’s really important for people to try and understand what oth-ers go through.

Personally, I let people know my opinions on this when I hear of complaints, and ask, “But would it not be okay if I was fully Asian? Why?”

L O U I S E F O R D - S O C I A L

I think that there is a justice problem in the way that some people outside of the primary industry make comments, protest and condemn the pri-mary industry in New Zealand and how there never seem to be good news stories about the pri-mary industry. A recent example of this is the PETA fiasco about the treatment of bobby calves. That was one farmer, and the majority of farmers in New Zea-land were themselves appalled at the treatment of the calves.

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Yet the stories of how good farmers they treated bobby calves and their animals in general and the good that the majority of New Zealand fam-ers do for the country went no further than their own voices on social media. I think that there is a major injustice that the voices of the majority do not get promoted over the ac-tions of the minority and that this can contribute to a massive dent in New Zealand’s reputa-tion overseas, and widen the gap between rural and urban New Zealanders.

One thing that I am trying to do to overcome this is that I am doing a conjoint at uni, with law and science, so that in the future I am able to use both degrees to have a voice for the farmers. I want to do this so that the law can’t penalise a farmer for trying to do right by his business and by the environment and so that the majority of New Zealand farmers do not get a bad reputa-tion by the actions of the minor-ity.

J I M L A W - S O C I A L

One pressing social injustice is in relation to elder law, and the effects it has on our elderly gen-eration. The lack of appropriate, and specified laws protecting our elderly from abuse, and the lack of initiatives to reduce social isolation is alarming.

In hopes of alleviating this social injustice and bridging the gap between generations, InterGen was born. InterGen is an initia-tive that myself and a friend have worked hard to establish. It aims to reduce social isolation and encourages social exchange between the different genera-tions of society.

If you want more information on what we do, and volunteer-ing positions, please visit our Facebook page “InterGen Initia-tive”.

C A R L B R A N D T - T R E A S U R E R

A big justice issue I perceive in New Zealand is a child’s right to receive equality of opportunity and education. As they are the future of our country, the educa-tion and upbringing of kiwi kids is extremely valuable to the suc-cess of our nation. I believe ev-ery child should have the ability to receive education of a certain standard no matter where they are located or of the financial or social position of their parents.

I would like to see the govern-ment continue to invest strongly in the quality of public education across the board. Where parents opt to teach their children from home, I believe there should be much higher regulation of curriculum, and better monitor-ing of the progress each child is making. Education provides a child the great opportunity to not only learn their ABC’s, but to gain an appreciation and understanding of the diverse world around them. It is this experience that will grow a gen-eration of New Zealander’s well equipped to face the oncoming challenges of the future.

A M E L I A W AT S O N - P U B L I C R E L AT I O N S

I think something that is an in-justice in our world is the lack of universal access to clean water and three meals a day.

Maybe not your typical justice problem, but it seems unfair that so many people’s live are con-sumed with the task of finding something to eat or drink and this means they are then unable to discover their true interests and skills. One of these people could be the next Einstein, but instead they spend their days worrying about feeding them-selves and their families.

World hunger, or hunger in de-veloping countries isn’t an easy fix. I can’t say that I know what the solution is, or that anyone does. I’d like to magically make food appear for them, but that’s not realistic either. I think sup-plying people with modern ag-riculture is the best way to make progress. If we can make their food product more efficient, it means less of their livelihood will revolve around it and allow them time to put towards educa-tion and other skills which could develop their way of living.

B E N W I L K I N S - G E N E R A L

Racism is often considered to be a product of a bygone era, but unfortunately, although we have come a long way, racism is still a huge justice problem in our society. Stereotypes (such as a certain ethnicity’s ability to drive) are perpetuated through our society and viewed as harm-less, when in fact they can be damaging to how people are treated.

Because racial stereotypes are often deeply, subconsciously held within us, I think it’s really important to be mindful not to jump to conclusions about people based on ethnicity, and to build opinions on people

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Clothes are pretty much every-where and they are an obvious essential. With quickly changing fashion trends, it’s no wonder that the fashion industry creates tonnes (possibly exaggerated) of waste annually. One day I randomly realized that buying myself a new piece of cloth-ing may be fuelling some huge company to create pollution and make a vulnerable person work ridiculous hours, in ridiculous conditions for a ridiculously low wage. It’s hard to buy things environmental friendly, organi-cally and with the transparency of workers’ rights.

If you’ve ever gone op-shopping, you will know how hard it is to find something decent (it’s not impossible but it’s not easy) and if you’ve ever looked at organic and ethical stores, you will know the prices aren’t too friendly either. I was pretty surprised to see some designer brands rated as low as D for ethical rights. It seems so unfair for brands to mark up their products by so much yet fail to pay a decent wage and provide reasonable working conditions. Buying in an environmental-friendly and ethical way seems near impos-sible. With the little publicity this topic gets, it is easy to forget about it entirely as well.

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These days we all KNOW that we should be living our best ethical lives- vegan, bicycle riding, fair trade, vol-unteering, anti-sweatshop, walking advertisements for good people everywhere- who also stands up vocally against racism, colonisation, homophobia, classism, misogyny, *transphobia, religious intolerance, ageism and the many other types of oppression that groups of people endure daily. In standing up vocally though we need to recognise our privilege and make space to listen to those with unique experiences. We know we should be compassionate and kind and generous. And if you don’t then you should do some soul searching and some read-ing.

There’s enough information out there that it’s not difficult to know what you should be doing to be a good person, hell you can find out about some of the catastrophically unethical issues just by watching Netflix docu-mentaries. (Watch all of the Netflix documentaries, they’re great).

The difficult thing is that actually changing our behaviour takes effort. And just leading an ethical life isn’t enough- we also have to stand up against oppression and injustice.

The thing they didn’t tell you when you enrolled at Te Piringa is that you probably should be working to do something to make the world a better place, it’s an implicit part of the deal of learning the law- you won’t save lives like the medical profession but you’ll play a part in shaping society. We’ll give you the tools to argue and fight for things; in return you should be using those skills to help others and to have a positive impact.

Volunteering for an organisation takes effort though and too often it feels like any spare moments we have, after careening through the myriad of laws, principles and cases that we’ve got to get into our brains and then back out onto an essay or exam paper (all in perfectly formatted, clear and concise), have to be poured into keeping ourselves afloat. That’s cool too though, you don’t have to know now how you’re G oing to help the world- you can do it throughout your career, or when you have more time.

While we’re studying though I think we each have an obligation to find the causes that we want to work for, the suffering or injustice that we want to fight. So that’s what this issue is humbly trying to think about. What do we care about and what are we doing or going to do to help? Hope you enjoy.

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What can current law students do

to do their bit for making the world a

better place?

Spend time pay-

ing attention to the

world and engage

with what’s going on

around you even if

it’s

unpleasant and dis-

heartening

Allow yourself to

pay attention to

what you’re drawn to

engage in that and be

interested in that, you

don’t have to

know about every-

thing- look for ways

that you can contrib-

ute that overlap with

your skills.

Try things that you’re

good at.

Find other people and

groups and engage w

ith them and ask how

you can help

For law students in

particular - engage

with the question of

what is the law and

how it fits within the

political and power

structures.

What problem do you think is particu-larly important or pernicious ?

Public interest

journalism- younger

people live in a differ-

ent world, in regards

to public interest jour-

nalism and informa-

tion. A key interest is

how

well funded it used to

be. This meant there

was more local stories.

Advocacy and

journalism overlap

because journalism

can bring about social

change.

Oppressors don’t tell

the truth: Al Jezeera

cannot effectively op-

perate with out public

interest journalism.

You’ve had a range of experiences do-ing activist and hu-man rights work, all towards a betterworld, how had studying law add-ed meaning to this work?

In change work there

is this idea called the

“theory of change” hy-

pothesis if we do x y

change will occur

Law was a powerful

tool- but it’s responsive

to other forms of so-

cial change.

For those of us who have been here for a

couple of years, you might remember when

Marianne’s book Zen Peacekeeper came

out and she did a book signing at Waikato

University. I bought the book then and

absolutely loved it, it tells of the journey that

Marianne took from Te Piringa Law School

(Marianne was a part of the first graduating

class) to working in a top corporate firm to

the Gaza Strip then wbile she was working

as a human rights advocate in Afganistan

she took up yoga and it became a huge part

of her life.

Today Marianne lives in Wellington where

she works as the national director of an

organisation called Action Station. Some of

the work that they do is highlighted over the

page.

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A brilliant explanation of Action Station exists on their website:1

“ActionStation is an indepen-dent, member-led not-for-profit organisation representing over 100,000 Kiwis holding power to account, standing for a fair

society, healthy environment & economic fairness.ActionStation

is a vital piece of democratic infrastructure for Aotearoa in the 21st century, here to rein-vigorate our proud tradition of

participatory democracy and people power, using the poten-

tial of new technology.”

The next question of how they actually work for change is also covered and is explained that

they do:

“All sorts. Online actions like petitions, social media swarms and mass emails to decisions makers. Crowd-funded cre-

ative campaigns like TV ads or billboards. Offline actions like creative stunts, vigils or hikoi - and many other online and offline tactics we’ve seen used

effectively by organisations like GetUp in Australia, MoveOn in the USA and 38Degrees in the

UK.”

1 http://www.actionstation.org.nz/about

C U R R E N T A C T I O N S T A T I O N C A M P A I G N S :

• New Zealand has been committing a climate fraud by cheating on its climate commitments

• Make a quick submission on freshwater standards

• Tell the Advertising Standards Authority to stop junk food companies targeting our kids

• New Zealand is a Tax Haven. Prime Minister, this needs to change.

• Stop multinational companies from dodging $500 mil-lion in tax

• Sign the petition: We do not consent to the TPPA

• Welcome More Refugees to NZ: Double the Refugee Quota

• No White Ribbon for Key

• Support secure local jobs in Palmerston North, Napier, Tauranga and Dunedin

• Tell Judith Collins to right the wrongs of the Serco fiasco

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In the last issue of Prima Facie we asked some of the faculty about their own time at law school- Gay Morgan responded after we had gone to print, so we’ve got her

answers in this issue:

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3. What was your favourite class you took

and why?

I loved it when I figured something out, really understood something, something

new. Constitutional Law was a favourite, because it explained why things were like

they were, how things worked, and the av-enues to fix things. History too, explained a lot. I also loved Torts, Property, Adminis-trative Law and Criminal Procedure. Both the subject matter and the teacher were big

factors in those five being my law favou-rites. I really enjoyed Conflict of Laws and Tax too, I guess they appealed to my math/physics background, all these nested series of tests and if x, then y, but only if q, and if not q, then z and so forth. A real hoot!

There was no one I absolutely loathed (well maybe just one). And then for my postgraduate law studies, I loved every

subject and every teacher/supervisor, even the really weird ones.

4. How do you think you might you fare if

you had to start again as a 1st year student

in 2016?

I don’t know that I’d have the stamina that I had, I was the person who read every

case and every recommended reading and briefed them all, it was a real marathon effort. I looked at it a bit like that, that I was in a bit of a grueling marathon,

learning a lot, and with a finite finish line ahead that I wanted to cross having seen

and absorbed everything I could along the way. Maybe I would, I might not be able to stand it otherwise! I worked in student led activities, which led to more great learning and friendships. I do think it’s easier for most people to focus in your second or

third degree, as you’ve understood why you are there and generally you are driving it yourself, rather than being driven by the expectations or hopes of others. Some

people are mature enough to do that their first time through, but many aren’t quite

ready, they have other fish they are trying to fry at the same time (or instead!).

1. Can you briefly describe what your law

school was like when you studied there?

I studied at two law schools. One for my first law degree, a different one for

my postgraduate legal studies. The first was physically beautiful, with some great

people, staff and students, and ( with some exceptions) an ethos of us/them (students/staff). At the second, the place was physi-cally beautiful, with great people, staff and students, and the ethos was simply ‘us’. It was magic. I called it the ‘Disneyland of

Universities’ as I didn’t know how else to describe it. It was like you imaged Univer-sity would be like, ALL the time, before you

learned differently. But it was always like that, complete learning/idea immersion w/total support/nurturing to explore and take

risks. An amazing experience I was very lucky to have.

2. What’s one story that stands out as the

funniest (or silliest) thing you did while you

were a student?

As a law student, silly was not my bag, I was on a scholarship and I was going to

maintain that or starve, I’d done my sillies in my previous student career. Although I did used to very earnestly pray that I would get hit by a car on my way to exams, so that I would be spared that ordeal. Broken legs seemed preferable and I was fairly certain broken legs wouldn’t be nearly as painful (I had broken bones before, so had a good basis for comparison!). In my previous

degree, silly was a little bit of my bag. Rid-ing bikes on steep downhills in the Rocky Mountains with friends, going really fast,

with the kaupapa being who could ride lon-gest with their eyes shut. You had to sing out when you cracked and opened your

eyes, sometimes I won, sometimes not, but miraculously nobody ever crashed or went over the edge. Using the stone walls of the many storied dorms as practice rock climb-ing walls while perhaps a little bit not quite thinking so straight. Walking across cam-pus in at 7 am, in minus 18 degree weather

in the dead of winter, in my skivvies on a friend’s dare with the prize being a free

dinner (what poor hungry students will do for a bit of free food!).

5. What advice would you go back and

want to give yourself while studying ( and

potential advice for current students too) ?

I’d still read all the material, it served me well. I accidentally found the secret of

keeping up and not getting overwhelmed. Do reading every day and making a little half or quarter page brief or summary for each case and article. It made me actually pay attention to what I read so I could do

that summary quickly, and writing the little summary stuck it in my brain. Then at the end of the year, just by doing that I

had made myself a little condensed booklet that had it all in there, instead of facing a huge pile of stuff to go through. Totally

accidental system (I was so confused at first, I started doing that just to try to convince

myself I understood SOMETHING). I’d set out the case analysis, facts, issue, holding, reasoning, read the case and brief it. At first I’d get it pretty twisted, but just by doing that made me engage, and then I actually did start to understand. Also, I

took every Friday night off – it made me be able to keep at it, I knew I only had to persist til Friday at about 5. AND, I never got trashed. I used to do that early in my

first degree & by the time I had recovered, the week was over and I’d get trashed

again! I realized I could either get trashed or go to university, but could not do both at once (or I could, but I would be wasting the money) Why pay to party, if I wanted to party I could do that for free, just get some job and get trashed after work. If I

was paying, I wasn’t going trash my brain & waste my fees. Took me maybe a little bit over a semester in my first degree to figure that one out, I had certainly figured it out by the end of that first year. Guess what, it made a big difference...I could think ALL week instead of maybe a couple a days a

week. Then there are friends, comrades in arms, laughter, shared war stories. Friends

for life.

Final thank you to all the faculty members who responded, the work that you all do is truly appreciated.

S TA F F R O O M A C T I V I S M

One day I decided; like any good millenni-al with a prob-lem to solve, that I could just google my way out of my exam fuelled habit of eating toast. I googled ooooby, a great compa-ny that sends you a box of locally grown vegetables each week. Then I stumbled across the Waikato Food Basket blog

and from there, knew that I had to sit down and talk to it’s writer, Alice, a grown-up who wrote about local, fresh food beyond the trendiness of food movements

Before reading Waika-to Food Basket, I thought that eat-ing local food or growing your own was only something Hugh

Fearnley-Whit-tingstall did. Or families that lived on lifestyle blocks and grew strawberries and had built their own pizza ovens. There was just this aspiration-al lifestyle ele-ment to growing vegetables and shopping at the market that was beyond anything I thought I could manage. Often students might say that we don’t have enough choice or that it’s too hard. It’s too expensive and we don’t have the time. Except we somehow have the time to grow fake vegetables on farmville and we always find the money to go out or buy lunch, and feeling pro-foundly unhap-py with both of those things I read all of Alice’s blog searching for inspiration and began to feel hopeful.

I met

Alice at the Hamilton Gar-dens, the sustain-ability garden, a fitting location where we began a great rambling chat that last-ed well over an hour.

Alice started the blog after mov-ing to Hamil-ton from Auck-land and found herself unable to find out where to get local fish, with friends tell-ing her she’d have to go out and catch her own. A big prob-lem for Hamilton and the Waika-to, she thinks is that people just don’t really know where to go to get local food or don’t celebrate local food, de-spite the fact the Waikato is lit-erally one the best regions for growing any-thing in New Zealand. One of threads tying each post togeth-

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er on the Waikato Food Basket is the simple and rebellious act of being positive about where you live, something that Alice thinks is an important message to spread beyond food to the arts (Hamil-ton is the underground arts capital of the uni-verse, according to Alice).

Another thread that runs through the Waikato Food Basket is the idea that food is universal, we all eat. One piece of ad-vice that sticks with me is when asked what stu-dents can do to eat better, Alice’s advice was gath-ering. Not gathering as in foraging but actually sitting down to eat with other people. Her fam-ily takes the time to eat together as often as they can and it’s something that students could ac-tually do. Sit down with your flatmates for lunch or dinner and if your flatmates are annoying or too busy to eat, sit down with your friends.

This means you’re not making food for one per-son and then throwing out the rest. It also means you have a joyful excuse to cook and that you’re (hopefully) less likely

quats), plums and feijoas. My love of food might not extend to gardening but Alice also recommends that everyone should grow their own herbs. It’s a start and who knows, if you can grow parsley and basil; what’s to stop you growing loquats and plums!

I still don’t know how to “do” food properly after talking to Alice, but I know that I want to fig-ure it out, which is half the battle. I want to cook more and I want to make sure that I’m not just an-other university student/ young professional who yo-yos between subsist-ing off coffee and anxiety and eating out for every meal. In a post titled “why local food” Alice writes that “Life is too short to eat crap food.” which is completely true, life is too short for students to stop them from cooking the best tasting local food; it’s cheaper, it’s better for the environment and by being seasonal, you re-duce the stresses when it comes to choosing what to eat.

For a far better explanation of local food visit http://www.waikatofoodbasket.co.nz

to be scrolling through your phone while eating. There’s also something essential about making food for other people and having other people cook food for you that elevates the stress of everyday. By sitting down with people for lunch or dinner; first-ly you actually have to eat lunch or dinner, but you also can’t just eat smart-ies. Getting into the habit of sharing food is a basic habit a flat or friends can form that is a start to-wards being better with food.

When it comes to grow-ing food, Alice’s garden sounds magical. The kind of garden with hidden ex-citing plants that were allowed to grow wild. Something that Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall might turn his nose up at, since it seems like noth-ing has been placed in neat rows. As an untidy person I love the idea of just growing things that will grow, without the pedantry that I just as-sumed came with garden-ing. Waikato Food Bas-ket features articles about what’s growing in Alice’s garden including flower-ing garlic, edible weeds, loquat (I had to google lo-

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I N T E R S E C T I O N A L I T Y Before we even start on vol-unteering or being an ethi-cal consumer there are some fundamentals we should talk about:

Not being a bigot

Ok so it’s actually a bit more than that. In 2016 you should be a feminist and your femi-nism should be intersectional. (If you’re not on board with being a feminist you should have a sit down, do some reading, have a deep think about it and then if you’re still not on board with femi-nism, send your misogyny to Primafaciemagazine@gmail.com).

Intersectionality was actu-ally a term coined by UCLA and Columbia Law Professor, Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 and is deeply relevant to the way the law and society treats different classes of people.

In an article in the Wash-ington Post titled “Why Intersectionality Can’t Wait” following from the death of Sandra Bland where Cren-shaw wrote:1

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“As a young law professor, I wanted to define this profound invisibility in

relation to the law. Racial and gender discrimina-

tion overlapped not only in the workplace but in

other other arenas of life; equally significant, these

burdens were almost completely absent from feminist and anti-racist

advocacy. Intersectionality, then,

was my attempt to make feminism, anti-racist

activism, and anti-dis-crimination law do what

I thought they should — highlight the multiple avenues through which

racial and gender oppres-sion were experienced so that the problems would be easier to discuss and

understand.”

To conservative critics out there, Crewshaw addressed your concerns in the same article saying:

“Intersectionality is not just about identities but about the institutions that use identity to exclude and privilege.”

So law students actually have a huge responsibility to be intersectional

“Ok but how do I actually try and be more intersectional?”

I’m glad you asked and while there are of course prob-ably more academic ways of looking at intersectionality, it turns out two Youtube stars have created a great list.2 The list, created by Laci Green and Franchesca Ramsey goes:

1. Examine our privilege

2. Listen to each other

3. Practice feminism through a broader, more inclusive lense.

From this, you can see that intersectionality is merely a way of shifting your thinking around oppression and exclu-sion.

1 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2015/09/24/why-intersectionality-cant-wait/

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C O M M U N I T YThe Waikato Environment Centre is at Five Cross

Roads and is a hub for plenty of environmental ac-

tivities, with lots of volunteer opportunities avail-

able. Kaivolution is a food rescue organisation, which

collects food from local supermarkets that they can’t

sell and then helps to sort and package the food for

local charities to pick up! At the environment centre

you can get gardening advice, buy great gifts and they

run great workshops!

Like both on facebook and check out the

environment centre’s great newsletter!

K A I V O L U T I O N A N D T H E E N V I R O N M E N T C E N T R E

S H A M A : E T H N I C W O M E N ’ S

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“She believed she could, so she did” – R.S Grey, Scor-ing Wilder

The Shama Ethnic Women’s Centre is a place where women new to New Zealand can be inspired, build

friendships and feel a sense of belonging.

Women from all over the world move to Hamilton every year. Many times these women do not know

anyone once they get here. This can be terrifying es-pecially if you are not fluent in English, or don’t know

how things work in NZ yet!

Shama Ethnic Women’s centre is a place that brings these women together offering them friendship, infor-

mation and a chance to learn new skills.

Finding friendship at Shama means the world to a lonely woman in a new country and can help to ease

culture shock and make her finally start to feel at home.

Shama isn’t just a house or a community centre it is more like a home.

The Shama centre is down to earth and always wel-coming. Walking through the door you are happily greeted and made to feel at home by Shaleshni (the amazing receptionist). The walls at Shama are lined

with colourful posters and inspirational quotes. There are friendly women everywhere who care about you

and your story smiling and saying hello.

Shama is a vibrant social service agency providing social work support, advocacy, home visit and referrals for ethnic women, their children and families. Shama has a team of social workers who are always ready to

help women going through hard times and introduce them to the Shama services.

Being surrounded by the energetic, motivated women at Shama adds a sparkle to a woman’s day, makes them motivated to be the best they can be and be proud of

themselves.

Shama also has a number of classes’ every week dur-ing the school term as well as one off workshops and

special events for women to attend.

The classes and workshops provide knowledge, friendship and a sense of empowerment. The events

give the women a chance to get together have fun and laugh, a great example is the vibrant and colourful

International Women’s day celebration Shama hosted at the beginning of the year (pictured…).

Weekly classes

Sewing Class: Tuesdays, 10:00am – 12:00pm

English Class: Wednesdays, 10:00am to 12:00pm

Computer Class: Thursdays 10:00am – 12:00pm

Cooking and Conversation Class: 10:00am -12:00pm

The English class and Sewing class are the most popu-lar classes of the week! Learning more about commu-nicating with everyone in NZ at the English class can mean so much and make life so much easier and more

enjoyable.

The more people who know about Shama, the more women Shama can help! Spread the word about

Shama and get in touch with us if you or anyone you know would like to visit Shama or come along to one

of the weekly classes.

Located at 27 Beatty St, Melville, Hamilton

Phone: (07) 843 3810/ (07) 843 3811

Email: shamahewc@xtra.co.nz

Facebook: SHAMA Ethnic Women’s Centre

Website: www.shama.nz

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Many Waikato students have volunteered at the community law centre as it’s a great way to get advocacy or client interviewing ex-perience. If you’re someone who wants to try dealing with real cases and actually get to work then volunteering with community law is a great place to start.

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I’m not interested in writing an emotive piece highlighting the issues in the middle east; I don’t consider myself intelligent enough to have a say on that and I sus-pect most of you would have heard plenty of that through one medium or another. What I do feel qualified to speak on are my experienc-es in Jordan, a country I feel extremely fortunate to have called my home.

My father, my step-mother and I all lived in an apartment in Amman, in a neighborhood called Khal-da (which I still can’t pro-nounce). We travelled to and from the Internation-al Academy of Amman in a taxi driven by a very lovely man named Ahmed. I played touch rugby every Monday evening at the British em-

bassy and on Thursdays we would go to the pub. That was my life for two years and I loved it.

When I meet peo-ple and almost inevitably drop that I lived in Jordan, the question is always asked “well, what was it like?” And I don’t think I have ever been able to give a decent answer to that other than “it’s hot, cold, and sandy”. However with the benefit of a week-long deadline and a keyboard I feel I should make a slight-ly better effort this time. I would describe Jordan as being an exceptionally busy place both in the sense that there are a lot of things to do and also the manic driv-ing - if you do get bored all you would have to do was go for a taxi ride down the road and you will have probably

have more near misses than you would get in a lifetime in New Zealand. I wanted to try and describe Jordan with-out talking about generic de-tails such as beauty and tour-ist attractions (though these are pretty incredible, espe-cially if you’re a bit of a his-tory nerd) so I feel I should emphasize how I have found the Jordanian people. I will maintain that you will never meet a nation fuller of proud, friendly, hospitable and gen-uine good buggers than in Jordan. They have a fantas-tic sense of national identity but are also ridiculously wel-coming to their visitors and I have always gotten the im-pression that they want to show off their country to the world. I feel it is also impor-tant to mention that since 2011, around 1.4 million ref-ugees have fled from Syria into Jordan (which only has a population of just over 6 mil-lion) and I have always got-ten the impression, having spoken to a few locals about it: that Jordan wants to pro-vide refuge to as many peo-ple as possible.

Safety is also some-thing I get questioned about a lot and it is something of a sensitive subject. I don’t want to talk down any dan-ger that may exist because that doesn’t do justice to those that have been affect-ed by any unrest in the re-gion; at the same time I’m not going to say that it’s a

completely dangerous place because that’s just simply not true. What I will say is that in 2 years of living in Jordan I have never felt physically unsafe; in fact that last time I felt unsafe was in Hamilton, New Zealand.

I have tried to keep this piece as neutral as pos-sible but I apologize if I have been insensitive to anyone. The only point I want to get across is that, speaking as a born and raised kiwi, I gen-uinely loved living in Jordan and there is a very serious part of me that feels more at home in the middle east than in NZ . I’m not expecting to see an influx of Kiwi tourists in Jordan as a result of this, but hopefully a few of the things I’ve mentioned can resonate with a few of you.

One of the quirks of living in Jordan is being able to compile the list of things most people back in NZ wouldn’t have been able to see or do. Driving past the Iraq border; standing liter-ally 20 metres away from the Golan heights and Syria, crossing into Israel (best hol-iday I have ever had). Plac-es that I’ve only heard in the news growing up were just around the corner and I de-rived a huge amount of ex-citement out of being in the middle of everything that the rest of the world is focus-ing on.

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I F Y O U E V E R F E E L C O M P E L L E D T O H E L P W I T H T A X A V O I D A N C E , T A K E A M O M E N T A N D T H I N K T H E N F E E L

F R E E T O C O L O U R I N T H I S D R A W I N G I N S T E A D .

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T H E P A N A M A P A P E R S O R J U S T O N E E X A M P L E O F L A W Y E R S D O I N G B A D T H I N G S

The ‘Panama Papers’ have quickly become the new ‘it’ topic. The leak of these documents has highlighted the use of tax havens by the rich and powerful (think politicians, professional

athletes, celebrities, fraudsters, criminals etc. – and their families too).

What and Who?

Around a year ago, a ‘John Doe’ contacted the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), leaking nearly 2.6 TB of documents (11.5 million documents dated from the 1970s to early 2016) taken from the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca. This leak is huge – compare it with that from

Wikileaks in 2010 amounting to 1.7 GB in total. The law firm involved has been responsible, among other things, for selling offshore companies (or, shell companies) used to cover busi-

ness dealings and identities, and lower tax burdens (both through legal loopholes and illegally through evasion). SZ analysed the data with the International Consortium of Investigative

Journalists (ICIJ). In all, around 400 journalists (from 100 media organisations from over 80 countries) have researched these documents.

Is it a big deal?

Well, yes and no. On the whole, the documents and subsequent fall out paint a dire picture (for example, Iceland’s PM resigned, Mossack Fonseca has been connected with the Brazil

corruption scandal, Putin’s connection with Russian monopolies has been identified, David Cameron has been called to resign, etc. etc. etc.). The leak provides an insight into a global

industry operated by banks, legal firms, and asset management companies – an industry that the public is generally not well acquainted with. But, at this stage, it is too early to attribute blame to all parties involved. It is a lesson, though, in legal ethics – while a choice of action

may be lawful according to the black letter of the law, that does not make it lawful in terms of the spirit of the law. Lawyers should be aware of the difference in their dealings with clients

because, as has been shown, a slip-up could mean the end of one’s legal career.

By Prima Facie’s own anonymous foreign trusts reporter

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F I N D O U T M O R E AT F A S H I O N R E V O L U T I O N . O R G

W H O M A D E YO U R C L O T H E S ?

In case you missed it on 24 April 2013, 1,134 people

were killed and over 2,500 were injured when the

Rana Plaza complex col-lapsed in Dhaka, Bangla-

desh.

This incident and the loss of 1134 lives, highlighted

and engaged activist asking the question that you might

have seen on instagram:

Who made your clothes?

After the Rana Plaza di-saster, Baptist World Aid

Australia launched the Australian Fashion Report.

In April the 2015 report was released and the results

were not good for some New Zealand clothing com-

panies, most notably the Glasson group.

Alarmingly the report found that just five percent of clothing companies were paying international suppli-er’s workers a living wage

that meets their basic needs.

91 percent of companies don’t know where there

cotton comes from. That’s

important because cotton today is still an industry

with catastrophic working conditions that are close

to slavery and in too many cases; actual slavery.

Not only that but cotton is a material that uses huge wa-ter resources and chemicals to create distressed denim

washes.

While the report could in no way be described as

positive; this doesn’t mean that you need to go out and spend a million dollars buy-ing completely new ethical clothing as two companies (that come on you would have assumed would have received the worst ratings) have made efforts to im-

prove their supply systems: K Mart and Cotton on

Kmart has released a report with a list of all it’s suppli-

ers to improve it’s transpar-ency and Cotton On has made efforts to improve

the traceability of it’s supply chain.

For Cotton On these ef-forts have meant that in the report it was named as the

highest rated non-fairtrade Australian company.

The takeaway: as a con-sumer you have actually do have the power to push the

industry towards ethical practices, a goal which in the long run can improve

lives.

Thanks & don't be this guy!