Hear international keynote speakers straight from the first CTU organising conference
Ika is thrilled to team up with the Council of Trade Unions to host three great speakers at a special Salon on Thursday August 18th.
Meet Helen Kelly’s successor as CTU President, Richard Wagstaff, and hear from Madeleine Holme (United Voice Union Australia) and Mark Chenery (Co-founder, Common Cause Australia). Hear about Australia’s Save Our Weekends campaign, how progressives are better framing their arguments, and reflections from the CTU’s first organising conference.
Enjoy a delicious Ika meal (seafood, meat and vegetarian options) and take a look into union renewal. Book here, the evening, including your main meal, is $32.
Next week’s slow food Pacfic Feast is filling up
Join Slow Food Auckland in a celebration of the South Pacific next Thursday 28 July. Enjoy a delicious four course Pacific-inspired meal and hear the inspiring story of the “rebirth” of a beautiful cuisine as told by Tracy Berno. Former Head of Tourism and Hospitality at the University of the South Pacific, our guest speaker Tracy Berno is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Culinary Arts at AUT University and co-author (with Chef Robert Oliver) of the multiple award-winning cookbooks Me’a Kai: The Food and Flavours of the South Pacific and Mea’ai Samoa: Recipes and Stories form the Heart of Polynesia. Cost for four courses: $65 (Slow Food members $55). Drinks extra.Book here.
Last places for Salon 4 August: Getting more out of our prisons
Join Rod Oram MC on Thursday 4 August, at this Ika special Salon co-hosted with prison reform advocates. Hear from Fa’afete Taito (BA sociology & Maori, ex-prisoner), Dr Anne Opie (researcher, author), and Dr Tracey McIntosh (Assoc Prof Criminology, University of Auckland). Just a few places left.
Early bird bookings: Is the Pope Catholic? September 13
Once a cheeky response to a question with “yes” as the only answer, Is the Pope Catholic? has become a more serious question for debate, including among Catholic scholars. What’s the significance of a Pope who commonly appears alongside the latest petition on non-Catholic Facebook feeds?
Chris Sullivan is an ordained married Catholic permanent deacon (itself a radical reform in the Catholic Church) with a background in trade union and labour movement activism, the living wage movement, ecumenism and interfaith, and a variety of solidarity movements such as Latin America, anti-Apartheid, Treaty of Waitangi.
He will speak of a Catholicism which expresses the radicality of Jesus and his support for the poor, oppressed and marginalised and his challenge to the social structures which create that. In other words, Liberation theology, and its re-emergence.
My heart is saddened to see Helen Kelly step down here after so long at the helm, being replaced because I never give up hope for a medical cure for cancer, like I had when a US Doctor administered a series of 50mls of Vitamin C in a 500Ml Hartman’s IV twice weekly in the a clinic in the US over a three month period and with other regimes it killed the cancer, so if Helen has not done this please pass this information on.
I could pass this on to her given her email address which In currently do not have.
Great to see the rise of this vital union movement as it is badly needed to protect workers and their families lives.