Conference Programme Kia Ora and Welcome to the Fifth Social Movements, Resistance, and Social Change Conference: Activating Collectivity: Aroha and Power

Conference Programme Kia ora and welcome to the fifth Social Movements, Resistance, and Social Change Conference: Activating Collectivity: Aroha and Power. We welcome you to join us and one another in creating waves of change, joining existing waves of change, and collectively pushing these waves of change out into the world. We are all here because we are passionate about the future of our people, our society, and our communities. By coming together and activating our collective aroha and power we can be the wave-riders and change-makers of the world.

In this booklet you will find the programme for all four days of the conference, as well as key information to make your experience smoother, such as steps for connecting to the wifi, some small pieces of information about filming and photography taking place, and our health and safety information. Please familiarise yourself with the content as much as possible to prepare for the conference. We hope you have a great time engaging with the conference content and that the sessions offered by our amazing contributors stimulate the waves of change inside you.

Ngā mihi nui, The Organising Committee Important Information Guest Wifi Please follow these instructions for guest access to the Wi-Fi:

1. Connect to ‘WellingtonUniversityGuest’ Wi-Fi 2. Open a web browser and navigate to the internet 3. Upon redirection to the Wellington University Wireless Portal page, press ‘Don’t have an account?’ 4. Enter your email address and after reading the terms and conditions, tick the ‘agree’ box 5. Press ‘Register’, and then ‘Sign On’ to complete the sign in process 6. The screen will then display temporary login credentials which you can use on a maximum of 5 devices concurrently if you wish 7. Guest access will expire after 24 hours, though can be initiated again at any time Filming and Photography Over the course of the four days of this conference, filming and photography will be taking place in all areas. We are eager to capture moments of collectivity, aroha and power to reflect back on and remember the experience that we have all had at this conference. There will be volunteers floating around that will be attempting to capture beautiful moments without interfering in what is going on. We understand that not everyone is comfortable with appearing on camera for a multitude of reasons, whether that be film or photographs, and wish for everyone to be as comfortable as possible.

We have opted to supply small identifying stickers that are located at the Registration Desk which can be added to your lanyard or name tag so that out volunteers can easily identify if you would not like to be photographed or filmed. Please do make sure that you feel safe and comfortable, and if at any point you require another sticker feel free to collect one from the registration desk, and if you think you may have been photographed or filmed by our volunteers accidentally do not hesitate to approach them and ask for the content to be deleted. In Case of an Emergency In the event of an emergency, please follow all instructions, warn others around you, be aware of what is happening around you, and check Victoria University of Wellington’s Facebook page for updates.

In an emergency leave the building through an emergency exit route—these routes are identified by green and white exit signage. Smoke and fire control doors must not be kept open by methods other than specifically installed electronic hold open devices which are designed to release on a fire alarm activation. Do not use lifts in the event of an emergency or fire alarm. Use the stairs.

All University buildings have building and floor wardens who are trained in evacuating people in an emergency. In an emergency, listen to the wardens—they will tell you what you need to do and where you need to go. Floor wardens wear bright yellow vests and building wardens wear bright orange vests.

You can find more information for an emergency responsehere . Our Guiding Values and Wellbeing Policy The guiding values of SMRSC2020 are: - Te Tiriti honouring - Generosity of spirit + respect for diverse identities - Respect for whenua / place - Nurturing relational space - Mana-enhancing knowledge sharing - Holistic accessibility

This conference aims to bring together Aotearoa’s sharp minds and active contributors to social and political movements in this country. We believe that incredible work can be done with so many passionate people together in one space. No attendee comes alone, as we all bring with us our tūpuna (ancestors), whānau (family), kaitiaki (guides), kaiako (teachers), tauira (students) and many more. Each of us are in relationship to each other, both through these vast layers of connection, and simply by sharing the same physical space together.

We ask attendees (and ourselves) to be mindful and active in respecting what each participant brings, nurturing the relational space between each other, as well as between us and the whenua (land) and taiao (natural world). We ask attendees (and ourselves) to live into the notion of ‘aroha mai, aroha atu’ (receiving love, giving love outwards) which creates balance and reciprocity.

When we act collectively in these ways, it cultivates and nourishes our shared mauri (life force, essence). When we take care of the mauri, the mauri is able to take care of us, and contributes to a positive conference experience.

Still, there will likely be disagreements. There might be behaviour that affects your ability or willingness to participate. There might be abusive or harassing behaviour. We would like to create a non-violent space. But the reality is that violence happens in many different ways, all of the time. Our experience is that noticing and responding to problems early can stop them from growing. We encourage you to check in with each other and raise concerns as they arise.

He Ara Mataora and what you can do if you have a concern

We are inspired by He Ara Mataora, which is an online toolkit to stop violence. Here is their understanding of what violence is. The website encourages you to work with people you know to stop violence, whether you are experiencing the violence yourself, or you see it happening and want it to stop.

If you would like to talk to someone about a concern, there are a few options on how to proceed:

We have Wellbeing and Support volunteers who are there to help look after our attendees. They can sit with you, lend a listening ear and help you decide if you would like to talk to conference organisers about your concern.

The Conference Organising Team will have Support Contacts who can be available to meet and kōrero with you.

You are welcome to get in touch with the Conference Organising Team via email at [email protected] and one of us will be in touch.

We also have a team of Pou Āwhina available who may be able to offer guidance and support as needed during this process.

Violence causes deep harm to people, and to the social movements we are a part of. We all have a shared responsibility to stop violence and cultivate liberation, whether in ourselves or others.

“… the process of reversing the violence and traumatic events of the past two hundred years will take time. . . . The question is: what steps will we take, here and now, to create a platform upon which our children and grandchildren can build?” — Ani Mikaere Information About Kai and Catering Lunchtime Kai

Each day your lunch-time kai is provided by a local caterer.

On Wednesday 11th November, your lunch will be Syrian food catered by Hassan from Damascus, a suburban café started recently in the Vogelmorn community centre. It’s well worth a visit if you get the chance.

Thursday 12th and Saturday 14th lunchtime kai is provided by Krishna Food who cook lovely vegan kai

On Friday 13th, Aye Empanadas and More are bringing their homemade empanadas for our kai. This is a local company started by an Argentinian couple and If you’re even in Kilbirnie, seek them out and try their alfajores.

Morning and Afternoon Tea

Your morning and afternoon teas are baked by volunteers who have followed recipes from cookbooks that represent social and political movements through time. These movements include Women’s suffrage, Sustainable eating, Freedom from slavery, Māori kai as a symbol of kotahitanga and mana motuhake and an everyday gratitude for the kai we have access to. Recipe cards and further detail available each day.

Design Provocations

Te Timatanga: Pupuke Te Mahara : Bobby Luke The embodiment of cloth is the conductor of touch points in memory. Titled Whiri Kawe, a three-strand plait, representing a methodology of cloth, performance, and the lens, explores a Taranaki world view of knowledge exchanges within a matriarchal space.

KAI-DNESS Design Provocations: Nan O’Sullivan, Leanna Dey, Dana Fridman, Bobby Luke Kai-dness is a collaboration between the schools of Architecture and Design Innovation from Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka, who have joined forces to demonstrate the power of commensality (social eating) and hākari (feasting, to demonstrate hospitality and mana). We aim to create an interactive dining experiences that celebrates the social interaction and co-design opportunities offered in these moments of shared experience. Elucidating both the aim and objective of this work is the metaphor for commensality; ‘coming together to break bread and boundaries.’ The sharing of the food is known to break-down social barriers and in this case also prompt and enable discussion, drawing and dialogue around the conference provocations of aroha, resistance, and social change. Recording the collective acts of Kai-dness and Social Movements being undertaken by the participants of the conference on the tablecloths will prompt ongoing recognition for the boundaries we all attempt to break towards positive shifts in our societies.

“FOOD FOR THOUGHT” Cafe: Kataraina Anaru Every idea gets a free coffee. Te Roopu Awhina ki Porirua would love to hear your thoughts on tackling food redistribution issues in our community. Come along and exchange some creative thinking for a coffee. Coffee etc. donated by Butlers Chocolate and Coffex Coffee Roasters.

Rickshaw Design Intervention: Natasha Perkins It’s really a pimped-out wheelbarrow to support the delivery of kai and dishes for Hākari at the conference. I’m interested in the operational things that go on in the background to support people to come together around the planning and logistics of food and delivery, the preparation, cleaning and disposal are all important and create spaces where social interactions happen. Manaaki is supported by sharing, through nurturing, growing and challenging people. Marae, schools and sports or cultural clubs are microcosms of community for learning and growth to take place.

The ply for the trolley was donated by Black Sheep Construction Ltd that would have normally gone to landfill. The wheels were donated by the Paekakariki Bike Library who say they are always up for a social movement. The time and effort to make the piece was undertaken by Ben Taubert, one of the workshop technicians at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation. The Koha Cart: Adam Ben-Dror

The Koha Cart is a makeshift café on wheels which attends progressive gatherings and runs on the gift economy.

For this event it will be serving fresh teas and snacks served on nasturtium leaves. A curated bookshelf, composting facilities, reusable grocery bags made by men at Rimutaka prison, sunflower seeds for planting and other delights are available onboard. Join us anytime for the ongoing DIY keep cup making workshop (bring a glass jar to attend).

The Koha Cart was born at the Common Unity Project in Te Awa Kairangi, Lower Hutt and is made from discarded materials. November 11th: Day One

9.00am Welcome Wharenui LT 1 In Person Hopin 9.30am Keynote: Constitutional Transformation Wharenui Featuring: Professor Margaret Mutu and Dr Veronica Tawhai LT 1 In Person Constitutional transformation is one of the biggest political ideas Aotearoa must grapple with. But what Hopin does it mean? How does it happen?

Sparking off our conference, Tayla Cook and Safari Hynes will sit down for a kaputī with Professor Margaret Mutu and Dr Veronica Tawhai, members of Matike Mai Aotearoa, the Independent Working Group on Constitutional Transformation.

This intergenerational kōrero will set the scene for the rest of the week, and go straight to the heart of Aotearoa’s biggest questions around Te Tiriti o Waitangi, tino rangatiratanga, mana motuhake and political change. 10.30am Morning Tea 11.00am - 11.50pm Parallel Sessions One Wharenui Papers: “Questioning Place and Privilege” LT 1 Missing from our Refugee Debate: the Right to Cross Borders In Person Presented by: Umesh Perinpanayagam Hopin Over the last few years activists have focused on (increasing) the New Zealand government’s refugee quota intake — a program which sees the government chose a fixed number of refugees from overseas to be resettled here. However, challenging the government’s policies to stop potential refugees reaching New Zealand borders, where they can claim asylum, has been missing from this debate. These policies have coincided with a marked decline in people claiming asylum here despite an unprecedented number of people displaced by wars and persecution globally — to which Western states have been major contributors. This paper outlines New Zealand government policies based on public sources and official information requests and touches upon their legal and moral implications. It will also discuss the case of the Andika — a boat which attempted to reach these shores in 2015 but was blocked — and its significance for refugee activists.

Using My White Privilege - an Irish Woman in Aotearoa Presented by: Aoife Healy

The esteemed Moana Jackson once spoke about the Irish being a “darker shade of pale” referring to the past oppression of the Irish people. In recent history, Ireland has wielded significant soft power globally and this has resulted in a total shift in attitudes towards the Irish culture. Unfortunately, many Irish people have transitioned out of our own colonial past and are not committed to ensuring other oppressed peoples have access to the same freedoms we now have.

This forgetting of our ancestor’s fights is not unique to Irish people. The Oppression Olympics is particularly prevalent in groups who have garnered some level of social mobility - of culture, of gender, of financial circumstance.

This paper will examine the nuances and complexities of these relationships and how understanding our own histories can remind us of where who we are responsible to and how we use our privilege in Aotearoa today. An Aotearoa/NZ Histories Curriculum for Educators at All Levels Presented by: Tamsin Hanly

Research shows that many NZers have been raised on the “grand colonial standard story” of NZ history. Generations across all ethnicities and social economic status from Prime Ministers, Ministers of Education, educators, to the public resulting in ignorance of more accurate histories, lack of knowledge about things Māori and Pākehā Culture, Te Tiriti, colonization and it’s impacts and Māori survival. I have designed a critique of and an alternative to the “grand colonial standard story” in the form of an Aotearoa/NZ curriculum for educators of all levels in 6 books. The content goes from the Māori origin narrative to the 2000s unpacking a beginners’ guide to Māori worldviews, British worldviews, what happened when they met, the Declaration, two Tiriti/Treaty texts, colonization, Pākehā Culture and Māori survival. Educators read and design their own plans in ninety schools currently. NZ history is compulsory by 2022, I have been trying to get a appointment with Ministry for 6 years, they do not know about my curriculum. Awa Making Space for Feelings MZ05 In Person Presented by: Lenka Rochford Injustice makes us feel stuff and engaging in the struggle against injustice makes us feel stuff. We aren’t always entirely aware of what emotions are driving us at different times. Being more concious of our emotional motivations and reactions to the struggles we engage in can help us be more kind to ourselves and each other and can help us process them as we go along and avoid burn out.

This workshop will encourage participants to think about their emotional responses to the world around us. What do we care about? why do we care? and what does it feel like to care? We won’t be doing group therapy or asking you to feel all the feelings.

Lenka is a pakeha, cis woman, mum, activist and therapist. My ideas come from my life experience and psychotherapy theories of the mind. Kōhanga Reo Indigenous Solidarity, Community & Connection MZ06 Indigenous, Aboriginal, Native & First Nations Peoples only In Person Presented by: IPU: Indigenous Pacific Uprising Hopin A forum space for Native, Indigenous, Aboriginal, and First Nations persons to discuss how we, as Indigenous* and First Peoples of this region, maintain our cultures and communities in the face of colonisation, capitalism, imperialism and climate change. How does the remembrance of our ancestral relationships ground our movements and our solidarity with each other, near and far? How do we learn from each other without co-option/appropriation, how do we reforge our ancestral ties? Ātea Peace to Action: How Can Research Support Practical Action for Social MZ03 Change? In Person Hopin Presented by: Dr Monica Carrer and Dr Sylvia Frain

How can academic researchers support activists, individuals, and families to carry out everyday action for resistance, peace, and social change? In this session, we will stimulate a conversation focused around this question and welcome diverse perspectives on how to connect to make an impact. We will share the journeys that brought us to co-found The Everyday Peace Initiative (EPI) to bridge academic research and everyday peace action. Our goal is to explore practical ways for people to regain their agency while “unlearning” colonial, political, structural forms of violence. We are guided by answering these questions through practice: Who is our research for? How do we incorporate and value people’s knowledges? How do we, as researchers, engage with people and produce outcomes that benefit them? Te Kāuta Pre-recorded Papers MZ01 These pre-recorded papers will be played now, but will be available online through Hopin the Pre-recorded whole conference. Played In Person Hopin Spaces for Counter-hegemonic Education in Indonesia Presented by: Ben K. C. Laksana

Much like other states, Indonesia has always endeavoured to reproduce its key ideological values within its citizens. Education, through its institutions, emerges as the key ‘ideological state apparatus’ through which the state reinforces these values for the next generation. These institutions seek to reproduce these hegemonic, ideological values as the foundation of the ‘ideal’ Indonesian citizen. Such a citizen is compliant, law-abiding, entrepreneurial and heavily underpinned by the ideas of societal harmony. Yet, against the backdrop of this hegemonic state, it appears that not all young citizens are passively falling into line with these expectations. As seen in a number of counter-hegemonic educational activities within educational institutions and outside, as well as the recent university student-led movements that arose from that. This study thus draws attention to young people’s attempt engaging in counter-hegemonic knowledge and explores the factors within and outside formal educational institutions where young people are likely to learn key counter-hegemonic ideas and practices.

Broadcasting Epistemic Exploitation Without Accountability: ‘90 Day Fiancé’ Presented by: Bella Chong

In ’90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days’, the reality show depicted white Americans meeting their future spouses in the Philippines and Nigeria, respectively. However, the show and its cast failed to address the ongoing effects of colonisation: the international power relation that allows for racial domination. This power is presented in living conditions and the mainstream ‘knowledge’ on the show. Simultaneously, white supremacy justifies ignorance of this power relation and weaponizes it in interracial interactions. It expresses ignorance in the form of racial stereotypes and skepticism towards material circumstances under the power relation. Subsequently, white supremacy encourages ignorance and the exploitation of ‘knowledge’. By adopting white supremacy, white people can demand and dismiss knowledge, inevitably harming the people of colour subjected to it. Finally, the media exacerbates the harm by broadcasting the exploitation without context, for profit.

Creating a Scene: Claiming Citizenship through Performance Action Presented by: Nick Vale

My research is centred around the theory of performative citizenship: a social process by which societal stakeholders engage in the claiming and/or the expanding of rights regardless of their formal membership to the nation-state. Using performative citizenship as a premise, I investigate Isin’s (2017) concept of the ‘activist citizen’ and pair it with notions of creativity to identify and interpret ‘creative acts of citizenship’: forms of arts-based activism in support of social justice. I consider the power that performance art has to challenge and rupture the dominant social norms which serve to marginalise people based on their ethnicity or immigration status. By employing creativity as a vehicle to claim ‘the right to have rights’ and the right to greater social and political inclusion, activist citizens open up spaces to reconceptualise notions of social membership and belonging while reshaping our understanding of ‘citizenship’ along the way. Whare Kai Weaving Intentions for the Kāwanatanga Sphere MZ02 Presented by: Dr Arama Rata (Ngāti Maniapoto, Taranaki, Ngāruahine) and In Person Jess Mio (tauiwi pākehā) Hopin Matike Mai Aotearoa envisages a constitution that honours Te Tiriti o Waitangi and supports the free flourishing of all peoples in Aotearoa. Achieving this vision requires complete transformation of the kāwanatanga sphere: from its current form as the Crown in Parliament wielding stolen power, to a new system of tauiwi (non-Māori) making collective decisions in accordance with tikanga. This session asks us to each imagine our ideal kāwanatanga sphere. What values would be at its heart? How would tauiwi make appropriate decisions for ourselves here on whenua Māori? What would life be like in that transformed reality?

All are welcome to contribute. 12.00pm - 12.50pm Parallel Sessions Two Wharenui Pākehātanga LT 1 Presented by: Tauiwi mō Matike Mai In Person Hopin Pākehātanga is the ongoing work within pākehā communities of developing a collective sense of identity and purpose. This session responds to the call from various corners for ‘pākehātanga’, in the name of and as necessary precursor and support for decolonisation and constitutional transformation. Over this hour, members of Tauiwi mō Matike Mai who have been developing a theory of change for tauiwi pākehā – as well as other pākehā who have been working in this space of pākehātanga in various ways - will share something of their learning and hold a space where the awkward, fraught, fumbling work of pākehātanga can be furthered in some way, by explicitly asking together what it would require, what actions we might or must take, and how pākehā, once gathered or, in part, in the very act of gathering ourselves, might contribute to constitutional transformation and decolonisation. Awa (Re)defining Community Research: Lessons from Asian Feminist Project Aotearoa MZ05 Presented by: Helen Yeung Streamed In Person While a growing body of social science research is centred on the identities of marginalised commu- Hopin nities, this often offers a voyeuristic view of participants’ lived experiences, with an inability to build mutually beneficial relationships. Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang (2014) state, current ethical frameworks in academia are exploitative and yield material or political outcomes. We must strive to create research that is “deeply ethical, meaningful, or useful for the individual or community being researched” (p. 812). In the age of fourth-wave feminism, women have taken on efforts of empowerment and resistance into the online sphere. The Asian Feminist Project Aotearoa is a community-based research project which explores the potential of creating feminist conversations with Asian women through their mobile devices in everyday spaces. In this paper, I reflect on how forms of feminist activism can be incorporated into research. This includes engaging participants in storytelling, self-learning and consciousness-raising through discussions of intersectionality and resisting patriarchal norms. Kōhanga Reo From One Tired Indigenous Māmā MZ06 Presented by: Tessa Williams In Person I constantly see the same people fighting for a better future for the collective, from whānau kitchens through to the frontlines of land occupations. The same people, over and over, giving all they can give without being asked. They do it not for themselves but for everyone else. Often these people are indigenous, often women, often māmā. They don’t expect recognition, but they deserve it. An exhibition of recent works by Tessa Williams created to give voice to the intertwined experiences of indigenous mothers and indigenous knowledge from Atua to present day. It demonstrates the value of our ways of knowing, doing, and moving, as indigenous people. The double session will include a short talk to kaupapa and each piece in Tessa’s series. Then, an intermission before creating space and time for the audience who attend to stop and appreciate themselves for all that they are able to do for others. Aroha mai aroha atu. Ātea Papers: “In Defence of Whenua” MZ03 The Common Denominator In Person Presented by: Chris Huriwai Hopin Dairy milk consumption and production, its contribution to: climate change, water/natural resource scarcity, embedded colonial racism, inequality of outcomes for Māori and unjustified animal cruelty. This presentation highlights a broad range of issues relating to dairy farming in Aotearoa. We’ll explore the key factors that currently make the dairy sector vulnerable to strategic, cross demographic campaigning.

Trans-Indigenous: Indigenous Solidarity in Moments of Activism Presented by: Rebecca Chrystal

As Pacific-based activists continue to defend their ancestral lands, resources and sacred spaces from climate change and various forms of exploitation they are uniting and expressing solidarity with other indigenous groups who often share similar predicaments. In analysing the film, poetry, social media posts and physical action that arise from these interactions and collaborations, we can understand the practices and themes of uniting for and doing activism that emerge as ‘trans-indigenous.’ By exploring very recent examples of indigenous solidarity, this paper aims to identify some of the most effective trans-indigenous themes and practices that emerge in these moments of solidarity, in the hopes that they may be engaged with and utilised by future indigenous activists and their allies.

This paper contributes to wider conversations regarding indigenous solidarity and performance of activism, while drawing very recent events of a tumultuous 2019 into academic discussion.

The Administration of Power in Aotearoa Presented by: Te Ao Metcalfe

As we progress into the void, into the future upon the crest of a wave called modernity. We need to understand certain peculiarities about the human condition inside mass societies. This talk is about Race and its ism and the administration of power. These two concepts are connected, especially in New Zealand where Maori are subjugated to powerful tools of administration. The usurpation of a culture is taking place through the guise of policy, the lens of colonial structures inbuilt to the ethics of our society. It is the duty of our people to bring about meaningful change to this society of Te Ao Pakeha and weave the identity of Te Ao Maori as an equal in this capitalist order of Power. These concepts will be only approached in this talk, however the beginning of unpicking the brutality of bureaucratic power upon Maori will be exposed and projected. Te Kāuta Growing a Powerful Justice Movement through Imagination, Conversation, and MZ01 Storytelling In Person Presented by: Madeleine Ashton-Martyn, Tania Sawicki Mead and Kiki Van Newtown

A creative workshop on locating our voices on justice transformation that uses imagination, evidence-based messaging research, and the science of storytelling to turn the volume way up, make our voices heard far and wide, and grow our power. We welcome everyone to this workshop - whether you are involved in this kaupapa or standing at the edge keen to take the next step.

We’ll share three tools that we can use to transform the justice conversation, and participants will have the opportunity to explore and practice using these tools together. This workshop will use connection and imagination to build bridges between different areas of the change ecosystem and strengthen our movement for transformation.

By the end of this workshop our ambition is that you will feel confident and grounded to have persuasive conversations about transforming the justice system with friends, family, colleagues, community, or others outside your field. Whare Kai Militarism, Peoples and Planet MZ02 Presented by: Edwina Hughes (Peace Movement Aotearoa) In Person The harmful pervasive day to day costs and consequences of militarism are often overlooked when compared with the attention given to the tragedy of armed conflict and war. This presentation provides an overview of those costs and consequences for Aotearoa in relation to decolonisation, social justice, climate justice, the environment, biodiversity, the co-option of indigenous culture by the armed forces, attitudes towards violence as a means of resolving conflict, and the increasing level of militarisation of children and their education. The concluding section has suggestions for positive alternatives to the escalating levels of militarisation here in Aotearoa, and for a shift from militarised notions of security to domestic and foreign policy based on sustainable peace. 1.00pm Lunch 2.00pm - 2.50pm Parallel Sessions Three Wharenui Papers: “Confronting Racism and Violence” LT 1 Is Anti-Racism Possible Under White Settler Colonialism? Canadian Reflections from the Field In Person Presented by: Manjeet Birk Hopin After yet another devastating murder of a Black man in the United States, George Floyd’s death has reignited Black Lives Matters protests globally. His final words “I can’t breathe” have left a mark on protesters using it as an emblem calling for change and the end of police brutality. These familiar words also echoed after Eric Garner’s murder in 2014 at the hands of police are a stark reminder that we have been complacent in this outrage before. At this crucial crossroads of status quo and change again, one cannot help but wonder, why can’t the police stop killing marginalized bodies especially Black bodies? Building on research in feminist anti-racist organizations in Canada, I seek to consider the questions: Can anti-racism exist under white settler colonialism? What are the limits to our activism when we are working within systemic and institutionally racist systems?

Black Lives Matters Calls us to Expand our Understanding of Pandemic Presented by: Adele N. Norris

The global calamity caused by the coronavirus catapulted the concept of ‘pandemic’ into mainstream lexicons, in which the concept is associated with a range of acts that had ‘suddenly’ emerged and had in effect wreaked terrible costs upon unsuspecting populations. As the world grappled with the coronavirus and mandated quarantine, the murder of George Floyd by U.S. law enforcement triggered massive uprisings. In solidarity with Black Lives Matter, millions worldwide mobilized to protest white supremacy, signally anti-blackness, and systemic racism as an enduring pandemic that needs addressing. While Covid-19 uniquely revealed sharp class and racial disparities (e.g., health care, housing, essential work), #BlackLivesMatter expanded the pandemic discussion to include sustained state-violence directed against Black and marginalized peoples as an embedded societal feature that is not random. Employing Fanon’s conceptualization of the “zone of nonbeing”, this paper illustrates how Indigenous and Black communities understand ‘pandemic’ in generational terms. Te hāpai ō as Fanon’s les damnés Presented by: Garrick Cooper

The rhetoric of unity is a feature of resistance movements. Unity has been actively woven into the so- called Māori renaissance and features in many Maori proverbs, for example, “Te amorangi ki mua te hāpai ō ki muri”, (the front prospers due to the efforts of those at the back). What happens though when the front no longer needs the efforts of those at the back, or worse, prosper off the back of those out back? This question is deliberately provocative, some might go so far as to say hyperbolic. I will argue that far from being hyperbolic, the question is one that requires serious attention. Fanon’s “les damnés de la terre” often translated as “the wretched of the earth” speaks of people who are damned of, and perhaps to, the earth. Fanon’s les damnés provides us with theory to make sense of this phenomenon. To be damned is a function of people damning others to a particular existence and is not intrinsically a feature of who les damnés are. I will explore these themes in relation to how unity has become a ruse, that ensures les damné (aka “te hāpai o”) remain damned. Awa Towards Eliminating Coercion in Mental Health Care MZ05 Presented by: Martha Savage, Giles Newton-Howes, Kris Gledhill, Mary O’Hagan, Kerri Butler, In Person Michael Naera, Marilyn Morris Hopin We will consider New Zealand’s mental health care through a perspective of its comparison to other Pacific Rim nations as well as through the eyes of New Zealanders who are trying to improve mental health care here. It will use a mix of methods. There will be a showing of a short (~10 minute) documentary video describing problems of mechanical restraint usage in Japanese psychiatric hospitals and its comparison to New Zealand’s approach to mental health care. It will be followed by a presentation of a research report about how mechanical restraint varies in countries around the Pacific Rim. Finally, we will consider the state of New Zealand’s mental health care and how it can be improved, through short presentations and a panel discussion by people with varying perspectives, including service users, a family carer, a psychiatrist, a mental health lawyer and an advocate for Māori mental health. Kōhanga Reo Grounding to Presence - A Creative Pause MZ06 Presented by: Sian Quennell Torrington In Person Sometimes when I listen to lots of wonderful words, my head gets very full. Then I need to pour out onto the page, and come back into my body. In here, by moving and using charcoal to make marks on a page, I get to process and ground, and relax in the present. Pouring out so I can fill up again. In this session I will share drawing exercises where we put what is inside, on the outside. Easy, embodied ways of expression. Big storms, soft slow drags; just whatever is there, is welcome here. People tell me they always feel different afterwards. Absolutely no drawing experience necessary, everyone is welcome. Ātea Maintaining Collectivity During a Global Pandemic MZ03 Presented by: Karen Nairn (co-facilitator) and Kyle Matthews (co-facilitator). Panel members: Pania In Person Newton (Protect Ihumātao); Ruby Powell (Action Station); Bruce Kidd (Generation Zero); Tabby Besley Hopin (InsideOUT); Poppy Mitchell-Anyon (Thursdays in Black); Tania Sawicki Mead or Kirsten Van Newtown (JustSpeak)

Our research with young activists about their hopes and visions for social change in Aotearoa is in its third year. With the onset of covid-19 and a lockdown, our participants have had to turn their minds to what activism consists of during and after a lockdown, and what opportunities the covid disruption offers for social change.

We have invited a panel of participants from each of the six groups we are working with: ActionStation, Generation Zero, InsideOUT, JustSpeak, Protect Ihumātao and Thursdays in Black to discuss how they work together collectively and how their activism changed or not as a result of covid. Te Kāuta Creating a Ministry of Peace in Aotearoa MZ01 Presented by: Liz Remmerswaal In Person This is a workshop where we look at what we need to create a Ministry of Peace in Aotearoa, using non violent ways of dealing with problems and conflict at every level, including personal, family, work, school, nationally and globally. It will be an interactive session where contributions are welcome with the aim of achieving this as reality within the next ten years. 3.00pm Keynote: Caring for Whenua Wharenui Featuring: Pania Newton and Pua Case LT 1 In Person From the summit of Mauna Kea to the land at Ihumātao, Indigenous-led movements teach us about how Hopin to care for place with aloha/aroha. They teach us how to conduct ourselves, how to stand for earth, how to forward with the wisdom of our ancestors. In this keynote panel, leaders and protectors Pania Newton, from the movement to protect Ihumātao, and Pua Case, from the movement to protect Mauna Kea, come together to discuss what it means to care for whenua in relational, embodied, intimate, and sacred ways. As women who stand on the frontlines to protect our lands, our spaces, and our right to be in those spaces, they offer us hope and offer us the chance to rise and be braver than we ever thought we could be. 4.00pm ESRA Book Launch / Counterfutures Journal Launch (with nibbles and drinks) Māra We’re excited to be launching Counterfutures issue 10, and the edited collection Whose Futures at the In Person conference. Join us for drinks and nibbles, and nab yourself a copy of these timely publications.

Counterfutures 10 Edited by Jack Foster

In Counterfutures issue 10, Mohan Dutta and Sue Bradford discuss their work co-constructing voice infrastructures at the margins and interrogate the tensions that emerge in relationships between communities, activists, and academics. Emalani Case offers a treatment of militarism in the Pacific, tracing its interconnections with the structures of settler colonialism and white supremacy. Mark Derby reflects on the life and work of the late historian Dick Scott, author of the ground-breaking Ask that Mountain: The Story of Parihaka. Roland Boer, author of the five-volume epic, On Marxism and Theology, discusses the myriad connections between Marxism and Christianity. Murray Edmond leads a dérive through Auckland’s inner-city monuments. Tim Bryar considers the prospects of a Left secretariat in the Pacific. And Murdoch Stephens and Richard Keys interrogate the politics of the returnee. Plus book reviews and more.

Whose Futures? Edited by Anna-Maria Murtola and Shannon Walsh

Many of us have become accustomed to speaking of what comes next in terms of a singular ‘future’. Such accounts of the future tend to operate within the narrow confines of colonial capitalism and assume continued economic growth. But there is no ‘one’ future; there are many. As contributions to this book attest, irreconcilable and interrelated futures are already playing out in the present. When futures are approached in this way – in the plural and in relation – they open to questions of which futures and whose futures. In other words, they open to politics.

In this collection, we challenge dominant narratives of the future by bringing together a broad collection of voices and perspectives from Aotearoa New Zealand on the question of possible futures. Chapters interrogate whose lives are at stake in different visions and projects of the future, whose voices and visions count, and what elements are at play in the unfolding of certain futures over others. The chapters highlight the need to be attentive to how various social technologies and institutions invite certain ways of being, thinking and acting and exclude others. In doing so, they offer a series of reflections on futures ‘from below’ to amplify voices and fight for alternatives.

Contributors: Hana Burgess, Luke Goode, Kassie Hartendorp, Aitor Jimenez, John Morgan, Anna-Maria Murtola, Te Kahuratai Painting, Anisha Sankar, Sy Taffel, Arcia Tecun, Samuel Te Kani, Shannon Walsh, Toyah Webb End of Conference Day One In the Māra... Māra A Visual Exploration of LGBTIQ+ Homelessness Research Presented by: Brodie Fraser

This exhibit focuses on a series of photographs I made while analysing the data for my PhD on Takatāpui/LGBTIQ+ homelessness. It also includes other relevant materials that weave together my participants’ narratives, the research process, and my reflections of how the research mirrors and alters my own experiences as a member of the LGBTIQ+ community who has experienced homelessness. The purpose of this contribution is twofold; firstly, to present my research findings in an accessible manner in order to raise awareness of experiences of LGBTIQ+ homelessness, and secondly, to encourage attendees to think about both the joys and difficulties of striving to create change when the topic at hand is a deeply personal one. Māra Collage Space and Pop-up Bookstore: 5ever books Presented by: Sasha Francis, Achille Segard, Sarah Lee and others

5ever brings the print medium from the street to conference, remixed and cut-up, pasted, collaged, purchased and donated.

Please pop by our two on-site spaces located in Rutherford House and open for the duration of the conference:

- The collaborative collage space: a safe haven where one can retreat from the big talks and energy of the conference to have a creative breather. All materials supplied, open to all.

- A not-for-profit pop-up bookshop, stocked with books for purchase from independent, underground and other publishers from around Aotearoa, as well as a selection of quality books from local second-hand bookstores.

Profits from the pop-up bookstore fund a prison book drive of all remaining unsold stock and additional similar titles. Talk to us to find out more, and help support increasing access to radical titles for incarcerated people in Aotearoa.

WORDS, IMAGES, BOOKS, PRINT, TRASH, AROHA, POWER - how are we collectively making sense? Stop by, read, imagine, reflect, and sit amidst the kōrero. Māra Big Kaupapa, Tiny Stitches Presented by: Renee Paku

An exhibition of recent works by Tessa Williams created to give voice to the intertwined experiences of indigenous mothers and indigenous knowledge from Atua to present day. It demonstrates the value of our ways of knowing, doing, and moving, as indigenous people. Māra Imagining Through Drawing and Collage: A Creative Workshop Presented by: Siân Torrington November 12th: Day Two 8.50am Welcome Wharenui LT 1 In Person Hopin 9.00am Keynote: Unionism Today Wharenui Featuring: Tali Williams and Nadia Abu-Shanab LT 1 In Person The vital role of working people is clear through all the smoke and space of 2020. When the majority of Hopin work stopped, our economic system went into freefall. Millions of people are still working (and dying) on the frontline of a global pandemic and this “essential” working class is dominated by women and people of colour. We survive because of them. Despite symbolic gestures many of these workers continue to face poverty wages and brutal conditions. Together, we have the ability to confront our compounding challenges - climate, economic, gender and racial violence. Unions are one avenue to reset the balance of power. This keynote will explore some of the fightback taking place, introduce you to some of the workers leading it and lay the challenge of the mahi to come. 10.00am Morning Tea 10.30am - 11.20am Parallel Sessions One Wharenui Building Renters’ Power LT 1 Presented by: Hannan Patterson (Renters United Pōneke co-convenor), Robert Whitaker (Renters United In Person founding member), Ben Schmidt (Manawatū Tenants’ Union coordinator). Hopin With Aotearoa’s renting population approaching 50 percent, it is time to discuss how we might build effective renters unions and campaigns to organise and mobilise renters. Our panellists will reflect on their experiences in growing of renters’ movements in the last 5 years before facilitating a discussion with the audience on where next.

We’ll take a look at recent campaigning progress by Renters United and other organisations, before considering how this foundational work could grow into more substantial and long-lasting renters’ organisations.

How do we address some of the barriers to organising including atomisation, precarity and a lack of collective identity?

How can we balance addressing individual issues with collective action?

How can organising around housing connect with and amplify action responding to climate change, decolonisation and inequality? Awa Exploring Transnational Solidarity MZ05 Presented by: Max Harris, Phoebe Carr, David Adler, Reverend Mua Strickson-Pua, India Logan-Riley, In Person Ben Peterson, Connor Cooke and Erin Carr Hopin This hybrid wānanga will bring minds together from across Papatūānuku to explore how this moment can be used to build a different kind of internationalism, which resists neoliberal globalisation. The two hours will be spent facilitating discussion between international speakers and conference participants in an exploration of the history of transnational solidarities, the challenges involved with organising across borders, and what is possible right now. In the first hour of the conversation we’ll ask some select speakers questions about transnational solidarity. The second hour will involve conference participants reacting to the first hour’s discussion and reflecting on their own experiences in a facilitated discussion.

*Note: This session will continue into Parallel Sessions Two* Kōhanga Reo Woke Not Broke MZ06 Presented by: Mārama Pipepe In Person Money can be hard to understand, hard to deal with and hard to talk about. Inequalities in our communities are undeniable, and often the people working the hardest to improve the lives of others do so at significant cost. The intent of this workshop is to bring conversations about money and wealth in social justice communities into the light so that collective wisdom and healing can be found. Where there is space, collective knowledge and practical tools for improving our relationship with money will be shared. Space will be held for you to share your beliefs and talk through cultural differences relating to wealth. There is no “wrong”. Feel free to bring your own questions to the workshop. Ātea The Joys & Challenges of Building New Groups from Scratch MZ03 Presented by: Sue Bradford In Person This is a participatory workshop aimed at sharing ideas and experiences of building new organisations from scratch in ways that will sustain them into the future. In this age of uncertainty and crisis it is more important than ever that we on the radical left are able to set up and maintain our own autonomous organisations - political and economic, campaigning and educational. Sue Bradford from Kotare Research and Education for Social Change in Aotearoa will share some of the lessons she’s gained from many years of this work, but the focus will be on learning from each other, & looking to the future. Te Kāuta F*ck the University MZ01 Presented by: Shannon Walsh, Steve Matthewman, Campbell Jones, Nathalie Jaques In Person Hopin It is true; the university is fucked… but the point is to go beyond that. This panel develops the narrative of our 2018 book ‘Everything’s fucked: but the point is to go beyond that’ and applies it to the present situation of universities in Aotearoa and beyond. Even before COVID-19 hit the university was in a dire state. Seemingly unable to shake off its colonial and imperialist origins, universities here became sites of white supremacist organising. Operating on increasingly exploitative and underpaid precarious academic labour, universities have largely cut off career pathways for emerging academics. What is left in the university to salvage and reclaim? What are universities for, and who, exactly, is the university? What pockets of solidarity and support exist for militants, radicals, dissenters and those dissatisfied with its failures? The university is a site of potential and change, but not by its own design and governance. Fuck the university – join us in thinking about how to go beyond that. Whare Kai PSA Ngā Kaupapa: Advancing Māori workers in the public service. MZ02 Presented by: Georgie Dansey (Ngāti Tūwharetoa) Policy Advisor, and Georgina Kerr, PSA kuia In Person Hopin The Public Service Association (PSA) is Aotearoa’s largest trade union and represents 75,000 workers across Aotearoa. Our 12,000 Māori members form Te Rūnanga o Ngā Toa Āwhina and are working in the Public Service, the wider State services, District Health Boards, Local Government and contracted Community Public Services.

This workshop will explore what our members believe it means to be a Māori worker in the public service and the values that underpin our commitment to a better working life for Māori. We will consider the vital role good quality public services that are designed by those receiving them play in ensuring a fair and just society, as well as the work the PSA is doing to progress the lives of not just our Māori members, but all New Zealanders accessing public services. 11.30am - 12.20pm Parallel Sessions Two Wharenui Re-imagining the University in Aotearoa in Times of Crisis LT 1 Presented by: Leon Salter, Sandra Grey, Isabella Lenihan-Ikin, and Raewyn Connell In Person Hopin COVID-19 instigated substantial disruptions to the working conditions of University workers. Already demoralised from decades of league table-based performance management and cutbacks, they were expected to manage the huge workloads involved with transitions to online learning. Now those on casual or fixed-term contracts (as well as some permanent) face increasing uncertainty around their futures, as highly paid senior managers indicate their eagerness to institute austerity, as the Labour government refuses to allocate more funding. At the same time, decisions to “digitise the learning experience” have been taken with minimal student consultation, who are being left to shoulder extortionate rents, high fees, and mounting debt. This panel, followed by a workshop, is conceived as an opportunity for both university workers and students to take stock and consider together how me might respond to these changes, and think about what do we do now, and what better model can we propose? Kōhanga Reo Dismantling Settler Colonialism – Creative Resistance MZ06 Presented by: Veronica MH Tawhai, John James Carberry In Person Hopin As argues Moana Jackson, “If you accept that our people have been colonised, that we have been dispossessed, that our humanity has been diminished, then it seems to me incumbent upon people who know that, who accept that, to try and do something about it” (in Tawhai, 2020, p. 139). In our efforts to ‘do something about it’, a deeper understanding of the specifics of ‘settler colonialism’ can assist by providing critical insights into the nature of political power, oppression and liberation here in Aotearoa. Examining key concepts and the multiple forms of resistance by our people, this workshop provides participants with the opportunity to reflect upon our struggles for survival and design our own creative interventions into the future. Ātea ‘Ten Chairs’ - a Teaching Tool to Approach Classism and Colonialism MZ03 Presented by: Tim Howard and Kotare In Person In this session, Tim and Kotare will introduce our adaptation of a teaching tool to raise awareness of rich / poor disparity and its impact, based on the processes of colonialism. The tool is essentially a simulation exercise, matched with a narrative and dialogue, that can be used to supplement Tiriti o Waitangi and social justice teaching. It has proved helpful both to strengthen understandings of class and colonialism and to raise awareness amongst open-minded participants, but has also been useful in sowing seeds of doubt amongst resistant participants. Within this short session, the simulation exercise will be briefly demonstrated, engaging people physically present, and a framework for its use will be presented, including hints for the matching narrative and resulting dialogue. It is being introduced in this conference in the hope that facilitators and tutors will find it useful in their own contexts. Te Kāuta Papers: “Importing Ideologies (careful now)” MZ01 Social Movements and the Application of Research: Extinction Rebellion’s Theory of Change In Person Presented by: Kyle R. Matthews Hopin Two pieces of knowledge inform Extinction Rebellion’s (XR) theory of change: that social movements should engage in disruptive protest, instigating a cycle of state repression and escalating protest that forces change; and the work of Chenoweth and Stephan, who argue from data that once 3.5% of a country’s population is mobilised a campaign will always be successful. These understandings have led XR to pursue large scale protests with a focus on mass arrests.

However this knowledge originates from data relating to the overthrow of autocratic regimes in countries such as the Philippines, Serbia, and former Soviet republics. XR largely seeks change in a Western liberal democratic context where it is unclear if this evidence applies. I therefore argue that social movements such as XR need to wary of simplistic answers to the problem of creating social change and draw upon wider evidence as to how change happens in society.

Pākehā Democracy and Tino Rangatiratanga in the Union Movement Presented by: Hugo Robinson

Unions are crucial structures that help workers to harness their collective power to change their lives and society as a whole. However, as models of resistance developed in Europe, they are underpinned by Pākehā values and ideas. In particular, they are organised around a Pākehā idea of democracy which reflects the interests of the majority. In a racist, colonised society, that is the interests of racist Pākehā irrespective of class. For this reason there is a tension between Pākehā notions of democracy and tino rangatiratanga in the union movement.

Oriented by Matike Mai Aotearoa, my kōrero will explore that tension and ask questions about what constitutional transformation means for working class Pākehā and how unions can play a role in that process. Ultimately, I do not have any answers but am hoping to hear reflections and suggestions, and build relationships with those interested in this space. Whare Kai Building Together - A Creative Session MZ02 Presented by: Sian Quennell Torrington In Person There are too many buildings and not enough homes. They make it seem so complicated, when really it should be simple. It is part of our nature to build homes, to create structures from what we have. In this creative workshop we will make our own fast structures, and see how we can build them together. Looking for connection, strength and beauty from lots of materials. They can be strong, they can be soft, and they can be easy too. This is a creative workshop where everything is provided, and all are welcome. Absolutely no art making experience needed. 12.30pm Lunch 1.30pm - 2.20pm Parallel Sessions Three Wharenui Mana Moana - On Being Ocean-People LT 1 Presented by: Mana Moana Artist Collective In Person Hopin In such critical times of considering, questions of identity, belonging, and relationships between people and place, the Mana Moana Digital Ocean Project has brought together over 20 Maori and Pacific artists to speak to our whakapapa as sovereign, sacred solutions to the challenges before us. Art has always provided us with the means to speak across boundaries of language and culture, and now technology also allows us to also transcend barriers of distance and location to give voice to our reflections as Tangata Moana, as Tangata Whenua, and as Tangata Tiriti.

This interactive wananga will bring attendees along on an multidimensional and introspective journey - it will feature key components of the Digital Ocean project, as well as reflections from the curators and artists. Awa The People’s Inquiry into the Impacts of Toxic Chemicals and Poisons MZ05 Presented by: Asha Andersen, Hana Blackmore, Hira Hunapo-O’Callaghan, Stephanie McKee, Streaming In Stephen Torrington, Dr Ursula Edgington Person Hopin The People’s Inquiry 2020 is a citizen led Inquiry into the impacts and effects of toxic chemicals and poisons on our people, wildlife and environment. We aim to create a safe space for people to share their experiences and have them heard, while also raising awareness around the issues and non-toxic solutions.

We will be unpacking the complex topic of harms caused by toxic chemicals and poisons in Aotearoa. Including, historical cases of harm, the movements to address them, the science around various toxic substances and their effects, institutional and media bias, failures of the legal and regulatory systems, the impacts on human right’s and in particular Maori in the context of Te Tiriti O Waitangi, the trend towards ‘green nature jobs’ and the urgent need for a poison free vision.

Join us for this timely discussion that seeks to address our nation’s legacy of toxic harm. We believe open and honest discussion will help move Aotearoa towards a more just and sustainable future. Kōhanga Reo Roles and Responsibilities in the Revolution, BIPOC Aotearoa Edition MZ06 Attendance by Invite Only Invite Only Presented by: TātouTātou

Inspired by Deepa Iyer’s Building Movement Project - Mapping our Roles in a Social Change Ecosystem (2020), TātouTātou are facilitating an invite-only project huddle to produce a resource that speaks to the specific roles that BIPOC people in Aotearoa can and do play in our revolutions. It is about helping ourselves and others in Aotearoa to understand the many and specific roles that are required for resistance and revolution.

Our goal is to do a ruku hōhonu (deep dive) into the roles Iyer outlines and discuss them within an Aotearoa context. We believe this will help others to apply Iyer’s mahi here in Aotearoa in a way that is mana-enhancing for tangata whenua and other BIPOC in Aotearoa.

With the huddle’s agreement, the resource will be available on the https://www.tatoutatou.org website following the conference.

*Note: This session will continue into Parallel Sessions Four* Ātea “The Wave” a Tool to Analyse Change, Know Your Enemy and Shift Power MZ03 Presented by: Catherine Delahunty In Person The Wave session is a participatory process using a tool that shows where communities stand in relation to a social change issue and how we can move people to a more radical position. It is both an analysis of power issues and a way to reach out to people once we understand why they stand where they stand. It is also lively and creative. Te Kāuta Caught up in Conflict? MZ01 Presented by: Cissy Rock In Person As activists we have to be able to work with conflict. In your own organisation you may be experiencing conflict as polarising and positional that paralyses action. In this session we will explore the systemic nature of conflict, reflect on our own contribution to the conflict and what interventions we can make.

This session will be in action using a dramatization of a relevant situation of our choosing. Come along expecting to be actively involved.

*Note: This session will continue into Parallel Sessions Four* Whare Kai Re-imagining the University in Aotearoa in Times of Crisis - DISCUSSION MZ02 A workshop following the earlier panel, conceived as an opportunity for both university workers and In Person students to take stock and consider together how me might respond to these changes, and think about Hopin what do we do now, and what better model can we propose? 2.30pm - 3.20pm Parallel Sessions Four Wharenui “E Whiti E Te Raa: Shine” Film Screening and Discussion LT 1 Presented by: Arini Loader and Mike Ross In Person This is a short film screening of “E Whiti E Te Raa: Shine” followed by a Q n A discussion. Our work focuses on the series of conflicts called Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa, and Te Riri Pākehā (1843 to the present). But rather than focus on the set battles and skirmishes, we centre tangata whenua perspectives, the impacts on our communities and the agency of telling our stories. We search for the much less heard Māori voices and to restore these voices to the historical record as an example of engagement in creating our futures. And to improve research accessibility to our communities, made the choice of film over book (or other). To paraphrase Linda Tuhiwai Smith, our project seeks to ‘re-write’ New Zealand history in order to ‘re-right’ the place of tangata whenua (1999; 2012). Ātea Movements and Dance MZ03 Presented by: Anna V Rogers and dance teachers TBC In Person We dance for many reasons; to find our bodies, create collectives, express culture, claim space, celebrate. In-person conference participants are invited to share their whakaaro and movements, reflecting on dance’s transformative power through dancing and small-group discussion. All backgrounds and abilities are embraced. Facilitators will support movement that feels enjoyable for each participant.

Dancing in public/shared spaces births collectives, and this year virtual collectives sprung up connecting dancers worldwide. Bodies understand the emotions and possibilities dance creates, including aroha, power, grief, reverence, resistance, joy.

Facilitators will share some Afro-Brazilian samba and modern movements, reflecting on preventing appropriation in cultural exchange, and where dance and direct action may meet. Participants are warmly encouraged to bring a movement (with/without music)— anything adaptable and culturally safe to share. Turning up as you are is also encouraged. This session is not available online, Arohamai. Whare Kai Supper Club - Food for Thought MZ02 Presented by: Grace Tualaulelei In Person This session looks to explore a form of knowledge sharing and communication that pairs dining and devising solutions. Central to Supper Club are the concepts of talanoa and le va, which will be explored further. Participants will be invited to join in in workshopping current, dominant styles of communication and ideas around governing principles of exchange. It is hoped that this will produce solutions that reflect the varied nature of power structures and their influence over communication. The second half of the session will focus on exploring our relationship to food and the role it plays in knowledge sharing. It is hoped that this session will generate discussion around dining climates and produce meaningful dialogue and solutions to issues around power dynamics that govern interactions. 3.30pm Afternoon Tea 4.00pm Keynote: Climates of Change / Taiao Wharenui Featuring: Denise Blake, Catherine Delahunty, India Logan-Riley, Em Tuhi Ao Bailey LT 1 In Person Climate change is an issue of social injustice; its causes and effects are not evenly shared globally or Hopin within societies. While activists demand climate justice now, and policy makers talk about just transitions, it can be hard to see what a good and fair climate future looks like. What does it actually mean to organise our society and economy differently and build worlds based on justice?

This panel will explore this question through panellists’ work with marginalised communities, against structural oppression, and experience in Te Tiriti led environmental activism and community organising. 5.00pm End of Conference Day Two In the Māra... Māra A Visual Exploration of LGBTIQ+ Homelessness Research Presented by: Brodie Fraser

5ever brings the print medium from the street to conference, remixed and cut-up, pasted, collaged, purchased and donated.

Please pop by our two on-site spaces located in Rutherford House and open for the duration of the conference:

- The collaborative collage space: a safe haven where one can retreat from the big talks and energy of the conference to have a creative breather. All materials supplied, open to all.

This is important because when discussing social movements, resistance, and social change we often focus on the broader social structures. And, although we acknowledge that ‘the personal is political’, it is not often enough that we make purposeful space in formal conversations to explore how whānau shapes our activism, and the possibilities for liberation from structural violence in the intimate realms of our lives such as our relationships with family, friends, partners, mentors, abusers, and the self.

To explore these issues we bring together three formidable researchers and community leaders who each bring light to these connections in different yet intersecting ways: Dr Elizabeth Kerekere, Makanaka Tuwe, and MahMah Timoteo.

Join us to hear how we might expand and refine our notions of aroha, power, and our relationships to eachother, through the lens of our three panelists. 10.00am Morning Tea 10.30am - 11.20pm Parallel Sessions One Wharenui Papers: “Activating Aroha” LT 1 Rehabilitating Verbal Maltreatment Environments Via Tikanga, Aroha, and Whakapapa In Person Presented by: James Waerengaahika ‘Hika’ Maxwell Hopin Considerations of neural adaption and compensation in verbal maltreatment environment when moving away from the axiom ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me’. Understanding what happens to the brain of someone verbally abused or otherwise maltreated. How adverse experience in early childhood change the trajectory of brain development and set and set one up for latter problems; and where some individuals are more resilient to said types of problems over others.

As the leading preventable risk factor for mental illness and substance abuse, childhood maltreatment in all its forms, insidious or obvious, is a significant public health problem. A history of maltreatment is associated with a wide range of psychiatric disorders as well as stress-related medical conditions such as heart disease and diabetes. The lifetime consequences of early maltreatment on mental and physical health amplifies the toll on individuals whose lives are often disrupted, and on whānau and hāpu at large due to the direct and indirect costs associated with mauiuitanga or less overt behavioral issues.

Revolutionising Revolution Through Radical Nonviolent Action Presented by: Richard Jackson

This talk offers some reflections on the two key problems facing resistance movements today: the problem that violent resistance tends to re-create violent political systems, and the problem that protest can become a ritualised form of lobbying politicians which fails to transform the system. I propose that we refocus our energies and strategies from resisting or capturing state power to transforming the nature of power itself, and that we move away from resisting the social order to attempting to transform the social order. I will suggest that the theory and practice of revolutionary nonviolence provides a useful starting point for thinking about how we might expand the social possibilities of resistance beyond simply reforming the current neoliberal world order. Awa Necromancer Capitalism MZ05 Presented by: Emmy Rākete In Person Hopin Life can be a wonderful thing, in which we can experience love and being loved, build things, and change things even as we ourselves are changed. And we also know life can be horror, suffering, and pain. Recent innovations in Marxism can demonstrate in terms of political economy how the ruling class distributes these unbearable lives in order to counteract the tendency of the rate of profit to fall; in the process, we uncover the renewed urgency of organised and vibrant proletarian institutions of class war.

The discussion in this session will talk about social reproduction theory, suffering, and how prisons are used to reduce the price paid by the bourgeoisie for labour-power. Kōhanga Reo Zines as a Medium for Critical Reflection and Knowledge Building MZ06 Presented by: Helen Yeung and Jasmin Singh (Migrant Zine Collective) Streaming In Person Creative and arts-based practices have offered accessible ways for us to radically educate and Hopin understand experiences beyond the status quo. Elke Zobl (2009) states “zines function as a space of active participation and for critical reflection — on one’s self, one’s community, society, and feminist activism and politics” (p. 8). In these times of uncertainty, zines have become a useful tool in bringing communities together and rejecting individualised notions of resilience, growth and survival. Join Helen Yeung and Jasmin Singh of Migrant Zine Collective, an activist-based zine collective for migrants of colour in Aotearoa, for a short talk and virtual zine workshop in critical reflection of the learnings from SMRSC. In this session, we invite you to bring along any quotes, reflections or teachings that you have gathered over the course of the conference to create a community zine which reflects on how you will apply these teachings moving forward. Ātea Aotearoa and Critical Race Theory MZ03 Presented by: Dylan Victor Jnr Asafo and Litia Tuiburelevu In Person Hopin This presentation will explore how Critical Race Theory, a scholarly activist movement for people of colour with roots in the US, has resonated and may continue to resonate with black, indigenous and peoples of colour in Aotearoa and our ongoing struggles for liberation from white supremacy. This paper will focus on how CRT can contribute to understanding issues such climate change related displacement, hate speech and prison abolition. Te Kāuta Conversations on Tangata Whenua and Asian solidarity MZ01 Presented by: Tze Ming Mok, Aaryn Hulme-Niuapu, Sue Gee, Arama Rata, Ruth DeSouza and Sina In Person Brown-Davis Hopin This session will be an exploration of the experiences of tangata whenua and Asian activists who are working toward decolonisation and how we can strengthen cross-cultural solidarity against colonialism and racism. We will reflect on learnings of the past and imagine ways that we can move forward together to a just future.

Hosted by Asians Supporting Tino Rangatiratanga Whare Kai Papers: “Futures and Presence” MZ02 Airbnb’s Algorithmic Biopolitics: Extracting the ‘Social’ from Hosts’ Lives In Person Presented by: Stella Pennell Hopin Airbnb, the global accommodation provider, utilizes a highly developed digital infrastructure as a mechanism to extract the ‘social’ as a specific form of commoditized value from its hosts. Drawing from interviews with Airbnb hosts who reside in regional tourist towns in Aotearoa New Zealand, this presentation examines the ways that Airbnb modulates the behaviour of its hosts in order to maximize capital extraction from domestic situations. The digital mechanisms that are synonymous with platform capitalist ventures such as Airbnb are integral to the realization of the logics of maximum extraction that characterize digital capitalism. Specifically, Airbnb uses datamining, digital surveillance and biopolitical messaging to ensure its hosts remain amenable to the practices of the platform: those that enable hosts’ social resources to be mined and appropriated by the platform for capital extraction. This short talk discusses the ways in which Airbnb’s extraction of the social impoverishes the lived experiences of Airbnb hosts, all the while promising to enhance them. A Post-Capitalist Orientation in Times of Ecological Collapse Presented by: Miles Lloyd

The planetary boundaries framework and the most recent IPCC report provide further scientific evidence that humanity’s “goldilocks conditions” are over and our collective life support systems are reaching collapse. In this presentation I intend to situate the ecological crises within a theoretical framework that gestures towards an intersectional theory of capitalism. After-which I will sincerely claim through an analysis of capital’s processes of “economisation” which converts one kind of surplus-value (surplus-value of life) into another (capitalist-surplus-value) that to effectively respond to ecological collapse requires a transformation of our global economic system beyond capitalism. Through this diagnosis of capital’s logics of “commensuration,” I will argue movements desiring transformative change ought to take the question of a post-capitalist “social order” seriously . The question is not only how to contest systems constraining the realisation of international movements such as the “progessive international” and “climate justice,” but, programmatic solutions. To this end, my final thoughts will be to reflect on the strategic and speculative orientations that are emerging. 11.30am - 12.20pm Parallel Sessions Two Wharenui Papers: “Activating and Empowering Youth” LT 1 Children’s Participation in Social Movements as a Possibility of Change In Person Presented by: Anny Bertoli Hopin Children’s participation in social movements is understudied, despite of the fact their presence in social movements has been documented since the beginning of the last century. With my talk, I would like to explore three aspects of the relationship between children and social movements: 1. the different ways in which children have been part of social movements and how they have participated in; 2. the case of Children-Peacemakers Social Movement from Colombia which arose in 1996 and is made up by children and youths from 6 to 25 years old. It aims to create a culture of peace in a context of armed conflict, to defend children’s rights and, to claim for social justice; 3. How children’s participation in social movements and in society might improve our understandings about reality and how they might create change if adults listen to them.

Building from the Bottom: the Harakeke Pā of Paekakariki School Presented by: Carles Martinez-Almoyna

Within a context where many disruptions are rising due to a complex array of social changes, University has the opportunity to expand its social responsibility. Contribution to social change can be achieved through action by working with real people, targeting small, feasible and strategic interventions. By partnering with communities, University can promote new ways of understanding citizenship through experience, linking teaching and research through civic engagement. The new Harakeke Pa of Paekakariki School is an ongoing participatory project between landscape architecture/VUW and Paekakariki School community. This project aims to contribute to raising Māori values, traditions and practices in the education of primary school students. It also aims to facilitate new ways of teaching by facilitating outdoor learning spaces, play spaces and opportunities for different types of school events.

Living In and Out of Time: Youth-led Activism in Aotearoa New Zealand. Presented by: Karen Nairn

The presentation is about how activists conceptualise and relate to time and how this affects their vision, the actions they take, and how they imagine intergenerational justice. We report ethnographic research with activists in two social movements in New Zealand: Protect Ihumātao and Generation Zero. The paper relates to the conference focus on power relations and how we might disrupt dominant settler-colonial temporality. Awa Papers: Speculative Study at the End of the World MZ05 Presented by: Anisha Sankar and Nate Rew In Person Hopin This collaborative paper and discussion (presented in two parts) is an exercise in radical study (in the spirit of the undercommons) that seeks to engage with the key philosophical themes that emerge for us at the end of the world. Drawing on our personal research interests, methods, objects of inquiry, and political convictions, we come together to engage in a conversation that corresponds thematically to the following: astrology, ontology, temporality, and water. These themes form the basis of our speculation, which is simultaneously playful and serious. We present this work together because we believe that knowledge is best generated only when we are being-for-others, which is to say, only when we share ourselves, and in an effort to resist the condition of individuation imposed by the (crumbling) university. Kōhanga Reo Craft: A Form of Language that Binds us to Each Other, to Places and Memories MZ06 Streaming In That Will Remain Person Presented by: Quishile Charan and Sosefina Andy Hopin This session will be a discussion between two friends who are makers and have strong connections to their grandmothers and their craft making. Quishile will speak to being her grandmother’s namesake, which through this naming gifted her the embodied knowledge of craft. By being named after her grandmother this has set out her responsibilities to uphold and cherish the craft of the women in her family. Quishile will also discuss how craft is an expanded knowledge of love and care. Sosefina will speak to how knowledge is exchanged between Samoa and Aotearoa and how the repetitive making in her craft is the body wanting to remember, to remember the body’s experience in her grandmother’s house and the shared memories between family, the presence of ancestors that stay with the body and their traces that remain within that space. She will also talk about her deliberate choices of materials and craft techniques. Even though these craft techniques and processes of making sit outside of Samoa, it still has the collective present, where her family helps to make each work and through making within the collective remembrance becomes central within each work made. Ātea Reflections on 5 Years of Prison Abolitionist Organising in Aotearoa MZ03 Presented by: People Against Prisons Aotearoa (PAPA) Panel In Person Hopin People Against Prisons Aotearoa (PAPA) was founded in 2015 as a small group of queer and transgender prison abolitionists. Since then, the organisation has changed it name, structure, and organising tactics and strategies. This panel will reflect on the mistakes made and lessons learned by PAPA members in the last 5 years of organising for prison abolition. In particular, it will reflect on: the #ArmsDownNZ campaign and its successful efforts to end armed police patrols; the cannabis legalisation campaign; member burnout and preventing it; as well as the role technology and, in particular, coding can play in achieving organising ambitions. Te Kāuta Where We Intersect; Intersex Activism in Aotearoa MZ01 Presented by: Jelly O’Shea In Person Hopin Intersex or those with variations in sex characteristics (VSC) sit sometimes within or outside of “the Rainbow” in Aotearoa. This discussion space seeks to share a place of learning about intersex bodies and bodily diversity, while sharing our mahi as an activist movement in Aotearoa. As a small and ever emerging rōpu, interweaving common ground with other resistance movements such as the kaupapa within disability, takātapui and transgender activism is key to our mobilisation. ‘Where we intersect; intersex activism in Aotearoa’ shares our aspirations to awhi those of Māori, Pasifika, migrant and refugee communities with VSC and hold the multiplicity of lived experience as intersex people together in Aotearoa. Whare Kai Tohetohe on Social Media: A Wānanga on How to Challenge Cultural MZ02 In Person Appropriation on Social Media Hopin Presented by: Anna McAllister, Sian Montgomery-Neutze, and Vianney Parata

Hosted by strong wāhine Māori who have been doing this mahi for a while now, this wānanga hopes to give you some tricks and tips on how to be an effective ‘keyboard warrior’. We will breakdown what cultural appropriation is, and a few different forms it appears as online. We will then give you advice on how to successfully disrupt these artists/companies. The second half of the session will be used to wānanga about different aspects of this kaupapa, you can ask advice, and get our opinion on things you have seen. Please note that this wānanga will prioritise BBIPOC voices, particularly during the second half. 12.30pm Lunch 1.30pm - 2.20pm Parallel Sessions Three Wharenui Indigenous Internationalism Against Regimes of Race and Deportation LT 1 In Person Presented by: Simon Barber, Emmy Rākete, Arama Rata, Neil Vallelly, others TBC Hopin Due to the intertwined crises of climate change and pandemic there will be a greater number of displaced people globally. This demands that we rethink our obligations of care/hospitality to displaced people, and who should get to make decisions regarding our obligation/capacity to care for these people. Refugee quotas and deportation have been the overwhelming political response to this crisis in the twenty-first century, but we seek to imagine new forms of hospitality informed by indigenous and internationalist perspectives. How we imagine futures for Te Tiriti/Te Tino Rangatiratanga and Indigenous Internationalism is crucial to how we answer questions about our relationships with displaced peoples. The session is understood to be a place for dialogue on these issues enabling the gathering together of a variety of perspectives. Each of the named contributors for the session will prepare short kōrero that will be used to guide the discussion through key issues and questions. These interventions will be spaced throughout the session with the remainder being a place for less structured dialogue amongst all attendees. Awa Investigating Agency of Healing : The Politics of Human Inflicted Trauma MZ05 Presented by: Dr Athena Gavriel and Marika Pratley In Person Hopin Dr Athena Gavriel (mother) and Marika Pratley (daughter) will engage in a conversation exploring the politics of trauma recovery systems in mental health. Their perspectives are informed by Marika’s lived experience of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Athena’s work as a mental health nurse and researcher, and their relationship as mother-daughter. Both activists ask questions about oppressive systems which perpetuate trauma, such as sexual abuse, hate crimes and war, and the power structures of the healthcare and welfare systems that survivors of trauma need to access on their recovery journey.

Athena and Marika also reflect on their own whakapapa, non-anglo immigrants to NZ from Greece and Cyprus in the 20s/40s. They discuss intergenerational trauma of refugees. This extends to their first visit to Occupied-territory of Cyprus in 2018, which has been under Turkish Military rule since 1974. Athena is a Poet; Marika a musician, and both use their art to process, heal and reconnect identities. Kōhanga Reo Constructing Identities in Resistance: An Intergenerational Project for Radical MZ06 In Person Democracy Hopin Presented by: Maria Perreau

This is an interactive, story-centred workshop that highlights the significance of storying, belonging and imagining in supporting young people to create transformative opportunities for themselves and others, as well as take opportunities that are made available to them.

In this workshop, Maria draws upon her study of the lived experiences of young activists of Aotearoa and her own experiences of being an adult ally and activist in education spaces. Participants from diverse backgrounds and of diverse age ranges are invited to join this session. Our korero will centre around two metaphors that will help to ground intergenerational approaches to empowering young people to perform radically transformative citizenship. The first metaphor is navigating towards social justice horizons; the second metaphor is weaving kete of sustenance. When young people are supported by adult allies as they navigate towards social justice horizons, they are able to simultaneously weave and carry kete that will nourish and sustain them on that journey. Importantly, the process is ongoing and dynamic, and it provides sustenance and direction for the adult ally in their own journey.

Pātai we will explore: - what is the relationship between storying, tūrangawaewae, and critical hope? - what power structures are young people navigating in their activism, and how can adult-allies support that navigation? - how do we collectively challenge dominant discourses of both youth and democracy so that young people are truly heard, listened to and valued as agents of change? - what are our visions for a radically democratic Aotearoa? Ātea Papers: “Confronting the Violence of Colonialism” MZ03 Learning Through Collective Dreaming In Person Presented by: Kei te pai Press Hopin In this moment of crisis, what is required?

Our koorero will be centred around our rationale for developing a six week long education programme over raahui centred around (re)imagining a revolutionary future that was Maaori led. Through sharing, reading and discussing texts we sought to create a space where we might be able to collectively dream and to pull apart and reconfigure what the world could be. By implementing such a programme we hoped to both turn the time based developmental ontology of the west both on its head and situate it thoughtfully within an expansive kaupapa Maaori world view that could mean the abolition of time, prisons and imperialist understandings of land and bodies.

Colonial Industries of Domination Presented by: Samah Seger

The mass industrialised oppression of otherised animals exists within patriarchal, western imperialist and capitalist structures operating in the colonial landscape of Aotearoa/New Zealand today. These systems ideologically construct the dichotomous and hierarchal categories of “human” and “subhuman” through the processes of naturalisation and otherisation. Their constructs embody and influence frameworks of domination which privilege a small minority and oppress many others. As such, a deconstruction of these frameworks and their categorisation is necessary for the liberation of humans and other animals born into the status-quo of power relations.

In the colonial landscape of Aotearoa, the settler-colonial industry must assert and reassert its statehood and sovereignty in the face of a dynamic global demand. They must therefore naturalise destructive western-imperialist relations with the land, essentialising in the process the violence-producing categories of ‘farm animals’ and ‘pests’.

What’s In a Word: The Nexus Between Land, Terror, and Colonisation Presented by: Pounamu Jade Aikman

The origin and whakapapa of words reveals much to us about what they mean, and what they represent. In this short discussion, we’ll kōrero about the whakapapa of the word ‘land’, derived of the Latin kupu, ‘terra’. ‘Terra’ is also the same root word for ‘terror’, and this connection isn’t arbitrary. European conceptualisations of land have long centred upon the violent control and patrol of one’s borders: ‘territory’ is land held through acts of violence. This sheds significant light into the violence inherent to colonisation in Aotearoa, and in this kōrero I’ll explore this through the multiple paramilitary raids that have targeted Ngāi Tūhoe over the last 13 years. Te Kāuta Working Towards Decolonising Indian Communities - A Tauiwi of Colour MZ01 Perspective In Person Hopin Presented by: Neelum Patel and Janoo Patel

In this session we share the experience we had with our Indian community after we made a small magazine or “zine” focusing on our experiences as NZ born children of Indian migrants. The zine touched on a range of topics including, identity, decolonisation, patriarchy, why and how we as tauiwi of colour must be mana enhancing partners to tangata whenua and support te tīriti, and anti-blackness within our community. We’ll start by discussing why we wanted to do this and then move onto discussing how we create nurturing spaces to have these conversations in places where patriarchy may be very engrained. Lastly, we’ll discuss what the response was with our community when we launched the zine, the cool stuff that emerged, the not so flash stuff and discuss why it’s necessary to fight the resistance and continue to contribute to anti-racism work within our own spaces and communities. Whare Kai Design Justice Network and Principles Aotearoa MZ02 In Person Presented by: Tarapuhi Vaeau Hopin Globally, there has been a rise in design justice (as opposed to human centred design). In outlining the need for justice-centred design Sasha Costanza-Chock of the Design Justice Network of Turtle Island states that:

“Design is key to our collective liberation, but most design processes today reproduce inequalities structured by what Black feminist scholars call the matrix of domination. Intersecting inequalities are manifest at all levels of the design process”.

The Design Justice Network is composed of designers who work with social movements and community based organizations as well as community organizers who use design as a tool to build power in their neighborhoods. This session aims to bring together social justice minded designers to workshop the Design Justice Network Principles in reference to our unique context in Aotearoa. We aim to produce ‘something’ that can be iterated and used by designers to articulate the relevance of the principles in Aotearoa, and to hold unethical design to account. 2.30pm - 3.20pm Parallel Sessions Four Wharenui mataora.wananga.com—A Resource for Ending Violence and Strengthening LT 1 In Person Our Movements Hopin Presented by: Kim McBreen

Communities are only as strong as the relationships holding us together. This workshop will explore the He Ara Mataora website, a resource for ending violence, developed by Te Wānanga o Raukawa. It is also a resource for building stronger, more just organisations. Relationship violence has become normal, which means it’s part of the groups we’re organising in. It’s hurting people that we work with and care about, and it’s hurting our movements. We can’t avoid it, we shouldn’t ignore it. Relationship violence is an outcome of the way our society is organised—through power and control. If we take violence seriously, focusing on care and connection, supporting people to find their own solutions, we create opportunities to rebuild real community. We can disrupt unhealthy power dynamics in our communities, and imagine a world without state violence. Together we will imagine how to do this in our movements and mahi. Awa Indigenous Gendersexuality-divergent and Disabled Sovereignty MZ05 Presented by: Luka Leleiga Lim-Bunnin and participants In Person Hopin There have been many discussions about Indigenous sovereignty, and ways of reclaiming this, including land protection, art and/as climate activism, genealogical reconnection, and more. However, Indigenous sovereignty movements do not always include or recognise the contributions of all Indigenous people, such as Indigenous gendersexuality-divergent and disabled people.

The phrase “gendersexuality divergence” can describe Indigenous genders, sexes, sexualities, and orientations of attraction that are positioned as abnormal by colonialism. “Disability” can describe the societal, cultural, time-space, and further ways in which people’s bodies and minds are positioned as lesser, especially through colonial medical and legal systems, and through ideas about work and worth.

This wānanga has been designed to allow some time-space for discussing Indigenous disabled and gendersexuality-divergent experiences with sovereignty, “activism”, belonging, disconnection, pain, care, community, resistance, and hope: so that Indigenous sovereignty can be imagined and reclaimed by all Indigenous people. Kōhanga Reo Papers: “Radical Futures” MZ06 Radical Futures in the Present: The Aotearoa Climate Justice Movement In Person Presented by: Emma-Yvonne Simons Hopin This paper attempts to map out the climate justice movement in Aotearoa in order to understand the tensions that shape it. Several key themes emerged, including how various actors (organisations, ‘movements’ and individuals) engage with each other, and conceptualise and enact change. Additionally, this paper explores the overlap and impact of COVID-19 on climate justice. This research asks what theories of change operate within the movement which comprises an increasingly large number of distinct ‘banners’ relative to the size of the general population. It supports a ‘revolutionary’ approach to climate change and contributes to the goals of the climate and wider progressive movement. Communicating across a diverse array of actors, this research collates knowledge on what has ‘worked’ and areas of concern within the movement. Drawing on scholarship in development studies and social movements alongside in-depth interviews, this paper outlines multiple forces shaping our radical futures.

Building the Future in the Present: Prefigurative Politics and Sarvodaya Presented by: Joe Llewellyn and Marcelle Dawson

The passionate emotions that drive collective action are well documented in social movement research. However, far less scholarly attention has been paid to the contemplative, future-oriented thinking that happens largely beyond the public gaze. Far from naval-gazing, a focus on movements’ orientations to the future as well as their reflections on the past reveals a range of pragmatic approaches to struggle that can be enacted in the present to lay the groundwork for an alternative future. In this talk, we bring Gandhian sarvodaya movement into conversation with scholarship on prefigurative politics. Rather than engaging in conventional party politics, members of the sarvodaya movement started gathering land and then whole villages, which the movement attempted to convert into communal, interconnected, non-hierarchical, and self-governing entities. At its height, a third of India’s villages had committed themselves to this Gandhian experiment. Sarvodaya experienced successes and failures, and while it has not so far created its imagined political alternative, there is much that can be learned from sarvodaya’s attempt to create a nonviolent future by acting in the present while drawing on the past. Ātea Papers: “Art as Strategy” MZ03 The Strategical Utility of Music for Social Movements In Person Presented by: Dani Pickering Hopin What role does and can music play in our social movements? Using the American Civil Rights Movement as a case study, this paper explores what made music a quintessential component of movement strategy for its time. The analysis finds that the structure of the music itself, the institutions within the movement that distributed the songs, and specifically how music was deployed in collective action settings all ensured the ACRM’s lasting reputation as a *musical* movement. The paper concludes by assessing the applicability of some of those lessons to the Aotearoa/New Zealand context, as well as providing concrete suggestions (including an original song) for adopting music more comprehensively in our own strategies for collective action.

Liminal Splits and Other Basic Deceits Presented by: Madeline McNamara and Jade Eriksen

Liminal Splits and Other Basic Deceits is a new performance investigation led by Pākehā theatre artists Madeline McNamara & Jade Eriksen.

Their work brings attention to the inheritance of colonising “attitudes” that are enmeshed in dominant white culture and systems and they seek to highlight the ‘gymnastic manoeuvres we white people display when challenged to dismantle racist systems and structures’. ‘What is required of us to ‘meet’ this challenge in a way that contributes to meaningful change?’ This short performed - talk will share some of the critical questions that emerge when Pākehā artists attempt to speak unspeakable things whilst being the unspeakable thing as well as some of the frameworks of encounter they are developing in collaboration with Teina and Ngapaki Moetara (Araitepō) in order to share their work with future audiences in a way that doesn’t reinscribe the racism they seek to see more clearly, name and move to change. Te Kāuta Papers: “Pacific Here, Now, and Online” MZ01 Maintaining Cultural Continuity and Well-being During COVID-19 In Person Presented by: Nicole Kau’i Merritt and Joshua Lelemia Irvine Hopin Now is a time of huliau—immense transformation—not just for Hawai’i or the Pacific, but the entire world. In the recent past, Kānaka Maoli have experienced devastating epidemics and continue to shoulder the burden of intergenerational trauma. ‘Ike Hawai’i, or traditional Hawaiian knowledge, and our relationship with land are significant sources of cultural strength and dignity that have enabled us to begin the healing process. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become imperative that we maintain our continuity in our cultural and spiritual practices in ways that are healing, safe and culturally grounded. In this presentation, we will discuss some of the ways in which the Kānaka Maoli community has maintained cultural practices as well as safety (e.g., Zoom classes or temporary kapu on gathering). And, we will examine some potential implications for the transfer of traditional knowledge as a result of these decisions during this most recent pandemic. Pasifika Revisionings of Pākehā-Māori Biculturalism - An Analysis and Critique Presented by: Sarah Auld

The premise of this short talk is biculturalism in Aotearoa/New Zealand and its dominance in Aotearoa/ New Zealand’s cultural discourse. Such a stronghold Pākehā-Māori binarism - as opposed to multiculturalism - has in the framing of our cultural discourse, that it has invited revision by Pasifika writers to include Pacific peoples. The first revisioning I analyse affirms the kin connections between Pasifika and Māori to ensure that the former are not placed in the “visitors” side of the binarism; the second places Pasifika across the table from tangata whenua alongside other migrants. One gets a sense of mischief from all this. Why are we trying to stretch biculturalism like this? Can it be stretched? If it can, are there reasons not to? I suggest, through analysing both revisionings, that the second one is both challenging and more hopeful, for it offers up a relational approach not predicated on colonial discourse. Whare Kai Towards a Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America: Brazil, Chile, Cuba and Peru MZ02 Presented by: Walescka Pino-Ojeda; Vanine Borges Amaral; Fernando Velasquez; Ingrid Hanon Streaming In Person Social transformation in Brazil, Chile, Cuba and Peru has prevailed despite the deep entrenchment of Hopin the neoliberal policies imposed from the global financial powers, allied with the local political and economic elites. Resistance to the dehumanizing and eco-homicidal effects of neoliberal politics has -in most cases- been exercised from community-based initiatives and memory workers. That is, artists, academics, journalists and organic intellectuals committed to preserving the de-colonizing ethos interrupted by the wave of dictatorial regimes of the 1970s-80s, and more recently, by the transnational corporate interests that are trying to regain or increase their control over the region. 3.30pm Afternoon Tea 4.00pm Keynote: Creating Futures Wharenui Featuring: Karlo Mila and Luisa Tora LT 1 In Person To talk about the future is not just to talk about what’s to come but to engage in conversation about how Hopin we actively create the futures we want to live in, how we dream and use our hands to bring shape to those dreams, how we hope and use our voices to define those hopes in the now. In this keynote panel, Pacific creatives, Dr Karlo Mila and Luisa Tora, will talk about the future, what we want, how we might get there, and the role creativity plays in our movement forward. Come dream, hope, and create Indigenous futures with us. 5.00pm End of Conference Day Three 5.00pm - 7.00pm Rebel Press Open Day Second Floor- Come visit Rebel Press, Wellington’s radical publishing space, 22A 126 Vivian St (second floor, Trades Trades’ Hall Hall Building), Te Aro, Wellington 22A 126 Vivian Street Rebel Press is a collectively-run Wellington radical DIY publishing space located in the historic Trades Te Aro Hall building. It provides book publishing resources for radical and left-wing projects, and is a base for Wellington publishing projects including the Freedom Shop, Counterfutures, Lawrence and Gibson, 5ever and Black Books. Stop in to hear from publisher Valerie Morse discussing the production process of Kia Mau: Resisting Colonial Fictions (Tina Ngata), see the book-making processes, and learn how your project could utilise the resources. Spaces limited: groups of up to 10 welcome on the half-hour e.g. 5, 5:30, 6, 6:30. 7.00pm - 11.00pm CONFERENCE PARTY Trades’ Hall 124 Vivian Street Te Aro Wellington In the Māra... Māra A Visual Exploration of LGBTIQ+ Homelessness Research Presented by: Brodie Fraser

5ever brings the print medium from the street to conference, remixed and cut-up, pasted, collaged, purchased and donated.

Please pop by our two on-site spaces located in Rutherford House and open for the duration of the conference:

- The collaborative collage space: a safe haven where one can retreat from the big talks and energy of the conference to have a creative breather. All materials supplied, open to all.

WORDS, IMAGES, BOOKS, PRINT, TRASH, AROHA, POWER - how are we collectively making sense? Stop by, read, imagine, reflect, and sit amidst the kōrero. Māra The Freedom Shop The Freedom Shop will have a stall Friday and Saturday - radical zines, books, pamphlets, badges, tote bags, and also the 2021 ‘Plan B’ organiser, will be for sale. Māra From One Tired Indigenous Māmā Presented by: Tessa Williams

Big Kaupapa, Tiny Stitches allows us to use knitting as a form of decolonisation and protest in which we explore the history of wūru in Aotearoa, how Māori contributed to the industry and also how we can explore culture through the artform and change the narrative through pattern development and sharing of mātauranga in a mana enhancing way. November 14th: Day Four 9.50am Welcome Wharenui LT 1 In Person Hopin 10.00am Keynote: Activating Collectivity Wharenui LT 1 In Person Hopin 11.00am Morning Tea 11.30am - 12.20pm Parallel Sessions One Wharenui Papers Presented by Juan Tauri LT 1 ‘If You’re So Good, Why is Your Policy So Bad’: A Critical Analysis of the States In Person Criminalisation of Whanau Hopin 2018 marked thirty years since the publication of Moana Jackson’s ground-breaking exploration of Maori engagement with criminal justice in Aotearoa New Zealand, Maori and the Criminal Justice System: He Whaipaanga Hou. Based on research with over 3000 Maori participants, Jackson’s report highlighted a number of significant issues with the Maori-criminal justice relationship that resonates with the experiences of Indigenous people across the settler colonial jurisdictions of Australia, Canada and the United States, including the criminalisation of Maori youth and their whanau through differential, racialised policing, and social and economic dislocation generated by the inter-generational impact of incarceration in a dehumanising, violent prison system. This presentation will begin with a critical review of the Maori-criminal justice relationship in the thirty plus years since the release of Jackson’s report, with a particular focus on the state’s policy and legislative response to the Maori critique of the state’s crime control processes. The second part of the presentation will provide an overview of a range of policy and practice issues that require urgent attention if we are to turn around the high arrest, conviction and imprisonment of Maori, and policies and interventions required to empower whanau.

Rangatahi Maori Experiences of Crime Control in Aotearoa New Zealand

An ongoing area of major concern for Māori communities in Aotearoa New Zealand is the criminal justice system, and in particular, the system’s responses to rangatahi and their whānau and vice versa. Finding solutions that address the needs and concerns of these communities is important, as offending statistics continue to indicate that a high proportion of the young people charged in youth court are Māori (56%) and Pasifika peoples (12%) (most of whom are Samoan). This conference presentation outlines the findings of three-year Marsden research project on Māori experiences of youth justice. The overall aim of the presentation is to generate a rich conversation between the researchers and the audience on the project’s findings, and identify possible solutions to the issues raised by the research participants.

Awa Beyond Burnout MZ05 Presented by: Cissy Rock In Person When we’re feeling stretched, thin, fatigued or fragile what does it take to sustain ourselves for the long game? Using a metaphor we will uncover our inner workings to prevent repeat experiences of burnout to stay invigorated in social change. We’ll be using concretisation and vignettes to explore our shared experiences. Kōhanga Reo Whakarauora Mauri – Re-vitalising and Liberating Collectivity, Aroha and MZ06 Power In Person Presented by: Waireti Roestenburg

Our hearts and bodies tell us that life continues to flow into and through us. When we are powerfully moved and move on mass, we are unstoppable. Colonial tampering has tried to uncouple our hearts-bodies from our minds, the personal from the collective, and the human collective from the source, force and course of all life. The re-coupling, re-vitalisation and liberation of our personal-collective source force vitalities is the potency that fuels and sustains local-global eruptions of Indigenous ‘protectorship’ movements. The first step to healing, recovery and wholeness is coming into accord with our own hearts, minds and lives. When we chant, pray and sing we can bring together and heal everything from the past, present and future. In this wānanga (wisdom emergence nest), held in tikanga (life-sustaining protocols), informed by mātauranga (Original Indigneous knowing-knowledge), and bathed in ‘Ihirangranga – sacred source vibrations’ we will experience and explore the personal-political implications of collectivity, aroha and power. Ātea Playing with the Rules of the Game: A Theatrical Experiment MZ03 Presented by: Emily Beausoleil, Jo Randerson, Erina Daniels, Penny Fitt, other (approx 5) artists TBD In Person Hopin For this session, come dive into a world created by a group of artists who have transformed the economy – normally oh-so-complex, distant and seemingly monolithic – into an interactive sense-experience, with real-time opportunities to feel how we’re connected to each other through the rules of the game, how those rules can change, and play with those rules to see what happens next. This is an early prototype that artists Erina Daniels, Jo Randerson, Penny Fitt and others are inviting you to help test, so come and have a go! Co-created with Emily Beausoleil, informed by many fabulous economy and systems change experts, and part of the ‘Hearing the Dif ference: New Strategies for Listening’ Marsden project. Te Kāuta Mātauranga Māori and the Revitalisation of the Tools of Our Tūpuna MZ01 Presented by: Jamie Turama Tuahuriri Downes (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Ruru), Tom Johnson (Ngāti In Person Kahurangi) and Sebastian J. Lowe (Ngā Tāngata Tiriti) Hopin This wānanga brings together three such flax-root community initiatives in Taumarunui and Whanganui that are revitalising and reorganising our mātauranga into mainstream educational, institutional and organisational settings.

Through our own experiences we will explore the possibilities of ‘Mahi Tahi’ for reimagining educational and institutional settings. Furthermore, we will interrogate forms of knowledge and if a proper ‘Mahi Tahi’ collaborative anthropology with tangata whenua in Aoteaora New Zealand is possible.

Our kaupapa is an invitation for you to take part in a movement toward revitalising the tools of our tūpuna across a number of registers. After a short presentation, we intend to present three provocations to the group drawing on the textures of our own personal relations, challenges, queries and continuing curiosities. Then, through Māori knowledge systems, we aim to expand our collective understanding of moving beyond just the academic theorising of these spaces and how we might create action in the community together.

Presenters: Jamie Turama Tuahuriri Downes (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Ruru). Born and bred in Taumarunui, Jamie has connections to Te Atihaunui-a-Pāpārangi and Ngāti Tūwharetoa. With a passion for working in rural communities, Jamie and his whānau now develop and facilitate tailor made programmes for welfare, corrections, suicide prevention and education.

Tom Johnson (Ngāti Kahurangi) was born and raised in Whanganui. He currently works at Te Oranganui Iwi Trust, prototyping how Indigenous knowledge can be used for healing. “Imagine a world where we are prescribed a Pūtōrino, a Pūrākau from a kaumātua, or Manuka for symptoms like anxiety, instead of being referred to a mainstream counsellor who proscribes 200mg sertraline”. His work questions how we make sure these Indigenous frameworks that we create are authentically Indigenous and not just a Western system with a token Māori front-end.

Sebastian J Lowe (Ngā Tāngata Tiriti) is a PhD student in anthropology, a musician and filmmaker. Working in collaboration with his colleagues and local communities mostly in Whanganui and Taumarunui, Sebastian’s work entangles histories and cultures to give rise to new ideas about how we might live in a crumbling world. He has a particular interest in sound worlds, particularly ngā taonga puoro (traditional Māori instruments), and ‘Mahi Tahi’ collaborative ethics in Aotearoa New Zealand. Whare Kai Soaking in Melanin MZ02 Presented by: Meleseini Luhama Tau’alupe In Person The change you want to see in the world will forever and always starts at home. You are never the trauma you carry but the trauma you are healing from. Reminder: you can never expect a flower to blossom if the soil itself is not first and foremost fertile. This workshop will help you find the importance of working collectively, both within your community and also with the younger versions of yourself, and will provide opportunities to heal through the use of poetry and art. 12.30pm - 1.20pm Parallel Sessions Two Wharenui What Place Does Compassion Have in Achieving Social Change? LT 1 Presented by: Gaayathri Nair In Person This session is a facilitated discussion, in it I put forward to the group the question “what place does compassion have in achieving social change?” and bring some examples of what compassion can look like. Some thoughts you might like to consider before attending are: Can compassion help us bridge the divide between ourselves and those who hold different values? How does defensiveness impede social change? How do you hold space and have grace for people while they change? Our panellists will reflect on their experiences in growing of renters’ movements in the last 5 years before facilitating a discussion with the audience on where next. Ātea Pākehā Reflections on Settler Responsibilities in Social Movements MZ03 Facilitated by: Lorena Gibson Panelists: Tamsin Hanly, Lillian Hanly, Alex Ker, Marlon Drake In Person Hopin In an attempt to move away from inflicting the burden of education about racism on BIPOC, this panel of Pākehā activists will dialogue with one another and the audience about the role of Pākehā in social movements and resistance. It provides some time for Pākehā to discuss and consider how, in the pursuit of justice and peace, we might honour indigenous lives and knowledge, situate ourselves as allies and accomplices, and work in genuine togetherness for the deep structural change that our planet and people urgently need.

We hope that it will inspire in the audience a remembrance of the positive power-sharing relationships that have driven and enabled change across our country, both at the forefront of struggles and behind the scenes, and fuel them with the confidence and skills needed to work with BIPOC today.

This session is supported by TātouTātou. 1.30pm Lunch 2.30pm Closing Panel Wharenui LT 1 In Person Hopin 3.30pm End of Conference Day Four In the Māra... Māra A Visual Exploration of LGBTIQ+ Homelessness Research Presented by: Brodie Fraser

5ever brings the print medium from the street to conference, remixed and cut-up, pasted, collaged, purchased and donated.

Please pop by our two on-site spaces located in Rutherford House and open for the duration of the conference:

- The collaborative collage space: a safe haven where one can retreat from the big talks and energy of the conference to have a creative breather. All materials supplied, open to all.