Blueprints

In 2015, Save Our Unique Landscape (SOUL) formed to stop the development of 480 unaffordable homes on their land. In 2020 the New Zealand government bought the land from Fletchers, the company trying to develop it. 

We spoke with SOUL co-founder and spokesperson Pania Newton.

• The Māori TV documentary Ake Ake Ake
• YouTube playlist of short documentaries about and footage from the campaign
• The campaigns own YouTube playlist featuring interviews with many members
• Pania’s TedX talk
• Children of Parihaka film trailer
• Che’s Channel with a discussion of Te Whiti’s legacy

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Thanks to Masarima and Clone Records for the title music

In 2018, nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants went on strike for the first time in 29 years. They won significant concessions from the DHBs, but their ultimate goal of addressing the chronic understaffing was promised and not delivered. At the start of the bargaining there was no campaign, and members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation, NZNO, built one themselves, against the wishes of their union leadership.

We spoke with;

• Erin, a nurse based in Wellington
• Grant Brookes, member elected President of the NZNO @grantbrookesnz
• Georgia Choveaux, who started the campaign as an NZNO organiser

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Thanks to Masarima and Clone Records for the title music

Thanks to Ethan Hunter for his music

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The final part of the incredible story of how meatworkers in the town of Wairoa stood up for working people in Aotearoa New Zealand, against a company owned by one of its richest families.  This is the story of their resistance and goes to the heart of strategic debate about what is symbolic vs what builds leverage.

We spoke with;

• Peter Amato, Meatworker in the beefhouse at Wairoa and Meatworkers Union delegate
• Simon Oosterman, union organiser brought in by the CTU halfway through the dispute 
• Ross Webb, an historian whose thesis was on the history of the Meatworkers Union

• Ross’ brilliant thesis on the history of the Meatworkers Union and his Oral History Project of the lockout and a YouTube playlist of news coverage
• RNZ podcast about the 2015 experience in Wairoa

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Thanks to Masarima and Clone Records for the title music

Thanks to Ethan Hunter for his music

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Part 2 of the story of Wairoa meatworkers.

We spoke with;

• Peter Amato, Meatworker in the beefhouse at Wairoa and Meatworkers Union delegate
• Simon Oosterman, union organiser brought in by the CTU halfway through the dispute 
• Ross Webb, an historian whose thesis was on the history of the Meatworkers Union

• Ross’ brilliant thesis on the history of the Meatworkers Union and his Oral History Project of the lockout and a YouTube playlist of news coverage
• RNZ podcast about the 2015 experience in Wairoa

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Thanks to Ethan Hunter for his music

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In 2010, Talleys, one of NZ’s biggest companies and owned by one of its richest families, took full control of the AFFCO Meatworks. It then embarked on a 5 year campaign to de-unionise its workforce. But workers in Wairoa and towns across the country said no. They were locked out 3 times in 5 years. This is the story of their resistance and goes to the heart of strategic debate about what is symbolic vs what builds leverage.

We spoke with;

• Peter Amato, Meatworker in the beefhouse at Wairoa and Meatworkers Union delegate
• Simon Oosterman, union organiser brought in by the CTU halfway through the dispute 
• Ross Webb, an historian whose thesis was on the history of the Meatworkers Union

• Ross’ brilliant thesis on the history of the Meatworkers Union and his Oral History Project of the lockout and a YouTube playlist of news coverage
• RNZ podcast about the 2015 experience in Wairoa

Follow 1/200 on Twitter (@1of200podcast), and host Huw Morgan (@huwcmorgan) or (@blueprintspod)

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Thanks to Masarima and Clone Records for the title music

Thanks to Ethan Hunter for his music

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In 2016, Aotearoa New Zealand’s parliament passed a law banning the use of Zero Hours Contracts. In the preceding two years, Unite the Union had forced fast-food companies to stop using them in their contracts. The campaign was the culmination of their organising which started in the Supersize My Pay campaign from 2003.

The campaign was an excellent example of having an industrial strategy as a lever for a political strategy. By having a concrete focus - trying to stop fast-food companies from using Zero Hours - they were able to create a national outrage against the practice, which ended with a National government supporting a change to the law. As many successful campaigns are, they also got lucky, because the media latched onto the issue and covered it in detail.

We spoke with;

• Mike Treen, Unite’s National Director at the time
• Yvette Seep, Unite delegate and Assistant Manager at Restaurant Brands at the time. Yvette is now a Unite Lead Organiser

• A short documentary produced by Unite about the campaign

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Thanks to Masarima and Clone Records for the title music

Thanks to Ethan Hunter for his music

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On this day 35 years ago, July 9, the homosexual law reform bill passed it’s third reading and sex between men was finally decriminalised. The campaign polarised New Zealand to levels not seen since the Springbok Tour in 1981, as a vicious anti-campaign took hold, driven by fundamentalist churches.

The campaign mobilised support from a broad range of organisations, as gay men, lesbians and others tried to keep their coalition together, in the face of different objectives internally and ferocious hostility externally.

We spoke with;

• Bill Logan, the Gay Task Force spokesperson at the time (@BolshevikBill) 
• Fran Wilde, who was the Labour MP that sponsored the bill
• Ruth Dyson, future Labour MP and parliamentary assistant to Fran
• Evin Wood, who was a 40 year teacher in Blenheim at the time
• Tighe Instone, a lesbian who became politically active for the first time during the campaign (My thanks to PrideNZ and Tighe for letting me use their interview for this episode)

• PrideNZ’s amazing library of archival content on this period
• The Elizabeth Kerekere interview where she talks in depth about the term takatapui and its use
• The Lesbian and Gay Archives NZ, with a book on the campaign amongst other great content

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Thanks to Masarima and Clone Records for the title music

Thanks to Ethan Hunter for his music

Thanks to Daniel Hart for the backing music

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In 1981, at the same time as Ronald Reagan, an anti-tax, far right celebrity won the Presidency, socialist Bernie Sanders became the mayor of Burlington in the then conservative state of Vermont. The campaign around him stunned everyone, and won by just 10 votes. It was the start of a political revolution in Vermont, and the strategy for how they won and then governed would, against all the odds, win them a clear majority in the 1983 re-election.

Their strategy was to speak to every voter,  centre local issues when telling their broad political narrative and capitalise on the national anti-tax mood to shift the spotlight onto the regressive taxes that effect working people. Once governed, they included residents and local organisers in city hall. They picked fights with health insurers and the state senators to show  they were fighting for Burlington, and overcame some wild obstruction by the Democratic Party lead council.

Jacobin staff writer and 1of200 host Branko Marcetic (@bmarchetich) tells the story, based on his fantastic feature piece on Jacobin.

• Branko’s book length article on this campaign for Jacobin
• Some old news footage of Bernie

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On May 29 2019, Aotearoa New Zealand’s entire education sector went out on a ‘mega-strike’, for the first time in history. During 10 years of the National Government the education sector was in crisis. NZEI Te Riu Roa, the primary teachers union, had steadily grown its capacity to campaign when teachers resisted some of the worst reforms imposed on them. By 2019 the profession was united around a strategy of deep member engagement, escalation and a clear narrative, ‘It’s Time’.

We spoke with NZEI Campaign Director Stephanie Mills, lead negotiator at the time and current NZEI President Liam Rutherford (@lrutherfordnz) and Auckland based primary teacher Kahli Olivera.

• John Campbell’s report from the mega-strike
• Article on the Chicago Teachers

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Thanks to Masarima and Clone Records for the title music

Thanks to Daniel Hart for the backing music

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In October’s 2020 state election, the Queensland Green Party won its second seat, as Amy McMahon beat Labour Deputy Premier Jackie Trad. Part of a long term plan to hold the balance of power in the state parliament, the Greens have been patiently building since Johnathan Sri’s 2016 win in a local council ward. Running a left populist narrative, with a more explicit class politics than their New Zealand counterparts, they’re building a political movement to transform their state. Find out how they’re doing it.

We spoke with State Strategist and candidate for the Federal Seat of Griffith Max Chandler-Mather (@MChanderMather) and Campaign Manager for Amy’s win, Liam Flenady.

• For A Left Populism - Chantal Mouffe (free pdf)
• OpenDemocracy series on Left Populism
• Generation Left - Keir Milburn
• No Shortcuts - Jane McAlevey (free pdf)
• Joanna Horton’s article (Max’s partner) on the beauty of doorknocking

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Thanks to the Queensland Resources Council for letting us use a segment of their interview

Thanks to Masarima and Clone Records for the title music

Thanks to Ethan Hunter for the mood music

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