Dear New Zealand campaign launched
Received an email this morning about the Dear New Zealand campaign, a website aiming to prompt and collate letters from young NZers about their country.
The statement on their About Us page reads:
Our aim from getting you to write letters and for us to publish a book is to:The group organising all of this is called Speak Up, and appears to have grown out of the Future Leaders programme run by Excelerator, the NZ Leadership Institute*. The team appear to be mainly working in commerce-type jobs, however Oxfam and Greenpeace are listed as "partners" and any profits from the book will be donated to these two organisations and the Refugee Migrant Service.
- Raise contentious issues in New Zealand
- Empower the voice of youth in New Zealand
- Ask serious questions of justice in our society
- Celebrate New Zealand’s society and cultural diversity
- Challenge the reader's thinking, leading to empowered action.
Your passion can influence our country.
Perhaps something many NZ pol bloggers may be interested in following up on, and maybe cross-posting their letters on their blogs?
PS, I should add that the deadline for submissions is Nov 30th.
* Kate, if you are reading this, is this the programme you were involved in?
2 comments:
This just seems like another "The youth need a voice, so we (as adults) will tell them what to do and where to do it, and that'll empower them!".
*sigh*
Hello,
Yep it is the course that I am involved in and I have helped these guys out a wee bit with getting judges etc. The course is finished now but these guys are pretty committed to it. They are all 25 and under I think majority about 20 years so its really about young people. The letters they have in so far are awesome, I am going to write one about how I found and believe in socialism its going to be great. Please do it the more diverse the letters the better. This group of organisers has a couple of commerce types and my beautiful friend Geoff who spends most of his life overseas working on aid work.
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