{"id":77623,"date":"2026-06-12T11:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/?p=77623"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T00:10:24","slug":"why-ill-be-marching-for-peace-on-20-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/story\/why-ill-be-marching-for-peace-on-20-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I&#8217;ll be marching for Peace on 20 June\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/antiwaraotearoa\/\">Anti-War Aotearoa<\/a> and <strong>Greenpeace <\/strong>are calling on Kiwis to join <a href=\"https:\/\/marchforpeace.nz\/\">the March for Peace <\/a>on 20 June in Auckland. <\/strong>I will be marching.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>I will be marching for many of the same reasons that compelled me to march against the Vietnam war in 1973 as a 12-year old: opposition to New Zealand participation in wars of aggression, solidarity with humanity and a belief that peace trumps war.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-dark-green-800-color has-action-yellow-700-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/community.greenpeace.org.nz\/events\/march-for-peace\">RSVP FOR THE MARCH FOR PEACE<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-when-history-calls-you-should-answer-the-call\">When history calls, you should answer the call!<\/h2>\n\n<p>Soon after that first march, I attended my first rallies outside the South African Consulate in Wellington to protest the Apartheid regime.\u00a0Two years later, as a 16 year-old, I marched on the final leg of the <a href=\"https:\/\/natlib.govt.nz\/blog\/posts\/days-on-the-hikoi-maori-land-march-of-1975\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Te H\u012bkoi o te Motu<\/a>, the M\u0101ori Land March led by the great Whina Cooper. <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" title=\"File\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2026\/06\/93363d33-file-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"An older man with a serious look facing the camera against a wet and misty Wellington seashore background\" class=\"wp-image-77624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2026\/06\/93363d33-file-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2026\/06\/93363d33-file-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2026\/06\/93363d33-file-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2026\/06\/93363d33-file-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2026\/06\/93363d33-file-510x340.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2026\/06\/93363d33-file.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p>I vividly remember heading out into Wellington harbour in 1983 on a small yacht, part of a peace flotilla made up of kayakers, yachties and wind surfers, that tried to stop the USS Texas from berthing. <\/p>\n\n<p>It won that battle that day but we won the war for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/explore\/nuclear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nuclear-free New Zealand<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>Peace and Justice were the beating heart of all those causes.\u00a0 It was about ordinary New Zealanders standing up and saying: Not in Our Name.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n<p>We didn\u2019t want our soldiers killing Vietnamese people in Vietnam.\u00a0We didn\u2019t want our government or our sports people to support the racist South African regime.\u00a0We wanted to live in a New Zealand that honoured the Treaty of Waitangi and where both M\u0101ori and P\u0101keh\u0101 stood shoulder-to-shoulder to build a better country for all New Zealanders.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>The election of Norman Kirk\u2019s government was made possible by the protest movement convincing enough New Zealanders that real change was needed.&nbsp; One of the Kirk government\u2019s first acts was to end our shameful participation in the Vietnam war.<\/p>\n\n<p>After the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/about\/our-history\/bombing-of-the-rainbow-warrior\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sinking of Greenpeace\u2019s Rainbow Warrior<\/a> by the French government in Auckland Harbour in 1985, the peace movement went into overdrive. We mobilised. We marched. We took part in campaigns that drove real societal change. <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-our-footsteps-today-lead-to-the-future-we-want\">Our footsteps today lead to the future we want<\/h2>\n\n<p>Many of these changes reach down to the present day through legislation like the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987, the 1985 revision to The Treaty of Waitangi Act, the Conservation Act 1987, the State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986 (that means the Crown must act in a manner consistent with the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi), and the Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986. <\/p>\n\n<p>Several of these gains are now under threat.<\/p>\n\n<p>Marching for peace is a great way to show solidarity and to bring together great everyday New Zealanders. <\/p>\n\n<p>As a side note: the greatest march I ever went on was the Wellington section of Te H\u012bkoi m\u014d te Tiriti in 2024. Toit\u016b Te Tiriti! It was as big a march as I ever attended in Aotearoa and it was for a cause that should matter deeply to us all.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>No one should doubt that getting out and marching is also part of a process \u2013 sometimes long and hard \u2013 that can lead to powerful changes in national sentiment and put real pressure on political parties to return the country\u2019s policy settings towards justice and a better, kinder, safer Aotearoa.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>The organisers of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/act\/march-for-peace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">March for Peace<\/a> are Greenpeace and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/antiwaraotearoa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Anti-War Aotearoa<\/a>. They are united around respect for the United Nations Charter and rejection of any support whatsoever for US wars of aggression.\u00a0I am proud to be counted in their numbers.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" title=\"march for peace web header\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2026\/06\/83939176-march-for-peace-web-header-1024x576.png\" alt=\"March for Peace logo\" class=\"wp-image-77461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2026\/06\/83939176-march-for-peace-web-header-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2026\/06\/83939176-march-for-peace-web-header-600x338.png 600w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2026\/06\/83939176-march-for-peace-web-header-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2026\/06\/83939176-march-for-peace-web-header-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2026\/06\/83939176-march-for-peace-web-header-510x287.png 510w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2026\/06\/83939176-march-for-peace-web-header.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-marching-for-peace-why-now\">Marching for peace &#8211; why now?<\/h2>\n\n<p>The genocide in Gaza and the West Bank has not stopped. The destruction of the communities of Lebanon is ongoing. The sovereign state of Iran is the subject of ongoing US-Israeli aggression in contravention of international law. Cuba is in danger.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>We live under a government that has doubled spending on a war machine that \u2013 given our alliance with a rogue and hostile USA \u2013 will not make us safer. Global research shows the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MintpressNews\/posts\/the-new-nira-data-global-pulse-2026-survey-asked-individuals-in-85-countries-who\/1275635291431439\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">US is seen as the greatest risk to humanity today<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>We live under a government that wants our military to be \u201cinteroperable\u201d with the Americans. They are\u00a0 negotiating with the US to give their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/story\/a-critical-minerals-deal-with-the-usa-what-you-need-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">war machine access to our critical minerals<\/a> and allow foreign corporations to undertake <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/explore\/seabed-mining\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">seabed mining<\/a> and other environmentally damaging activities.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>We live under a government that has money for missiles but ignores the daily horror that 30,000 homeless New Zealand children must endure.\u00a0Scrapping national subsidies for youth transport and getting rid of thousands of public service jobs whilst finding more and more money for a war on China is madness.<\/p>\n\n<p>That needs to change. I feel exactly the same passion as I did as a 12 year-old whose political awakening was the US (and New Zealand) war of aggression against Vietnam \u2013 even if, at the time, I wasn\u2019t exactly sure what the word \u201cmobilisation\u201d meant!&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>If you haven\u2019t marched for a long time or if you have never marched but support this cause, here\u2019s my invitation: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/community.greenpeace.org.nz\/events\/march-for-peace\">head down to Aotea Square on 20 June and step forward to March for Peace. <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Because marching matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-War Aotearoa and Greenpeace are calling on Kiwis to join The March for Peace on 20 June in Auckland. 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