Political activists

Date: 1995

From: Tremain, Garrick fl 1970s-1990s :Twenty-two cartoon bromides from Otago Daily Times. 1 March to 31 March 1995.

Reference: H-271-012

Description: Shows Ken Mair and another Maori activist (his deputy) standing beside a tree in the Moutoa Gardens in Wanganui. Ken Mair is explaining the exceptions to the rule about keeping non-Maori out of the Gardens. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Garrick Tremain Moutoa Gardens was the scene of an 80-day Maori occupation in early 1995. Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: 1989-1996

From: Amnesty International New Zealand Section :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-5815-2

Description: AGMS, Fundraising activities, tree planting, T shirts, poster competition, visit of Pierre Sane. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s). 180 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1988

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-733-073/096

Description: Newsclippings of published cartoons on New Zealand and international politics. Quantity: 24 newsclippings. Physical Description: Newsclippings, various sizes.

Date: 1985-2003

From: Waring, Marilyn Joy, 1952- : Collection

Reference: 90-298

Description: Papers relating to Waring's activities since her retirement from Parliament, her professional life and interests, particularly women's affairs. They mainly cover the period after she left parliament and relate to her subsequent career as an academic and international consultant on women's issues. Include personal papers relating to family and friends, and papers on her work with the New Zealand Midwives Association, the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust, the University of Waikato, disarmament, the Ministry of Women's Affairs, the environment, women's rights, the sale of liquor, equal employment opportunities, correspondence, including faxes and University of Waikato Department of Politics memos, personal correspondence, papers concerning disarmament and arms control, typescripts relating to her book `My dear sisters' and correspondence on a variety of matters. Also includes a draft for Waring's book `If women counted', drafts of Waring's writings including reports, books, newspaper columns and a screenplay based on 'The Butcher shop' by Jean Devanny, copies of speeches and papers given by Waring, papers relating to areas of interest to Waring and other miscellaneous material. Topics covered include international development and human rights, particularly as they impact on women; women's unpaid work in the economy and women in public life. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 116 box(es). 5.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Partial listing available.

Date: 2011

Reference: Eph-D-GRAPHIC-ARTS-2011-PML

Description: Posters produced under the supervision of Xavier Meade, each showing a myth or legend "concerning the nature of reality and the human condition" ("Purakau" catalogue page [2]). The series draws on legends from the cultures of each country, and expresses ideas about indigenous sovereignty, colonisation and decolonisation, keeping the purity of the land: Aotearoa: 1. The duke, his hat, the Chief and his feather, by Natalie Robertson 2. The tangler (in favour of artists), by Denis O'Connor 3. God is on our side, by Michael Reed 4. 100% pure New Zealand, by Xavier Meade Cuba: 5. Origin of the poisonous maiden plum or guao plant, by Michele Miyares Hollands 6. Cafunga, by Giselle Monzon Calero 7. Twelve laps around the ceiba, by Eric Silva Blay 8. Flew away like Matias Perez!, by Claudio Sotolongo Mexico: 9. To be Cortes does not prevent one from being courageous, by Carlos PeZ [sic] 10. I sing, therefore I suffer, by Arturo Meade 11. Hun Nal Ye, first maize seed, in the beginning of time, by Yescka (ASARO Collective) 12. Blessed Virgin of the barricades, by Xavier Meade This set of posters is numbered 6 out of a print run of 50. The posters are documented fully in: "Purakau; myths and legends, mitos y leyendas international poster project". Auckland, N.Z. : Clouds, 2011. Copy held in ATL NZ&P q507668, Wellington General lending NZ Pacific PAM 398.08999442 PUR 2011, and in the Ephemera Workroom. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - 6/50 Quantity: 12 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprints, 720 x 510 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2012.

Date: 24 Feb 2008

From: Volunteer Service Abroad volunteers in the 60s and 70s oral history project

By: Glensor, Peter Edwin, 1950-; Broadbent, Adele, active 2005-2008

Reference: OHInt-0912-06

Description: Interview with Peter Glensor, born in Lower Hutt in 1950. Talks about growing up in Upper Hutt, having a bad relationship with his father, and his mother dying when he was 17. Discusses being sent to Sarawak as a VSA school leaver volunteer where he taught for a year in a government school. Refers to his main job running a transition class from Chinese to English with 45 10-11 year olds. Mentions the population were a mix of Chinese, indigenous tribal people, Malay and Indian. Talks about weekend and holiday trips up river to visit students and staying in long houses. Comments on the time being a transformative experience for him. Comments on returning home to a stepmother, not connecting with former schoolmates, teaming up with a Minister's family and marrying the Minister's daughter Cheryl Olds. Discusses getting involved with CORSO and working as its youth secretary. Mentions training as a Methodist minister after he finished his degree, joining a radical splinter group, and attending a World Council of Churches meeting in Africa. Refers to spending five years in Masterton as a minister which he found hard, then a year in Petone with a Samoan/Tongan congregation. Outlines his growing radical political involvement with the National Council of Churches, Christian World Service, the VSA council, Council for Interntational Development, CORSO and other groups. Comments on working as a community worker in Pomare and also setting up the Waitangi Consultancy Group. Refers to parting company with Cheryl in 1992, and starting a community health service that year. Outlines his political activities, and marrying Joan Skinner in 1999. Refers to being "addicted to social change, social justice", and his current roles of chair of the Hutt Valley District Health Board, deputy chair of the Wellington Regional Council and chairman of the Alcoholic Liquor Advisory Council. Refers to his children and grandchildren. Interviewer(s) - Adele Broadbent Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-022025 - OHC-022026 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.38 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7369. Search dates: 1950 - 2008

Date: 1970s-November 1989

From: Women's National Abortion Action Campaign : Records

Reference: PAColl-10833

Description: Box contains photographs taken by unidentified photographers. Photographs show Women's National Abortion Action Campaign demonstrations and a national conference, possbily held in May 1977 or 1978. Also includes related newspaper clippings stored with the photographs. Title supplied by Library, Arrangement: Arrived at Library in a plastic bag labelled "WONAAC photos", within a file box labelled "WONAAC". Quantity: 27 b&w original photographic print(s). 10 colour original photographic print(s). 5 Newspaper(s) clippings. 2 item(s) of photographic ephemera envelopes. Transfers: Separated negative strips at 35mm-122552 to 35mm-122555..

Date: 1999

From: New Zealand National Party: Political pamphlets, fliers, and election propaganda

By: New Zealand National Party; Pringle, Michael James, 1962-

Reference: Eph-A-NZ-NATIONAL-1999-01

Description: Warns voters against candidates of the Green Party of Aotearoa/NZ. Singles out especially Jeanette Fitzsimons, Sue Bradford, and Nandor Tanczos. Shows head and shoulders portraits of each. Advises voters to "Think before you vote". This card was distributed by the New Zealand National Party in the Coromandel electorate where Jeanette Fitzsimons nevertheless won the seat from the National Party candidate, after special votes were counted. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on either side of postcard. Physical Description: Photolithographs on postcard, 106 x 149 mm.

Date: 1989 - 1994

By: Hager, Nicolas Alfred, 1958-

Reference: Eph-D-NUCLEAR-1993-01

Description: Arrangement of text, protesting at the incarceration of anti-nuclear activist Mordecai Vanunu. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Relief print on poster, 640 x 450 mm. Provenance: Donated by Nicky Hager in 1998.

Date: 1967

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-567

Description: Two American soldiers come to the entrance of a war zone; the sign says Haere Mai, Welcome to peaceful New Zealand. On the far right, the government (Holyoake, Muldoon, Marshall) is countering attacks with grenades (higher power charge) and shells (budget); the FOL (Federation of Labour) and unions fire a shell labelled Stop work, while importers, manufacturers, retailers and an anti-Vietnam protester all shoot at them. CARP (Campaign against Rising Prices) is shown as two women with a rifle going off in the wrong direction. A tank driven by Kirk comes up the hill towards the government position. A man with binoculars labelled Press is in the distance, being fired at. Barbed wire surrounds the perimeter. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black and white ink, and pencil, 320 x 523 mm

Date: 1989-1996

By: Amnesty International. New Zealand Section

Reference: PAColl-5815

Description: Photgraphs of personalities and activities of Amnesty International New Zealand Section, and of people in Indonesia, China and Turkey whom they have been involved in supporting. Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm,23324 - 23342, and F 83135 1/4 to F 83152 1/4. Quantity: 97 b&w original photographic print(s). 257 colour original photographic print(s). 19 colour original negative(s) 35mm strips with 62 images. 17 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1971

From: Various artists :[Posters on various political issues, including women's issues, health and education, the environment, abortion, peace, police, Ireland, Vietnam, racial issues. ca 1970-1990].

By: Radical Activist Congress (1970 : Victoria University of Wellington)

Reference: Eph-D-OCONNELL-Radical-1971-01

Description: Shows a furtive long-haired young man in greatcoat and cap, holding a spherical bomb (so labelled) in his hand. He is partly obscured by a corrugated iron shelter and stands in shadow at the end of a fence. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). 2.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Screenprint, blue on white poster 442 x 568 mm.

Date: 1989-1996

From: Amnesty International New Zealand Section :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-5815-1

Description: Political activists from Indonesia, China and Turkey, many displaying the marks of torture. Amnesty International New Zealand AGMs, fundraising events, anniversaries, meetings and members. Quantity: 97 b&w original photographic print(s). 82 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1971

Reference: Eph-D-RADICAL-1971-01

Description: Shows a furtive long-haired young man in greatcoat and cap, holding a spherical bomb (so labelled) in his hand. He is partly obscured by a corrugated iron shelter and stands in shadow at the end of a fence. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 442 x 568 mm.

Date: 02 July 1990

From: New Zealand Workers' Educational Association Oral History Project

By: Colquhoun, John Alexander, 1924-1999

Reference: OHInt-0107-12

Description: John Colquhoun describes family background, experience of school, origins of left-wing views, effect of the Depression, influence of World War II, the Spanish Civil War, pacifism, growing up in post World War II New Zealand and the Waterfront Dispute. Outlines university studies and career as a dentist in private practice and as dental officer for the Department of Health. Outlines involvement in progressive organisations including the Auckland Council on Vietnam and the Socialist Forum. Describes interest in WEA and its early perspectives on social change and radical education. Describes other commitments such as Citizens Association for Racial Equality (CARE) and those involved such as Tom Newnham. Recalls election as Auckland WEA president and describes WEA problems such as lack of programmes and paid staff, tendency to be a middle class organisation. Discusses thesis on history of WEA and its working class origins. Mentions Norman Richmond. Discusses relations with Auckland University, difference between adult and workers education, professionalism and worker participation. Describes innovation during presidency such as education in prisons, box courses, radio programmes, factory lectures, academic courses. Outlines courses and seminars on controversial issues. Describes accommodation. Discusses work of Margot Roth, Ed Gillies, Kay Green, John Benseman and Ministers of Education Phil Amos and Merv Wellington. Describes recent innovations in women's studies including Auckland WEA initiative in organising first United Women's Convention. Outlines WEA involvement in Maori issues. Mentions John Miller. Details the Adult Literacy Programme and the work of those involved including Margo Melnicobe and Martin Harrison. Discusses WEA clubs with reference to Audrey Luckens and Sid and Ada Pilkington. Details involvement in NZ WEA, the work of Allen Dingwall, relations between local associations, class conflict, proposed name change, liberals versus conservatives at national level. Talks about Noel Parsloe and Pat Macaskill, national secretaries including Penny Eames and office staff. Outlines the problems facing WEA including funding and the impact of right wing policies. Briefly discusses the formation of West Auckland WEA, relationship between paid staff and volunteers. Briefly mentions own current research work and special interest in fluoridation. Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Maurice Gough Venue - 50 Esplanade Road, Auckland Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-0640. Search dates: 1990

Date: 25 Oct 1999

From: New Zealand Netherlands Foundation oral history project, stage two

By: de Bres, Joris, 1947-

Reference: OHInt-0484-04

Description: Joris de Bres was born in the Netherlands in 1947. Explains his family migrated to Lower Hutt in 1954 so his father could be Presbyterian chaplain to the new migrant Dutch community. Describes his father's involvement with liberation theology, the Reformed Church and the Indonesian independence movement. Talks about religious practice at home. Recalls coming out on the ship `Waterman'. Describes monthly Dutch services at St Andrew's on the Terrace, his father's appointment to the Upper Hutt parish and their move to Auckland for his father to minister to new urban Maori. Comments that both his father's father and grandfather and his mother's father were ministers and his parents met at a church conference. Describes his father's involvement in the Dutch resistance movement in World War II. Discusses his father's view that the family should integrate in New Zealand. Talks about his siblings John, Hanna, Margreet, Guido, Tjitske (Lyn), Tatini and Barta and how many of them changed their names. Discusses difficulties learning the English language. Recalls the family being naturalised and feelings towards it. Describes his schooling, his anti-authoritarian streak, studying languages at Auckland University, involvement in Student Christian Movement (SCM), editing the student newspaper `Craccum' and being active in the anti-Vietnam and anti-racist movements. Mentions a Marxist phase. Describes going to Oxford and student conferences in Prague, Paris and Versailles. Recalls working for CARE and Corso and supporting Pacific Island migrants over the dawn raids. Mentions conflict with Immigration Ministers Fraser Colman and Air Commodore Frank Gill. Talks about meeting his partner Angela Crisp, a nurse, in England. Describes being sacked twice by Corso. Refers to `sticking-plaster aid' and the tea trade with Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Recalls the assistance of Syd Jackson in his personal grievance case and becoming involved in unions. Describes working as a PSA organiser for nine years, being secretary of the Combined Trade Unions and assistant general secretary of the PSA. Comments on being in the media as a result of involvement in industrial disputes and CARE. Recalls state sector restructuring from 1986, negotiations, redundancies, bargaining and its effects on his politics. Describes leaving the PSA in 1993 and becoming a senior public servant with the Department of Conservation (DOC). Describes sorting out issues over a Maori occupation on the Whanganui River. Comments on the Cave Creek tragedy. Discusses his essay published in `Landfall' on the the Dutch migrant community, migration policies of the 1950s and New Zealand's move from a monocultural to multicultural society. Comments on his feelings about cultural assimilation, loss of his Dutch culture, feelings about being Dutch and desire for a greater recognition of the Dutch migration. Mentions the movement by Dutch towards reclaiming their culture and his intention to write to help reassert Dutch history. Interviewer(s) - Hank Schouten Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA 2706.

Date: 2008

By: Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematografica (Havana, Cuba)

Reference: Eph-D-GRAPHIC-ARTS-2007-AL

Description: Posters produced under the supervision of Xavier Meade, each showing a portrait of a liberator: 1. Tane Mahuta, by Xavier Meade 2. Maui, by Josh Watene 3. Te Whiti, by Xavier Meade 4. Tuaiwa (Eva) Rickard, by Jenny Rhodes 5. Rua Kenana, by Dion Hitchens 6. King Tawhiao, by James F Ormsby 7. Susi Newborn, by Tessa Laird 8. Ralph Hotere, by Katerina Mataira 9. Owen Wilkes, by Simon Cuming 10. Dean Hapeta aka Te Kupu, by Leafa Wilson 11. Hemi / James Keir Baxter, by Warren Olds 12. Richard Henry, by Nicola Farquhar This set of posters is numbered 42 out of a print run of 50. The posters are documented fully in: Aotearoa liberators poster project, by Xavier Meade, Waikato Institute of Technology. [Hamilton, N.Z] : Ramp Press, Wintec, c2008. Copy held in ATL NZ&P P Box q769 AOT 2008, General Lending NZ Pacific PAM 769.993 AOT 2008, and in Ephemera Workroom Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - 42/50 Quantity: 12 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprints, 760 x 510 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2012.

Date: 19 Oct 2000

From: Wartime nurses project

By: Montgomery, Elsie Winifred, 1920-

Reference: OHInt-0731/04

Description: Elsie Winifred Montgomery (nee Steven) born Vancouver, Canada 1920. Recalls coming to New Zealand ca 1932, working with the Hawkes Bay Electric Power Board and decision to train as a nurse at the outbreak of WWII, training at Wellington Hospital. Backgrounds decision to volunteer for relief work in Greece. Refers to Colin Morrison who headed the CORSO team which was an adjunct of UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Service). Recalls setting sail on the SS Mooltan December 1945 and mentions Dr Sylvia Chapman who was team leader. Describes life on board ship and stop overs in Ceylon, Bombay and Cairo. Talks about work conditions and customs in Greece. Comments on the amount of gypsies in northern parts of Greece and describes their needs. Discusses the political situation, the communist villages, nationalist villages, the civil war and the problems arising. Recalls return home in 1946 and marriage to Ian Montgomery. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Anna Rogers Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012489 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-4299, OHDL-000838.

Date: 1966-1972

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

Reference: Eph-B-ROTH-Vietnam

Description: Includes: 1966: Auckland Progressive Youth. 'Open letter to the President of the United States'. Leaflet. 26 March 1966. 1968: New Zealand High Commission, Canada. 'New Zealand and Vietnam'. Article. 14 February 1968. New Zealand High Commission, Canada. 'Statement made by the Prime Miinister of New Zealdnd, The Right Honourable Keith Holyoake, during the general debate in the General Assembly of the United Nations on 14 October 1968. 1969: Australians and New Zealanders against the war in Vietnam (ANZAWV). 'ANZAWV News'. Leaflet. November 1969. Undated: Leaflet about speak-in at Albert Park regarding Tim Shadbolt's arrest for unpaid fine, for saying "bullshit' during a protests about Vietnam, Sunday 23rd. 'Vietnam Aid Appeal'. Leaflet for Vietnam Medical Aid appeal. Youth Action Commitee on Vietnam. 'selected Quotations on Vietnam'. leaflet (2 copies). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript cyclostyled and offset print material, sizes varying up to 330 x 220 mm.

Date: 1989

Reference: Eph-H-MUSIC-Popular-1989-01

Description: Shows an illustration based on an half length photographic portrait of performer Billy Bragg. "Workers' playtime" was produced by Liberation Records. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screen print, 1380 x 1000 mm.