With great excitement we have launched a brand new social business called Justice Print. Michael Bendall, the Director, has put significant time to the startup and is looking forward to growing this business for the communities good.

JusticePrint is a printing company with a difference :
As well as managing all your printing requirements from design to delivery, we give ALL our profit to charity.

JusticePrint uses modern, offset and digital technology, giving you professional, top quality printing and graphic design services, all with our 25 years’ experience. Plus, we’re competitively priced.

Amongst other charitable causes, JusticePrint helps fund camps for underprivileged children, and supports education by giving students the means to engage in meaningful social justice research and projects.

Using JusticePrint means you do more than just business – you also give back to your community for a better New Zealand.

Over the past months ERJ, Community Law Canterbury, Pathway Trust and NZ Victim Support have been working hard towards the launch of a unique program offering restorative justice conferencing to post-sentence offenders, their families and victims. This program, one of only a handful in New Zealand, connects victims, criminals and the community in a process that aims not only to face a criminal with the effects of the crime but also give the victim an opportunity to have her voice heard. Restorative Justice process, when done well, has a proven impact on the criminal, victim and the community. Jackie Kartouas, with over 138 convictions in her criminal career, now Prison Fellowship restorative justice director is a testament to its power.

We are excited to announce that we will formally launch on the 31st of May and look forward to updating you all on the program over its intital stages.

For more information or inquires please contact us on info@erjustice.org.nz

One of our major campaigns for 2011 is to get Auckland Fair Trade city status. We have some wonderful partners in this campaign and the support list just keeps growing. Fairtrade delivers to some of our worlds poorest by paying fairer prices and putting money back into development. The city status is an public support of such a positive tool to alleviate poverty.

Why?
Fair trade is an alternative model that puts people back at the heart of the transaction guaranteeing a better deal for farmers and workers and great products for consumers. Auckland is New Zealand’s largest city with significant purchasing power, let’s work together to tip the balance in favour of more ethical and sustainable purchasing so we can always enjoy the great products that Auckland offers … with a healthy conscience.

How?
There are a number of goals for Auckland to be a Fair Trade City. Including a number of retailers, workplaces, schools, community groups, businesses as well as the new super city council that commit to using, supporting and promoting Fair Trade. See fairtrade.org.nz/get-involved/ for more.

Checkout www.fairtradeauckland.org for more info. Even better get along to our launch event it would be great to see you there!

Listen to Harriet Lamb talking to Kim Hill on Radio New Zealand about who really pays for cheap bananas.

It started very small and full of hope. But its daring campaigns have placed Fairtrade goods at the heart of the supermarket shelves. From bananas and coffee beans to cotton and chocolate Fairtrade has grown to become an important global movement that has revolutionised the way we shop. As Harriet Lamb Director of the Fairtrade Foundation explains in this fascinating story Fairtrade is about a better deal for workers and famers in the developing world. It’s about making sure the food on our plates and shirts on our backs don’t rob people in other countries of the means to feed or clothe themselves. She explores the journey through an often unjust system that Fairtrade items make from farm to consumer. And she uncovers the shocking cost of our demand for cheaper food. There is much still to be done. But by hard work and high ideals Fairtrade is starting to transform the lives of over 7 million farmers workers and their families and is a powerful symbol of how extraordinary change can be achieved against all the odds – by us all

For those interested in hearing more about how fairtrade makes a tangible difference to majority world communities come and check out Will Padilla from CooprAgri in Costa Rica.

Will is 31 yrs old and has been involved with the Co-op for many years along with other family members. Will is in charge of Fairtrade Operations for the co-operative and has first-hand contact with the farmers through projects the cooperative is implementing. These projects include Producer support, Nursery/Crop enhancement, housing projects, forest and river conservation projects, health funds, education funds, supermarkets.

Will is in New Zealand to present to the Fair Trade Supporters conference and has kindly agreed to also present to an Auckland audience.

So come along, get to see how your consumer choices are making a difference in the majority world. Together lets make Auckland a Fair Trade Supercity to ensure that community’s in the majority world have a fair go at getting themselves out of poverty.

Monday 11 October · 7pm- 8ish

Edmund Rice Centre
123 Manukau Road
Epsom Auckland

Further details contact Sam: 021 341 801, sam@erjustice.org.nz

Edmund Rice Justice Aotearoa would like to warmly invite you to join us to hear special guest speakers Patrick Dodson, Phil Glendenning and Paul Lane. As some of the leading social justice advocates in Australia the trio will be with us to share their wisdom and knowledge.

Patrick Dodson is a highly respected Aboriginal leader regarded as the ‘father of Australian reconciliation’. Phil Glendenning, the Director of Edmund Rice Centre in Sydney has had considerable impact on many refugee and Aboriginal issues in Australia and Paul Lane, another notable aboriginal leader, will join them.

It would be great to have you at the centre to hear these three amazing advocates for social justice speak with passion in their individual areas.  So come down, enjoy a glass of wine and some nibbles and have a chance to meet and hear some key people that made a commitment to such important issues.

Event details:
Where:  Edmund Rice Office, 123 Manukau Road, Epsom
Date/Time: 7pm, September 17^th 2010

Please RSVP by the 3^rd of September. Check out our Facebook Event to RSVP or email: secretary@erjustice.org.nz

Phone/TXT: 09 638 7000/021 341 801

Journalist Floyd from US, Michael Henderson from UK and their teams meet the beginning of Bosnian war in Sarajevo. During their reports they find an orphanage run by devoted Mrs. Savic near the front line. Henderson gets so involved in kids’ problems that he decides to take on the children, Emira, illegally back to England. He is assisted by American aid worker Nina.

Come along to 123 Manukau Road, 6.30pm for dinner and 7pm for movie

Bloody Sunday is a film about the 1972 “Bloody Sunday” shootings in Derry, Northern Ireland. The drama shows the events of the day through the eyes of Ivan Cooper, a SDLP Member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland who was a central organiser of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry on 30 January 1972. The march ended when British Army paratroopers fired on the demonstrators, killing thirteen instantly and wounding another person who died 4 1/2 months later.

Come along to 123 Manukau Road, 6.30pm for dinner and 7pm for movie

This film tells the true story of Jeffrey Wigand, a former tobacco executive, who decided to appear on the CBS-TV News show “60 Minutes.” As matter of conscience partially prodded by producer Lowell Bergman, he revealed that, the tobacco industry was not only aware that cigarettes are addictive & harmful, but deliberately worked on increasing that addictiveness. Unfortunately, both protagonists of this story learn the hard way that simply telling the truth is not enough as they struggle against both Big Tobacco’s attempts to silence them and the CBS TV Network’s own cowardly complict preference of putting money as a higher priority over the truth.

Come along to 123 Manukau Road, 6.30pm for dinner and 7pm for movie

Ten years ago some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda–and in an era of high-speed communication and round the clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. In only three months, one million people were brutally murdered. In the face of these unspeakable actions, inspired by his love for his family, an ordinary man summons extraordinary courage to save the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees, by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages.

Come along to 123 Manukau Road, 6.30pm for dinner and 7pm for movie.