Since the Christchurch attacks more and more people are speaking about the existence of a far-right presence in NZ but it also needs to be understood as part of a global right-wing extremist movement. What happened in Christchurch did not happen in a vacuum, the far-right continue to be active here.
Just in the first weeks of June there were racist attacks in Auckland, the etching of a Swastika into a grass berm in Te Horo, and then on 14 June outside the Christchurch court a person played nazi music and made racist comments during a court-hearing for the Christchurch killer.
At a recent trans-Tasman conference in Auckland Muslim women said that Islamophobia is worse now than it was before the Christchurch terror attack.
Come to the WARF meeting and hear speakers on a range of topics, including:
– Giacomo Lichtner talking the rise of fascism in the ’20s and parallels to today
– a researcher on online radicalisation and the alt-right
– and others on white supremacy and the far-right in NZ
Followed by a discussion on what all this means for us now & what we can do as a community going ahead.
Friday 28 June 2019 6:30pm – 8:30pm
St Andrews on the Terrace, 30 The Terrace, Wellington
