Showing posts with label Solidarity Union. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Solidarity Union. Show all posts
6/1/07
Protest against Mercury Murder Energy
For switching off the power because a family couldn't afford what $168 that was owing. As a result of a woman who uses life support died because the power was swithced off.
A book of condolences for the family of Folole Muliaga will be opened by the Solidarity Union, who organised a protest at the headquarters of Mercury Energy on Thursday. The book will be on the Union's stall at South Auckland's Otara Markets this Saturday June 2 from 10am to 1pm, and has already been signed by the local Resident Action Movement's ARC Councillor Robyn Hughes, manager of the Mangere People's Centre Roger Fowler and Solidarity Union Secretary Joe Carolan.
The Union will also be calling for a minute of silence for Folole at 12 noon at the Markets, in solidarity with her grieving relatives. A community coalition is being formed at the Mangere Community and Learning Centre which is expected to meet next weekend.
More info at:
www.solidarityunion.com
Pics of demo
http://unityaotearoa.blogspot.com/2007/05/mercury-energy-murder-energy.html
5/30/07
Mercury Energy- Murder Energy! Protest tomorrow 4pm
Trade unionists and community activists from South Auckland will join
forces tomorrow at an angry picket at the headquarters of Mercury
Energy, 602 Great South Road in Green Lane, tomorrow Thurs 31 May at
4pm, to protest the death of Folole Muliaga.
Folole died after her power was disconnected from her house by a
contractor employed by Mercury Energy, leaving her family to grieve in
the dark. Her family had warned and pleaded with the company
beforehand that her life support required electricity. She was $200
behind her bill.
Protest organiser Joe Carolan-
"Yet again we see a so-called State Owned Enterprise put profit before
people in New Zealand. Mercury Energy should be renamed Murder Energy-
they are corporate bully boys who prey on the weak, old and vulnerable
of South Auckland, and are no better than the corrupt money lenders
who plague our communities. They rely on the fact that people feel
alone and isolated- thats why we want to give them a dose of people
power tomorrow they will never forget.
Trade unions like my own Solidarity Union will join community
activists at Murder Energy Headquarters tomorrow, 602 Great South Rd,
Greenlane. We will be calling for the sacking of Murder Energys CEOs
and their blood soaked moenymen, and for proper democratic community
control over the decision making to ensure that this tragedy that
Folole and her family suffered is never, ever repeated. We call on the
people of Auckland who are angry about this to come join us and say
People Before Profit- Murder Energy- Never Again!"
Related
* http://www.solidarityunion.com
forces tomorrow at an angry picket at the headquarters of Mercury
Energy, 602 Great South Road in Green Lane, tomorrow Thurs 31 May at
4pm, to protest the death of Folole Muliaga.
Folole died after her power was disconnected from her house by a
contractor employed by Mercury Energy, leaving her family to grieve in
the dark. Her family had warned and pleaded with the company
beforehand that her life support required electricity. She was $200
behind her bill.
Protest organiser Joe Carolan-
"Yet again we see a so-called State Owned Enterprise put profit before
people in New Zealand. Mercury Energy should be renamed Murder Energy-
they are corporate bully boys who prey on the weak, old and vulnerable
of South Auckland, and are no better than the corrupt money lenders
who plague our communities. They rely on the fact that people feel
alone and isolated- thats why we want to give them a dose of people
power tomorrow they will never forget.
Trade unions like my own Solidarity Union will join community
activists at Murder Energy Headquarters tomorrow, 602 Great South Rd,
Greenlane. We will be calling for the sacking of Murder Energys CEOs
and their blood soaked moenymen, and for proper democratic community
control over the decision making to ensure that this tragedy that
Folole and her family suffered is never, ever repeated. We call on the
people of Auckland who are angry about this to come join us and say
People Before Profit- Murder Energy- Never Again!"
Related
* http://www.solidarityunion.com
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