The Green Party has a strong tradition of an active presence on tertiary campuses around New Zealand. Green activists have run stalls, collected signatures, given away cakes, condoms and organic fruit, organised gigs, postered, spoken in common areas on mega phones, and organised talks, debates and meetings. And a whole lot more!

Green MPs are frequently heading to campuses to talk, campaign and just hang out with students, and every year some or all of the Green MPs are at orientation events. Greens on campuses have campaigned on issues such as tertiary education, the student loan scheme and universal allowances, and, in 2006, have worked on issues such as discriminatory youth rates, climate change and the Save Happy Valley campaign.

Each group is a little bit different and works on local issues as well as national and international issues. For example, the Christchurch campus group have been campaigning on blocking the sale of Lyttleton Port, and Wellington campus greens have been working on saving the trolley buses. Some Campus Greens groups are strongly affiliated to the Green Party and some prefer to keep some separation. Campus Greens are united by our passion for a sustainable and just future and are working together to achieve a green Aotearoa.

To get in contact with your local campus group, or to start one on your campus, email campus [dot] greens [at] greens [dot] org [dot] nz

Campus Green Groups

Otago Campus Greens

A society of the University of Otago OUSA Clubs and Societies. The stated constitutional aim is to "Change the world according to Green principles." Members of the Campus Greens have close contact with the Dunedin branch of the Green Party, and some are also Party members. The Campus Greens raise awareness on campus about political issues (elections, electoral roll), social justice and some environmental issues through stalls, petitions, posters, meetings, video nights, and ceilidh dancing.

Otago has a separate strong environmental OUSA society called Students for Environmental Action who cover most of the big environmental issues (Happy Valley, climate change, peak oil), as well as doing beach clean-ups, tree plantings etc. The Otago Campus Greens collaborate with SEA, and there are people who belong to both groups. We have people with strengths in design and writing in the 2006 hard-core group.

otago [dot] campus [dot] greens [at] gmail [dot] com (email)

University of Canterbury Campus Greens

One of the UCSA affliliated clubs, we work on issues such as Happy Valley, Canterbury Plains Water, Keep Our Port Public and many others; alongside the Green Party, Save Happy Valley Coalition, KOPP, CAFCA, and the UC non-political environmental group Kakariki.

There is plenty of crossover between the Green Party and Campus Greens, with Campus Greens members going on to take positions in the Aoraki Executive, and in electoral roles. There are semi-regular postering missions to ensure that the message reaches as much of uni as possible, as well as semi-regular meetings, either at Cafe101 or the Green Room.

Co-Leaders

Frances Martin, Matthew Cutler-Welsh

Campus-Party Liaison

Marcel Podstolski

Greens@Vic

Greens@vic are the campus greens group at Victoria University. We regularly meet 12pm, Tuesdays, at the clubs room; student union building; and then usually at 5pm at the student union bar, for a catch up and for those members who cannot make that meeting to find out what's going on.

Recently we've toured Parliament and met up with the MPs, ran stalls, campaigned on Wellington transport issues such as Transmission Gully and the trolley buses; had regular guest speakers such as MPs, and people from UNITE! Union, dropped banners and done media activities.

Greens@Vic

Auckland Greens on Campus

Hannah Spierer, Phone: 021 714 436

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