Who we are

We are a small but mighty group of peaceful activists intent on promoting advocacy, solidarity, education and boycotting campaigns for the Palestinian cause in our Whanganui community.

We support other solidarity and advocacy groups in their incredible mahi towards a liberated Palestine, and work closely with DECOL Whanganui on campaigns to support indigenous struggles here in Aotearoa, and around the world.

None of us is free until we are all free.

We hold events, rallies, marches, film screenings, film festivals, collect petition signatures and create semi-permanent Free Palestine art projects. We are active in the BDS Movement-driven boycotting campaigns.

We also provide training to our group on de-escalation and how to counter racism online.

OUR KAUPAPA

Whanganui Palestinian Solidarity Group (WPSG) seeks to promote justice, freedom, equality and self-determination for the Palestinian people.

All forms of racism and discrimination are the antithesis of justice, freedom and equality. WPSG events and social media will not tolerate any act or discourse which adopts or promotes, among others: violence, racism, anti-Arab racism, Fascism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, Sexism, Xenophobia, Transphobia or Homophobia.

We are in full support of Toitū Te Tiriti and the call to respect our foundational document as a guide for living together in Aotearoa.

Our Stance On

  • We are against:
    Violence, racism, anti-Arab racism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, Sexism, Xenophobia, Fascism, Transphobia and Homophobia and pledge to actively counter these in our conversations and events in our Whanganui community and online.

  • We are actively against colonialism and the ongoing harms it places on indigenous communities and the land colonialism seeks to dominate.

    We wholeheartedly support Toitū Te Tiriti and the struggles for Māori sovereignty.

  • We wholeheartedly support Direct Action for Palestine as per the BDS Movement’s model of targeting companies, governments and organisations that are actively involved in supporting the ongoing occupation and annexation of Palestinian land, and those organisational entities who in any way support the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.