Thank you all for coming to this event which we hold every month outside Wellington Regional Hospital Ngā Puna Wairoa, organised by Aotearoa Healthcare Workers for Palestine. As you might notice, I am not Serena Moran. The Chairperson of our group is currently away on holiday so I am stepping in. My name is GrantContinue reading “Reflections on Gaza at the Aotearoa Healthcare Workers for Palestine October vigil”
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The year of the strike is a year like no other
Grant Brookes 1 October 2025 “The year of the strike? Perfect pay storm looms over public sector.” This was the headline of an article back in February by a prescient Stuff journalist. This perfect storm has arrived, though it’s about much more than pay. Under conditions of today’s unprecedented political mobilisations, and an increasingly authoritarian government which has thrustContinue reading “The year of the strike is a year like no other”
Healthcare workers in solidarity with Palestine
by AHW4P committee member Grant Brookes On 11 October, the fifth day of the war on Gaza, emergency services at Al Shifa Hospital received a call from a nearby neighbourhood. The assault by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) had caused mass casualties in the vicinity of the Karni Crossing. Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances had to waitContinue reading “Healthcare workers in solidarity with Palestine”
Nurses for peace – talk at the Unions Wellington Summer Peace Picnic
Tēnā koutou, Ngā mihi ki a Noah mō te karakia tīmataka, ki a Unions Wellington hoki mō tēnei hui. Ko wai ahau? Ko Kapukataumahaka te mauka. Ko Ōwheo te awa. Ko Cornwall te waka. Ko Tangata Tiriti te iwi. Ko Grant Brookes tōku ikoa. My name is Grant Brookes. I am a descendant of ScottishContinue reading “Nurses for peace – talk at the Unions Wellington Summer Peace Picnic”
Grant Brookes | Nurse & Trade Unionist 