Kia ora e hoa mā welcome to the AAAP fam!

Thank you for thinking about joining Auckland Action Against Poverty.

AAAP wants a membership model which builds a base of people interested in being part of a movement to transform the welfare system in whatever capacity they have!

WHAT MEMBERSHIP INVOLVES?

AAAP members

• Hold voting rights at our Annual General Meeting, an are able to nominate and elect members to be a part of the co-ordinating group
• 5 members together may request a Special General Meeting
• Attend the quarterly forums to plan our direction
• Invitations to workshops and trainings
• Be a part of a growing AAAP fam ready to transform the system!

Decisions at all meetings of Auckland Action Against Poverty will, if possible, be reached by consensus. However, where a consensus decision cannot be reached and the decision cannot be deferred, the decision will, unless otherwise specified in this constitution, be made by a 75% majority vote.

You don’t have to be actively involved to be a member, but we want you to be a part of the movement.

To become a member, read through this page, and sign up at the end. To be a member, we ask for a membership fee of $5. If you are currently an active volunteer OR if you already pay a weekly donation this fee is waived. 

A  copy of our Constitution is available here.

A copy of this form will be reviewed at the next meeting of the Co-ordinating Group for approval.

PRINCIPLES

These are our principles as part of our Constitution

1. Everyone should have the chance to participate fully in the economy and society.
2. We are committed to the realisation of a society which honours tino rangatiratanga and is grounded in Te Tiriti o Waitangi
3. Social security is a human right.
4. Unemployed people and beneficiaries should not be blamed and stigmatised for their situation and should be treated fairly and with respect by state agencies.
5. Benefits should be enough to live on with dignity
6. Sole parents and those who are sick, injured or disabled should not be coerced into work.
7. Volunteer work in the community and caring work in the home and elsewhere should be valued.
8. Government should play an active role in helping to maintain and create good jobs across all sectors: private, state and community.
9. Everyone should have the right to appropriate education, training, income support, and housing.
10. Low wage workers, unemployed people and beneficiaries should not have to pay the cost of the crisis in capitalism.

OBJECTIVES

The objects of AAAP are as follows:

1. To advocate in support of the principles;
2. To educate and inform members of the public about issues relating to poverty, including through public speaking, media work, forums, web-based outreach, and other forms of information-sharing and networking;
3. To engage in campaigns and activities to challenge and promote alternatives to the neo-liberal agenda on jobs, welfare and poverty;
4. To promote political involvement and activism by unemployed people and beneficiaries, unions, church and community sector allies, students and others who support the principles of the Society; and
5. To raise funds and accept monies consistent with furthering the other purposes of the Society, provided that pecuniary gain of members of the Society is not a purpose of the Society.