Pat O’Dea, Epsom
- Internet MANA list position: (13)
Long time anti-capitalist activist, anti-racist, anti-apartheid, anti-nuclear, anti-war, trade unionist. Campaigned to get the issue of GST off food to be taken up by parliament as a poverty relief measure.
Pat is a member of the 6 member ‘Kia Ora Gaza’ team to join ‘Viva Palestina’ in an overland convoy to bust the illegal siege of Gaza, successfully entering Gaza through Rafah crossing, in defiance of Israeli and Egyptian authorities.
He is also a member of ‘Auckland Coal Action’, an anticlimate change movement campaigning against all new coal mines in Aotearoa and a founding member of the Mana Movement.
Elected Mana spokesperson for climate change in 2013 at national conference, he is a second time Mana candidate for Epsom, having stood for the Mana Movement in Epsom against the racist ACT party in 2011, in an appeal to the people of Epsom not to vote for this unrepresentative, racist extreme Right Wing party.