Blueprints
17 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago -Blueprints is a podcast about political strategy that makes the hard earned lessons of those who've gone before us, easily accessible. Each episode is a narrative driven, immersive audio documentary and uncovers the strategies and tactics of organisations, campaigns and social movements that have changed Aotearoa New Zealand. This is political history told in an engaging, critical and inspirational form.
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S2E7: Protect Ihumātao - NZ 2015 - 2021
September 30, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 44.2 MBIn 2015, Save Our Unique Landscape (SOUL) formed to stop the development of 480 unaffordable homes on their land. In 2020 the New Zealand government bought the land from Fletchers, the company trying to develop it. We spoke with SOUL co-founder and spokesperson Pania Newton. The Māori TV documentary Ake Ake Ake YouTube playlist of short documentaries about and footage from the campaign The campaigns own YouTube playlist featuring interviews with many members Pania’s TedX talk Children...
S2E6: Nurses Strike - NZ 2018
August 19, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes - 41.1 MBIn 2018, nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants went on strike for the first time in 29 years. They won significant concessions from the DHBs, but their ultimate goal of addressing the chronic understaffing was promised and not delivered. At the start of the bargaining there was no campaign, and members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation, NZNO, built one themselves, against the wishes of their union leadership. We spoke with; Erin, a nurse based in Wellington Grant Brookes, member...
S2E5: Wairoa Meatworkers Lockout - NZ 2010 - 2016 Part 3
August 07, 2021 19:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MBThe final part of the incredible story of how meatworkers in the town of Wairoa stood up for working people in Aotearoa New Zealand, against a company owned by one of its richest families. This is the story of their resistance and goes to the heart of strategic debate about what is symbolic vs what builds leverage. We spoke with; Peter Amato, Meatworker in the beefhouse at Wairoa and Meatworkers Union delegate Simon Oosterman, union organiser brought in by the CTU halfway through the dis...
S2E4: Wairoa Meatworkers Lockout - NZ 2010 - 2016 Part 2
August 06, 2021 19:00 - 31 minutes - 21.3 MBPart 2 of the story of Wairoa meatworkers. We spoke with; Peter Amato, Meatworker in the beefhouse at Wairoa and Meatworkers Union delegate Simon Oosterman, union organiser brought in by the CTU halfway through the dispute Ross Webb, an historian whose thesis was on the history of the Meatworkers Union Ross’ brilliant thesis on the history of the Meatworkers Union and his Oral History Project of the lockout and a YouTube playlist of news coverage RNZ podcast about the 2015 experience ...
S2E3: Wairoa Meatworkers Lockout - NZ 2010 - 2016 Part 1
August 05, 2021 19:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBIn 2010, Talleys, one of NZ’s biggest companies and owned by one of its richest families, took full control of the AFFCO Meatworks. It then embarked on a 5 year campaign to de-unionise its workforce. But workers in Wairoa and towns across the country said no. They were locked out 3 times in 5 years. This is the story of their resistance and goes to the heart of strategic debate about what is symbolic vs what builds leverage. We spoke with; Peter Amato, Meatworker in the beefhouse at Wairoa...
S2E2: Unite the Union Ends Zero Hours Contracts - NZ 2015
July 22, 2021 19:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBIn 2016, Aotearoa New Zealand’s parliament passed a law banning the use of Zero Hours Contracts. In the preceding two years, Unite the Union had forced fast-food companies to stop using them in their contracts. The campaign was the culmination of their organising which started in the Supersize My Pay campaign from 2003. The campaign was an excellent example of having an industrial strategy as a lever for a political strategy. By having a concrete focus - trying to stop fast-food companies f...
S2E1: Homosexual Law Reform - NZ 1984 - 1986
July 08, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 70.2 MBOn this day 35 years ago, July 9, the homosexual law reform bill passed it’s third reading and sex between men was finally decriminalised. The campaign polarised New Zealand to levels not seen since the Springbok Tour in 1981, as a vicious anti-campaign took hold, driven by fundamentalist churches. The campaign mobilised support from a broad range of organisations, as gay men, lesbians and others tried to keep their coalition together, in the face of different objectives internally and fero...
BONUS - How Bernie Sanders Became the Mayor of Burlington - USA 1981-1983
June 03, 2021 19:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBIn 1981, at the same time as Ronald Reagan, an anti-tax, far right celebrity won the Presidency, socialist Bernie Sanders became the mayor of Burlington in the then conservative state of Vermont. The campaign around him stunned everyone, and won by just 10 votes. It was the start of a political revolution in Vermont, and the strategy for how they won and then governed would, against all the odds, win them a clear majority in the 1983 re-election. Their strategy was to speak to every voter,...
S1E6: Kua Tae Te Wā: Teachers Strike - NZ 2019
May 13, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 52.7 MBOn May 29 2019, Aotearoa New Zealand’s entire education sector went out on a ‘mega-strike’, for the first time in history. During 10 years of the National Government the education sector was in crisis. NZEI Te Riu Roa, the primary teachers union, had steadily grown its capacity to campaign when teachers resisted some of the worst reforms imposed on them. By 2019 the profession was united around a strategy of deep member engagement, escalation and a clear narrative, ‘It’s Time’. We spoke wit...
S1E5: Green MP Amy McMahon Wins South Brisbane - Aus 2020
April 22, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBIn October’s 2020 state election, the Queensland Green Party won its second seat, as Amy McMahon beat Labour Deputy Premier Jackie Trad. Part of a long term plan to hold the balance of power in the state parliament, the Greens have been patiently building since Johnathan Sri’s 2016 win in a local council ward. Running a left populist narrative, with a more explicit class politics than their New Zealand counterparts, they’re building a political movement to transform their state. Find out how...
S1E5: Amy McMahon Becomes Green MP for South Brisbane - Aus 2020
April 22, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBIn October’s 2020 state election, the Queensland Green Party won its second seat, as Amy McMahon beat Labour Deputy Premier Jackie Trad. Part of a long term plan to hold the balance of power in the state parliament, the Greens have been patiently building since Johnathan Sri’s 2016 win in a local council ward. Running a left populist narrative, with a more explicit class politics than their New Zealand counterparts, they’re building a political movement to transform their state. Find out how...
S1E4: Chlöe Swarbrick Wins Auckland Central - NZ 2020 Part 2
April 15, 2021 19:00 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MBBlueprints S1E3 - Chlöe Swarbrick Wins Auckland Central - NZ 2020 Part 2 Part 2 of this episode. In October’s 2020 general election, the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand won only its second ever electorate seat. Swarbrick overturned an 18 point polling deficit and her field campaign was one of the biggest in the country’s history. The campaign had a clear narrative that overcame accusations of vote-splitting and focused on building a community which ended up mobilising 400 volunteers. W...
S1E4: Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick Wins Auckland Central - NZ 2020 Part 2
April 15, 2021 19:00 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MBBlueprints S1E3 - Chlöe Swarbrick Wins Auckland Central - NZ 2020 Part 2 Part 2 of this episode. In October’s 2020 general election, the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand won only its second ever electorate seat. Swarbrick overturned an 18 point polling deficit and her field campaign was one of the biggest in the country’s history. The campaign had a clear narrative that overcame accusations of vote-splitting and focused on building a community which ended up mobilising 400 volunteers. W...
S1E3: Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick Wins Auckland Central - NZ 2020 Part 1
April 08, 2021 21:00 - 56 minutes - 38.8 MBIn October’s 2020 general election, the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand won only its second ever electorate seat. Swarbrick overturned an 18 point polling deficit and her field campaign was one of the biggest in the country’s history. The campaign had a clear narrative that overcame accusations of vote-splitting and focused on building a community which ended up mobilising 400 volunteers. We spoke with Campaign Manager Leroy Beckett, Field Organiser Niko Elsen and Chlöe Swarbrick MP, abo...
S1E3: Chlöe Swarbrick Wins Auckland Central - NZ 2020 Part 1
April 08, 2021 21:00 - 56 minutes - 38.8 MBIn October’s 2020 general election, the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand won only its second ever electorate seat. Swarbrick overturned an 18 point polling deficit and her field campaign was one of the biggest in the country’s history. The campaign had a clear narrative that overcame accusations of vote-splitting and focused on building a community which ended up mobilising 400 volunteers. We spoke with Campaign Manager Leroy Beckett, Field Organiser Niko Elsen and Chlöe Swarbrick MP, abo...
S1E2: NZPC Decriminalise Sex Work - NZ 2003
April 08, 2021 21:00 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MBNew Zealand’s model of decriminalised sex work has been studied the world over. With their limited resources, their campaign was tightly focused on parliament with a clear focus on a narrative strategy. Across an 11 year period, they wrote and then lobbied for the Prostitution Reform Act which decriminalised their industry and passed by just 1 vote. We spoke with the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective co-founder Dame Catherine Healy, and NZPC Auckland Coordinator Annah Pickering about how th...
S1E1: SuperSize My Pay - NZ 2005
April 08, 2021 21:00 - 52 minutes - 35.9 MBUnion organiser and podcast co-producer Simon Oosterman, who ran this 2005 campaign, talks about how they used a dispute with fast food giant Restaurant Brands as a lever to bring the issue of low pay into the national conversation. In less than a year they won the first fast food worker contract in 20 years, forced the phasing out of youth rates, and put the low minimum wage onto the national agenda. The campaign saw the world’s first Starbucks strike and a coalition with Radical Youth brou...