Readers of The Standard have read and engaged on the campaign for forestry safety. There is now a Review underway and we need to maintain the organising momentum to ensure change is made. On 28 April is International Workers Memorial Day and we have invited the families of all workers killed since 2008 (that we have been able to get contact details for), to come to Wellington for a series of events. Many of them want to march on Parliament – we will do that. They want to meet – we will have a memorial service where they can hear each other’s stories and meet. They want to support other families of workers killed at work to access legal advice during the process of investigation – we are having a street collection to set up a fund for that. They want to meet the Review panel – we are hoping this can happen then. Getting everyone to town is a challenge but we hope, with the amazing support we have had from all parts of the community for this campaign, that we can get the funds together. We have set up this site on Give a Little
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