With only one week until the March to Parliament, we hope you’re as excited as we are to show the Government the strength of our communities.

Here’s a to-do list to prepare for the March to Parliament – Thursday 7 March – over the coming week …

Make a Placard
Make a placard or sign with your message to the Government to bring to the March. These are some suggestions for slogans to put on your placard:

• Nothing About Us Without Us
• Give Us a Bill with TEETH
• Access Rights are Human Rights
• We Are More
• We Deserve Better

Post on Social Media
Use our social media assets to show your support for strong accessibility legislation in Aotearoa New Zealand! Let your friends know that you’re going to the March - or that you’ll be supporting from afar - and why accessibility is important to you. Use the hashtags #WeAreMore, #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs and #AccessMattersNZ and tag us at @accessforallnz on all social media platforms.

Plan Your Day
Show up to the March wearing orange for accessibility if you can!

We will provide face masks and we encourage those who can, to wear them to protect those who are immunocompromised.

You can meet us at either Midland Park or on Bunny Street before 12:30pm.

Alternatively, you can join us at 1pm at the end of the March, on Parliament grounds in front of the Richard Seddon statue.

We will have volunteer marshals at all three locations from 12pm. The distance from Midland Park is about 600m, and from Bunny Street around 240m. Please join us at whichever location works best for you.

Speeches and petition delivery will take place at 1pm at the Parliament grounds.

Unable to attend in person?

We will be livestreaming the speeches over on Facebook from 1pm to 2pm. Click ‘Going’ on the Facebook event to be notified when the livestream begins!

We’ll send out a final information update before the March next week. Let’s come together and make our collective voice heard!

“Part of the problem is that we tend to think that equality is about treating everyone the same, when it’s not. It’s about fairness. It’s about equity of access.”

Judith Heumann, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

He rau ringa e oti ai.

Many hands make light work.

Ngā mihi nui

Juliana Carvalho