The City is Ours Inc. looks back at what it achieved and lost in 2011

1. Successfully lobbied for free school milk nation wide promoting children's health and well being.

2. Helped stop Steve Crow and the "boobs on bikes" entering the RWC parade in Auckland.

3. Engaged the Salvation Army and Capital Coast DHB with standing in opposing liquor licensing in Newtown.

4. Organised remembrance ceremony for Hiroshima Day in the Peace Flame Garden sponsored by WCC and Four Seasons Florist in Newtown.

5. Opposed liquor license for Wellington Regional Stadium during the RWC and travelled all the way to Auckland to sit at the table of negotiation.

6. Handed the Golden Mile Beca Safety Audit to Dompost for front page coverage, followed by live interview with Radio NZ for a face off with Andy Foster.

7. Delivered a petition to Council demanding the WCC Walking and Cycling Policy both are applied at planning of all WCC projects.

8. Presented to remind WCC about 30th anniversary of Wellington as a Nuclear Free City on the 14th of April 2012.

9. The City is Ours President Maria van der Meel was acquitted by Judge Wainright for willful damage to council infrastructure (Cabbage Tree).

10. Facilitated the first Occupy Wellington meeting at St. John's Convention Centre at the People's Forum dedicated to human rights warrior Jim Delahunty.

11. Handed out leaflets: New Zealand Food Bill 160-2, MMP, Search and Surveillance Bill, International Day of Peace; Ban the Bomb, Wellington Nuclear Free Day.

12. Advocated the United Nations Convention for the Rights of the Child at submissions to councils/health boards, in popular media and Facebook Groups.

13. Celebrated International Day of Peace on 21st of September in the CBD with eye catching 3D Peace Symbol created by member Richard Tingey of Levin.

14. Presented a case for Wellington's street performers during oral submissions to the Draft Arts and Culture Strategy plan at Council.

15. Protested outside the Lower Hutt City Council against fluoridation of our drinking water and joined Wellington Residents Coalition present anti water meter petitions.

16. Lost an active member and Architect Ian Drysdale who presented our case in the Environment Court and struck a deal for City bus lanes to be 3.25 meters wide. RIP Ian

The City is Ours Inc. would like to thank all its members old, new and past for believing in the cause, we deeply regret the accident in June where jogger Venessa Green was fatally hit by a GoWellington bus on a sub-standard section of the so called Golden Mile improvements in Willis Street. RIP Venessa.

Our AGM will be held at the Newtown Library in Constable Street on the 2nd of April 2012 at 2.00pm.

ENDS

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