Gillian Magee
Gillian Magee is a New Zealand activist. Regional Industrial Administrator at First Union. Former Regional Administrator at National Distribution Union. Lives in Wellington, New Zealand.
Close to the New Communist Party of Aotearoa.
Education
- Studied at Victoria University of Wellington
- Went to Tararua College
Cuban Embassy connection
Embassy of Cuba in New Zealand September 3 2019 ·
— with Jamie Morgan, Gillian Magee and Katjoesja Buissink.
Embassy of Cuba in New Zealand April 2 2019:
With Katjoesja Buissink, Pat Bolster, Karim Dickie, Leima Martínez Freire, Gillian Magee, Adrian Guerrero, Saimin Fis Abad and Carla Batista.
Auckland Cuba comrades
Robert Reid, Mike Treen, Annalucia Vermunt and Gillian Magee.
NZ Committee to Free the Cuban Five
Circa 2009, the list of Initiating Members and Supporters of the New Zealand Committee to Free the Cuban Five, included Gillian Magee, Secretary, Wellington Cuba Friendship Society, Wellington .[1]
US Embassy letter/Cuban 5
On 6 April 2009 US Embassy in Wellington refused to accept a hand delivered letter from MPs, City Councillors, trade unionists, church leaders,academics and other New Zealanders calling on the US Government not to oppose the petition to the US Supreme Court for the release of the Cuban 5.
An attempt to deliver the letter was made by Wellington City Councillor, Ray Ahipene-Mercer and Secretary of the Weliington Cuba Friendship Society Gillian Magee but US Embassy Guards said they would not accept a hand delivered letter.[2]
- Dear Attorney General Holder
- We, the undersigned New Zealanders are writing this letter to you on the eve of the US Government submitting a brief in response to the 30 January 09 petition to the Supreme Court and the twelve separate amicus curiae briefs that were filed in the US Supreme Court on 6 March 2009 regarding the unjust incarceration of five Cuban citizens - Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, René González Sehweret, Ramón Labañino Salazar, Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez and Fernando González Llort - known as the Cuban 5.
- We urge the United States Government to acknowledge that a complete miscarriage of justice has taken place regarding the Cuban 5 and to support, rather than oppose, a review of the conviction by the Supreme Court. We urge you to immediately release the Cuban 5.