Mengzhu Fu

Mengzhu Fu

Mengzhu Fu is a New Zealand activist. Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies, York University, Canada.

Mengzhu Fu is a doctoral student in the Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies at York University. Their MA research focused on the lifeworlds of young Asian survivors of domestic violence in Aotearoa (New Zealand) through an analysis of structural violence, age and intersectionality. They have been involved in diasporic Asian activism on gender-based violence, migrant justice, decolonization and anti-racism. Their PhD topic is on Indigenous and Asian diaspora solidarity in Aotearoa and Canada-occupied Turtle Island.

Background

She is completing her BA Honours in Social Anthropology. She has been a youth worker and a passionate animal rights advocate since her early teenage years.

Mengzhu Fu is a 1.5 generation Chinese feminist who enjoys making political zines, comics and art. As a founding member of Asians Supporting Tino Rangatiratanga and a contributor to Mellow Yellow zine and blog, Mengzhu is interested in building connections and solidarities between migrant communities of colour and indigenous communities to collectively dismantle the pale/male/stale colonial system.

Space, Race, Bodies II

Space, Race, Bodies II: Sovereignty and Migration in a Carceral Age, University of Otago. May 6-8th, 2016.

Featuring: Fadak Alfayadh (RISE: Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees), Tracey Barnett (Independent Journalist), Associate Professor Stephanie Fryberg (University of Washington), Mengzhu Fu (Shakti Youth), Tame Iti, Moana Jackson, Crystal McKinnon and Emma Russell (Flat Out), Suzanne Menzies-Culling and Marie Laufiso (Tauiwi Solutions), Professor Margaret Mutu (University of Auckland), Emilie Rakete (No Pride in Prisons), Annette Sykes, and Teanau Tuiono.

Space, Race, Bodies II: Sovereignty and Migration in a Carceral Age is an academic and activist conference featuring workshops that address the intersections of criminal justice movements around the incarceration of migrants and communities of colour and Indigenous sovereign movements. SRB II builds on the momentum and opportunities enabled by the first Space, Race, Bodies conference in publicising and disseminating scholarship and activism on the intersections between geography, racism and racialisation.

Young Workers Conference

Saturday 17 June, 2006 , at Geelong Trades Hall Council the Young Workers Conference, initiated by Socialist Youth organization, Resistance, and backed by Geelong Trades Hall, under the theme 'Up Yours Howard- Young Workers Fight Back' will tap into the growing sentiment that Howard's laws have the potential to be disastrous for many people in the community, particularly the young and students. Joe Carolan spoke on Supersize My Pay Campaign

What is Work Choices really about? - Christian Bombig & Lisa Darminin, VTHC Young Unionist Network, Supersize My Pay Campaign - Activists Mengzhu Fu and Sam Harre from NZ UNITE and Radical Youth.

Radical Youth

2006 -Mengzhu Fu and Eliana Darroch, representing Radical Youth. Mengzhu Fu goes to Epsom Girls Grammar.

Named on Joe Carolan's Blog as a leader of Radical Youth.

Workers Charter conference

Matt McCarten, John Minto and Socialist Worker hosted a “Workers Charter” meeting Saturday October 11 2006, in Auckland.

The Workers Charter Movement was the embryo of a new left wing political party, modeled on the successful British “Respect” coalition and the less successful Australian Socialist Alliance. It was also a co-ordinating body for militant union trade union activity. The “movement” published a “Workers Charter” newspaper.

This Saturday, 7th October, starts 11am

Auckland Trades Hall 147 Great North Rd, Grey Lynn

11 – 11.10am Welcome from chair (Daphne Lawless).

11.10am – 12.30pm – Workers Charter, a paper for the movement – introduced by John Minto (editorial) & Bronwyn Summers (financial).

1.30 – 3pm – Unions in the 21st century – intro by Laila Harre (NDU), Andrew Little (EPMU), Sue Bradford (Green MP), Mengzhu (Radical Youth) and Joe Carolan (unionist & socialist).

3.15 – 4pm – Human Rights for Workers campaign – introduced by Vaughan Gunson (unionist & socialist) and Eliana Darroch (Radical Youth).

4pm – 4.30 pm – Graham Matthews, Australian unionist.

4.30 – 4.45pm – election of expanded, national editorial board of Workers Charter paper.

4.45 – 5.30pm – Climaction Day (4 November) to build a campaign for System Change, Not Climate Change. Speaker(s) to be confirmed.

Bhuddist Youth Association

2006 Bhuddist Youth Association contact.

Meng Zhu

AGE: 17

OCCUPATION: Student

What kind of issues do you think are important to New Zealand youth today?

Climate change is probably the biggest issue. It is young people who are going to have to find ways of living sustainably to stop the worst effects of climate change.

I’m involved with a group called Radical Youth and we have been working on this issue for over a year now. We have some actions planned this year to re-highlight this issue to abolish youth rates for good.

Supporting Ali Panah

In September 2007, three of the seven activists who were arrested at Auckland's Mt Eden Remand Centre are being held in police cells.

Seven Global Peace and Justice activists were arrested after chaining themselves to property at Auckland's Mt Eden Prison in support of Iranian asylum seeker Ali Panah, who is protesting the New Zealand government's refusal to grant him a temporary visa.

Panah arrived in New Zealand five years ago but he was detained after his application for refugee status was turned down 18 months ago. He says he will be murdered if he is forced to go back to Iran because of his conversion to Christianity. Panah is now into his 51st day of his hunger strike.

The three activists who were being held - Simon Oosterman, Mengzhu Fu, and Tyler Culpepper - refused to sign bail papers.

Hen farm protest

25 June 2012, the country’s largest battery hen operation at Waikouaiti north of Dunedin was blockaded by animal rights activists on 7 metre high tripods. The Coalition to End Factory Farming began their audacious road blockade early this morning on the company’s only vehicle access road to protest hen cruelty and halt production. Three people were arrested by police using a cherry picker.

Coalition to End Factory Farming spokesperson, Deirdre Sims, says she and fellow activists are currently suspended from the top of steel towering tripods on the road and chained to a gate, forming a blockade. “By design, any attempt to remove the tripods, will put our lives at risk,” she says.

The three protesters who were involved, Deirdre Sims, Marie Brittain and Mengzhu Fu were all locked up in police custody.