Juressa Lee

🧬Moananui-a-Kiwa 👩🏻‍🌾 Campaigner @ Greenpeace Aotearoa 📲 Opinions are my own ➡️ A moratorium on Deep Sea Mining ➡️ A strong Global Plastics Treaty

[Juressa Lee @Juressa]

SBM won’t ever be sustainable. In 10yrs we’ll still know nothing abt deep-sea ecosyst’s. The only way to protect our ocean, livelihoods & future gen’s is to stop this industry b4 it starts in Cook Is, Taranaki, the wider Pacific. Protecting the moana is our birth-righted duty

[Juressa Lee @Juressa]

The delay until at least 2032 shows the Cook Is govt is feeling pressure from a growing movement that knows seabed mining is too risky, too destructive, and nowhere near the “economic benefit for all” it’s being sold as.
https://t.co/Lkx1VbJNyi

[Juressa Lee @Juressa]

Foreign operators profit, then leave. Communities are left with the destruction & consequences, often never recovering. That’s the extractive legacy, seabed / deep sea mining would be no different.

[Nick Young @nickofnz]

Forty years of resistance in the Pacific, via @Juressa https://t.co/pwdcCR0ExP

[Juressa Lee @Juressa]

Enviro minister has been nothing short of lacklustre & inert, “asleep at the wheel” while critical issues mount. 3rd tranche of plastic bans was low hanging fruit, hard work done. Can’t name a single progressive thing she’s done. An unmemorable career https://t.co/IUEOdkrqWf

[Juressa Lee @Juressa]

@AGPamBondi Oh this is an actual human 😂

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

A South African billionaire worth nearly $500 billion wants to cut Social Security and Medicare for American seniors—many of whom are surviving on an average of just $762 a month.

Let that sink in.

The richest man on Earth, who pays little to no taxes, thinks your grandmother’s medicine and your grandfather’s check are the problem—not corporate greed, not tax breaks for the wealthy, not trillion-dollar war budgets.

This level of wickedness is staggering.

[Juressa Lee @Juressa]

Global Nth colonisers have exploited the Pacific for ‘resources’, land, nuclear testing, militarism & never meaningfully compensated or apologised for their destruction. Who could ever believe the greenwash used to justify deep sea mining of our ocean? https://t.co/sXWmiTlJ8h

[Juressa Lee @Juressa]

@actparty There’s nothing fair about sacrificing brown ppl to bowel cancer for the fragility of ur supporters. Truly concerned abt bowel cancer? Put ur energy into learning more abt high levels of nitrates in drinking water & links already being made to bowel cancer https://t.co/0OFjNzmNgc

[Juressa Lee @Juressa]

@actparty What a scummy move, & a scummy excuse purposely, to keep your fragile, racist donors sweet. If new policy were needs based, it would incl groups that were over-represented in bowel cancer cases, whether it was age or genetics (ie ethnicity), or something else.

[Juressa Lee @Juressa]

McCallum Bros is applying for consent to mine sand. “Website states it is their way of being transparent.” Using Fast Track to bypass pub consultation & environment checks is disingenuous, just like TransTasman Resources’ lack of good faith w Taranaki communities on seabed mining

[Greenpeace Aotearoa @GreenpeaceNZ]

'Filth ecological disaster': anti-sand mining petition makes it to parliament.
https://t.co/jvlLAEqNRM

[Juressa Lee @Juressa]

Third fire in 5 yrs for Global Metal Solutions, Papakura… same crowd applying for waste incineration in Te Awamutu. Just another reason the community s/be v concerned. Too many risks to human health, environment, food sources & climate https://t.co/ChGz8HehJO

[Juressa Lee @Juressa]

“Quite often institutionalised racism is done by accident. This is purposeful, deliberate knowing act…” Imagine ignoring expert advice that wld keep ppl alive bc some will accuse Māori, Pacific of privilege, for bowel cancer diagnoses earlier than others https://t.co/JA2nf5f0cT

[Juressa Lee @Juressa]

Indigenous rights, rights of Pacific Peoples, their Indig knowledge systems, & a healthy environment must be centred in conversations & decision-making, alongside the best available, robust and independent science. https://t.co/JGM2pCs9YS

[Juressa Lee @Juressa]

https://t.co/KxyFuIwIXZ 
NGOs demonstrate strong & growing resistance across Te Moananui a Kiwa, against a new form of extractivism & colonisation.

[Juressa Lee @Juressa]

@KGC_fanboi @NoDeepSeaMining @30Packets @Greenpeace @nickofnz @GreenpeaceNZ @MarkBrownPM Is that what you think deep sea mining is? Innocuous and careful fingers lifting stuff up like lint? Yikes.😬 You’re not ready for this conversation, so I ain’t got the time. Untag me, babes, and don’t get so emotional.

[Nick Young @nickofnz]

"Why Waitangi Day is so special for me" https://t.co/CcxIeRAe5y via @Juressa

#waitangi #waitangi2025 #nzpol #waitangiday #ToitūTeTiriti

[Juressa Lee @Juressa]

@COMRC_ORG @GreenpeaceNZ Not all mines are the same & harms on communities varies. You said Indigenous Pacific peoples’ values of kaitiakitanga & custodianship were killing Indig communities & our resistance was responsible for death & disease. As if we colonised, enslaved, extracted. You’re projecting