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Uhhhh have you tried learning how to code?
Are you a member of a leftist org? Fellow Kiwi here I can point you in the right direction if you want. Being in an org helps give me some purpose for sure.
If you live in Auckland or Wellington you have a couple of options, Organise Aotearoa, which is a multi-tendency org who did good work with the Ihumātao campaign. Or there is the Communist Party of Aotearoa, which is a strictly Marxist-Leninist party that supports China which has done some stuff with tenants unions and has connections with Cuba and Vietnam through the embassies.
Outside of that, there isn’t that much. Both OA and the CPA have members in Hamilton, Christchurch, Dunedin, Whangārei, Rotorua and Tauranga so joining those orgs if you live in those places won’t be a waste of time. Both of them are looking to expand to other areas but suffer from the issue that there aren’t enough people there to make branches.
In Christchurch there is the Canterbury Socialist Society, however, it is more like a social group than an actual org.
There is also the ISO but they arent that big and afaik they don’t do very much. They also, being Trots, ask that you commit time to sell newspapers as a part of being a member.
In the US the public sector has decent consistent hours and good benefits. Maybe you could work for the labor department equivalent for NZ? What type of law are you working in?
You have a law degree apparently, have you considered taking your talents to a leftist org of some kind? In the US we have the National Lawyer’s Guild that helps people at protests and stuff.
Obviously if you don’t like lawyering this won’t work for you, but maybe knowing you’re working for a good cause will make the work more bearable.
