THANKS! to all our volunteers and supporters
For security reasons, we have had to keep all our amazing volunteers anonymous – UNTIL NOW!
Please give a big round of thanks and appreciation to the MIL volunteer team:
Campaign Manager: Sandra Murray
Social Media Moderators
HUGE thanks to this utterly dedicated group of volunteers. The MIL Facebook page averaged 3,000 comments per day and this team moderated around 18 hours a day filtering out abuse; getting rid of trolls and fake profiles; engaging with people to stop misinformation and answering questions on an extraordinary range of topics. We cannot thank them enough for remaining calm (mostly) and answering the same questions over and over and over and over and …….
Kate Milnes Helen Leggatt Matthew Elrod Worik Stanton |
Jo Wrigley Jason Stevens Deb Lydford Elliot Ingram |
Sandra Murray Michael Smith Nandor Tanczos
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Social Media
All our Top Fans and commentators, especially: Associate Professor Joe Boden, Professor Julian Buchanan, Hoto Te Whitu, Martin MacGregor and Graeme Woller (you have no idea how much we appreciated your help!).
Social media content creation & Instagram: Cat
Website, social media and video content:
Thanks to Michael Smith, Rebecca Reider, Angelina Stanton, Sandra Murray, Eddie Larson (video editing), Benny Mack / Reopen (video editing), Andrew Streb (Animations) and all the others who didn’t want to be named.
Local Groups
Southland: Leads: Anntwinette Grumball & Kate Milnes |
Dunedin & Otago: Leads: Bert Holmes & Worik Stanton |
Canterbury: Lead: Michael Smith Asher, Inga, Jade, Irinka, Mike, Snap, Scott, Ani, Chris, Sean, Daniel, Ryan, Ben, Luke, Keiller, Rick, Alex, Rebekah, Thor, and everyone else who helped us out! |
Nelson: Lead: Te Aroha Knox |
Wellington: Lead: Jacob Heatherington Michael Riddell, Andy Duncan |
Wairarapa: Lead: Jared Renata |
Palmerston North: Lead: Tayte Cozens |
Auckland & Northland: Lead: Sandra Murray Stephen Groves, Zac Russell, HazBro, Martin Anderson, Lephi Peneha |
Make It Legal Aotearoa New Zealand Trustees
Worik Stanton | Metiria Turei | Nandor Tanczos | Rebecca Reider |
Other support
Hoodies and T-Shirts: HigherNZ
Bumper Sticker sales: Cosmic & Hempstore
Ashleigh the Advocate
Extra Special Thanks
Thank you.… to all the amazing people who donated and supported us to run the best campaign possible – especially all the people who donated regular amounts into our account for months and were the backbone of our entire social media campaign ($4.20 was popular!).
Everyone who put a banner on their fence and held a sign at a picket
RS – who rescued us from Covid-19 and helped everything get bigger and better
And a very big thank you to our families, who had to put up with us being absent, preoccupied and obsessed with Make It Legal for a protracted time
xxxxx much love
Johnny Varu says:
Thankyou too everone for all your hard work. If possible please dont stop, wether it passes or not lets not be silenced, we are the people and the people want to be heard. I fully support you all and your efforts. Thankyou so much. Ill definitely be willing to volunteer for the cause should you continue.