{"id":39105,"date":"2021-11-21T09:53:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T00:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/21\/unusual-bedfellows-how-gangs-are-pushing-new-zealands-covid-vaccination-drive"},"modified":"2021-11-21T09:53:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T00:53:44","slug":"unusual-bedfellows-how-gangs-are-pushing-new-zealands-covid-vaccination-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39105","title":{"rendered":"Unusual bedfellows: how gangs are pushing New Zealand\u2019s Covid vaccination drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cabinet ministers have been meeting with gang leaders as the country targets an ambitious vaccination rate<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After the needle entered his right arm, the man raised his left fist in a brief salute. Surgical mask covering parts of his facial tattoos, he nodded to the nurse. A long ponytail cut a line through the blue and white letters covering his back: a patch, signifying membership of one of New Zealand\u2019s largest and most infamous street gangs. Mark Pitman, leader of Black Power New Zealand, was getting vaccinated on national television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to do it and I want the rest of our organisation around the country to know I\u2019ve got it done,\u201d Pitman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2021\/10\/09\/black-power-president-rolls-up-sleeve-as-covid-19-jab-encouragement\/\">told the camera<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m a leader. And I lead from example.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/21\/unusual-bedfellows-how-gangs-are-pushing-new-zealands-covid-vaccination-drive\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cabinet ministers have been meeting with gang leaders as the country targets an ambitious vaccination rateSee all our coronavirus coverageAfter the needle entered his right arm, the man raised his left fist in a brief salute. Surgical mask covering par&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39106,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39105\/revisions\/39106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}