Greenpeace got themselves a bigger boat…
“Yours is an honourable mission with the power to bring alive the conscience of the world”
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Marama Fox on working with a Labour/Green government
Marama Fox opens the way for the Māori Party to work with Labour and the Greens.
Climate change – beyond the politics and the maths and the fear
Climate change is the most important issue of all time. Beyond the politics and the maths and the fear there is simply doing the right thing.
It’s past time to be bold about water
Water is both the front line and the rallying cry.
Kaupapa Pākehā
What if we based our politics on relationships not power?
The Greens in Te Tai Tokerau
Te Tai Tokerau looks to be a hotly contested seat in the 2017 general election, and the Greens are entering the fray there for the first time, with new candidate Godfrey Rudolph.
What’s the deal? There isn’t one.
What are the Greens up to then?
Watching the journalists
“The obligation of a journalist is to serve the public”
Conservation matters
The government is stealing from us again so Forest and Bird are stepping up.
Help Save the Riverton Environment Centre
Down South good things have been happening, and now they need a hand to keep their building.
The dynamic of vindictive winners
If you can’t punish the Liberal power-holders in society directly, what do you do?
Shock after shock
Understanding shock events is part of the solution.
Then hope
Hope and action are also part of the solution.
Punching Nazis, and practicing resistance
Being human, Linda Tirado, and lessons for New Zealand.
Stop. Driving. Climate. Change.
What can we do today that will make a difference?
Powerdown
Climate change, Peak Oil, resource depletion. Some of our options are better than others.
Pathological consumption
On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a free trip to the landfill and a subscription to the end of the world as we know it.
Climate change change vs scaremongering
Things are too serious to sanction the doom-merchants.
Opinions
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are only entitled to what you can argue for.”
It’s time for a different story
A post-US election space for engendering solidarity and resistance.
Legalising civil disobedience and the culture of change
Change happens at the intersection of the edge and the mainstream.
Post-Election Recovery Salon
Need a haven from the post-election fall out?
Michael Moore’s Morning After To Do List
In trying times, it’s good to have something to do.
Standing Rock update
The Standing Rock water protection movement continues in the face of increasing state violence.
Sunday Poetry
Slam, Tourettes and Sam, Le Guin as a man.
“The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free”
Some inspiration for the activists in the audience.
Protecting the seabed and foreshore
With the sudden departure of deep sea drilling company Statoil from Northland here’s a timely look the role of community action in that, the state of play in NZ and what is next.
“This is my act of love” – the shut down of the trans Canadian/US pipelines
The words of the climate justice activists and why they are stepping up.
Water and community
In coming together around a common need to protect water and land, community forms.
International Days of Prayer and Action with Standing Rock
What we know is coming largely from outside the mainstream. Which is how it should be.
Water and cultural values
Day one of the International Days of Prayer and Action with Standing Rock. Here’s a post on NZ’s relationship with water, and whether water is a resource or a taonga.
Why we need to stand with Standing Rock
For seven months the next movement of social and environmental justice and resistance has been growing. We should be paying attention.
NZ Human Rights Commission Open Letter to NZ Rugby Union on respecting women
The Human Rights Commission is calling on New Zealanders to sign the open letter to New Zealand Rugby, which asks them to seek support in addressing their internal culture issues.
PETITION: Stop Govt. funded river pollution
Help get the petition to 45,000.
Can a national park be a person?
While New Zealand trashes its water and argues over whether we are allow to say ‘dairy cow’ at the same time, this 1 min video on The Guardian Facebook page about the Rights of Nature in NZ gets 2.4 million views
Democracy doesn’t belong to government…
42 years on, Norman Kirk’s words and work remain a beacon.