Just a quick thought…
Yeah, okay, it’s a couple of thoughts on the Canadian jokers and what is and isn’t happening in response to their stuff.
activism
The Iraq War
Over the next week or two I will be doing blog posts about student politics and my time at university. Here is the first one…
Radical Socialism
‘nother guest post by Nick Kelly (Upper Hutt boy in London)
Remember, remember!
Sunday the 5th of November from 12 O’Clock onwards, by the bandstand in Dunedin’s Botanic Gardens.
Indigenous and green politics require changes in perspectives
One of our key political challenges now is to broaden the understanding of what matters.
Kiwis send a message to Tillerson
As Patrick Gower puts it, “English tries to hide from the reality of Trump’s America”. Fortunately ordinary Kiwis were not so supine.
Squatters’ rights
You know things are bad when MPs start thinking squatting is a viable option.
“We are unstoppable, another world is possible”
Activism and protest done well, here are the faces of the emerging climate justice movement in NZ.
Greenpeace got themselves a bigger boat…
“Yours is an honourable mission with the power to bring alive the conscience of the world”
Heroes
All the “nobody” people.
Legalising civil disobedience and the culture of change
Change happens at the intersection of the edge and the mainstream.
Michael Moore’s Morning After To Do List
In trying times, it’s good to have something to do.
Blogs and Activism
What contribution can a blog make to activism?
Globalisation and global incomes (the “elephant graph”)
An elegant graph explains why free trade is a good thing, but why it is causing a backlash in rich “Western” countries.
TPP – with a whimper
Plenty of folk today pronouncing the death of the TPP. This is a victory for activism.
Another shocking environmental record
The world’s news is full of new environmental records. Here’s a shocker.
Indigenous Perspectives
“It is possible to live in a society with a world view that does not include empire”
– Winona LaDuke
Greenpeace activism
Herald columnist Paul Little has done some good stuff in the past, but today’s effort on Greenpeace is a disgrace. Nothing but ill-informed prejudice on parade.
just a voice
Brief occasional updates were requested on the public meetings being held in Dunedin. I’ll be straight up about this. I’m not altogether comfortable about submitting these posts because some readers might see the meetings as being synonymous with me. They’re not. But since I’m the only person with posting rights and because it wouldn’t be be appropriate to post an opinion under ‘notices and features’…
Off the Pages (impressions)
A very brief and broad brushstroke account of yesterday’s meeting at Dunedin Botanic Gardens.
Off The Pages – reminder
Saturday afternoon. 1 O’Clock. Bandstand in Dunedin Botanic Gardens.
Off The Pages…
…and into the world.
Saving the world
Fear factors
Another in an on going non-chronological series on options in the face of global warming.
If
If you and I were told that (variously) our sons and daughters, grandchildren, nieces and nephews were going to be killed tomorrow, would I be right to suspect that we might sit up and take notice?
An Occupation Occupied. What’s Next?
Last week, several occupations ‘popped up’ around New Zealand. Well, they didn’t exactly pop up, did they? They weren’t more or less spontaneous, as in numerous countries in the Middle East, N. Africa, Europe and more recently, in Wall Street.
In New Zealand, there was, and is, no general out-pouring of anger or frustration from across large sectors of society. In New Zealand, the Occupations are contrived…pre-planned and organised.
Private Bradley Manning
So, it’s Christmas; the season of good will and all. But for some of our institutions, juggernauts of bad will that they are, they just roll on regardless . For what it’s worth there is an on line letter you can sign calling on the US to end it’s inhumane treatment of Bradley Manning. Maybe signing it constitutes a Christmas message of sorts.
The crisis of credit visuali[s]ed
I just came across this. It’s the first part of a video by a US organisation called A New Way Forward. They’re organising […]
The Golfball and Sickle
Personally, I think it’s hilarious. A brilliant piece of activism that got the public’s attention and raised the issue of why we have American […]
Join the smackathon
Just what you may have been waiting for: www.righttosmack.co.nz While we want the government to interfere with people’s private activities to some small […]
Labour Congress EFA protest
Jordan Carter’s just posted a photo of what looks like nine EFA protesters having their say outside the Labour Party Congress on the […]
Hiding from the hakapiks
There is a Novotel hotel beside the Canadian High Commission on The Terrace in Wellington. Check out this billboard on the wall of […]
Ng on fact-free politics
Keith Ng of Public Address has a long-standing commitment to improving the quality of journalism in this country. Now, he is proposing a […]
Al Gore’s new climate change campaign
Al Gore has just launched a $300 million, bipartisan campaign to try to push climate change higher on the nation’s political agenda. The […]
The parties’ climate change policies
‘Tis the season for surveys of the parties. Greenpeace sent a questionnaire to each of the parliamentary parties asking for their polices on […]
Interview the leaders
We’re going to interview the leader of each party but we’d like to give you the chance to ask the questions. Starting next […]