Author Archive

It’s time for a different story

Written By: weka - Date published: 5:55 am, November 16th, 2016 - 68 comments

A post-US election space for engendering solidarity and resistance.

Legalising civil disobedience and the culture of change

Written By: weka - Date published: 12:23 pm, November 12th, 2016 - 13 comments

Change happens at the intersection of the edge and the mainstream.

Post-Election Recovery Salon

Written By: weka - Date published: 7:30 am, November 11th, 2016 - 60 comments

Need a haven from the post-election fall out?

Michael Moore’s Morning After To Do List

Written By: weka - Date published: 2:09 pm, November 10th, 2016 - 24 comments

In trying times, it’s good to have something to do.

Standing Rock update

Written By: weka - Date published: 3:27 pm, November 3rd, 2016 - 21 comments

The Standing Rock water protection movement continues in the face of increasing state violence.

Sunday Poetry

Written By: weka - Date published: 7:37 am, October 30th, 2016 - 16 comments

Slam, Tourettes and Sam, Le Guin as a man.

“The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free”

Written By: weka - Date published: 8:11 am, October 23rd, 2016 - 16 comments

Some inspiration for the activists in the audience.

Protecting the seabed and foreshore

Written By: weka - Date published: 9:34 am, October 19th, 2016 - 7 comments

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

Written By: weka - Date published: 7:30 am, October 15th, 2016 - 31 comments

The words of the climate justice activists and why they are stepping up.

Water and community

Written By: weka - Date published: 8:30 am, October 10th, 2016 - 10 comments

In coming together around a common need to protect water and land, community forms.

International Days of Prayer and Action with Standing Rock

Written By: weka - Date published: 9:00 am, October 9th, 2016 - 4 comments

What we know is coming largely from outside the mainstream. Which is how it should be.

Water and cultural values

Written By: weka - Date published: 7:30 am, October 8th, 2016 - 60 comments

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

Written By: weka - Date published: 2:33 pm, October 6th, 2016 - 25 comments

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

Written By: weka - Date published: 10:28 pm, September 8th, 2016 - 106 comments

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

Written By: weka - Date published: 7:00 pm, September 8th, 2016 - 4 comments

Help get the petition to 45,000.

Can a national park be a person?

Written By: weka - Date published: 9:00 am, September 6th, 2016 - 17 comments

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…

Written By: weka - Date published: 11:14 am, September 1st, 2016 - 78 comments

42 years on, Norman Kirk’s words and work remain a beacon.

Supported autonomy

Written By: weka - Date published: 9:00 am, August 31st, 2016 - 31 comments

Philip Patston writes about the important difference between autonomy and independence.

Fair and sustainable economics

Written By: weka - Date published: 12:42 pm, August 27th, 2016 - 168 comments

Green Party finance spokesperson Julie Anne Genter starts a conversation about post-neoliberal economics.

“Flushing flows”

Written By: weka - Date published: 4:46 pm, August 24th, 2016 - 14 comments

A new phrase is about to enter NZ’s clean green image lexicon.

What if there were only 34 more whitebait harvests left?

Written By: weka - Date published: 8:30 am, August 19th, 2016 - 78 comments

Water is life not merely wadeable.

The Christchurch Commons

Written By: weka - Date published: 1:50 pm, August 17th, 2016 - 18 comments

Meanwhile, down in Christchurch the plan is to put water back in the centre of our physical, cultural and spiritual lives.

This is the face of the failure of globalisation

Written By: weka - Date published: 10:12 am, August 14th, 2016 - 272 comments

My apologies to Mohammad Jamal, the man in the photo, for using his largely unknown story to make a point about free-trade and Western privilege.

Green Party Bill to improve the rights of renters

Written By: weka - Date published: 6:55 pm, August 11th, 2016 - 92 comments

It’s time to stop viewing renting as second best, and put some decent laws in place to ensure everyone has the security of a home. The Green Party’s Member’s Bill aims to “strengthen tenants’ rights and promote secure, long-term tenancies.”

Grow the Commons

Written By: weka - Date published: 9:19 am, August 10th, 2016 - 57 comments

Robert Guyton on reclaiming the Commons one plant at at time.

Kiwi Treason

Written By: weka - Date published: 8:08 am, August 4th, 2016 - 181 comments

Vegemite and marmite taste the same, rugby is naff, John Clarke’s an Australian. What?

Is US Green Party’s Jill Stein the new people’s champion?

Written By: weka - Date published: 12:43 pm, July 28th, 2016 - 109 comments

Plus she makes Fox News reporters’ heads explode.

The Greens take a stand on the housing bubble

Written By: weka - Date published: 3:04 pm, July 27th, 2016 - 264 comments

“I want to be very clear that we are talking about a responsible, carefully managed reduction in house prices over a period of time like 10 to 15 years.”

Metiria Turei