activism
Categories under activism
- Spying (310)
Levin Arrest and Police Escort
Written By: - Date published: 8:31 pm, December 12th, 2009 - 156 comments
This is a guest post by Jasmine because I couldn’t be bothered writing it myself 😉 Today Rochelle and I were hanging out in Levin, as you do on a Saturday afternoon, and decided to go check out the local layer hen slaughterhouse. There was no one around so we decided to climb the fence […]
In a land of plenty
Written By: - Date published: 11:34 am, December 5th, 2009 - Comments Off on In a land of plenty
Alister Barry’s other classic documentary on the effects of the Right’s neoliberal revolution on every day New Zealanders, In a Land of Plenty, is also now online thanks to NZ On Screen. Check it out below:
What the government wants to dig up
Written By: - Date published: 11:55 am, December 4th, 2009 - 21 comments
[Post reproduced with permission from No Right Turn] This is a picture of the north-western part of Mount Aspiring National Park, which the government wants to dig up. There’s a full album here. As can be seen, it is a rather distinctive area, flowing from lowland forest like that pictured to the barren subalpine red […]
Planet A – Saturday!
Written By: - Date published: 6:08 am, December 4th, 2009 - 16 comments
Tomorrow Saturday it’s the Planet A Concert and March (the concert to be webcast live): In Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, you’ll be able to march, dance, listen to speakers, sing, and jump on bouncy castles in support of a good outcome in Copenhagen. From a massive free public concert in Auckland featuring top NZ bands […]
Planet A – Concert & March
Written By: - Date published: 7:02 am, November 30th, 2009 - 73 comments
Mark your calendar, and turn out next Saturday for the Planet A Concert and March (the concert to be webcast live): In Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, you’ll be able to march, dance, listen to speakers, sing, and jump on bouncy castles in support of a good outcome in Copenhagen. From a massive free public concert in Auckland […]
Rally: Lift the freeze on low pay
Written By: - Date published: 10:30 am, November 27th, 2009 - 1 comment
Just a reminder, thousands of hospital support staff, school support staff and other low-paid public sector workers are rallying in 27 centres nationwide today to tell the government to lift the freeze on low pay. The rallies are taking place from 12.30-1.30. If you can, head on down in your lunch break and show your […]
Who’s next?
Written By: - Date published: 9:04 am, November 25th, 2009 - 13 comments
I was watching that vid by the Greens on ACC and bikoi. What caught my attention was the bikers’ chant: “who’s next, who’s next?” The Right loves to atomise us – make us think of ourselves only as individuals or narrow interest groups. Our reaction to the bikers getting hammered with these unecessary ACC hikes […]
Oh dear, what a fizzer
Written By: - Date published: 2:25 pm, November 21st, 2009 - 57 comments
The pro-child assault lobby spent $500,000 trying to manufacture the biggest march in New Zealand history up Queen St today. The reports say fewer than 5,000 took part. Oh dear. What does that work out at? More than $100 per marcher? Gee, if you’d offered me that much I would have walked back down Queen St too. Update: a couple of pics. Looks […]
Fighting for democracy?
Written By: - Date published: 3:00 pm, November 20th, 2009 - 15 comments
Lance Corporal Joe Glenton is facing prison after speaking out at an anti-war rally. A British soldier was arrested on Monday for speaking out at an anti-war rally and refusing to return to fight in Afghanistan. Lance Corporal Joe Glenton has been charged not just with desertion, but with new charges under the Armed Forces […]
Bikoi video
Written By: - Date published: 3:00 pm, November 19th, 2009 - Comments Off on Bikoi video
Hat tip: Labour.
Greenpeace to focus on poverty
Written By: - Date published: 7:49 pm, November 17th, 2009 - 47 comments
The new head of Greenpeace, South African Kumi Naidoo, has pledged under his leadership that the organisation’s core focus will be the effect of climate change on the world’s poorest people. This is great news. I have always been critical of the way many (really great) environmental organisations have tried to divorce themselves from social […]
Bikoi
Written By: - Date published: 2:16 pm, November 17th, 2009 - 44 comments
Just got away from the bikoi at Parliament. What a sight. At least 6,000 people they reckon. The lawn and half the forecourt covered. Tui flying overhead joining in the fun. The bikers know are they being treated unfairly and National is using their levy money to pay for false propaganda for levy increases. They […]
Faux pro-smacking march fun
Written By: - Date published: 8:08 am, November 17th, 2009 - 41 comments
With all his usual wit, James of Editing the Herald proposes a spike of the so-called ‘March for Democracy’ in Auckland this week. The full post is well worth reading but here’s the meat: Democracy’s greatest heroes, from Thomas Jefferson to Tony Blair, appeared to me in a dream and showed me a glorious vision: a […]
Equality Trust
Written By: - Date published: 2:45 pm, November 10th, 2009 - 4 comments
Fancy a link to a well laid-out repository of comparative social statistics with sound credentials, all arranged to demonstrate why inequality is bad for society? Here you go.
Guilty until proven innocent
Written By: - Date published: 1:01 pm, November 7th, 2009 - 9 comments
We are continuing our chilling progress towards a surveillance state. The Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act 2009 is another brick in the wall. Apparently this act reverses the fundamental presumption of innocence with respect to assets (possessions, wealth). If the police decide that your possessions were gained via “significant criminal activity” you are guilty unless you […]
The Good Oil: Blast the Right
Written By: - Date published: 11:28 am, November 7th, 2009 - 2 comments
God knows you’ll never hear this sort of stuff from the transnational corporate duopolies that are our erstwhile msm, so many thanks to one of our readers who kindly put me on to this excellent US grassroots site by Jerold Block. It’s a repository of podcasts that basically just contain countless well put counter-arguments to […]
Chilling
Written By: - Date published: 9:39 am, November 5th, 2009 - 39 comments
The Search and Surveillance Bill is making its way though the bowels of the government law making process. This is a terrible law, described by the Human Rights Commissioner as “disproportionately invasive” and “chilling“: Sweeping powers to spy, bug conversations and hack into private computers could be given to a web of state agencies as […]
Maybe not very social, but definitely networking
Written By: - Date published: 9:12 pm, November 4th, 2009 - 13 comments
And so my nomination for the 2009 Best Named Site Award goes to a fan club for our beloved Mayor of Whanganui Mr Lhaws: Michael Laws is a complete twat Probably unduly flattering when you think about it, but hey in the overall scheme of things you’ve earned it Mick. More than 3000 members and […]
Ecosexploitation 350
Written By: - Date published: 11:05 am, November 1st, 2009 - 22 comments
One of the many problems facing people who want to grow popular awareness of matters ecological is that for the large part, it’s bloody depressing if you start to get the reality of it. So I imagine director Cameron Russell sold the pitch for this vid with an argument something like “we need to catch […]
The horror of low wages
Written By: - Date published: 6:27 pm, October 31st, 2009 - 24 comments
The Unite Halloween-themed $15 minimum wage march went well yesterday. Looks like there were a fair number of people there. Pity there’s no single good shot of the whole crowd (hint for protest photographers) but John Darroch managed to get some pretty cool snaps. Here are a few:
$15 min wage march tonight
Written By: - Date published: 11:36 am, October 30th, 2009 - 15 comments
The Campaign for a Living Wage will be taking to the streets of Auckland’s CBD tonight to demand a minimum wage of 15 dollars an hour and an end to poverty wages. The theme is Halloween trick or treat. If you want, you can dress up as: (a) a Zombie worker who has awoken from […]
Good on you Sue
Written By: - Date published: 11:02 am, October 29th, 2009 - 4 comments
Ever since the Greens were elected into Parliament for the first time, Sue Bradford has been one the MPs I have admired the most. She stood by strong principles, for the right kind of change, and always represented those who lacked a voice and political power. Her final political statement was insightful into the kind […]
ACC protests send clear message to NACT
Written By: - Date published: 9:13 pm, October 19th, 2009 - 8 comments
Today hundreds of people around the country marched against the cuts to sexual abuse counselling due to be implemented by ACC next week. The protests were widely covered by the media, with excellent coverage by both TVNZ and 3News. I was at the Auckland march where a couple of hundred people turned up to rally […]
Surveillance state
Written By: - Date published: 9:26 am, October 16th, 2009 - 22 comments
One of the most dishonest, yet most successful tactics of National in opposition was to rant on and on about the “Nanny state”. Here’s John Key fairly foaming at the mouth: I’ve had nine years of being told what lightbulb I can screw into the house, what shower I can take, what food I can […]
The Bridgeman Concrete lockout ends successfully
Written By: - Date published: 11:00 pm, October 8th, 2009 - 14 comments
The Bridgeman Concrete workers locked out for nine days hardened their picket last week. Two concrete trucks couldn’t leave the depo, costing the company $3,000 in ruined concrete. The company responded by caving in, and lifted the lock out. As well as lifting their lockout Bridgeman also conceded to workers’ demands for a fairer redundancy agreement that […]
Bus drivers solidarity picket – Wgtn
Written By: - Date published: 11:54 am, October 7th, 2009 - Comments Off on Bus drivers solidarity picket – Wgtn
There’s a solidarity picket tomorrow outside Infratil’s HQ in Wellington to support the locked out Auckland bus drivers. If you’ve got a moment in your lunch break head on over and support these workers against this latest example of New Zealand’s growing employer militancy. What: Auckland bus drivers solidarity picket. When: Thursday, October 8 (tomorrow) […]
LKJ: If I was a Top-notch Poet
Written By: - Date published: 11:25 am, October 2nd, 2009 - Comments Off on LKJ: If I was a Top-notch Poet
For my old mate Mercurius. I hope things are looking up.
Support Open Country/Telecom workers
Written By: - Date published: 9:30 am, September 30th, 2009 - 6 comments
If you’re in Wellington this Friday you might want to pop along to a quiz night fundraiser that Finsec and the NDU are running for the (illegally) locked out Open Country Cheese workers and the (now redundant) Telecom lines engineers. Details are: Time: 6pm Venue: Loaves and Fishes Hall (just across the road from Parliament) […]
Bomber’s War on News
Written By: - Date published: 12:05 pm, September 29th, 2009 - 5 comments
If you haven’t been able to see it yet or can’t get Triangle/Stratos, here’s a link to recent episodes of Bomber Bradbury’s War on News. It’s entertaining, accurate and educational all at once. Kind of like PBS only a bit more ‘informal’. It’s also pretty funny in parts and Bomber comes across as genuine and […]
Secret ballots for strikes
Written By: - Date published: 8:47 am, September 25th, 2009 - 60 comments
Tau Henare has put a private members’ bill in the ballot that would require ballots by union members on strike action to be held in secret. Henare draws on his memories from the 1980s as a union organiser and reckons that open ballots are used to intimidate workers into toeing the line. Well, maybe it […]
The server will be getting hardware changes this evening starting at 10pm NZDT.
The site will be off line for some hours.
Recent Comments