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Resistance Photography

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, May 26th, 2009 - 18 comments

Some great photos from yesterday’s hikoi from Squirrel. Click the thumbnails below to view photos, or see the whole set at the Resistance Photography channel on flickr.

Reader photos

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 4:30 pm, May 25th, 2009 - 30 comments

Thanks to a reader for sending in these photos from today’s hikoi: If anyone else has photos or youtube send them in and we’ll put them up.

Hikoi video

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 3:05 pm, May 25th, 2009 - 1 comment

The Herald Online has some great video from today’s hikoi here and here, and some photos here. The videos really are worth a look. They manage to give a sense of the atmosphere on the ground while at the same time giving voice to the people taking part in the march. If anyone has any […]

Can’t you play off to one side?

Written By: Eddie - Date published: 12:57 pm, May 25th, 2009 - 93 comments

Last year a small number of truck companies held the ‘truck strike’, they got 4000 trucks to jam the CBDs of every major city in New Zealand because they were unhappy about a 1% increase in their costs from higher Road User Charges. The Right applauded. Lefties, including some on The Standard, criticised the protests’ […]

On Auckland and Leningrad

Written By: the sprout - Date published: 3:36 pm, May 24th, 2009 - 17 comments

The modern blitzkrieg [lightning war] was first tested in the Spanish civil war, refined in the invasions of European states that marked the beginning of WWII, and applied successfully in more recent invasions in the Middle East. A blitzkrieg’s success comes from the speed of its prosecution, from which it gets it name. The speed of a blitzkrieg gives attackers […]

Hikoi route

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:30 am, May 24th, 2009 - 14 comments

Tumeke has put together this handy map of tomorrow’s hikoi with the meeting places across Auckland. You can view the full size version by clicking on the image below and there are more details at the hikoi organisers’ site here. Get on down if you can.

The crisis of credit visuali[s]ed

Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 2:02 pm, May 22nd, 2009 - 3 comments

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 nationwide video screenings of the extended version as well as town hall meetings and demonstrations to demand that their government “break up the insolvent banks and never again let them get so […]

Join the Super City hikoi

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 12:55 pm, May 20th, 2009 - 13 comments

IHI Aotearoa has put out the call for Aucklanders to join their hikoi against the Government’s undemocratic Super City proposal on Monday, May 25th: “We want the Crown to honour its exisiting agreements with Tangata Whenua. To create better and more diverse representation in local government. To protect mana whenua rights. To protect the land, […]

Direct action against SH20 motorway begins

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:04 pm, May 17th, 2009 - 32 comments

Protesters calling for the Government to abandon its plans to drive an above-ground motorway through the middle of Mt Albert disrupted the opening of an adjacent stretch of motorway by Transport Minister Steven Joyce on Friday. Socialist Aotearoa has the footage:

Bake a cake for the LWR workers

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:51 pm, May 17th, 2009 - 11 comments

A great initiative from the National Distribution Union: With the bank (Westpac) leaving Lane Walker Rudkin workers out in the cold without their redundancy pay and the Government failing to respond to calls for funds to establish a worker-led support centre we are running cake stalls to help the workers help each other. The first […]

Drinking Liberally WTGN tonight

Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 11:57 am, May 14th, 2009 - 1 comment

Just in from the Wellington DL crew: For our next Drinking Liberally we are honoured to have Prof. Philippa Howden-Chapman speaking on “Healthy homes for a sustainable society”. Philippa is a member of the NZ Heart Foundation Scientific and Population Health Committee and on the board of the International Society of Equity in Health. Philippa […]

Clean Start rally – Thursday

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 3:53 pm, May 11th, 2009 - 8 comments

If you’re in Auckland on Thursday pop along to this in your lunch hour and help support low-paid cleaners: Hat tip: The Hand Mirror.

International Workers’ Day

Written By: Tane - Date published: 10:30 am, May 1st, 2009 - Comments Off on International Workers’ Day

If you’re in Auckland tonight get along for the annual May Day march up Queen Street. Poster below. More events, including for other centres, are listed here.

Meeting tonight on Super City

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 12:27 pm, April 28th, 2009 - Comments Off on Meeting tonight on Super City

From Just Left: Tonight – Freemans Bay Community Centre – the Western Bays Community Board is holding a meeting from 6.30pm to discuss the Govt’s super-city proposal. Come along. It is nice to see that some parts of the Council do want to hear what residents think, rather than other parts who are buying into […]

Finsec petition: Make jobs a condition of bank guarantees

Written By: Tane - Date published: 5:00 am, April 28th, 2009 - 4 comments

Does it strike anyone else as odd that at a time when taxpayers are guaranteeing the banking system with public funds, banks have made no such guarantee to their staff about job security? While the banks made combined profits in excess of $2.5 billion and CEOs recieve salary packages of more than $2 million each, […]

Reminder: Drinking Liberally Wgtn

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 2:02 pm, April 22nd, 2009 - Comments Off on Reminder: Drinking Liberally Wgtn

Drinking Liberally with Sue Bradford Where: Southern Cross Bar, Abel Smtih St, Wellington When: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 from 5:30pm. That’s tomorrow. Green MP Sue Bradford will be at Drinking Liberally – 6pm tomorrow – Southern Cross Bar – leading a discussion on “the state of the left and our prospective response to the current […]

G20 updates

Written By: Guest post - Date published: 4:06 am, April 3rd, 2009 - 8 comments

The Guardian has excellent video of the G20 protests. Gives you a real feeling of what things are like in the ground. So much better than our coverage. No twit talking all the time and trying to dramatise things. Most of the people there are completely peaceful, the Police seem to be looking for trouble […]

Submit!

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 3:00 pm, April 2nd, 2009 - 1 comment

From No Right Turn. The Law and Order Committee has called for submissions on the Corrections (Contract Management of Prisons) Amendment Bill. Two copies, by Friday, 22 May 2009, to: Law and Order Committee Secretariat Parliament Buildings Wellington The bill would allow prisons to be privately managed. In the process, it would remove private prisons […]

G20 protests

Written By: Guest post - Date published: 1:43 pm, April 2nd, 2009 - 65 comments

Tens of thousands of people protested yesterday April 1st in London at the G20 summit. The protest is made up of a multitude of different groups and has no clear overall spokesperson or agenda, other than to draw attention to the obvious failures of unregulated capitalism and the increasingly obscene taxpayer funded banking bailouts and […]

Time for Fyfe to go

Written By: Eddie - Date published: 11:53 pm, March 30th, 2009 - 26 comments

It’s time for Bill English, as shareholding minister in Air New Zealand, to tell the AirNZ board that either they fire CEO Robert Fyfe or he will fire them. Yesterday, Fyfe directly attacked two government policies. First, he threatened to cancel flights if air traffic controllers take their meal breaks at the statutorily guaranteed times. […]

Wgtn/Chch DL double

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:20 am, March 26th, 2009 - 1 comment

Drinking Liberally is meeting this evening in both Wellington and Christchurch. DL Wellington has Andrew Little speaking at the Southern Cross Bar on “the greater Labour movement and how it can mobilise and lobby against the current National Government”. Talk starts at 6pm, people usually arrive from 5:30pm. [Facebook] DL Christchurch has Therese Arseneau speaking […]

Jobs rally in Nelson this Saturday

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 2:30 pm, March 19th, 2009 - 5 comments

The Service and Food Workers Union is organising a rally and march in Nelson on Saturday (21 March) in support of Sealord workers and other workers in the community who are losing their jobs through restructuring. Sealord recently announced it planned to axe 180 jobs and has threatened the other 400 with up to $70 […]

DL Wellington – Andrew Little

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:15 am, March 18th, 2009 - 16 comments

Patrick’s sure got DL Wellington humming along. Next Wednesday at the Southern Cross they’ve got Andrew Little, national sec of the EPMU and the new Labour Party president along to talk about mobilising the labour movement. Should be plenty to discuss and debate. Here’s the email: The next Drinking Liberally Wellington is featuring newly elected […]

S92A: Opportunists jumping on bandwagons

Written By: lprent - Date published: 2:00 pm, March 16th, 2009 - 78 comments

It is always interesting watching people and organizations jumping on bandwagons of popular movements. In the case of the section 92A of the new Copyright Act, there was a genuine movement by the denizens of the local net and artist communities that we participated in. Over the weekend Disk Smith Electronics did exactly that by […]

Sealord email campaign

Written By: Tane - Date published: 3:34 pm, March 12th, 2009 - 10 comments

The Service and Food Workers Union has launched an online email campaign to urge Sealord Chairman Robin Hapi to reconsider axing 180 workers in Nelson. The other 400 have have been threatened with pay cuts or else they’ll face the sack as well. And this is after Sealord had the gall to attend the Prime […]

DL Wellington tomorrow

Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 11:12 am, March 11th, 2009 - 1 comment

Just received this from the Wellington Drinking Liberalites: Just a last minute reminder, tomorrow is the third Drinking Liberally of 2009, featuring the new Green MP, Kevin Hague. Kevin was formerly the Chief Executive of the West Coast District Health Board and has served as the Executive Director of the NZ AIDS Foundation. He’ll be […]

Melting point

Written By: lprent - Date published: 12:00 pm, March 10th, 2009 - 5 comments

The Ecologist Film Unit’s second release documents how espionage, news manipulation, legal threats and even violence have become the knee-jerk response of Government and big business to the increasingly vocal concerns of environmental protesters in the UK. Ahead of next month’s Climate Camp at Kingsnorth power station, this exclusive and powerful film exposes the extraordinary […]

S92A: Campbell Smith is finally removing his head from his…

Written By: lprent - Date published: 2:59 pm, March 9th, 2009 - 5 comments

Sometimes the myopia of RIANZ is breath taking. Campbell Smith, its chief executive, has written an dialogue piece in the NZ Herald. “Anti-piracy law a reasonable way to protect artist rights“. He obviously has been listening over the last month – just not enough yet – and obviously not enough to put money to the […]

Drinking Liberally – Auckland

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:50 pm, March 6th, 2009 - 27 comments

Drinking Liberally Auckland back for another round in 2009. Join all your favourite lefty liberal drinkers at Drinking Liberally Auckland. When: 7pm, Wednesday 11 March Where: London Bar – corner Queen and Victoria Streets, Auckland CBD Who: you and like-minded left-wingers. All welcome This month’s speaker is economic and business commentator Rod Oram. Rod’s in-depth […]

The idiocy of “glorious defeat”

Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 9:52 am, March 2nd, 2009 - 16 comments

Chris Trotter has decided to take umbrage at my post about the 1951 lockout. I wouldn’t usually reply to such criticism but this one provides me with the opportunity to discuss one of my pet grudges: the pointless obsession of some on the left with glorious defeat. I say pointless because defeat is defeat. It’s […]

S92A deferred

Written By: lprent - Date published: 5:25 pm, February 23rd, 2009 - 15 comments

Looks like the introduction of s92a has been deferred… It is still a bit of a rumour (at least until I find the press release). Good! Hopefully this will concentrate the minds of the parties involved in the code of conduct. Update: From 3 News UPDATED: 5:10pm The government has called for a delay in […]