On the other hand I have been really heartened by the resurgance of radical, socialist and Marxist feminism in recent years, especially from our UK sisters. There are some great articles on this UK Marxist feminist blog, which I heartily recommend. https...
Thank you for posting this Weka. We seem to have entered an era where it is fashionable in progressive circles to deny the reality of women's struggle for liberation, rebranding feminism as a quest for equality for "all genders". We are losing the language...
This podcast from JAMA goes into some depth about how vaccination strategies may impact on herd immunity. It's in the second half of the podcast- the first relates to how to prioritise populations for vaccination in a US context. Interestingly the ...
Fuck transhumanism and it's anti-nature politics though, and fuck neoliberalism that is colonising feminism and gender nonconformity along with everything else Tautoko that Weka, Tautoko that.
One of the concerns I have is the number of gender non-conforming children who are pathologised and medicalised. The "affirmation only" approach practiced in NZ, leads to extremely high numbers going onto puberty blockers and ultimately cross-sex hormones,...
Word is circulating that we are expecting to have vaccinations rolling out by mid 2021. (Not sure which particular vaccine it will be.)
This is just too delicious. https://twitter.com/SlexAxton/status/1325141204418191361 https://twitter.com/FSPhiladelphia/status/1325102014964109312
Awesome. Thanks folks.
Let's see. https://twitter.com/MarkRuffalo/status/1323998661089628163
How do I embed the twitter link into the post?
Bernie predicted exactly how Trump would play this. https://twitter.com/MarkRuffalo/status/1323998661089628163 https://twitter.com/MarkRuffalo/status/1323998661089628163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1323998661089628163%7Ctwgr%...
I've seen a prickly side to Deborah Russell. She attended a meeting I was involved with, and on which she disagreed with the meeting organisers (fair enough), but entered the building absolutely bristling with animosity. Another Labour MP was also in ...
Aha, Jan Tinetti
Who is Minister for Women?
She's the one NZF MP I was sorry to see go. She was great in Internal Affairs. Demonstrated a real willingness to listen and engage.
I don't think the same applies to UK. UK Labour party has a long history of being the organised wing of the labour movement, and the links to the unions have been retained even during the Kinnock and Blair eras. So the potential for UK Labour to become ...
More than one Jewish socialist commentator has suggested this is what has actually happened.
"Corbyn's worst crime was to speak out against Israel's treatment of Palestinians, and continued encroachment on their land." I think it is more about the attempts by the Blairite wing of the party to use any means necessary to defeat Corbynism, and ...
Really interesting video from a Jewish socialist/anarchist on the background to anti-semitism and accusations of such within the political left. https://www.doubledown.news/watch/2020/12/april/the-weaponisation-of-labour-antisemitism-david-graeber
"if Labour intend to not negotiate with the Greens, why not form govt this week?" I read situation more about waiting to see if the Maori Party are in or not, rather than around the Greens.
I really want to see the Labour government take this incredible mandate and do something truly transformative. Health, housing, and poverty are all in desperate need of addressing. We need to grab this opportunity for substantive change without fear.
I'm amazed that National can still pull 30% after the slow motion train wreck of a year and campaign they've had.
I think the question is not necessarily "are there potential harms from cannabis use" (there are), rather, does the current criminalisation model mitigate or exacerbate these potential harms. Clearly, the criminalisation framework is not helping harm ...
I'd say Trump is feeling buoyant right now because of the effect of the steroids. A bit of steroid psychosis on top of his baseline disinhibition and lack of impulse control. He may relapse later- around the 9-10 day mark from the onset of symptoms would ...
Weirdly it looks recorded against a green screen.
This is an interesting essay on how collusion between the authoritarian neoliberal left and "woke capitalism" has displaced actual activism for social change with "public castigation, social media mobbing or termination of employment". https://savageminds....
I considered giving my party vote for the greens when they looked close to going under the 5% threshold in 2017. I was door-knocking for Labour at the same time as mulling on this. But now I could not contemplate voting for their attempts to enshrine ...
I think some of the ructions arise from the ongoing culture wars within the Green Party. There is an emerging split between the old guard environmentalists and economic justice proponents and the younger identity politics ideologues, and Shaw has had a ...
One very commendable announcement yesterday was the move to reduce the employment of security staff at the MIQ facilities by private security contractors. This particular change was a little bit lost in the attention given to the increase in defence force ...
I find the term "TERF" quite problematic. It is often used as a term of abuse towards women, and frequently accompanied by threats of violence (not saying that's how you have used it above). I've never found that using such terminology has expanded ...
Judith herself was all over the place on RNZ this morning. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018760117/covid-19-judith-collins-on-border-testing-contact-tracing There must be mutterings in National's caucus by now. Shane Reti ...
Cats, with their independent spirit and beguiling purrs, have captured the hearts of humans for millennia. In New Zealand, felines are no exception, boasting the highest national cat ownership rate globally [definition cat nz cat foundation]. An estimated 1.134 million pet cats grace Kiwi households, compared to 683,000 dogs ...
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