Sister Marches are solidarity events inspired by the Women’s March on Washington, and organized by volunteers around the world. If you can’t make it to Washington, D.C. on January 21, join or host a Sister March near you. Click here for Sister March press releases.
We stand together in solidarity with our partners and children for the protection of our rights, our safety, our health, and our families – recognizing that our vibrant and diverse communities are the strength of our country.
OUR MISSION
The rhetoric of the past election cycle has insulted, demonized, and threatened many of us – immigrants of all statuses, Muslims and those of diverse religious faiths, people who identify as LGBTQIA, Native people, Black and Brown people, people with disabilities, survivors of sexual assault – and our communities are hurting and scared. We are confronted with the question of how to move forward in the face of national and international concern and fear.
In the spirit of democracy and honoring the champions of human rights, dignity, and justice who have come before us, we join in diversity to show our presence in numbers too great to ignore. The Women’s March on Washington will send a bold message to our new government on their first day in office, and to the world that women’s rights are human rights. We stand together, recognizing that defending the most marginalized among us is defending all of us.
We support the advocacy and resistance movements that reflect our multiple and intersecting identities. We call on all defenders of human rights to join us. This march is the first step towards unifying our communities, grounded in new relationships, to create change from the grassroots level up. We will not rest until women have parity and equity at all levels of leadership in society. We work peacefully while recognizing there is no true peace without justice and equity for all.
HEAR OUR VOICE.
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
— Audre Lorde
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
Women’s rights are human rights, regardless of a woman’s race, ethnicity, religion, immigration status, sexual identity, gender expression, economic status, age or disability. We practice empathy with the intent to learn about the intersecting identities of each other. We will suspend our first judgement and do our best to lead without ego. We follow the principles of Kingian nonviolence, which are defined as follows:
Principle 1: Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people. It is a positive force confronting the forces of injustice and utilizes the righteous indignation and spiritual, emotional, and intellectual capabilities of people as the vital force for change and reconciliation.
Principle 2: The Beloved Community is the framework for the future. The nonviolent concept is an overall effort to achieve a reconciled world by raising the level of relationships among people to a height where justice prevails and persons attain their full human potential.
Principle 3: Attack forces of evil, not persons doing evil. The nonviolent approach helps one analyze the fundamental conditions, policies and practices of the conflict rather than reacting to one’s opponents or their personalities.
Principle 4: Accept suffering without retaliation for the sake of the cause to achieve our goal. Self-chosen suffering is redemptive and helps the movement grow in a spiritual as well as a humanitarian dimension. The moral authority of voluntary suffering for a goal communicates the concern to one’s own friends and community as well as to the opponent.
Principle 5: Avoid internal violence of the spirit as well as external physical violence. The nonviolent attitude permeates all aspects of the campaign. It provides a mirror type reflection of the reality of the condition to one’s opponent and the community at large. Specific activities must be designed to maintain a high level of spirit and morale during a nonviolent campaign.
Spearheaded by first time-organizers and seasoned activists, the marches are bringing together people of all backgrounds, races, religions, gender identities, ages and abilities, as well as communities of immigrants. While led by women, all are welcome to attend the marches.
And looking at the locations of marches around the world,, I say “Go Canada!” – for numbers of marches around a (non-US) country.
Also a substantial number of locations in Mexico and the UK.
What he doing is pushing for what is left of auto manufacturing in the US to not only remain there but he is also disincentivising any investment in overseas plants and returning manufacturing back to the US and I suggest it is having a profound effect in the way the up until now Neo Lib forever world thinks. He is also pushing for reciprocal car sales outside the US of American built products.
Will anyone really care about his manners or his weird opinions because for your blue collar American this means quality jobs.
He has hinted at the same in other US industries and has also suggested things like care for war veterans as another priority.
These not so little tangible things will connect with your average man and woman in the street because it will make a difference in their lives for the better.
And yet at the same time Bill English is going the other way and pushing for more questionable trade deals in the out of date out of time Neo Lib world he is so sold on.
“Did you just say that real politics is economic and women’s politics is about manners?”
unfortunatly that the general perception!
“women’s politics” is very much encouraging this view!
its up to you to change this!
keith is simply trying to bring a breath of reality to assist you in making that change.
[please provide evidence via 3 instances where the women organising this march, or taking part in it, are very much encouraging the view that they are primarily concerned with manners. If you can’t do that, then I suggest you think carefully about how you frame your opinions. Either way this thread is not for anti-feminist rhetoric. – weka]
unfortunatly that the general perception!
“women’s politics” is very much encouraging this view!
If you believe that the general perception is that women’s political concerns in the US are centred on manners, then that says some interesting things about you. It tells me that you really aren’t paying attention to women and what they are saying. It also tells me that you have an agenda for pushing false memes about feminism.
I’m now going to put my moderator hat on, because I don’t want to see this thread derailed.
Plenty of women been doing that. Some people just seem to have their hands over their ears.
Neoliberalism has not been good to women (or Māori and Pacific people). They are still bottom of the pile financially.
In the US, there’s a saying: “Black men get locked up (in prison); Black women get locked out (evicted from rentals).”
In NZ women, especially mothers of young children, on low incomes, have been the main victims of MOSD punitive beneficiary bashing,
Precarious workers: large numbers of women and brown and black people on the lowest paid, most precarious work.
Does anyone think Trump will be great for workers (including low paid women workers)? … with his keep car and other industries in the US? And his plans to cut top/business taxes? Not on his past record of treating workers and women.
Do you think Trump’s presidency will be good for renters? Not on his past record. Do you think Trump will be good for enabling low income people getting the health care they need? And then women make up a large proportion of family carers – they’ll be feeling the strain.
And when Trump is well known for his abuse and exploitation of women, he’ll be enabling a culture where abuse of women (and people of colour) will be green-lighted at work, on the streets, in homes…. everywhere.
Getting rid of “neoliberalism” does not mean getting rid of rule of by and for the elites – especially when it is being led by someone from the wealthy classes, whose whole MO has been in his own self-interests. It just means new ways of screwing those with the least wealth and income, and with least power.
Some of them won’t. Others will. Nevertheless the framing of the women’s march as over issues of manners is itself a problem. Both because it denigrates and tries to marginalise their politics, and because it pits feminism against working class politics, which IMO is entirely unnecessary and damages us all.
“Public ‘career feminists’ have been more concerned with getting more women into ‘boardrooms’, when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms, and none of them are on fire.”
― Laurie Penny, Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution
[what does that have to do with this post? See my moderator note above. This thread is not for pushing anti-feminist agendas – weka]
The most terrifying prospect of all is what happens when women work collectively. The idea of women organizing, sharing information and resources, and coming together to change the world—rather than competing for male attention as is right and natural—is terrifying enough when it’s a few pink-haired weirdoes on the internet. The thought of what they might do with real political power sends shudders through the locker room. This, incidentally, is how we got to the point where a bloviating man-child with distressing hair and an entitlement complex bigger than his unpaid tax bill, a man whose main political strategy is to stand at a podium screaming about Muslims and Mexican rapists, is still, to millions of Americans, a more conceivable president than his only normally monstrous opponent who happens to be female. A world with women in charge, a world where women stand together and for each other in any respect, is not just inconceivable—to conceive of it is an active identity threat for those whose sense of self has always needed a story with men on top.
The media on both sides of the pond has fallen over itself to consider whether the boiling bigotry on display might somehow conceal “legitimate concerns.” Somehow, the concerns of working-class people are only considered legitimate when they reflect a reactionary strain that does not threaten vested interests. Somehow, the concerns of working-class women who want basic reproductive rights, the concerns of working-class people of colour who want the police to stop shooting them with impunity, the concerns of working-class trans people who don’t want to be beaten up in bathrooms, have been landscaped into the territory of the “liberal elite”. That rubbish needs to stop right now. If you’re angry and upset right, that does not make you out of touch. If you suspect that a great wrong has been done today, that does not make you a bourgeois shill. It makes you sensible.
Nothing “anti feminist agenda” about it!
just making the valid point that calling something a ”
femininist act” does not guarantee that it advances women.
[You are now banned from commenting in this post, please see moderator note in Open Mike – weka]
As a woman can i just say this is an very valid point to be made in the context of this conversation.
I think xanthe has been totally misunderstood throughout this entire conversation.
I think this is not a good move – love him or hate him, he’s what the American people voted for, and they’ll have to live with it. If the Democrats hadn’t played silly beggars to get Hilary in and Bernie out, I suggest we’d have a very different outcome now!
Feminism is taking a very wrong turn if they think supporting a woman just because she is a woman is ok – just look at the Natz collection we have here! 🙁
There needs to be some really reflective thinking around why America chose Trump over Clinton – I suspect a lot of people (many women included) held their noses while they voted for him because he was seen as the lesser of two evils.
There will be plenty of time to protest when/if he puts through policies which are anti- feminist – it hasn’t happened yet!
Actually, anti-women policies and legislation are being enacted even as we speak. The Republicans aren’t even waiting for the inauguration.
As far as I can see the march has nothing to do with Clinton, nor the Democratic fuck up in the election. It’s coming out of concern for what the next presidency will do to harm women. Those are valid concerns,
“….the mission is to bring people together to take a stand on issues that deeply impact all of us. The marches will seek to reaffirm the core American values of freedom and democracy for all at a time when many fear that their voices will be lost, specifically related to women’s rights, immigrant rights, worker rights, reproductive rights, LGBTQIA rights, environmental rights, rights for all races, and religious freedom.”
Long before there was the Feminist Movement per se, women were at the forefront of activism on many issues that undermined family security, health and welfare, civil rights, employment and the environment.
Trump needs to be sent a message that if his presidency is a continuation of his campaign…look out…women won’t tolerate that shit any more.
I also suspect that many people who voted Republican this time, who are swing voters, will be in for a shock about what happens. That includes blue collar workers. Some of those people will retrench into Trump-esque politics and culture, but I agree that many will start talking about how shit things are e.g. when they lose their health coverage.
to protest that gutting of the Affordable Care Act (yes, they already have voted away several ammendments of the Act such as keep your children on your healthcare till 26 – a big part of families with chronically ill children) should also not protest, cause love him or hate him 80.000 people got him over the electoral college to win over the candidate who got 3 million more in individual votes?
Sure, makes good sense.
Lets stop demonstrations, love them or hate them, lets not bring feminism to politics, cause what will the blokes think.
maybe people are demonstrating against what was campaigned on, i.e. reversal of Roe vs Wade, reversal of Obergefell_v._Hodges, Griswold vs Connecticut, the gutting of whats left of public education, defunding and shutting of Planned Parenthood, elimination of “Sanctuary Cities” by threats of cuts to funds, deporting ‘others of various nationalities and religion and then some more.
Maybe, they still believe they have a democracy. But hey, he won – bigly Nr. 46 on the list of those that got the electoral vote, and because Hilary did not play according tot he rule books of some, people now just pretend to not care, roll over and ‘get over it’? Seriously?
Yes, I’m aware that people are demonstrating against what was campaigned on, and that’s my point. Trump said a lot of crazy and truly awful things during his campaign – enough to make one’s blood run cold. My thinking is, though, that it would be more effective to target protests at specific changes in policy as they happen – I think this general approach is in grave danger of feeding straight into his own story and reducing the effectiveness of tackling issues as they arise
I suspect the Democrats going to Kentucky and saying we’ll close the evil coal mines down and Trump saying we’ll bring jobs back to ‘Merica probably had something to do with it
there is a special place in hell for people like this. In the Turds case i would sentence him to eternal purgatory being served authentic mexican food by a Rose McDonald look a like.
Despite an uptick in coal production between July and September, miners still lost jobs. As of Oct. 1, only 6,254 Kentuckians were still employed by the coal industry, less than half the number in 2011.
“I put the range of possibilities at somewhere to a continuing small decline to a small growth,” Troske said. “…We are not going to recover the coal jobs we’ve seen in the state lost in the last decade.”
Protest gatherings and marches are not only held for the benefit of the protest target and the media, you know.
One of the things I remember most clearly from the protest marches of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s in New Zealand was the benefit to those doing the protesting. We used to call it “consciousness raising”, and it worked. To say nothing of the networking opportunities when people of like mind gather.
Protests, at their best, lead to better organisation and better strategy. I hope these ones go well, and wish one were being held near me.
[Moderation note: I’ve added the kaupapa of the march to the post, with the expectation that people read it and inform themselves about what the march is before commenting. – weka]
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Hi,Webworm won a Voyager media award over the weekend for “Best Team Investigation”! This would not have been possible without readers. Without you. Thank you.Also, there’s a new Flightless Bird out today, where I look at drug rehab clinics in Florida. I talk to three former addicts, and their stories ...
On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a ...
The Green Party are today launching a campaign asking for people to submit their stories of subpar, substandard and downright awful experiences of renting in Aotearoa. ...
The Green Party is welcoming the draft report of the Independent Electoral Review and challenging all political parties to commit to implementing its final recommendations after the 2023 general election. ...
Today, Te Pāti Māori announce Takuta Ferris will contest the Te Tai Tonga seat at this year’s General Election. “Takura ran for the Te Tai Tonga seat for Te Pāti Māori in 2020. It takes tremendous courage and commitment to put your hand up for another round in the ring ...
Focussed immigration has always been essential to our future, but New Zealanders need to be aware of the immediate dire situation our government is putting us in with a predicted record of one hundred thousand new immigrants moving to New Zealand in this year alone. That means we will have ...
Today, President of Te Pāti Māori, John Tamihere has confirmed that Heather Te-Au Skipworth will stand for Te Pāti Māori in the Tukituki electorate this election. ...
During New Zealand First coalition negotiations our policy was to train and resource 1800 new frontline police. We secured this coalition policy win to ensure our streets had a police force that could tackle crime - after years of neglect. Remember those previous nine years of neglect saw a ‘tag ...
Katie Kenny from Stuff published an article today with a lazy attempt at so-called ‘fact checking’ my recent comments on the World Health Organisation’s concerning new regulations being developed. What is most surprising is that throughout this entire ‘fact checking’ process, Kenny never once rang me asking for my side ...
The National Party has released another confused and rushed policy that will only further worsen the inequality that is driven by unaffordable housing. ...
Welcome to sunny and calm Wellington, which I know those of you who are visiting would of course expect to be the case. It’s been a busy week since we put forward the 2023 Budget. Labour MPs have been out across the motu giving the good oil on the Budget. ...
Kia orana, Talofa lava, Mālo e lelei, Taloha ni, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Noa’ia e mauri, Ni sa bula vinaka, Kia ora, Tena Koutou Katoa. Labour Party President Jill Day, Prime Minister Hipkins, Party faithful, delegates and comrades, whānau and friends, it’s a privilege to be here today. I begin my ...
One of my kaumātua up North stood before the Waitangi Tribunal and said: ‘He aha kē ahau, te tangata kore hara i mua i te Atua, e tu nei kia whakawaatia e koe, te tangata tāhae, te tangata hara, te tangata kore tikanga?Ko koe kē te tika, kia tū ...
New Zealanders will be highly concerned that the World Health Organisation proposes to effectively take control of independent decision making away from sovereign countries and place control with the Director General. W.H.O International Health Regulations on future outbreaks of disease aim to give the Director General extraordinary and wide-sweeping powers. ...
The Green Party is calling on the Government to take responsibility for reducing inflation by taxing wealth instead of leaving RBNZ to continue hiking the Official Cash Rate. ...
The Green Party has released its list of candidates for the 2023 election. With a mix of familiar faces, fresh new talent, and strong tangata whenua voices, this exceptional group of candidates are ready to set the direction of the next Government. ...
Thank you for your invitation to be here, after yesterday's budget, and for the opportunity to talk with you. In the economic and social turmoil following the arrival of COVID 19 in New Zealand many concerns emerged. How would we keep our economy going and maintain our exports which are ...
At the heart of Budget 2023 is a cost of living package, designed to ease the pressure on New Zealanders in the face of global inflation and the challenges of rebuilding from extreme weather events. It provides practical cost of living relief across some of the core expenses facing Kiwis ...
A long standing Green Party policy has been extended yet again in this year’s Budget. This will deliver warmer homes for thousands of people, lower power bills, and cut climate pollution. ...
The Green Party is fully on board with free bus and train travel for under 12s and half price travel for under 25s - next stop, free travel for all under 18s, students, and apprentices. ...
Representation for women on public sector boards and committees is the highest it’s ever been with wāhine now making up 53.1 percent of public board and committee members,” Minister for Women Jan Tinetti said. Manatū Wāhine Ministry for Women’s 2022 stocktake of public sector boards and committees shows for the ...
A new law enabling sole parents on a benefit to receive child support payments for their tamariki was passed in Parliament today. “This change is estimated to lift as many as 14,000 children out of poverty and give families a median of $20 extra a week,” said Social Development and ...
Crack down on disposable vapes No new vape shops near schools or marae Restricted descriptions for product flavours The Government is taking action to reduce the number of young people taking up vaping, Health Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall has announced. “Too many young people are vaping, which is why we’re ...
Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka will visit New Zealand this week, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins announced today. “Prime Minister Rabuka officially visited New Zealand in 1998, over 25 years ago, and we look forward to welcoming him here once again,” Chris Hipkins said. “New Zealand and Fiji have a long ...
The King’s Birthday and Coronation Honours List 2023 includes sporting stars and administrators who reflect the best of New Zealand’s sporting community. Sir Wayne Smith has been knighted for services to rugby. Sir Wayne was Assistant Coach of the All Blacks at the 2011 and 2015 Rugby World Cups and ...
Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa taki tini ‘My success is not mine alone, but that of the people” The King’s Birthday and Coronation Honours list 2023 celebrates Māori from all walks of life, reflecting the achievements of those who have made a significant contribution to ...
The strength and diversity of service in New Zealand is a standout feature of today’s King’s Birthday and Coronation Honours list, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said. “Each of today’s 182 recipients has contributed individually to our country. Viewed collectively, their efforts reflect an overwhelming commitment to service.” Chris Hipkins said. ...
The Defence Ministers of New Zealand and Japan have signed a statement of intent for closer defence cooperation between the two Pacific regional partners. Andrew Little and H. E. Yasukazu Hamada met to sign the ‘Statement of Intent on Defence Cooperation in Maritime Security, Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief and ...
New Zealand’s most recent defence assessment identified climate change and geostrategic competition as the two greatest security challenges to our place in the South Pacific. To the first issue, partners engaging and re-engaging with Pacific Island Countries are finding that climate change is a security and existential threat in our ...
The government is continuing to support rangatahi in providing more funding into Maori Trades training and new He Poutama Rangatahi programmes across Aotearoa. “We’re backing 30 new by Māori for Māori Kaupapa employment and training programmes, which will help iwi into sustainable employment or progress within their chosen careers” says ...
Murihiku Marae was officially reopened today, setting a gold standard in sustainable building practices as well as social outcomes for the people of Waihōpai Invercargill, Regional Development Minister Kiri Allan says. “The marae has been a central hub for this community since the 1980’s. With the support of $9.65 million ...
The first major public housing development in Whangārei for decades has reached completion, with 37 new homes opened in the suburb of Maunu today. The project on Tapatahi Crescent and Puriri Park Road, consists of 15 one-bedroom, 4 two-bedroom, 7 three-bedroom, 8 four-bedroom and 3 five-bedroom homes, as well as ...
Trade and Export Growth Minister Damen O’Connor will depart tomorrow for London to represent New Zealand at the Commonwealth Trade Ministers’ Meeting and then to Paris to vice-chair the OECD Ministerial Council Meeting. “My travel to the United Kingdom is well-timed, with the United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement (UK FTA) ...
The Fuel Industry (Improving Fuel Resilience) Amendment Bill would: boost New Zealand’s fuel supply resilience and economic security enable the minimum stockholding obligation regulations to be adapted as the energy and transport environment evolves. “Last November, I announced a six-point plan to improve the resiliency of our fuel supply from ...
The Government is making sure those on low incomes will no longer have to wait five weeks to get the minimum weekly rate of ACC, and improving the data collected to make the system fairer, Minister for ACC Peeni Henare said today. The Accident Compensation (Access Reporting and Other Matters) ...
A compulsory code of conduct will ensure school board members are crystal clear on their responsibilities and expected standard of behaviour, Minister of Education Jan Tinetti said. It’s the first time a compulsory code of conduct has been published for state and state-integrated school boards and comes into effect on ...
Tena koutou katoa and thank you, Mayor Nadine Taylor, for your welcome to Marlborough. Thanks also Doug Saunders-Loder and all of you for inviting me to your annual conference. As you might know, I’m quite new to this job – and I’m particularly pleased that the first organisation I’m giving a ...
The Government will enter into a funding arrangement with councils in cyclone and flood affected regions to support them to offer a voluntary buyout for owners of Category 3 designated residential properties. It will also co-fund work needed to protect Category 2 designated properties. “From the beginning of this process ...
The Government has announced changes to strengthen requirements in venues with pokie (gambling) machines will come into effect from 15 June. “Pokies are one of the most harmful forms of gambling. They can have a detrimental impact on individuals, their friends, whānau and communities,” Internal Affairs Minister Barbara Edmonds said. ...
The total Police workforce is now the largest it has ever been. Police constabulary stands at 10,700 officers – an increase of 21% since 2017 Māori officers have increased 40%, Pasifika 83%, Asian 157%, Women 61% Every district has got more Police under this Government The Government has delivered on ...
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon Nanaia Mahuta met with Korea President Yoon, as well as Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General Henry Puna, during her recent visit to Korea. “It was an honour to represent Aotearoa New Zealand at the first Korea – Pacific Leaders’ Summit. We discussed Pacific ambitions under the ...
The Government’s Research and Development Tax Incentive has supported more than $2 billion of New Zealand business innovation – an increase of around $1 billion in less than nine months. "Research and innovation are essential in helping us meet the biggest challenges and seize opportunities facing New Zealand. It’s fantastic ...
The next ‘giant leap’ in New Zealand’s space journey has been taken today with the launch of the National Space Policy, Economic Development Minister Barbara Edmonds announced. “Our space sector is growing rapidly. Each year New Zealand is becoming a more and more attractive place for launches, manufacturing space-related technology ...
A new Year 7-13 designated character wharekura will be built in Pāpāmoa, Associate Minister of Education Kelvin Davis has announced. The wharekura will focus on science, mathematics and creative technologies while connecting ākonga to the whakapapa of the area. The decision follows an application by the Ngā Pōtiki ā Tamapahore ...
Protecting the environment by establishing a stronger, more consistent system for freedom camping Supporting councils to better manage freedom camping in their region and reduce the financial and social impacts on communities Ensuring that self-contained vehicle owners have time to prepare for the new system The Self-Contained Motor Vehicle ...
A new law passed last night could see up to 25 percent of Family Court judges’ workload freed up in order to reduce delays, Minister of Justice Kiri Allan said. The Family Court (Family Court Associates) Legislation Bill will establish a new role known as the Family Court Associate. The ...
New Zealand businesses will begin reaping the rewards of our gold-standard free trade agreement with the United Kingdom (UK FTA) from today. “The New Zealand UK FTA enters into force from today, and is one of the seven new or upgraded Free Trade Agreements negotiated by Labour to date,” Prime ...
The Government will reform outdated surrogacy laws to improve the experiences of children, surrogates, and the growing number of families formed through surrogacy, by adopting Labour MP Tāmati Coffey’s Member’s Bill as a Government Bill, Minister Kiri Allan has announced. “Surrogacy has become an established method of forming a family ...
Defence Minister Andrew Little departs for Singapore tomorrow to attend the 20th annual Shangri-La Dialogue for Defence Ministers from the Indo-Pacific region. “Shangri-La brings together many countries to speak frankly and express views about defence issues that could affect us all,” Andrew Little said. “New Zealand is a long-standing participant ...
Research, Science and Innovation Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall and the Chinese Minister of Science and Technology Wang Zhigang met in Wellington today and affirmed the two countries’ long-standing science relationship. Minister Wang was in New Zealand for the 6th New Zealand-China Joint Commission Meeting on Science and Technology Cooperation. Following ...
5 percent uplift clearer and simpler to navigate Domestic productions can access more funding sources 20 percent rebate confirmed for post-production, digital and visual effects Qualifying expenditure for post-production, digital and visual effects rebate dropped to $250,000 to encourage more smaller productions The Government is making it easier for the ...
Deputy Prime Minister and Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs (Pacific Region) Carmel Sepuloni will represent New Zealand at Samoa’s 61st Anniversary of Independence commemorations in Apia. “Aotearoa New Zealand is pleased to share in this significant occasion, alongside other invited Pacific leaders, and congratulates Samoa on the milestone of 61 ...
The Government is continuing to support retailers with additional funding for the highly popular Fog Cannon Subsidy Scheme, Police and Small Business Minister Ginny Andersen announced today. “The Government is committed to improving retailers’ safety,” Ginny Andersen said. “I’ve seen first-hand the difference fog cannons are making. Not only do ...
The Government has received the first independent review of the Intelligence and Security Act 2017, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says. The review, considered by the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee, was presented to the House of Representatives today. “Ensuring the safety and security of New Zealanders is of the utmost ...
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has expressed condolences on behalf of New Zealand to the Kingdom of Tonga following the death of Her Royal Highness Princess Mele Siu’ilikutapu Kalaniuvalu Fotofili. “New Zealand sends it’s heartfelt condolences to the people of Tonga, and to His Majesty King Tupou VI at this time ...
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has expressed condolences on behalf of New Zealand to the Kingdom of Tonga following the death of Her Royal Highness Princess Mele Siu’ilikutapu Kalaniuvalu Fotofili. “New Zealand sends it’s heartfelt condolences to the people of Tonga, and to His Majesty King Tupou VI at this time ...
Defence Minister Andrew Little and Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta have today announced the extension of the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) deployment to Solomon Islands, as part of the regionally-led Solomon Islands International Assistance Force (SIAF). “Aotearoa New Zealand has a long history of working alongside the Royal Solomon ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta will travel to the Republic of Korea today to attend the Korea–Pacific Leaders’ Summit in Seoul and Busan. “Korea is an important partner for Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific region. I am eager for the opportunity to meet and discuss issues that matter to our ...
Trade and Export Growth Minister Damien O’Connor joined ministerial representatives at a meeting in Detroit, USA today to announce substantial conclusion of negotiations of a new regional supply chains agreement among 14 Indo-Pacific countries. The Supply Chains agreement is one of four pillars being negotiated within the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework ...
Our most spoken Pacific language is taking centre stage this week with Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa – Samoa Language Week kicking off around the country. “Understanding and using the Samoan language across our nation is vital to its survival,” Barbara Edmonds said. “The Samoan population in New Zealand are ...
Maxim Institute respectfully disagrees with He Arotake Potitanga Motuhake – Independent Electoral Review’s interim report insofar as it advocates for lowering the minimum voting age from 18 to 16 years. There are indeed many decisions made by Parliament ...
The political radar has been switched off for some in Labour and it's Chris Hipkins’ political capital taking the hit, writes political editor Jo MoirComment: Even if the Prime Minister had wanted to act quickly to deal with his Transport Minister’s conflicts of interest, he couldn’t because he was ...
The prime minister has faced further questions on Michael Wood’s failure to properly disclose his Auckland Airport shares, saying the transport minister himself “didn’t really have an adequate explanation” for the oversight. Speaking at this afternoon’s post-cabinet press conference, Chris Hipkins said he trusted that Wood, who was earlier today ...
Asia Pacific Report The self-styled provisional government of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua“with the people” of the Melanesian region have declared political support for full West Papuan membership of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG). In a statement issued in the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila after a meeting ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ozan Isler, Research Fellow, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Bao Truong / Unsplash Many of our economic and even social interactions are competitive. We use markets to find jobs, but also dates. What does this mean for our ...
The government has announced new vaping restrictions aimed at reducing the number of young people who take up the habit, with a crackdown on cheap disposable vapes, bans on new vape shops near schools and rules around how vaping products can be named. “From August this year, all vaping devices ...
The government has announced new vaping restrictions aimed at reducing the number of young people who take up the habit, with a crackdown on cheap disposable vapes, bans on new vape shops near schools and rules around how vaping products can be named. “From August this year, all vaping devices ...
The traditional and contemporary intertwine at the first Pacific Dance Festival in three years.After a pandemic-induced absence of three years, Pacific Dance New Zealand’s annual Pacific Dance Festival has returned to Auckland. Opening the three week-long festival last week was Manu Malo by Aloali’i Tapu, with the highly anticipated ...
The traditional and contemporary intertwine at the first Pacific Dance Festival in three years.After a pandemic-induced absence of three years, Pacific Dance New Zealand’s annual Pacific Dance Festival has returned to Auckland. Opening the three week-long festival last week was Manu Malo by Aloali’i Tapu, with the highly anticipated ...
“A very special day for Ngati Porou”, was the reaction of Rei Kohere, Deputy Chairman of Te Runanganui o Ngati Porou, on the announcement of the Knighthood bestowed on Selwyn Tanetoa Parata in this year’s King’s Birthday honours. “The KCNZM, ...
A visit by officials from the Thai Office of Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) is being welcomed as an opportunity to strengthen a key bilateral relationship and support ongoing work to combat the illicit transnational narcotics trade in the Asia-Pacific ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kali Marnane, Honorary Associate Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Design, The University of Queensland Kali Marnane (2023), Author provided I’m in Ahmedabad, India, standing where families once built their homes under the shade of large trees. Today, those houses are ...
How a few basic rules can help get the balance right. Anyone trying to follow the latest political debate over housing, urban intensification and development can be forgiven for feeling confused. The National Party’s newly announced housing policy would allow local councils to opt out of the Medium ...
How a few basic rules can help get the balance right. Anyone trying to follow the latest political debate over housing, urban intensification and development can be forgiven for feeling confused. The National Party’s newly announced housing policy would allow local councils to opt out of the Medium ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Petraglia, Director, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University Wikimedia, CC BY-SA On September 13 2013, speleologists Rick Hunter and Steven Tucker descended deep into South Africa’s Rising Star cave system and discovered the first evidence of an ...
A key reason for standing down Michael Wood as transport minister was the fact he had told the Cabinet Office his shares in Auckland Airport would be sold, but then they weren’t, Chris Hipkins has said. On his way to question time in parliament this afternoon, soon after he announced ...
A key reason for standing down Michael Wood as transport minister was the fact he had told the Cabinet Office his shares in Auckland Airport would be sold, but then they weren’t, Chris Hipkins has said. On his way to question time in parliament this afternoon, soon after he announced ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By M. Reza Hosseini, Senior Lecturer in Construction, Deputy Director, Mediated Intelligence in Design (MInD) Research Lab, Deakin University Shutterstock Architecture, engineering and construction employ 1.2 million people in Australia and account for 9% of GDP. But our biggest services sector ...
SAFE has been notified today that the resource consent application to build four composting barns/feedlots in Kaituna Valley has been withdrawn. The feedlots would have confined 2,200 cows permanently indoors. The controversial proposal faced substantial ...
New Zealand still has much more to do to support poorer countries adapt and respond to the climate crisis. Oxfam Aotearoa’s Climate Justice Lead Nick Henry said: “Oxfam’s report reveals that as governments around the world begin negotiations of a new global ...
Step aside perfect-looking food content, there’s a new chef in town. Charlotte Muru-Lanning meets fudgeywudgeychef, the Auckland TikTok creator bringing an eccentric edge to cooking videos. This is an excerpt from our weekly food newsletter, The Boil Up. Whenever social media purports to shed its softly-lit, idealised vision of what food, ...
Michael Wood has been stood down as transport minister after it was revealed he had not properly disclosed owning shares in Auckland Airport. “This morning I spoke with Michael Wood and advised him that he will be stood down as transport minister while any remaining issues around his conflicts are ...
Chris Hipkins had yet to decide on the future of transport minister Michael Wood at this morning’s caucus run, after it was revealed Wood had failed to properly disclose shares he owned in Auckland Airport. At the Beehive, the prime minister told media he still hadn’t had a chance to ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato Getty Images Anyone trying to follow the latest political debate over housing, urban intensification and development can be forgiven for feeling confused. The National Party’s newly announced housing policy would allow local ...
Stop what you’re doing and hand yourself in, is the message to scammers responsible for the ‘toll’ scam, from Te Tari Taiwhenua, Department of Internal Affairs (DIA). The ‘NZTA toll’ phishing scam has been circulating Aotearoa New Zealand since ...
Wellington has won $650,000 to put towards its rapid bike lane rollout, securing a spot alongside nine other cities on the Bloomberg Initiative for Cycling Infrastructure. Announced late last week, the prize recognises the capital’s Paneke Pōneke bike network plan, which is in the process of increasing 23km of cycleways ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ang Li, Research Fellow, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Housing, Centre for Health Policy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne Australia, the world’s driest inhabited continent, is particularly vulnerable to climate-related disasters such as droughts, ...
TVNZ says Police Ten 7 was ‘reflective of the reality of patterns of crime and offending in Aotearoa’. This analysis found otherwise. When TVNZ cancelled reality TV show Police Ten 7 earlier this year, it certainly rattled some law-and-order cages. The show’s former host Graham Bell, who described suspects variously ...
The group A Better Budget for Auckland, which published an alternative budget for Auckland Council in March, has released two new alternative budgets for councillors that it says will not “slash and burn” services and assets. A Better Budget for ...
It is Election season and candidates are out on the hustings seeking votes. The Women’s Rights Party is urging voters to turn up to their local election campaign meetings and ask candidates where they stand on issues that affect women’s rights. ...
Today (Tuesday 6 June 2023) the Independent Electoral Law Review, made up of independent experts in New Zealand’s election system, recommended in its interim report that the voting age be lowered to 16. This comes just two weeks after Parliament’s Justice ...
The Independent Electoral Review out today has included a recommendation to ‘affect the Treaty of Waitangi and its Principles’ and make it one of the Act’s ‘explicit objectives’. What ‘principles’ are they talking about ...
Today, the Independent Electoral Review released its interim report which proposes several key updates to the Electoral Act, with a strong focus on enhancing fairness in the electoral system. The Opportunities Party (TOP) is happy to see that many ...
This invasive fungal pathogen is decimating forests – but research and field trials offer hope. This is an excerpt from our weekly environmental newsletter Future Proof brought to you by Electric Kiwi – sign up here. It’s been six years since myrtle rust was first detected in mainland New Zealand, after ...
Aucklanders have been paying the costs of a city sprawl built for cars for too long. The council’s new Future Development Strategy proposes that the city slows its spread and focuses on growing in existing urban areas. There’s one tall building that defines Auckland. It looks like a needle, and ...
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has banned staff from using artificial intelligence technology such as ChatGPT - citing data and privacy risks. ...
The Independent Electoral Review Panel has published its draft recommendations focused on ensuring our electoral system is fairer, clearer, and more accessible so that as many people as possible can take part. The draft recommendations address important ...
Analysis by Geoffrey Miller. Seeing is no longer believing. Image via Wikimedia, by David S. Soriano. Surprisingly realistic – yet fake – images created by Artificial Intelligence (AI) are here. To date, most have seemed more like curiosities than genuine deception attempts. Last month, it was revealed that New Zealand’s ...
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says he is yet to have the chance to get any detail on the controversy surrounding Michael Wood's shares in Auckland Airport. ...
Fiji’s new prime minister Sitiveni Rabuka has arrived in the country and will spend Wednesday in Wellington where he’ll meet with prime minister Chris Hipkins, foreign affairs minister Nanaia Mahuta and minister for climate change James Shaw. Rabuka became prime minister last year after a tumultuous election, where his party People’s Alliance ...
As part of our series exploring how New Zealanders live and our relationship with money, a photographer tells us how she supports herself and three children on a freelance income. Want to contribute? Send us an email briefly describing your situation at [email protected]Gender: Female Age: 42 Ethnicity: NZ Pākehā ...
The Make it 16 group has welcomed a review of our electoral laws that suggested lowering the voting age. It was part of a swathe of initial recommendations made by the panel, ahead of further public consultation. Read all the top lines from the review here. In a statement, Make ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ruby E. Stephens, PhD Candidate, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University Ruby E Stephens, Author provided Plants existed on Earth for hundreds of millions of years before the first flowers bloomed. But when flowering plants did evolve, more than 140 ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Natasha Harrison, PhD Candidate, The University of Western Australia Breeding threatened mammals in fenced, predator-free areas is a common conservation strategy in Australia. The method is designed to protect vulnerable species and breed animals for release into the wild. But our research ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Frew, Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow, Western Sydney University Mycorrhizal fungi growing with a plant root Dr Yoshihiro Kobae, Author provided Beneath our feet, remarkable networks of fungal filaments stretch out in all directions. These mycorrhizal fungi live in partnership ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Roberts, Associate professor (Curriculum Inquiry / Rural Education), University of Canberra Shutterstock Major international and national tests show rural students, on average, do not do as well at school as their city peers. This includes lower scores on ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute Shutterstock The exploitation of migrants is widespread in Australia. Our recent report for the Grattan Institute, Short-changed, found that as many as one in six migrant workers are paid less than the ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa Portolan, PhD student, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University TikTok TikTok is one of the most prevalent social media platforms for trend-setting and trend-spotting – particularly within the relationship space. From trends and concepts like #DatingStoryTime to ...
We’re back after a long weekend and what a morning of news we have today. Another senior MP could end up before the privileges committee and a major review of our electoral laws has recommended changes, including the lowering of the voting age. We’ll start with the former. The Herald ...
The voting age should be 16, we should have a referendum on extending the parliamentary term and donations to parties should be capped, says the interim report from the Independent Electoral Review, writes Anna Rawhiti-Connell in this excerpt from The Bulletin, The Spinoff’s morning news round-up. To receive The Bulletin ...
Power Play - ACT Party leader David Seymour will be patting himself on the back after a sell-out annual conference in central Auckland this weekend. ...
Power Play - ACT Party leader David Seymour will be patting himself on the back after a sell-out annual conference in central Auckland this weekend. ...
The independent panel of legal experts which considered public submissions on electoral law also recommended a referendum on a longer Parliamentary term. ...
From voting age to thresholds, from term lengths to coat-tails, the Independent Electoral Review has come in hot in its interim report. Just over a year ago, an independent panel of experts was tasked with a wide-ranging review of New Zealand electoral law – nothing less than a “once-in-a generation ...
Overly tight regulation is hurting hundreds of New Zealanders who want a baby but can’t have one the old-fashioned way, argues Amber Older. Deafening silence. Awfully good. Bittersweet. Who doesn’t love an oxymoron? Here’s another one: sperm shortage. Come again? Come again, indeed. And again, and again, while you’re at ...
An independent review of New Zealand's electoral system has concluded a major shake-up of MMP is needed to ensure a fairer and more accessible democracy, Marc Daalder reports In a new draft report, the Independent Electoral Review has recommended wide-ranging changes to the electoral system. If all of the recommendations were ...
A full, live, digital replica of the city’s infrastructure is essential for future decision-making and public engagement, says a coalition of Auckland experts. ...
Inhabitants of the shakiest part of Aotearoa’s shaky isles are readier than ever for the overdue big one West Coasters turned out in their hundreds this week to hear scientists remind them they face disaster when the Alpine Fault decides to rearrange the scenery. The AF8 roadshow has just completed ...
Swimmer Chelsey Edwards nearly gave the sport away twice, but with help from a pyschologist and a new training environment she's back competing for NZ Just weeks after moving cities for a new training environment, Aquablack Chelsey Edwards is off to her third World Aquatics swimming championships, in Japan, after being ...
The man behind the number one bestselling gratitude journal tells his story The practice of gratitude didn’t enter my life like a white feather floating peacefully to earth to spread joy and happiness. It was more like a bull forcing the matador to respect it. I was born in ...
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Promises of a huge global television audience, a boost for the profile of women's football, and big spending by fans descending on New Zealand – but do forecasts about the economic benefits of big events actually add up? The FIFA Women's World Cup kicks off here and in Australia from ...
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From the Sisters March press release:
And looking at the locations of marches around the world,, I say “Go Canada!” – for numbers of marches around a (non-US) country.
Also a substantial number of locations in Mexico and the UK.
Thing is Trump is oblivious to this.
What he doing is pushing for what is left of auto manufacturing in the US to not only remain there but he is also disincentivising any investment in overseas plants and returning manufacturing back to the US and I suggest it is having a profound effect in the way the up until now Neo Lib forever world thinks. He is also pushing for reciprocal car sales outside the US of American built products.
Will anyone really care about his manners or his weird opinions because for your blue collar American this means quality jobs.
He has hinted at the same in other US industries and has also suggested things like care for war veterans as another priority.
These not so little tangible things will connect with your average man and woman in the street because it will make a difference in their lives for the better.
And yet at the same time Bill English is going the other way and pushing for more questionable trade deals in the out of date out of time Neo Lib world he is so sold on.
Pretty much. People still don’t get it
Did you just say that real politics is economic and women’s politics is about manners?
but of course it is.
here have some smelling salts and maybe we should just loosen our corsets a bit for air.
/sarc.
“Did you just say that real politics is economic and women’s politics is about manners?”
unfortunatly that the general perception!
“women’s politics” is very much encouraging this view!
its up to you to change this!
keith is simply trying to bring a breath of reality to assist you in making that change.
[please provide evidence via 3 instances where the women organising this march, or taking part in it, are very much encouraging the view that they are primarily concerned with manners. If you can’t do that, then I suggest you think carefully about how you frame your opinions. Either way this thread is not for anti-feminist rhetoric. – weka]
unfortunatly that the general perception!
“women’s politics” is very much encouraging this view!
If you believe that the general perception is that women’s political concerns in the US are centred on manners, then that says some interesting things about you. It tells me that you really aren’t paying attention to women and what they are saying. It also tells me that you have an agenda for pushing false memes about feminism.
I’m now going to put my moderator hat on, because I don’t want to see this thread derailed.
Plenty of women been doing that. Some people just seem to have their hands over their ears.
Neoliberalism has not been good to women (or Māori and Pacific people). They are still bottom of the pile financially.
In the US, there’s a saying: “Black men get locked up (in prison); Black women get locked out (evicted from rentals).”
In NZ women, especially mothers of young children, on low incomes, have been the main victims of MOSD punitive beneficiary bashing,
Precarious workers: large numbers of women and brown and black people on the lowest paid, most precarious work.
Does anyone think Trump will be great for workers (including low paid women workers)? … with his keep car and other industries in the US? And his plans to cut top/business taxes? Not on his past record of treating workers and women.
Do you think Trump’s presidency will be good for renters? Not on his past record. Do you think Trump will be good for enabling low income people getting the health care they need? And then women make up a large proportion of family carers – they’ll be feeling the strain.
And when Trump is well known for his abuse and exploitation of women, he’ll be enabling a culture where abuse of women (and people of colour) will be green-lighted at work, on the streets, in homes…. everywhere.
Getting rid of “neoliberalism” does not mean getting rid of rule of by and for the elites – especially when it is being led by someone from the wealthy classes, whose whole MO has been in his own self-interests. It just means new ways of screwing those with the least wealth and income, and with least power.
na what he is saying is that blue collar usa isn’t going to care that trump is a sexist pig if they can get a decent job
Some of them won’t. Others will. Nevertheless the framing of the women’s march as over issues of manners is itself a problem. Both because it denigrates and tries to marginalise their politics, and because it pits feminism against working class politics, which IMO is entirely unnecessary and damages us all.
A pity the Auckland march is going up Queen St….a real bastard pushing the wheelchair uphill. 🙁 We’ll be there in spirit.
I wonder if they will pass the wall of meat.
http://www.chron.com/politics/article/Bikers-for-Trump-will-form-wall-of-meat-to-10859328.php
“Public ‘career feminists’ have been more concerned with getting more women into ‘boardrooms’, when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms, and none of them are on fire.”
― Laurie Penny, Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution
[what does that have to do with this post? See my moderator note above. This thread is not for pushing anti-feminist agendas – weka]
Yet, Penny is also called a “feminist”, and has been called a “career feminist” by some.
She is an excellent writer and says many good things.
She is strongly anti-Trump and his alt-right acolytes.
Penny on “Fear of a feminist future:
“On the election of Donald J Trump”
Nothing “anti feminist agenda” about it!
just making the valid point that calling something a ”
femininist act” does not guarantee that it advances women.
[You are now banned from commenting in this post, please see moderator note in Open Mike – weka]
Please read the moderation notes on your last few comments.
As a woman can i just say this is an very valid point to be made in the context of this conversation.
I think xanthe has been totally misunderstood throughout this entire conversation.
For clarity’s sake, they weren’t banned for that particular comment, I just wanted to make sure they had seen the ban elsewhere.
I think this is not a good move – love him or hate him, he’s what the American people voted for, and they’ll have to live with it. If the Democrats hadn’t played silly beggars to get Hilary in and Bernie out, I suggest we’d have a very different outcome now!
Feminism is taking a very wrong turn if they think supporting a woman just because she is a woman is ok – just look at the Natz collection we have here! 🙁
There needs to be some really reflective thinking around why America chose Trump over Clinton – I suspect a lot of people (many women included) held their noses while they voted for him because he was seen as the lesser of two evils.
There will be plenty of time to protest when/if he puts through policies which are anti- feminist – it hasn’t happened yet!
Actually, anti-women policies and legislation are being enacted even as we speak. The Republicans aren’t even waiting for the inauguration.
As far as I can see the march has nothing to do with Clinton, nor the Democratic fuck up in the election. It’s coming out of concern for what the next presidency will do to harm women. Those are valid concerns,
https://www.womensmarch.com/mission/
“….the mission is to bring people together to take a stand on issues that deeply impact all of us. The marches will seek to reaffirm the core American values of freedom and democracy for all at a time when many fear that their voices will be lost, specifically related to women’s rights, immigrant rights, worker rights, reproductive rights, LGBTQIA rights, environmental rights, rights for all races, and religious freedom.”
Long before there was the Feminist Movement per se, women were at the forefront of activism on many issues that undermined family security, health and welfare, civil rights, employment and the environment.
Trump needs to be sent a message that if his presidency is a continuation of his campaign…look out…women won’t tolerate that shit any more.
I also suspect that many people who voted Republican this time, who are swing voters, will be in for a shock about what happens. That includes blue collar workers. Some of those people will retrench into Trump-esque politics and culture, but I agree that many will start talking about how shit things are e.g. when they lose their health coverage.
so the guys that have had demonstrations all over the country yesterday
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-health-care-rally-20170115-story.html
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Thousands-Protest-US-Republican-Health-Care-Policy–20170116-0016.html
http://www.pressherald.com/2017/01/15/rally-supporting-affordable-care-act-happening-in-portland-today/
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/01/15/gop-strategy-for-aca-repeal-and-run/aCcjrJWQDjx4r4aRxkMCaL/story.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/16/democrats-obamacare-repeal-bernie-sanders-healthcare
to protest that gutting of the Affordable Care Act (yes, they already have voted away several ammendments of the Act such as keep your children on your healthcare till 26 – a big part of families with chronically ill children) should also not protest, cause love him or hate him 80.000 people got him over the electoral college to win over the candidate who got 3 million more in individual votes?
Sure, makes good sense.
Lets stop demonstrations, love them or hate them, lets not bring feminism to politics, cause what will the blokes think.
maybe people are demonstrating against what was campaigned on, i.e. reversal of Roe vs Wade, reversal of Obergefell_v._Hodges, Griswold vs Connecticut, the gutting of whats left of public education, defunding and shutting of Planned Parenthood, elimination of “Sanctuary Cities” by threats of cuts to funds, deporting ‘others of various nationalities and religion and then some more.
Maybe, they still believe they have a democracy. But hey, he won – bigly Nr. 46 on the list of those that got the electoral vote, and because Hilary did not play according tot he rule books of some, people now just pretend to not care, roll over and ‘get over it’? Seriously?
Yes, I’m aware that people are demonstrating against what was campaigned on, and that’s my point. Trump said a lot of crazy and truly awful things during his campaign – enough to make one’s blood run cold. My thinking is, though, that it would be more effective to target protests at specific changes in policy as they happen – I think this general approach is in grave danger of feeding straight into his own story and reducing the effectiveness of tackling issues as they arise
I suspect the Democrats going to Kentucky and saying we’ll close the evil coal mines down and Trump saying we’ll bring jobs back to ‘Merica probably had something to do with it
like these guys?
https://www.statnews.com/2016/11/28/trump-black-lung/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/12/26/1614804/-Coal-Miners-Stand-to-Lose-Black-Lung-Coverage-if-ACA-Is-Repealed
there is a special place in hell for people like this. In the Turds case i would sentence him to eternal purgatory being served authentic mexican food by a Rose McDonald look a like.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Pudding. For ever.
Shame I’m having Chinese for dinner tonight because you’ve put me in the mood for a taco
Beef n’ beans, beans n’ beef, beef n’ beans, beans n’ beef…….
?
Mexican food – beans n’ beef, beef n’ beans, beans n’ beef…….
I was thinking more like a fish taco in this sort of balmy weather would be more appropriate, beef and beans is a little heavier
And they believed the lie.
Despite an uptick in coal production between July and September, miners still lost jobs. As of Oct. 1, only 6,254 Kentuckians were still employed by the coal industry, less than half the number in 2011.
“I put the range of possibilities at somewhere to a continuing small decline to a small growth,” Troske said. “…We are not going to recover the coal jobs we’ve seen in the state lost in the last decade.”
http://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article114197923.html
Such protests do not target root causes
Protest gatherings and marches are not only held for the benefit of the protest target and the media, you know.
One of the things I remember most clearly from the protest marches of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s in New Zealand was the benefit to those doing the protesting. We used to call it “consciousness raising”, and it worked. To say nothing of the networking opportunities when people of like mind gather.
Protests, at their best, lead to better organisation and better strategy. I hope these ones go well, and wish one were being held near me.
+100. I always felt inspired and the solidarity that comes with marching in large numbers is not to be underestimated.
[Moderation note: I’ve added the kaupapa of the march to the post, with the expectation that people read it and inform themselves about what the march is before commenting. – weka]
“….., with the expectation that people read it and inform themselves about what the march is before commenting.”
Silly me, I was assuming that was what one did.
You’d be amazed at how many people don’t (they come in from the comments bar on the left, or even just scroll past the post).
Japan, too.