In Harm’s Way.
WHAT IS “HARM”? On how this word is defined will turn a number of critical political debates.
Setting the Agenda
Political analysis and commentary shaping the progressive debate in Aotearoa New Zealand, focused on power, policy, and accountability.
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Before you leave this blogpost…
Write a short submission on the Climate Commission’s draft report. The deadline is this Sunday 28 March. Here is the link.
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Dismantling ‘anti-Semitism’
First, many thanks to Tony Greenstein for permission to use the cartoon seen above. Describing himself as socialist, anti-Zionist and…
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Police, Tasers, Public Protest and the Public Interest
So when you are next on a demonstration check the police on duty and speak up if you see tasers on a police belt. Doing so means you are acting in the public interest.
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Messages Received: Mark McGowan’s Landslide in WA Makes Jacinda’s Win Look Modest.
When the Coronavirus is finally defeated, however, Jacinda will need to find new evils to vanquish, and with an equal measure of success, or she, too, will pay the inevitable electoral price of failure.
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Voting Without Fear, With Open Eyes.
IT’S ONE OF THOSE STORIES that illustrates vividly the robust working-class culture of the trade union movement that was.
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The Mock Court of Public Opinion
If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. — Howard Zinn, historian and author
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Sticks And Stones – And Bullets.
Words didn’t kill 51 innocent human-beings on 15 March 2019 – bullets did.
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The violence and victims behind the news
With all the spectacle, barbarism and unfolding drama it feels like ringside seat at the Colosseum. It’s all stompings, smashings, gunshots, bodies discarded in the bush, hidden in car boots, abandoned, while loved ones despair. Behind the headlines these are real people, perpetrators, victims, families. This is real individual and social harm.
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New Arrangements: How Substituting ‘Aotearoa’ For ‘New Zealand’ Could End Up Destroying Both.
MENG FOON, currently serving as the Human Rights Commission’s Race Relations Commissioner, epitomises New Zealand’s emerging ethnic crisis.