Jeanette Fitzsimons: 1945-2020. An Assessment
What then, we are left to wonder, did Fitzsimons make of the Green Party in 2020? Did she see it as a source of pride, or as a cause for concern?
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The only constant in Israeli political leadership is racism towards Palestinians
The post-election debate in Israel has heated up over the weekend.
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Family calls for emergency measures on 5th Anniversary of Nicky Stevens death
Monday the 9th of March is the 5th anniversary of our son Nicky’s death. It’s a very difficult time for our whanau.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Can you be a change agent in parliament?
RIP Jeanette Fitzsimons: a lovely, gentle, and yet determined person who never gave up her vision for, and work towards, environmental change.
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MUST READ: A crisis is coming – we need a Green New Deal to confront it
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MUST READ: Virality and Globalisation: The case of Covid-19
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Remembering Jeanette Fitzsimons, a great Green
The news of Jeanette Fitzsimons’ death is so sad for me as a friend and former parliamentary colleague. She symbolized Green politics and was totally committed to the welfare of the planet and the people on it.
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On Trump’s Nixonian “Peace With Honour” In Afghanistan
So over the past few days in Afghanistan, there’ve been more than six dozen Taliban attacks and the US has resumed airstrikes against them. Yet I seem to keep running across people hailing Trump as some kind of visionary diplomatic savant (as opposed to the *other* kind of savant) who’s scored some kind of history-diverting coup in securing a sort of ‘peace with honour’ deal in Afghanistan.
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Super Tuesday 2020: “No, no, no, America – you’ve got it wrong!”
Retailing “revolution” in the United States of America has always been a hard sell.
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There’s Method In Shane Jones’s “Racist” Madness.
WHAT IS SHANE JONES trying to do? In speaking so insultingly about the Indian student community he must have known he’d attract the ire of the people he calls “Ngati Woke”. Was he being provocative just for the hell of it, or did he have a more coherent political motive for courting accusations of racism and xenophobia?