“You just have to keep on fighting” – an interview with Metiria Turei
“At the end of the day no government ever paid attention to the people I’ve cared about”.
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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Cameron Slater: Zionist and political pundit
As New Zealanders begin to learn the full extent of Slater’s corruptions, smear campaigns and how much he and his Whale Oil blog have influenced elections in the last six years, he is being paid, as I type this, to also pedal Israeli propaganda.
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Show me what democracy looks like: 6 activists for Palestine #Occupy the NZ Super Fund Office
At around 12pm yesterday Nadia Filistin, who has been a major organiser in the Auckland protests against Israel’s ongoing assaults in Gaza over the last 6 weeks which has killed over 1900 Palestinians and injured thousands, updated her Facebook status with this…
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Why Hillary Clinton is not ‘a beacon of female empowerment’
Clinton is being held up by many social commentators as some kind of vision of ‘female empowerment’ – after all, she has smashed glass ceiling after glass ceiling, and she is a proud self-declared feminist. Hell, maybe she is even a ‘feminist icon’.
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Politics beyond the veil
This is the lousy state of Māori politics. The highest value and the only end is sitting “at the table of government”.
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What does it mean to be a girl?
The words “…like a girl” have been used as an insult to humiliate both men and women for generations; “you run like a girl”, “you hit like a girl” or even “you speak like a girl” are used to shame and put people down.
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“I got an apology”… said no survivor of rape or gendered violence ever
Saying “not all men” does not absolve you from the actions of other men. It does not mean you get to be excluded from the conversation. It does not mean you get a free pass to not give a shit.
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Murray McCully must go: sign the petition to demand his resignation
Governmental incompetency allowed for a diplomat to slip away under the guise of diplomatic immunity, this is a classic example of our state system and how it views sexual crimes.
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The Roast Busters actions shocked the nation, so what can we do about it?
I know this might be a paradigm shifting perspective for some, but violence against women is first and foremost a men’s issue.
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#SurvivorPrivilege: because being raped earns you status
Conservative American journalist George F. Will claimed this week that being a survivor of rape on college campuses is now some kind of “coveted status that confers privilege” to the point where “victims proliferate.”