TPPA – DON’T SIGN protest 4th February
February 4th will see trade ministers from around the Pacific Rim converge on Auckland to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA).
The Liberal Agenda
Commentary examining neoliberalism, economic inequality, and the political forces shaping modern New Zealand society.
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Academy Awards respects The Revenant – but watch the sneering in 1973
It is good that the movie gets respect and that Native Americans are shown in a light that goes beyond the whitewashed history America clings to. The genocide, lies, murder and butchery committed against the first nation of America is still a crime the US has never paid for.
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With Peter Jackson’s history, will remaking ‘The NeverEnding Story’ become a 7 hour trilogy?
After the shlock of The Hobbit and the never ending Lord of the Rings, I’m not sure we want Peter Jackson remaking a movie called ‘The NeverEnding Story’.
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WAIHOPAI SPYBASE PROTEST SATURDAY JANUARY 23rd
Waihopai does not operate in the national interest of New Zealand. In all but name it is a foreign spy base on NZ soil, paid for with hundreds of millions of our tax dollars; it spies on Kiwis and foreigners; it is NZ’s key contribution to America’s global spying & war machine. Waihopai must be closed.
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BREAKING: TPPA Don’t Sign campaign January 26th Auckland Town Hall
If you live near or in Auckland – or are pissed off enough to travel a bit – the TPPA Don’t Sign campaign will kick off with a public meeting at the Auckland Town Hall on Tuesday 26 January at 7pm.
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On the “Radical Self-Love” Movement: Beware of “positive attitude” advocates
Radical self-love gurus do not tend to promote or even really engage in discussions on privilege or the disadvantages people are born into; that shit would undermine the cause of “changing yourself, not the system.”
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Guerrilla Girls call bullshit on Pharrell
The Guerrilla Girls, an all-female anonymous feminist artist collective, were invited to form part of an exhibition at the Galerie Perrotin in Paris called G I R L S, curated by pop singer Pharrell himself which opened on Tuesday. The show claims to “celebrate women who are above all free, liberated by artists and their boundless, unfettered imagination”.
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Reframing gang culture: humanising the inhuman?
I am not saying white people should not make work about other cultures that happen to be brown, what I am saying is there needs to be some moral accountability if you do.
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Pharrell: a new brand of feminism?
We need less men declaring their allegiance to feminism and more men unpacking patriarchy and challenging toxic modes of masculinity.
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Film Review: Divergent 3stars
Divergent follows a pretty generic formula and it is a shame the director Neil Burger (Limitless) made the decision to leave out some of the darker parts of the book.