Helen Kelly’s courage continues in face of death
We need an adult discussion now on cannabis, allowing people like Helen to be called a criminal by the Police and Government is an outrage too far.
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Urge Iran to Free Nazanin
I am writing this knowing full well that, one day, it might land me in an Iranian jail where Nazanin is at the moment.
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The Writing’s on the Wall
The most important local target is the NZ Superannuation Fund, which invests in several companies that profit from Israel’s stranglehold on Palestine. It’s not pretty – among these are several manufacturers of military equipment used to massacre and maim Palestinian civilian populations, banks operating in and financing the illegal Israeli settlements and Caterpillar bulldozers that destroy Palestinian homes.
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The Palestine Marathon – Asserting the Right to Move Around
The fourth Palestine Marathon took place in Bethlehem last Friday and I was lucky enough to be among the 4,300 participants running a 10km, a full marathon or a half-marathon in my case. The event is organised by the Palestine Olympic Committee and a group called Right to Movement,
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NZs homophobic, anti-disability, anti-solo parent adoption laws
Of late I’ve been trying to get my head around the discriminatory adoption laws the Human Rights Review Tribunal has recently bought to public awareness.
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The struggle to make different ok
Two weeks ago the story broke about a mathematics professor who was denied residency in New Zealand because his stepson has autism.
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL – My love/hate relationship with Australia
For too long I’ve excused your boorish behaviour because of how your golden shores were so brutally colonised. My Aboriginal brothers and sisters shot down as vermin; the torturous treatment meted out within those convict settlements – irrespective of guilt or innocence, irrespective of youth, age or gender.
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What was on display at Laneway
The true ugliness of the appalling abuse thrown at Kim Vinnell has been in the response section of the newspaper comments.
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An open letter of welcome to Syrian refugees
To the Syrians who arrived in New Zealand last week, I greet you with a warm “Marhaba” – you are all welcome in Aoteroa!
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Growing up on death row – Amnesty International
Between 2005 and 2015, Amnesty International recorded 73 hangings of child offenders, including at least four in 2015. A UN report issued in August 2014 stated that more than 160 juvenile offenders were on death row.