GUEST BLOG: Hone Harawira – “GIVE THEM A FKN HIDING!”
In 1979 we went up to the Auckland University and “beat the shit” out of 51 Pakeha students.
Why?
New Zealand Politics
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GUEST BLOG: Philip Patston: Pride and prejudice – when a community turns on itself
I’ve been keeping abreast of the drama that has been unfolding around the police’s involvement in the Auckland Pride Parade, but only from a distance. I’ve avoided the hui and Facebook rants, but I’ve heard about them second hand from friends and colleagues.
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A brief history of NZ Police marching in Uniform in the NZ Pride parade
As sponsor after sponsor after sponsor march out of the Pride Parade, those Trans Activists advocating for the exclusion of Police in uniform have desperately attempted to broaden the justifications of exclusion because the ‘uniform might trigger Trans people’ argument has looked increasingly flakey.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Inequality and Revolution
The Photo attached to this post is from 1932 when Wellington Police on horseback charged a demonstration by the unemployed during the Great Depression
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Santa banned from NZ Santa Parade for saying only men can play Santa – people about to lose their shit in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
…my first thought was that Lizzie Marvelly, Alison Mau, Marama ‘white dudes delete themselves’ Davidson and micro-aggression policing millennials at The Spinoff had joined forces and had called Santa out for his heteronormative white cis male privilege, I mean how many other women and people of colour can just break into your house in the middle of the night and hang out with your kids?
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MUST READ: The Perils Of Inclusion
SHOULD WE BE SURPRISED that the rainbow community turned out to be so conservative? That the effort of the Pride Parade board to address the fear so easily triggered by police uniforms has provoked such a swift and devastating backlash? That so many people have forgotten what it feels like to be labelled, singled-out, trashed and excluded? That so many New Zealanders seem unaware that it is precisely those who dwell furthest away from the blessings of societal acceptance that have the strongest claim to our care and protection?
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Wait – what? You ignorant banjo strumming white volk awarded the racist blackface float second prize??? Maybe Hone was right?
…maybe racism this bad just needs the bash?
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GUEST BLOG: John Tamihere – Why I stand against the status quo
People often ask why I’m not afraid to stand against antiquated status quo driven conventional thinking.
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NZ First blocking critical scientists to oversee corrupt fishing donors
This smells fishy like political corruption.
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Where Is The Mass Movement Against Climate Change?
WHEN JACINDA ANNOUNCED she was having a baby, I was thrilled. What better guarantee could we have of serious government action on the big issues than a prime minister with a tiny and vulnerable child’s future to protect? Well, Neve arrived safely, but the urgent action required to secure her future seems as far away as ever.