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Haere Atu No Co2lonialism in the Pacific-Te Ata Tino Toa on the Social & Climate Justice Caravan

Submitted by uriohau on 21 November 2009 - 3:42pm
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  • Climate Change
  • Globalisation
  • Local
  • Pacific Struggles
  • Tino Rangatiratanga

“Third world scenes” among Australian Aborigines

Submitted by Diet on 21 November 2009 - 1:44pm
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  • Racism
  • International

"In the heart of this first world I found scenes more reminiscent of the third world. That Indigenous peoples experience human rights violations on a continent of such privilege is not merely disheartening, it is morally outrageous.

Sol - Fed NZ?

Submitted by Matt (not verified) on 21 November 2009 - 1:10pm
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  • Class War
  • Local

 

From the discussions that sprang from the 'anarchist reflections of the union organiser role' I've been thinking about the realities of a version of the Solidarity Federation being created here in good old Aotearoa.

EVIDENCE THAT UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS WELCOMES FBI INTEL OPERATIONS AGAINST WHISTLEBLOWER

Submitted by geral (not verified) on 21 November 2009 - 7:58am
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  • Civil & Human Rights
  • International

The universities across the nation (and AG) do more for the fbi/cia than assist in the search for foreign terrorists; today our colleges and universities directly encourage their campus police and civilian employees to engage in unlawful intel operations against whistleblower
GERAL SOSBEE.

 

 

Moa? What Moa?

Submitted by Ivor on 20 November 2009 - 9:27pm
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  • Civil & Human Rights
  • Local

 

 

Building a Bigger Bus

Submitted by Benjamin Easton on 20 November 2009 - 3:26pm
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  • Civil & Human Rights
  • Local

On Friday 20, November the Save Manners Mall campaign received unprecedented coverage on the efforts to bolster the numbers of public paying attention to facts and events on the mall and the Council decision to revoke its pedestrian status.

 

Campaign organiser Maria van der Meel sourced donations to pay 30 students $25 each, to join a human bus to be run from Manners Mall

Nuclear Notebook: Worldwide deployments of nuclear weapons, 2009

Submitted by Anarkaytie on 20 November 2009 - 2:05pm
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  • Anti-War
  • International
"As of the end of 2009, we estimate that there are approximately 23,360 nuclear weapons located at some 111 sites in 14 countries.
Nearly one-half of these weapons are active or operationally deployed."

Nuclear Notebook: Worldwide deployments of nuclear weapons, 2009

Wellington anti-war solidarity for Joe Glenton

Submitted by Peace Action Wellington (not verified) on 19 November 2009 - 7:56pm
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  • Anti-War
  • Local

About a dozen members of Peace Action Wellington and the Workers Party held a solidarity picket outside of the British Embassy at lunchtime today in support of Joe Glenton, a Lance Corporal in the British Army who has been arrested for refusing to serve in Afghanistan.

NZ Ex-Hostage Returns to Iraq

Submitted by Anonymous on 19 November 2009 - 4:30pm
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  • Anti-War
  • Civil & Human Rights
  • Indigenous struggles
  • Local



AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - Harmeet Singh Sooden has joined an international human rights delegation travelling to Iraqi Kurdistan from 7 to 23 November 2009. Iraqi Kurdistan is a semi-autonomous region of Iraq administered by the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG). The delegation is sponsored by the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT).

US Free Trade Agreement a Poisoned Chalice for NZ

Submitted by Anonymous on 18 November 2009 - 4:58pm
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  • Globalisation
  • International Relations
  • Local
  • Neoliberalism

The announcement that the US is ready to start negotiations in 2010 to join an expanded Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (currently comprising NZ, Chile, Brunei, and Singapore, commonly known as the P4 Agreement), with 2011 as the target to seal the deal, confirms that it will be used as the backdoor means to secure a US/NZ Free Trade Agreement.

That would be catastrophic fo