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| Activism in Aotearoa Conference |
The conference will be held from the 8th-10th of February 2001 at the Brookfield Outdoor Education Centre, Moores Valley Rd., Wainuiomata (just out of Wellington). [delve]
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| Aotearoa Activism Hui |
Amping for something to do this summer? Come to Activism in Aotearoa! For those of you unfamiliar with Activism in Aotearoa, there have been three so far - the first in 1995, and two consecutively in 1997 and 1998, all out at the lovely sunniness of Wainuiomata... [delve]
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| New Activist Centre Opens in Christchurch |
An open day has been organised from 2 to 4 pm on Friday September 28 to mark the official opening of InterActive, Christchurch[base ']s new activist centre located on the fourth floor at 222 High Street (above Jean Jones on the corner of High Street and Cashel Mall). [delve]
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| ANARCHISTS STEAL NEWS AWARD AT THE WEBBY'S |
SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate media was both glorified and protested tonight at the Webby Awards in San Francisco, CA. Billed as the "Oscars" of the internet, the Webby's is a high-glitz awards show designed to highlight and promote websites and the web industry. Many of the highly-visible sponsors and nominees represent corporate media and media consolidation, including CNN,ABC News, and more. [delve]
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| Is Dancing Terrorism? |
In another sign that the growing anti-capitalist, anarchist, anti-car movement is gaining effectiveness, the FBI recently listed Reclaim the Streets amongst the "Threats of Terrorism to the United States." The first Reclaim the Streets party was held in England in 1996, as a street festival aimed at temporarily "reclaiming" the street from cars and to point out how capitalism and car-culture deprive people of public space. Since then, RTS have happened all over the world.
In a May 10 statement before the US Senate Committees on Appropriations, Armed Services and Select Committee on Intelligence, FBI director Louis Freeh listed Reclaim the Streets as a "potential threat" to the United States along with assorted terrorists from Egypt and Lebanon. [delve]
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| Activist Resources |
From stopftaa.org - Why use non-violent Direct Action? Because it works. Refusing cooperation with injustice may come from a place of conscience or, for some, simply as a tactic and means to an end. Direct Action has been an essential part of every successful social change movement for hundreds of years. In the U.S., movements for the abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, labor rights, civil rights, AIDS advocacy, anti-war, anti-nuclear, environmental, LGBT rights, Central American solidarity and animal rights are just a few examples of effective direct action campaign. Well-planned nonviolent direct action intervenes in political processes that exclude ordinary citizens, forcing the issues into the public agenda through the creation of a moral crisis. [delve]
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| Create your own online petition |
petitiononline.com provides free online hosting of public petitions for responsible public advocacy. We give you the ancient methods of grassroots democracy, combined with the latest digital networked communications, running live and free 24 hours a day. [delve]
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| Electors Online |
Eligible electors are now able to enrol and update their enrolment details online at the elections website www.elections.org.nz. [delve]
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| Corporate control of media and dumbing down of news |
Mounting corporate control, media concentration and alongside it, a softening of media content, a dumbing down of news and the growing influence of commercial values and formats. Sound familiar? Television in Sweden, as in many countries on the Continent, used to be dominated by public service broadcasting. Viewers paid license fees and in return were rewarded with well-produced news programs, hard-hitting documentaries and ambitious drama. [delve]
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| TVNZ |
| I have decided to resign forthwith from the Chair of TVNZ. It is earlier than my planned date of departure…… TVNZ’s press releases [delve]
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| $5.6 million payout to Hawkesby outrages |
The payout of nearly $5.6 million to TVNZ's sacked newsreader, John Hawkesby, has not only outraged people who think his original contract was too generous. It has also shown the State broadcaster's management and board to have been stupid and profligate. [delve]
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| Public service funding |
Public services are increasingly funded by the UK Lottery and provided, on the cheap, by the voluntary sector (sound familiar?) [delve]
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| Eye witness account of demonstrations against WINZ |
Eye witness account of the events in Auckland on March 16th. During demonstrations against Work and Income New Zealand. A new (nose) hold is under trial by NZ police and used on student protestors March 16th [more] Students claim the police gouged eyes, stuck fingers up noses, strangled throats, twisted arms and punched students in the back to remove them from the footpath outside the central police station which they had occupied for close to an hour. [more] [delve]
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| Echelon |
Australian government confirmation that Echelon, a global spying network exists - Is the Waihopai station near Blenheim in the loop? <More> <More> [delve]
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| Chinese President Jiang Zemin Protest |
Police will pay compensation and apologise to five Wellington people wrongly arrested at a peaceful protest during Chinese President Jiang Zemin's stormy visit last year. <More>
The Police Commissioner Rob Robinson has defended police conduct <More>
Inquiry into matters relating to the visit of the President of China to New Zealand in 1999 <More>
The treatment of demonstrators by the UK police during the controversial state visit of the Chinese president, Jiang Zemin, last year was unlawful [delve]
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| US Election shambles |
Much of the current uncertainty was caused because only some precincts in Florida use electronic vote-counting technology [delve]
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| NZ Voting system |
It's a natural instinct to vote in order of preference yet under the present system your second vote could cancel out your first choice. [delve]
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