The new Conservation Amendment Bill which sells off DOC lands is evil twin of the Fast Track law -they work together to sabotage the lands we need to protect and the power to protect public land - and it’s a Te Tiriti issue as it prevents return of ancestral lands once sold off
Here we go again - new Conservation Amendment Bill opens 60% of the DOC land for sale,intentionally includes the Hauraki Coromandel lands protected from mining /Tikapa Moana ( the gulf) only protecting afew island/ reserves - so if you love our area get ready to fight with us !
"The sniper who shot my friend Jihan's 3 year old daughter Noor, shattering her tiny legs while she was in her mother's arms in Gaza, is a hateful, racist ghoul -- I understand that's one of the things I've been criticized for saying. And I double up on it, frankly. But the rage, the disgust even hatred that Jihan or I feel toward that sniper is not racism. It is not anti-Jewishness. It is not anti semitism. Nor are her feelings toward the tank operator who blew out the back of her son Arhab's head, making her fingers sink into his brains when she tried to pick him up. Our feelings or words in response to 78 years of this barbaric, colonial violence are not 'reprehensible.' They are not antisemitic. And they are not anti Jewish. In fact, despite everything they have done to us -- despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of Jews both inside & outside of Israel support this zionist carnage & domination -- we still have the tender human sense to recognize those Jews, however a minority they may be, who do not support Israel. And to embrace the far smaller minority who are anti zionist, in fact."
entirety of NZ's government is on a scale between blaming Iran & openly crowing about US-Israel missile attacks, which we now know have killed children in schools
there MUST be an alternative. Otherwise parliamentary democracy may as well be over, alongside the remains of RBIO
“We’re everywhere, but this is what it means to be a Palestinian, to be displaced. We never got a chance to live in Palestine.” — Nadine Mortaja, Palestinian New Zealander.
https://t.co/7kQ36zNU5I
🌊 “It’s the trawling that’s turned thriving [ocean] ecosystems into lifeless mud.” – Bianca Ranson, Forest & Bird.
Forest & Bird is standing with the Hauraki Gulf Alliance @LegaSea_NZ@GreenpeaceNZ on the deck of the Rainbow Warrior, calling for a complete ban on bottom trawling in Tīkapa Moana.
https://t.co/9yO3Gjafwf
👉97% of public submitters agree – yet Minister Shane Jones has dismissed the Gulf as "just a mud-stained bottom".
💥 Enough is enough. It's time to protect our marine life, restore the mauri of the Gulf, and end this destructive practice once and for all.
Sign our letter and tell the Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Conservation Minister Tama Potaka how much you care about Tīkapa Moana the Hauraki Gulf: https://t.co/Bg0QaNBYb1
📷 On the Rainbow Warrior (from left to right): Sinead O'Flynn, Bianca Ranson, Shaun Lee, Mandy Kupenga and Juan Parada. Credit Bianca Ranson.
📷 High level drone shot of the Rainbow Warrior. Credit Greenpeace.
A great Keith Locke Memorial Debate last night in Auckland. The moot was "That China is a threat to regional peace." The negative team led by @TrevorJ24567534 won the debate arguing that it's the US manufactured threat of China, not China, that is the threat to regional peace.
it's good to see real māori leadership speaking up against homophobia and transphobia in the wake of the recent violent attacks on the community by the zionist christofascists from destiny church, mauri ora
there are over 20,000 Palestinians still under the rubble right now, some of them are children and alive trapped alone terrified and freezing, because of Harris/Biden bombs and you're crying for them??
My blog post analysing the communicative inversions deployed by People Against All Imperialisms, and the whiteness of erasure. The visit by @vijayprashad to Aotearoa disrupts these tropes of whiteness.
https://t.co/9uyijnnUbd