#OtD 14 Oct 1897 worker-organiser and anti-colonial activist Elma Francois was born in Overland, St Vincent. She organised sugar workers, socialist and anti-war groups and was tried for sedition by the British workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e75-...

Just a a couple of days left for the first deadline then a few days for the other two! Remember, these 3 Bills materially affect all our lives. AoNZ, have you written your submissions yet?

Right-wing libertarians aren’t libertarian. It’s neoliberal-tarian. The “less state, more free market” ideals only go to the extent of abolishing public spaces. Then they use the state to bail out failing corpos & protect state apparatus that mete out state-sponsored violence like the police.

This seems to be a common theme with the consultations from this government. Yet another form of norm breaking that's as bad as the bills themselves. "Consultations" that push the view of the government

Very Important and Urgent Things that Everyone Living in Aotearoa New Zealand Needs to Pay Attention to ASAP: a Big Ol’ Thread #nzpol 🧵🪡

Very Important and Urgent Things that Everyone Living in Aotearoa New Zealand Needs to Pay Attention to ASAP: a Big Ol’ Thread #nzpol 🧵🪡

New year new thing so don’t forget me! Thank you so much @yawnty.bsky.social for this gorgeous art. Check out their vgen and their page for some serious talent 🫶

Luigi Mangione is charged with terrorism for standing up to illegitimate authority. These people seem to want to radicalize this whole generation. archive.org/details/isbn...

Luigi Mangione has been charged with terrorism over his alleged killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO. It is time to familiarise yourself with the concept of ‘elite panic.’ apnews.com/article/unit...

Some good examples of submissions against the Treaty Principles Bill to help you with yours. Don’t procrastinate, get on to it so our voices are heard. #nzpol

i love you libraries i love you museums i love you botanical gardens i love you public parks i love you art galleries

"I've sat on park benches hungry—mid-winter, hungry days, no jobs, no work." —Langston Hughes (1925) #poem #poems #poetry

Seen in Ponsonby Auckland today. The Luigi effect.

The media has been extremely clear that violence is only violence if it affects the rich Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

This is what scares me the most about everything right now. BLM and ACAB got watered down to mean giving cops less funding, and I fear what will happen with Luigi in retrospect.

“Parmar said benefit sanctions are a crucial tool to deal with those who take taxpayer money while refusing to take basic steps to support themselves.” Everybody repeat after me: In AoNZ, BENEFICIARIES PAY TAXES. It is automatically taken out of benefits. BENEFICIARIES ARE TAXPAYERS. #nzpol

4 different wanted posters with different healthcare CEOs are being found across NYC

“Parmar said benefit sanctions are a crucial tool to deal with those who take taxpayer money while refusing to take basic steps to support themselves.” Everybody repeat after me: In AoNZ, BENEFICIARIES PAY TAXES. It is automatically taken out of benefits. BENEFICIARIES ARE TAXPAYERS. #nzpol

Imagine if the govt put as much time and effort into cracking down on wage theft, tax evasion, and white collar crime as it did on being insufferable shits to beneficiaries.

I’ve reported on homelessness for years and met many, many people who have found themselves in awful situations Every single one of them had more decency and integrity than this privileged plutocrat

if you can't handle the suspected hoodie CEO shooter at his "ban fleshlights" you don't deserve him at his "people over profits manifesto"

The state isn’t even pretending to respect our rights and freedoms anymore. They’re coming for our power of collective bargaining, because they know it works, and they know that with this level of cost of living crisis, pay sanctions like this is crippling to our ability to fight back. #nzpol

It’s because one of the ways these groups strike is by going to work and doing the job but refusing to do non-emergency paperwork. So for eg my mama is a carer for elderly special needs folks, & when she strikes she just does her regular job but

@philtwyford.bsky.social any comment here? you've ancient experience in coping with political fuckery compared with these newbies fairly sure bsky's Aotearoa contingent would appreciate a position statement

this graffiti goes hard

The state isn’t even pretending to respect our rights and freedoms anymore. They’re coming for our power of collective bargaining, because they know it works, and they know that with this level of cost of living crisis, pay sanctions like this is crippling to our ability to fight back. #nzpol

If you exercise your right to work to rule Brooke van Velden wants you punished. #GeneralStrike #Revolution www.beehive.govt.nz/release/pay-...

Underrated comment tbh

Monopoly money! I hope this guy has his feet up on a beach in a country with no extradition

Most well-meaning leftists and/or anti capitalists want justice for the disability community, but are under the misguided impression that this will happen after able-bodied ppl dismantle systems of oppression on behalf of disabled ppl. The truth is…

David Fucking Seymour in a nutshell.

Summer revisit: The richest 10% of New Zealanders hold more than half the country’s wealth. The poorer half of the population, meanwhile, holds just 2%. So why are we still so reluctant to talk about wealth inequality?

seems like every 150 years or so the rich need to be forcefully reminded that the world isn’t exclusively theirs

So wait! 2 missing, 1 dead, and one in serious condition! #Fail www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

A small and quick thread about how 5 out of 10 of the youth trialling the govt’s new “military-style” boot camp for “young offenders” are now worse off. My heart truly breaks for these kids. This trial needs to be called off immediately. #nzpol

Today is the birthday of my fav author and the most correct Italian who ever lived: Errico Malatesta. I strongly recommend reading him if you want to learn about anarchist socialism. This programme is a good place to start:

A small and quick thread about how 5 out of 10 of the youth trialling the govt’s new “military-style” boot camp for “young offenders” are now worse off. My heart truly breaks for these kids. This trial needs to be called off immediately. #nzpol

According to this article: “Willow-Jean Prime… said she understood a third participant of the bootcamps had also reoffended. Oranga Tamariki did not address that claim when asked by the Herald.” If this is true, that means 5 out of 10 kids are now worse off. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

So THIS is really flying under the radar! They want to remove all public input into conservation estate and allow development! SHARE AND SUBMIT!! We have until 28 February #nzpol www.doc.govt.nz/modernising-...

Try not to live a life that has most people celebrating your death

It really can't be stated enough how the AI craze is rooted deeply in utter vitriolic disrespect for the working class. Like I've seen multiple cases of this tech being marketed directly on sticking it to us filthy poors who want things like "benefits" and "fair pay for our labor"

I’m getting the same mood from this exec shooting as the titanic sub thing - a shrug, if not overt celebration. There is as much sympathy for the shooter as there is derision for the exec. Ppl are realising that the 1% are too separated from us to get the same considerations we’d give each other.

I'm once again reminded that you should try to live your life in a way that doesn't result in people making fun of you when you're murdered in the street.

The govt thinks being a union member is a conflict of interest in being on the board. The real conflict of interest is discriminating against union members and non-hateful political views. This political screening shows a govt that prohibits freedom & is uncaring of the health of AoNZers #nzpol