Hey Pōneke, I’m visiting and the weather sucks. Just as well I will spend the next two days in a conference hall for LIANZA 2025 conference. Bad weather, great company- Kia ora fellow librarians. #LIANZA2025 #kikorangi

Important thread. Words do matter. We can’t whitewash what’s happening here #fascism

How are there no repercussions for this guy?

March for humanity- Aotea Square before we set off in our thousands to demand our government sanction Israel. Stop the genocide! #FreePalestine #TāmakiMakaurau

Tonight I went to the most creative and positive local government election event I have ever experienced. Louise Hutt, standing for re-election in Hamilton, exhibited her democracy knitting, and it is glorious. And she supports removing library overdue fines! @saycheeselouise.bsky.social

March the bridge starts at 9.30 from Stafford Park so get there early good people.

It is not just the USA- stop censorship and the global spread of idiocy and fascism!

📢 Palestine supporters are planning to march across the Auckland Harbour Bridge as protests continue over Israel’s actions in Gaza.

📢 Police say planning is well underway ahead of a pro-Palestinian march that will shut the bridge on 13 September.

Yo! Tāmaki Makaurau! March the Harbour Bridge to call for sanctions on Israhell: Saturday 13th September 9.30am at Stafford park #Palestine #nzpol bring your whanau!

70 people were killed at work in NZ last years, thousands injured and the Minister wants to make it less safe for workers. As she also says it’s okay for workers to lose human rights if it means more profit for businesses and apparently even their lives. #NZpol

For Tāmaki central peeps, candidates meeting Waitematā ward and board, at Double Whammy, Tuesday 2nd September 6pm X

So #nzpol can anyone tell me why Don McGlashan hasn't been made a knight yet for his service to Aotearoa New Zealand music & for telling Bishflap to "shut up you dickhead" I heard this on the car radio & thought how we need this song & Don McGlashan more than ever youtu.be/2HVogejKx_c?...

Remembering the 273 journalists killed in Palestine by the IDF. Te Komititanga Square, Tāmaki Makaurau Saturday 23 August 2025. Stop the genocide!

Just stop. This must be stopped. Not stopping it is condoning it.

Brooke van Velden will be holding multiple street corner meetings all over Tāmaki electorate on 7th September. I highly recommend everyone comes to join them and make their feelings known about pay equity. #payequity #nzpol

Aotearoa - A variety of ropū are behind this #GrantTheVisas campaign, which is urgently calling on the Government to grant emergency humanitarian visas to Palestinians in Gaza who have family ties to NZ. They have heaps of resources to get on board here: grantthevisas.com

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

This is awesome #nzpol

Arrived early at the Civic to see the film Prime Minister and there are anti -vaxx protesters outside!!!! X

Peace Action Wellington completely opposes the opening of a US FBI office in Aotearoa New Zealand. The decision by the NZ government to allow a foreign country’s police force to operate here is terrifying.

Opening night, NZIFF Tāmaki Makaurau

Latest Zoom webinar by Voices for Freedom (VFF) built further on entryism with grounded strategies, & tactics to infiltrate local government. Essentially, like a cancer, VFF is a threat to New Zealand's democracy from within. This level of sophisticated/sustained network mobilisation unprecedented.

BREAKING: At least 116 Palestinians, including 38 people near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid sites, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza today, according to medical sources in the enclave. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/f6uvdq

10 writers by whom I’ve read more than 5 books. PS there are many more… Ursula Le Guin Margaret Atwood A S Byatt Elizabeth Knox Doris Lessing Barbara Kingsolver Anne McCaffery Margaret Mahy Lois McMaster Bujold Angela Carter

Two independent Jewish Voices groups in Aotearoa New Zealand have written an open letter to the government condemning the Zionist “colonisation” project leading to genocide and criticising the role of the NZ Jewish Council for its “unelected” and “uncritical support” for Israel. #gaza #jews #Zionist

“…the value of poems is tuning us to a different frequency of existence.” Garth Greenwell, in Small rain, the most wonderful book I have read in ages. #poetry @garthgreenwell.bsky.social

immigration law must be urgently reformed to accomodate the many people who whakapapa māori but are not necessarily new zealanders. this category only grows larger, and cases like this will continue emerging: www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

Does your library still have fines? Hamilton, Whanganui, Wairoa, Marlborough, Grey and Waimate still collect overdue fines. If you love libraries you might want to ask your Councilors when they will be making the move. loveyourlibrary.org.nz/fine-free-ao...

Studied VFF's planning for upcoming local government elections posted online recently. It's a *significant* step-up in scale, strategy, & sophistication from '22's templates, in a transnational context which sees big far-right gains in electoral outcomes, esp. at LG levels. Entryism is entrenched.

Kia ora! I have had exciting news. My petition to Parliament for the removal of charity status from Destiny Church will be tabled on 16 July 2025. Phil Twyford is overseeing it. If you have forgotten the Change petition I drove in February/March, you can see it here: www.change.org/p/remove-cha...

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I‘m from before the internet.

More libraries please!

Posted by Anil Dash: Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic

This is the response (that I put together alongside the editorial staff of The Conversation) to David Seymour's defence of the "Victim of the Day" harassment campaign against experts in Aotearoa. #nzpol #kikorangi

Just some stuff. It’s winter, shortest day, but these little beauties are pretending it’s spring.

Just witnessed from a bus Destiny church people assault a man carrying a Palestinian flag on Queen St, Tāmaki Makaurau. Their march was hate filled and anti immigrant. Free Palestine! End the killing and the hate

Mānawatia a Matariki: Happy Māori New Year #aotearoa #newzealand

Mānawatia a Matariki- a day to remember those gone (miss you mama), come together to share kai and joy (see you soon sisters), and plan ahead.

How about some neutral-leaning-good news? Brooklyn Public Library is making funding available for libraries across the US who want to develop freedom to read programming for young people. It's open to any library, with a note that small and rural libraries are especially encouraged to apply.

90% of submitters opposed the Treaty Principles Bill. 88% of submitters opposed the Regulatory Standards Bill. 80.5% of submitters opposed demoting te Tiriti in state schools. At what point does the media start calling out this government as anti-democratic?

This CANNOT continue. It's a national shame. We have to Ban Bottom Trawling! Massive coral bycatch exposed www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/bottom-tr... #nzpol #UNOC #ProtectTheOceans

Met an active duty member of the military yesterday who filed conscientious objector paperwork in response to deployment of military on U.S. soil. Was told multiple Army have filed, unknown quantities in other branches.

I was a medic at the Santa Ana protests in OC today. I watched police fire tear gas, flash bangs, & rubber bullets into crowds of men, women, & children. Other medics and I were clearly marked with red crosses, and the police were targeting us. One of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen.

Hard to Find is one of the best, this is terrible news!