This is not a time to look away: justiceforpalestine.nz/2025/10/13/j...

Constitutional transformation is already happening, just not in Question Time. I get that pundits have to focus on six MPs, but it's because they can't and won't look at the thousands of daily acts of self-determination that don't require Parliament's permission.

Today!

God almighty. Shameful

Like most of the science system reforms this year, there's some good ideas here but the overarching direction this government dictates for research ('value for the private sector') is not one that will actually lead to good research

The select committee report on the Regulatory Standards Bill is in. 📝166,000 submissions. ❌98.7% opposed. Yet National are going to continue supporting it. 🗣New Zealand could not have been louder, but Luxon still isn’t listening.

fuck ....

That’s 17 Māori wards we didn‘t have 6 years ago. Lots of amazing, hard work to get that result. (And yeah, mixed with huge disappointment at all the remove votes 😞)

Your right to protest is under threat. Join us for the launch of PROTECT PROTEST a coalition established to defend protest as a tool of democracy and liberation. Wednesday 15 October at 4:30pm at Government Building Lecture Theatre 1 (GBLT1), Pipitea Campus, Te Herenga Waka VUW.

Throwing a brick through a window is criminal behaviour already, btw. Before anyone gets ideas of using this event to suggest changing the law on lawful/not lawful protests.

The whānau of the three New Zealand citizens, who were illegally taken by Israel, spoke to media this morning.

In the first 48 hours of our new open letter we had 250 signatures. 20% of them were university workers who would joint UniSaver IF if had a BDS policy. BDS is both the ethical choice and good business sense ✅🍉

UNISAVER MUST DIVEST FROM GEN0C!DE If UniSaver does not respond to our demand, we will launch a campaign to get unis across the motu to sever ties with UniSaver. Show your support by signing the open letter here: tinyurl.com/26tj4kpj

BREAKING: Union in Italy has announced a general strike on October 3, as per their promise if the Gaza flotilla was attacked, as it has been now.

The Global Sumud Flotilla is being intercepted by the Israeli occupation forces in international waters. Pressure your government for the protection of Global Sumud Flotilla

OTĒPOTI ACTION: Protest Winston Peters & Shane Jones at Port Chalmers this Friday morning. Meet up outside the Port Otago office on Beach St in Port Chalmers at 10.45 am. #FreePalestine #AntiGenocide #InternationalLaw

NZ academics... please take a moment to read this. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

More kiwi heroes www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

I have never in my life felt as ashamed of the settler state of New Zealand as I am today. #FreePalestineNow

. Gaza The dead boy tries to open his eyes. He wants to see the world he is leaving. But there is nothing to see here, nothing and nothing, and anyway he is gone. His parents held him while he died but they are both dead, too. Or he held them, no one remembers. .

Omg we are 82% of the way there after 7 hours fundraising 😭 Please contribute all the same so we can help shelter more people in Gaza

Some friends and I are doing a mutual aid fundraiser for a whānau in Gaza. Chip in if you can, and happy to chat about it more

SJP Pōneke has been working on a BDS motion for several months, and it will be tabled at the VUW Academic Board TOMORROW afternoon (September 23). Join us at 12:30pm in the Hub (Kelburn Campus) for a group walkover into the meeting. ❤️💚🖤🤍 www.instagram.com/p/DOxkkDTDw6...

When this video first came on my radar I skipped it because I thought the director of Chatham house would be fawning over him. I was wrong- interesting choices were made

Letterbox Flyering Bonanza!! 🌈📬 On 12-2pm Saturday 20 Sept, we’re going all out on the message to Vote to Keep Māori Wards and Constituencies. Join us in Karori (Te Whanganui a Tara) or Naenae (Te Awa Kairangi) for flyering, snack packs, bingo cards, and fun people. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

So Watties dumps local Hawkes Bay peach growers b/c they found cheaper alternatives to fill the gap after Cyclone Gabrielle. This is a direct result of climate change. This is a climate change story, but it’s almost guaranteed that no media will take this angle. #nzpol

Christian Priests chain themselves to Nicola Willis' office www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/nationa...

BREAKING: At least 53 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since the early hours of this morning, report our team on the ground, citing sources at local hospitals. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/224nz2

Māori Wards honour Te Tiriti. They ensure Māori voices are at the council table helping to make better decisions. That makes local democracy fairer, more representative and better for everyone. Vote to KEEP Māori Wards.

Some GOOD NEWS

UC-Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names “related” to anti-semitism, mostly for voicing support for Palestinians. Judith Butler is among them, she calls this “McCarthyism” UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

In the past few days, Israel has bombed Doha, struck Tunis over the humanitarian flotilla headed to Gaza and assassinated Yemen’s Prime Minister. These are clear violations of international law. Which other state is allowed to commit such crimes without any consequences?

NZDF falls in line with US space plans - offering up Māori land to launch satellites and take us into their wars.

Why? Well, for starters, 300 ICE agents have been moved to Chicago, leaving only about 300 in LA County which is about what we had before Trump took office. Why are they leaving? Because LA made their jobs TOO FUCKING HARD. LA Organized. LA sat on corners outside Home Depots with radios. 5/

My collaboration with Ivan Ehlers for the @latimes.com

The takeaway: 👉 Accommodating the radical right on immigration doesn’t win back voters. 👉 It alienates the progressive base. 👉 And it raises the salience of the very issue the radical right owns. In short: it’s electoral self-harm.

A quick squiz across the aisle, to look at Labour voters. They backed the Greens, ofc, but a sizeable chunk supported TPM too (more than Nat/Act voters wanted NZF). It suggests TPM may not be as much electoral deadweight (for Labour diehards who stuck with the party in 2023, at least) as feared.

Sitting on a decision. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #PalestinianStatehood #Gaza #Palestine

Say his name: Rasmi Salem, the 275th journalist killed by US-Israel. As the account of Hossam Shabat (who himself was killed long ago) reports, Rasmi “was martyred after being directly targeted by a reconnaissance missile fired by the Israeli occupation army on Abu Al-Amin Street in Sheikh Radwan”

This government does not give a shit about people like Dylan Holdaway

This is the same putrid corporation that destroyed the habitat of nesting dabchicks to NOT build its data centre in Auckland. They also want to discharge hot water straight into a stream not far from the harbour. All for what?

Nail on the fucking head.

Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? “Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”

Say her name @apnews.com - Maryam Abu Daqqa risked her life working for you, yet now you refuse to say her name while spouting the same old IDF lies. Shame on the AP and all the mainstream media silent amid the slaughter of >250 Palestinian journalists - that's more than 20 colleagues each month.

“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink