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  • More photographs here. 8 people have been arrested over the past week, two of them today, for protesting outside the ASB Tennis Centre due to the presence of Israeli tennis player Shahar Peer. The protests are part of the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, initiated in 2005 after an appeal from 170 Palestinian

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  • When a peoples’ movement overthrew Nepal’shated King Gyanendra and the oppressivemonarchical structure in 2006, not much was heardabout it in NZ.Yet exciting things are happening in Nepal todaythat deserve our attention. The Nepalese peopleare striving to build a new and better society.We now have a chance to find out more. BenPeterson is a young Australian

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  • Activist John Minto and four other protesters were arrested outside the ASB Tennis Centre in Auckland today. An organisation calling themselves Global Peace and Justice Auckland continued their demonstrations during Israeli tennis player Shahar Peer’s matches at the WTA tournament for a third straight day. Today was Peer’s first match on centre court and the

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  • Latin America’s Decade

    January 5th 2010, by Emir Sader – Pravda, reprinted on Venezuelanalysis. The 1990s was the worst that America has ever lived. The debt crisis — with its consequences: IMF, letters of intent, tax adjustments, etc… — Military dictatorships opened the way for it to impose neoliberal governments in almost every continent. We became the world

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  • Wgtn: Palestine gig

    Fundraiser for the upcoming Occupation and Resistance exhibition. Featuring performances by Mr Sterile Assembly, Steven Jackson, Cherry Gemstone and Tengu – door entry $5. 9pm Thursday, January 14th Bar Medusa, Vivian St

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  • Reprinted from Comrade Alastair. Nepal’s Maoists are often accused of being anti-worker, Stalinist, bourgeois nationalist and so on by many on the Western ‘left’, particularly anarchists and Trotskyists. As ‘evidence’ towards this, it is often claimed that while in government earlier this year, they ‘banned strikes’. Let’s set the record straight. The Maoists never banned

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  • The Nevada girls’ big stomper from ‘64 (contributions from The Kasama Project and Ian Anderson.) “Now U.S. imperialism is quite powerful, but in reality it isn’t. It is very weak politically because it is divorced from the masses of the people and is disliked by everybody and by the American people too. In appearance it

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  • Reviewed by Marika Pratley   The Spark Dec 2009/ Jan 2010 In the album ‘Safer Communities Together’ Blues Don Franks has successfully interwoven politically revolutionary words with his compositional abilities. Recorded in a student flat in Aro Valley, Wellington, ‘Safer Communities’ is comprised – musically – of a wide range of instruments which Don plays, including

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