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  • Where Internet MANA came from

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  • Miriam Pierard of the Internet Party: speaking the language of youth

    Miriam Pierard of the Internet Party: “Speaking the language of youth” by DAPHNE LAWLESS, Fightback (Auckland)   Miriam Pierard, the 28-year-old Internet Party candidate for Auckland Central, is no stranger to Fightback – “a very good magazine”. She compliments us in particular on our “really amazing article” explaining our decision to support the Internet Party-MANA

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  • Unite against poverty wages and zero-hour contracts: An interview with Heleyni Pratley

    Heleyni Pratley is an organiser for Unite Union and a member of Fightback (Aotearoa/NZ). In May, Heleyni attended the first global conference on fast food organising. Fightback writer Ian Anderson interviewed her. FB: Can you tell us about Unite Union and how you first got involved? HP: Sure, so I got involved with Unite Union

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  • Hone Harawira: Burning the flag or accepting the evil

    Burning the Israeli flag in Auckland in protest over the murder of innocent civilians in Gaza is nothing to be ashamed of” said MANA Leader and Tai Tokerau MP, Hone Harawira. “Calling for both sides to stand down when one side is annihilating the other though, IS something to be ashamed of.” “On one side

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  • Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic? The Labour Party and MANA

    Ian Anderson, Fightback. Trigger warning: Discussion of sexual violence Early in July this year, Labour Party leader David Cunliffe made headlines by apologising for being a man. Stoked by capitalist media sensation, Prime Minister John Key responded that “not all men” abuse women. For abuse survivors and their supporters however, Cunliffe sentiments were not entirely

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  • Reports: Aotearoa stands in solidarity with Palestine

    Fightback supports the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement as a tactic to show solidarity with Palestinian resistance. The following reports are from demonstrations over the weekend from Fightback activists and supporters. In Auckland, around 3000 people turned out on a miserably cold day to protest the latest Israeli attacks on Gaza. The rally heard

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  • Fightback Issue 5 2014 online

    The New Zealand Herald – and the rest of the mainstream media – recently ended up with egg on their face in regard to the Donghung Liu affair. The mainstream media are increasingly open about their preference for coverage of politics which turns it into a simple horse-race between two teams of celebrities. The modern

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  • Tamaki/AKL event: Socialist-Feminist Day School

      1pm – Socialist Feminism 101, Sionainn Byrnes (Fightback & UC Femsoc)2:30pm – Gendered aspects of poverty, Nadia Abu-Shanab (Auckland Action Against Poverty)4pm – Gender diversity and liberation, Daphne Lawless (Fightback) Open to all genders, koha entry, snacks provided. AUSA Women’s Space1-5pm, Saturday July 26th[Facebook event]  

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  • Aotearoa: Actions against Israeli apartheid

    WELLINGTON: Stand with Palestine! Rally Against Israel’s Brutality in Gaza Friday 18th July, 12:30-1:30pm Embassy of Israel – Baileys Building, 36 Brandon Street (off Lambton Quay), Poneke/Wellington Solidarity Rally for Palestine AUCKLAND : Justice for all victims of Israel’s brutality Saturday 19th July, 2pm Aotea Square, Tamaki/Auckland CHRISTCHURCH: Stand with Palestine! Rally Against Israel’s Brutality

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  • Stop Israeli War Crime in Gaza! (Asia-Pacific joint statement)

    Regional Joint Statement In the past week, Israeli military forces have escalated their offensive on the Gaza Strip. Israeli warplanes have increasingly targeted houses, civilian-populated areas and civilian facilities in the Gaza strip. Israeli warplanes have destroyed a number of houses while their residents were inside, without any prior warnings, killing and wounding many Palestinian

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