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Welcome to the November 2013 issue of Fightback. In mid-October, the Walk Free Foundation released the first Global Slavery Report. Drawing data from UNICEF and the US State Department, the report estimated that around 30 million people are enslaved world-wide. No report is unbiased, and it is worth noting that the Walk Free Foundation was
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Polly Peek A summary of the ‘Youth ‘12’ research carried out by the Adolescent Health Research Group based at Auckland University has recently been released, showing a number of positive health and social wellbeing factors improving for New Zealand teens, but also revealing concerning increases in poverty-related issues. The ‘Health and Wellbeing of Secondary School
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Fightback presents: Socialist Feminist Day School 2pm, Saturday November 16th WEA 59 Gloucester Street, Christchurch Schedule: Feminism 101 – Heleyni Pratley (Fightback) Men, anti-sexism and rape culture – Ian Anderson (Fightback) Why Marxists need to be Feminists – Alison Pennington (Socialist Alliance, Australia) [Facebook event]
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A dialogue with Richard Seymour on the question of how to reconcile the fact that people need stirring up with the fact that the people doing the stirring so often fall down when it comes to treating women and girls like human beings. By Laurie Penny, reprinted from the New Statesman. It’s a good job I
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Adapted from an article for Kai Tiaki Nursing NZ. By Grant Brookes, delegate for the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) and Fightback member. 132 delegates, representing nearly 300,000 union members, met in Wellington on 9-10 October. The Council of Trade Unions Biennial Conference 2013 examined the issues facing working people in New Zealand since the last
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Ioane Teitiota is currently appealing a High Court decision that refused him refugee status on the basis of climate change predictions. Teitiota came to New Zealand from the Pacific island of Kiribati in 2007 on a work visa that has recently expired. He has three children in New Zealand and argues that returning to Kiribati
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This talk by Ali Nissenbaum was originally delivered as part of Beyond, a conference organised by Queer Avengers. It is reprinted here from the Not Afraid of Ruins blog. Note: for the purpose of this article I’m using ‘queer’ as a broad term to describe all of us who are marginalised because our gender or sexual
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After a six-and-a-half month passage through Parliament, marriage was finally legalized for same-sex couples in New Zealand in April 2013. Among the questions raised among left-wing queer and trans activists was whether to support marriage equality as a democratic right, or to oppose marriage in general. In October 2013, the Beyond conference organised in Wellington by the
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Morgan Welch Massey University has formed a partnership with McDonalds Restaurants that will allow a number of McDonald’s store managers to cross-credit their prior learning towards an undergraduate business degree. An in-house course run for McDonalds by an external provider, Service HQ, provides managerial staff with the National Diploma in Hospitality, a New Zealand Qualifications
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Byron Clark On September 26th acting NZ High Commissioner Sarah Wong joined Barret Salato, Director of the Solomon Islands Labour Mobility Unit in Honiara to make an announcement about Solomon Islanders working in New Zealand. “In 2014 [The] Solomon Islands will be allocated 594 RSE places” read their joint statement. RSE stands for Recognised Seasonal
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