Glen Innes residents, Marion Peka and Aroha Robson, report on police brutality at a recent protest.
Residents of Glen Innes, and a coalition of other groups, have been resisting the demolition and gentrification of their community.
Queer Avengers: Protesting and the Law Workshop (Wellington)
April 16, 2012 by
The Queer Avengers are holding a workshop that is open to all activists on protesting and the law. Kate Scarlet from the Wellington Community Law Centre will be giving a talk on exactly what the laws are surrounding protest, and your rights as a protester.
Topics include:
– Your right to protest, including freedom of expression, freedom of peaceful expression and association.
– Filming the police.
– Arrest – covering what you have to do, what is resisting arrest and use of force by you and the police.
– Search and seizure.
– Rights after arrest.
– Youth & the police.
– What can happen if you do commit an offence.
– Complaining about the police.
Everyone welcome, please pass through your networks! Free entry, but koha welcome. Venue has lift access if needed. If you have any questions, please email: thequeeravengers@gmail.com
6pm Wednesday April 18th, Wellington Peoples’ Centre, Lukes Lane
New research into ethics and class: the rich are more likely to cut you off while driving and take candy from children
April 14, 2012 by
Kelly Pope, Workers Party, Christchurch
With increasing industrial and social action against inequality taking place around the world, one outcome has been a shift in the focus of research towards the issues these movements and campaigns are highlighting. For example, in psychology and ethics there has been a recent emphasis on exploring the relationship between wealth distribution or class and a range of behaviours and dispositions that are considered pro-social and ethical, or anti-social and immoral.
Research that has recently featured in the media found that employers are four times as likely as the general population to have anti-social personality disorder, the condition experienced by people often referred to as psychopaths, which is characterised by impulsivity, manipulative behaviour and the inability to empathise with others. Looking more deeply into the relationship between socio-economic class and anti-social behaviour, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have carried out a series of studies, all of which have shown unethical behaviour to be more prevalent in the upper classes. [Read more…]
The dialectical relationship between work and mental health – Part 4
April 12, 2012 by
This is the final instalment of a four-part series by Polly Peek
From a Marxist perspective, the low pay rates of jobs with low psycho-social quality is related to the concept of exploitation – the necessity for wages to be worth less than the value created by the worker’s labour, in order to continue to make a profit. A further component of employment’s potential detriment to mental health, well-being and recovery which is not covered in the research carried out by Butterworth and other (see part 3), is workers’ experiences of alienation. In his book which looks at work and sickness, Paul Bellaby discusses the way in which jobs can accentuate certain qualities of the body and mind, but can also depreciate others. A participant from one of the qualitative interviews quoted in this book talks about alienation with great clarity, as well as its impact on well-being as a worker undertaking solitary tasks.
You hardly talk to anyone. You have no idea what is happening around you – and you lose touch with what is happening in the world. After a while it gets so that you have no conversation, and when you go out socially you do not know what to say – eventually you lose all your self-confidence. (Bellaby) [Read more…]
Support locked out meatworkers (Wellington event tomorrow)
April 11, 2012 by
Support Locked Out Meatworkers: Public Meeting
A public meeting is being called to organise solidarity and support for the locked out meatworkers. There are still over 800 workers locked out and everyday they stay strong requires more than just a physical presence outside their work sites. We need thousands of dollars to help feed their families and keep roofs over their heads.
But more than that, we need to do everything we can do to help them WIN.
7pm Thursday 11th April
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