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  • ANZCO Lockout Ends

    On Thursday the 22nd of December, after nearly 3 months locked out, workers at meatworks ANZCO-CMP Rangitikei voted to return to work. A corporation jointly owned by New Zealand and overseas investors, ANZCO aimed to cut costs and smash the Meat Workers Union. A week before the lockout began, letters were sent to all union Read more

  • Mana in the election

    Mana held Tai Tokerau for Hone Harawira and achieved 1% of the party vote, a respectable outcome, considering that the movement was launched just seven months ago, with bugger all money, and that the Labour and Māori Parties colluded to try and strangle it at birth. Mana won 12.7% of the Māori votes, and gained Read more

  • Video: Marama Davidson on Occupy Auckland

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7sFhWXrAjc Read more

  • Occupied Dominion Post: Lockout and Occupation

    by Ian Anderson, originally published in Occupied Dominion Post Issue 5 On the 15th of October 2011, comrades in around 1500 cities rallied together on a global day of action inspired by Occupy Wall Street, resisting corporate greed. Four days later on the 19th of October, local corporation ANZCO locked out 111 union members at Read more

  • Just a bunch of hippies?

    Byron Clark A man with long blonde dreadlocks leads a procession of about 140 other people down am almost carless street. The crowd is predominantly young, cosmopolitan in its make up, and colourful in its outfits. Some sort of parade? No, the blonde dredlocks are under a hardhat, which complements the high visibility jacket and Read more

  • Safer Spaces in the Occupy Together movement

    article by Ian Anderson and Stacey Nylund, originally published in Issue 5 of the Occupied Dominion Post. How can we be together in a unity that is not simplistic, that is not oppressive, that is rather complex and emancipatory? -Angela Davis, Occupy Wall Street By occupying spaces in the middle of major cities, we all Read more