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  • The Help by Kathryn Stockett

    Reviewed by Mike Kay  The Help is an ambitious novel set in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960s. It encapsulates a city that was a bastion of Jim Crow racism – a phalanx of state and local laws that were designed to keep black and white people separate from cradle to grave. Read more

  • Save the Earth – Close the Pentagon

    Reposted from Climate and Capitalism. How is it possible that the worst polluter of carbon dioxide and other toxic emissions on the planet is not a focus of any conference discussion or proposed restrictions? By Sara Flounders In evaluating the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen — with more than 15,000 participants from 192 countries, Read more

  • Review: Mo & Jess Kill Susie

    by Ian Anderson Mo & Jess Kill Susie is a play about differences that can’t be resolved. The slogan announces it’s about “Three women, two guns, one room, no way out,” and the title tells us what will happen onstage. The question then becomes; who are Mo, Jess and Susie? Gary Henderson wrote Mo & Read more

  • Wgtn: solidarity picket against targeting of Auckland activists

    Over the past week, 8 people have been arrested for protesting outside a tennis match involving Israeli Shahar Peer. This protest was in keeping with the Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS) campaign which seeks to cut off international support for the racist state of Israel. Come along and show solidarity! 11am, Tuesday the 12th of Jan Read more

  • 8 Arrested at tennis match protesting Israeli occupation

    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 Read more

  • Australian activist speaking on his year in revolutionary Nepal

    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 Read more