Grid of posts 2×3

  • Change Everything: “We can no longer act like each of our struggles are single causes” (video + text)

    Text of a speech originally delivered by Kassie Hartendorp at Oil Free Wellington‘s Change Everything flotilla & rally, December 13th 2015. Tēnā koutou, talofa lava, malo e leilei, kia orana, bula vinaka, aloha! Tēnā koutou ki te whenua, ki te moana, ki te hunga mate, ki te tipuna. Ko Ngāti Raukawa te iwi, nō Te Read more

  • Film Review: This Changes Everything

    Submitted to Fightback by Maria Ramos. Although the seriousness of global warming and climate change has been made clear through the work of scientists and environmental advocates, it’s sometimes difficult to present this message in a way that resonates with the general public. As long as modern practices of pollution and resource extraction continue unchecked, Read more

  • No Hashtag – Why campaigning needs to look more like a movement than marketing.

    Article by Ben Peterson, originally published on his personal blog leftwin. If you speak to some activists, they’ll tell you that it’s a time of change. From the union office to the rally in the street, a new way of doing things is on the rise. The hard times for the left are coming to Read more

  • AKL Event: Fightback Climate Crisis Magazine Launch

    None of New Zealand’s current political parties are willing to do what it takes to put us on the path to climate safety and justice. All of them –including the Green Party – are wedded to capitalism, prioritising profit over people and planet. “Market forces” are what got us into this climate mess and market-based Read more

  • CHCH Fightback Reading Group #6: The Limits of Utopia

    This week our reading is a piece by fantasy author and marxian socialist China Miéville – “The Limits of Utopia.” If you prefer listening to reading, the piece is based on this speech. The piece discusses on the one hand, the need for utopian thinking in an era of ecological devastation – but also the Read more

  • Teresia Teaiwa on refugee rights in the Pacific: “Mana whenua leads to mana tangata”

    Teresia Teaiwa is a poet and Pacific Studies academic in Aotearoa / New Zealand. Fightback previously interviewed Teresia here. Ian Anderson interviews Teresia on recent media coverage of Australia’s offshore detention centres. You have said that Australian refugee centres in Manus and Nauru are exploiting the desperation of those communities, alongside the widely-reported abuse of Read more