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  • Queer Avengers press release: Solidarity action with Russia’s LGBTI movement

    Originally printed by the Queer Avengers (Wellington). Neither Washington nor Moscow, but International Queer Liberation! QA are standing in solidarity with Russian LGBTI communities currently under attack from the fellow countrymen. “We want to make the Russian Embassy aware that what is happening is not acceptable, that all queers worldwide should be free from fear Read more

  • Wellington event: ‘Beyond’ (discussion and action on gender and sexual diversity)

    ‘Beyond’ is a weekend of discussion and action on gender and sexual diversity. Organised by the Queer Avengers, the conference will be held from the 11th-13th of October at Wellington High School. In the wake of the parliamentary win for marriage rights, this conference aims to look beyond marriage towards an inclusive movement for gender Read more

  • State gives McDonald’s $270,000 in subsidies

    Article and Official Information Act request by Byron Clark, Fightback. In 2009 the Ministry of Social Development began paying wage subsidies to McDonalds when the company hired beneficiaries though the Flexi-wage and Skill Investment Subsidy programmes, the latter of which has now ceased. This allowed McDonalds to receive public money for employing a former beneficiary, Read more

  • Interview: The 15 year old fighting back against McDonald’s

    An interview with Hassan Al-Fadhi (2/7/13) originally published on Unite News. Who are you and what do you do? My name is Hassan. I’m 15 years old, I’m a student at Glenfield College and I work part time at McDonald’s. What happened tonight? Tonight I was working in the kitchen at McDonald’s in Wairau Park Read more

  • Witness to a revolution

    Michael Kyriazopoulos, Fightback (Auckland). As I approach the end of my life due to Motor Neurone Disease I have been reading the fragments of memoirs recorded by my maternal grandmother in the final years of her life. Virtually all of what she wrote centred on her experiences as a refugee in Russia, which clearly left Read more

  • Christchurch event: Neoliberalism, resistance and the far right

    A panel discussion on the rise of the far right, neoliberalism in Aotearoa and globally, and resistance to these forces. Organised by Anti-Racist Action (Christchurch). Andrew Tait – International Socialist Organization Aotearoa (http://iso.org.nz/) Paul Piesse – Co-founder of the Hobgoblin Network (http://www.hobgoblin.org.nz/) Thomas Inwood – Anti-Racist Action (Christchurch) Alistair Knewstubb – Port Hills Young Labour 5:30pm, Read more