Racism in New Zealand’s Universities – I, Too, Am Auckland

  Harvard’s successful I, Too, Am Harvard Tumblr campaign highlighted the faces and voices of black students at Harvard College, and its now been an inspiration students across the globe, including a group at Auckland university… “I, Too, Am Auckland” is a student-based initiative at The University of Auckland. This video explores experiences and perspective…

“Who can trust John Key?” and the TPPA

Thinking of emigrating to New Zealand? Are you happy to live in a country whose government has been criticized on the world stage for being neo-liberalist in its ideologies, drifting casually toward Fascism. Robert Amsterdam, a Canadian international lawyer of the law firm Amsterdam & Partners, has written a very incisive article about Prime Minister…

Armed Police Storm Christchurch Home

  Stuff is reporting a police raid on a home in Shirley, Christchurch. A Christchurch house is cordoned off while a specialist police team searches for firearms. Police carried out a search warrant for firearms at a house on Shirley Rd about 7am. A spokeswoman said armed police and dog handler squads were searching the…

Open Racism in New Zealand, and ‘On the Buses’

The video says it all. A neighbour complained about noise disturbing her daughter, this is the reaction she got. “This is my country, I’m BORN here..they should all go home” Small towns, small minds. Even in Wellington. This one was filmed on the Naenae bus (Lower Hutt, Wellington) loaded to YouTube yesterday by Transport New…