Tuesday night. Mt Eden, Auckland. Maungawhau, Tamaki Makaurau. There’s a Stop Co-Governance meeting being held by Julian Batchelor. Aotearoa Liberation League book the time slot after him so they can debunk the misinformation that he’s peddling as he whips up fear around co-governance. I’m so in. I’m going. Who cares that it’s right after a …
To get vaccinated or not? Is that even the question?
I’m writing this in September 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic has been raging for 20 months or so. There’s been almost 230 million cases, and 4.7 millions deaths, according to the World Health Organisation. Here in New Zealand / Aotearoa, where I live, we’ve had 3,763 cases and 27 deaths and 37.5% of the population is …
Waking Up and White Supremacy. Do your Work.
This story begins with a black woman in London, an essential worker, a mother, a wife, a friend, a sister… She’s one of the hundreds of thousands of people who have died of Covid-19. If it weren’t for this new disease, she would likely still be alive. And possibly, if she wasn’t a black woman, …
Todd Muller, Panic Attacks and the Shame of Mental Illness
The front page article of the Herald on Saturday was a sympathetic interview with Todd Muller, he who was National leader for 53 days, and his wife Michelle. ‘I had anxiety. I experienced that quite severely and I had panic attacks,’ says Muller in the article. This is a man who has been involved in …