cop cars driving out of the crowd

The cop cars were pushed out and have left the crowd of protestors.

There are millions more of us than there are of them. Never forget that.

LA is successfully fending off cops despite tons of feds and now national guard troops.

Education - ECE teachers - Early Intervention teachers - Primary and Area teachers in state or state integrated schools - Secondary teachers in state or state integrated schools - Support workers, youth workers in residential schools, Education Service - Education Advisors (Learning Support) MoE - Psychologist MoE employed - Service Managers MoE employed - Early Learning Teachers - Tertiary Education Library Assistant - Tertiary Education Administration and Clerical Public Service - Public Service Administration/Clerical Claim 1 - Public Service Administration/Clerical Claim 2 - Corrections Psychologist - Corrections Probation Officer and Senior Practitioner Health - Social Service Workers (5 NGOs) - CSWs 1 (1.7.22) - CSWs 2 (20.11.23) - Front line Managers and Coordinators - Plunket Administration/Clerical - Plunket Nurses and Clinical - Community Midwives in Primary birthing units - Hospice Nurses and Health Care Assistants - Primary Care Administration - Primary Care Nurses - Access Community Nurses - Labtests Awanui - Nurses in Residential Care - NZ Artificial Limb Service - Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa Local government - Librarian and Librarian Assistant in Councils

These are the pay equity claims that the government wiped out in just two days to make its budget balance. It's appalling that tax breaks for tobacco companies are being funded by cutting women's pay rises and backpay.

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A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

OPINION Here’s what People Against Prisons Aotearoa stands for, and why Tamatha Paul has been unfairly smeared Prison abolition means different things to different people. In general prison abolitionists are united by a belief that in an ideal world, we would not be locking people in cages.

pūtea donated to @papa.org.nz is RaDiCaLLy spent on:
- socks, undies, clothing for those who can't afford
- Prisoner Correspondence Network (1 of largest in the world, acknowledged by Corrections as valuable for social wellbeing)
- Matariki & Christmas card drives www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/04/16/o...

So much of the damage caused by modern fascism is due to, like, cliques of about fifteen too-online fascists who just HAPPEN to have good friends at major media news desks and in mainstream politics. This is of course how Britain went transphobic.

Pupil off to the dentist after biting into hard plastic in school lunch A Palmerston North school wants to change school lunch providers after a child bit into a hard piece of plastic in their lunch.

David Seymour delivers 2nd degree burns, broken teeth, rotten fruit, cockroaches and inedible non nutritious food to our kids and it’s not even his worst policy. #SchoolLunches

#nzpol

The goal of this kind of abuse is to drive LGBT+ people out of public life
It's hardly new, but the deputy prime minister tacitly endorsing it is
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Also death threats & abuse at their *child*

Let's be clear Winston Peters et al knew EXACTLY what they were doing when they kicked off this insane conspiracy attack - they're trying to get people harmed, there is no other reasonable explanation given the current cultural context

Conspiracy meme with Winston Peters's face badly photoshopped in and the word "Bussy" written in comic sans in the centre of his conspiracy board.

The only thing that should come out of this is no one ever taking Grandpa Bussy seriously ever again

New E tū union poll shows most Kiwis oppose removing living wage from government contracts The Living Wage is currently $27.80 an hour.

New E tū union poll shows most Kiwis oppose removing living wage from government contracts

Hunger striker Dean Wickliffe to be released from prison Hunger-striking inmate Dean Wickliffe will be released from prison after appearing before the Parole Board today.

We're relieved to hear this, and heartbroken that it took a brutal beating by screws and a hunger strike for it to happen.

Horrific cases like Dean's will continue to happen until housing is recognised as a human right, and until prisons cease to exist.

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This is the Stuff politics section. Check the story in the bottom right corner then EVERYTHING else, then tell me this isn't an UTTERLY confected beat up

Not sure I've ever seen an example so stark

I will never forgive NZ media for their failure to listen to, stand with, or even REPORT ON Palestinian journalists while Israel murders them as part of their genocide in Palestine.

Two muscular women holding hands use bolt cutters to clip chains around the PAPA logo. Text reads: People Against Prisons Aotearoa town hall discussion: the Queer Case for Prison Abolition. 3:30pm March 16 Ellen Melville Centre

Join us at Ellen Melville on Sun 16 March, 3:30pm. We’ll discuss the queer case for prison abolition, our experiences with the criminal justice system, and the actions we can take to build a world where homo/transphobia, prisons and police are abolished. papa.org.nz/2025/03/10/t...

Against the backdrop of parliament, across a photo of a person wearing a Living Wage t-shirt who is a cleaner, red text on a white background reads: The Government wants to cut the Living Wage from security, cleaning and catering workers in Government agencies.

We're incredibly disappointed in the Govt’s proposal to cut the Living Wage from cleaners, security guards &caterers in govt agencies.

The Govt intend to 'increase jobs & incomes' by changing how govt agencies procure services. A cut to the pay packets of essential workers is the exact opposite.1/n

Luxon's Marmite sandwich suggestion leaves bad taste with school principals The prime minister's comment that parents who are dissatisfied with the new school lunch programme should pack the lunches themselves has not gone down well with some.

"If you are a person who has always had food, you don't know what it is like to be hungry so I don't like to be lectured by people who have never been hungry and never seen children who are really hungry." - Rotorua principal

Group behind pride colours on Wellington crossing comes forward A Wellington woman has come forward as part of a group that added the colours of the transgender pride flag to a pedestrian crossing in the suburb of Berhampore last weekend.

Really lovely coverage from rnz that speaks truthfully about what most people in Aotearoa think about trans people - they're not caught in the disinformation, and they see the campaign of hate for what it is

People have asked us if it will be safe to protest against Destiny Church today. Destiny have said they won't come, and PAPA have trained marshals to keep us as safe as possible. Our collective safety relies on our collective power. Join us in Albert Park at 2pm today to show how strong we are.

just one more big hollywood director will fix wellington by exclusively listening to the rich

just one more bro I promise

Luxon allowing MPs 'to run rings around him with anti-migrant sentiment', Menéndez March says The Mexican ambassador appears to have more influence over Winston Peters than the prime minister himself, a Green MP says.

I feel like more needs to be made of this. It's been an overt attack in the House from the Deputy PM and Cabinet on the equal rights of citizens to participate in our electoral system, and any migrant or child of migrants should find it as chilling as I do.

No more appeasement, it's time Church meets its Destiny From the University of Auckland – Comment: Destiny Church wants the fear of violence to drive queer people out of public life. We must pressure the Govt to adopt lawfare against the organisation and s...

fucking banger of a piece by @cannibality.bsky.social

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Cops are not here for our safety. They are here for the continued existence of oppressive social conditions.

Two demands: The government dismantles Destiny Church organisationally & deregisters all of Destiny's charities. All government agencies stop referring people to Destiny front groups like Man Up. One warning: Queer people and those who love us are not defenceless. We're here, we're queer, and we will stand our ground.

Speakers include Dr Emmy Rākete (PAPA), Chloe Swarbrick (Green Party), Rev Muan Strickson-Pua (Tagata Pasifika Resource Centre) and more.

We'll gather with two demands for the government — and one warning for Destiny.

A poster with an illustration of a transgender person hitting Destiny Church's logo with a hammer. Text reads: Defying Destiny: Day of Queer Power. Doctor Emmy Rākete, Chloe Swarbrick, Rev. Mua Strickson-Pua. Sunday 23rd Feb, 2pm, Albert Park Rotunda. These queers bash back.

Last weekend, Destiny Church escalated its attacks against the queer community. Destiny wants to drive queer New Zealanders back into the closet.

PAPA won't let this happen. We stood for queer liberation as No Pride in Prisons and we stand for it now.

ACT Taps Out Of Treaty Principles Bill Submission Process “It is bad enough that ACT has put New Zealand through the expense and anguish of this doomed Bill, but to then refuse to hear oral submissions is utterly disrespectful, lazy, and it shows that this i...

Anyone seen this covered in mainstream media?

Because this absolutely gives the lie (even more) to Seymour's claims that it wanted to "have a discussion"

Incredibly foul by ACT, but perhaps worse that media signal boost them while refusing to hold them to account

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Destiny Church protesters 'went too far' - Luxon Police say they are "actively investigating" the actions of the group associated with Destiny Church who protested a children's event at the Te Atatū library yesterday.

Here’s the thing about this language: “went too far” suggests that there is a level at which hating us is fine, acceptable, at which it’s ok to dehumanise us.

This isn’t a disagreement on politics & opinion. This isn’t cilantro or trip-hop.

This isn’t defending us.
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You put this all so well, 100% agree

what does no cops look like? what does it look like to actually build a community resilient enough to care for each other and protect each other in ways the state cannot? that's where prison abolition starts — at home, doing the work of care. refusing to believe that better things aren't possible.