They Photographed an Execution in Bosnia. Did They Influence the Killer? A three-year investigation unravels the rumors and controversy that have long swirled around the award-winning images of a war crime

This is the most astonishing article on journalist ethics I've ever read.

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Vijay Prashad's Iran A Response to CounterPunch's Declaration "Six Non-Negotiable Terms from International Scholars...to End the U.S. War on Iran," and to the Political Framework That Made It Possible

Lengthy, insightful read on Vijay Prashad’s campism at work in the Iranian context. Since I am more familiar when it comes to China, this is very helpful

Solidarity with everyone not sleeping in their own beds tonight

Didn't REM cover Block of Wood? I don't think the similarities are coincidental.

That's a lot of hedgehog books.

An old pine tree has fallen across the road taking the power lines with it.

Wellington peeps, if you need one, this is your go home stay home warning.

Just going to the ATM, then buying a house in Pātea

Why? That just seems even sadder.

Congrats to this weirdly prudish Greens committee for being less progressive than Helen Clark-era Labour.

Cool light installation

Interesting how quintessentially American the Lindy West disc horse is. The thing that tipped people over wasn't that the husband was a scumbag, but that he was a scumbag with no money.

The problem with self-sufficiency in a crisis. Far better than stockpiling fuel, we ought to be stockpiling social cohesion.

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a rack of zines

vibrating with excitement because they have zines at the library now 🙂

Ok we'll save some books for you

A photo of our magnificent library, reborn

One of the most embarrassing moments in the recent history of the world's coolest little capital (aside from every time we call ourselves that) was the turnout for the opening of Transmission Gully, a fucking road. Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui (re)opens this weekend. We can erase this historical stain.

Peace Action Wellington is calling a peace vigil on Monday, 2 March at 5:30pm meeting at the Cenotaph on the corner of Lambton Quay and Bowen Street. All people who oppose war are welcome.

One of the things this issue has exposed is how many NZers believe in collective punishment. Someone harrassed them on the street once and now they want other people detained for sleeping.

Yeah I don't know why council does that. I recommend the organisers contact the regular activist groups, such as PAFC or Peace Action Wellington, for free legal and traffic advice.

It really doesn't. None of the other vigils or protests outside the US embassy have had permits.

So much for a ‘final battle’ – once again the Iranian people’s peaceful and democratic demands have been silenced | Behrouz Boochani and Mehdi Jalali Tehrani The protests were hijacked by Reza Pahlavi and notions of Persian supremacy, then brutally repressed by a violent regime

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Is this true???? I thought it was one of those wacky myths, like Americans calling chips "freedom fries".

I would like Merzbow to perform at the same time and place as the remaining writers.

I'm surprised by the number of people who claim to be "intimidated" by people sleeping.
Bin the ban.

Cute doggo!

That NZ/Aus connection is pretty chilling

I didn't even realise Mira Nair and Mahmood Mamdani knew each other.

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

One of the largest distributors of print books for libraries is shutting down causing major issues for libraries.

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Conversation in workroom about whether Elizabeth Knox works across genres, transcends genres, or demolishes genres.