Bec
@areallygoodbook.bsky.social
As long as you are dancing, you can break the rules.
Sometimes breaking the rules is just extending the rules.
Sometimes there are no rules.
- Mary Oliver
Sometimes breaking the rules is just extending the rules.
Sometimes there are no rules.
- Mary Oliver
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Bec
@areallygoodbook.bsky.social
· Apr 24
Growing questions in NZ about organisation called Atlas Network
In New Zealand, there is now a conversation about an organisation called Atlas Network and whether or not it has influenced the right-bloc government's agenda.
www.abc.net.au
This NZ government isn't dysfunctional.
They are the #AtlasNetwork stealing the country.
Wealthy people are paying wealthier people to buy politicians who will funnel money to the billionaire tier.
This is a pyramid-scheme coup.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
They are the #AtlasNetwork stealing the country.
Wealthy people are paying wealthier people to buy politicians who will funnel money to the billionaire tier.
This is a pyramid-scheme coup.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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GOOD GRIEF by Andrea Gibson
From You Better Be Lightning Button Poetry, 2021.
From You Better Be Lightning Button Poetry, 2021.
March 19, 2025 at 3:18 AM
GOOD GRIEF by Andrea Gibson
From You Better Be Lightning Button Poetry, 2021.
From You Better Be Lightning Button Poetry, 2021.
Not all heroes wear capes. Some are brave rangatahi with strong morals and no fear of heights or war criminals.
Dig deep and help them out, every little bit will really help.
@patbrittenden.bsky.social, @chewienz.bsky.social please give this a boost!
#nzpol
#kikorangi
Dig deep and help them out, every little bit will really help.
@patbrittenden.bsky.social, @chewienz.bsky.social please give this a boost!
#nzpol
#kikorangi
We need your help raising legal funds for our brave activists! Joseph and Jackson are facing harsh punishments for standing up to war profiteers on our shores.
Stand up to Zionist weapons manufacturers by showing your support. Every $ counts!
#nzpol #AoNZ #climate #peace #activism
Stand up to Zionist weapons manufacturers by showing your support. Every $ counts!
#nzpol #AoNZ #climate #peace #activism
Peace Action Ōtautahi activists facing up to 10 years imprisonment for disrupting war criminals NIOA
Peace Action Ōtautahi is a group committed to the disruption of violent systems and corporations in our city, and beyond.
givealittle.co.nz
July 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Not all heroes wear capes. Some are brave rangatahi with strong morals and no fear of heights or war criminals.
Dig deep and help them out, every little bit will really help.
@patbrittenden.bsky.social, @chewienz.bsky.social please give this a boost!
#nzpol
#kikorangi
Dig deep and help them out, every little bit will really help.
@patbrittenden.bsky.social, @chewienz.bsky.social please give this a boost!
#nzpol
#kikorangi
What's that? The dim light of hope on the horizon?? Brilliant work, PSNA. Well done.
#nzpol
#kikorangi
#nzpol
#kikorangi
🇳🇿 Referral to International Criminal Court 🇳🇿
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa is referring six individual New Zealanders to the International Criminal Court for investigation of their complicity in crimes against humanity - that is, assisting Israel in the genocide in Gaza
#NZPol
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa is referring six individual New Zealanders to the International Criminal Court for investigation of their complicity in crimes against humanity - that is, assisting Israel in the genocide in Gaza
#NZPol
July 3, 2025 at 11:03 AM
What's that? The dim light of hope on the horizon?? Brilliant work, PSNA. Well done.
#nzpol
#kikorangi
#nzpol
#kikorangi
New political slur just dropped... (60 years ago but I just found it and I think it's perfect)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propert...
#nzpol
#kikorangi
#propertarians
#classwar
#generalstrike
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propert...
#nzpol
#kikorangi
#propertarians
#classwar
#generalstrike
Propertarianism - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
May 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
New political slur just dropped... (60 years ago but I just found it and I think it's perfect)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propert...
#nzpol
#kikorangi
#propertarians
#classwar
#generalstrike
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propert...
#nzpol
#kikorangi
#propertarians
#classwar
#generalstrike
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Labour has proven they can’t - or won’t - rise to any of the challenges of our times. Those deeply seated within the party are well ingratiated into the private industries that need to be regulated.
They won’t offer any real political alternatives because they’re National (red edition).
#nzpol
They won’t offer any real political alternatives because they’re National (red edition).
#nzpol
One of the reasons Hipkins will do little to stop climate change is because he has a history in working in the oil and gas industry as a trainer for Todd Energy. Todd Energy is part of the Todd Corporation - a New Zealand Initiative member. The New Zealand Initiative is an Atlas Think Tank. #nzpol
May 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Labour has proven they can’t - or won’t - rise to any of the challenges of our times. Those deeply seated within the party are well ingratiated into the private industries that need to be regulated.
They won’t offer any real political alternatives because they’re National (red edition).
#nzpol
They won’t offer any real political alternatives because they’re National (red edition).
#nzpol
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May 13, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Never forget: NZ Govts for 50 years have bought into an economic management model that relies on keeping a bufferstock of kiwis unemployed & desperate.
Jobs are kept scarce, so that kiwis sell their labour at poverty-wage prices. If unemployment is too low, Govt's henchmen at RBNZ crash the economy.
Jobs are kept scarce, so that kiwis sell their labour at poverty-wage prices. If unemployment is too low, Govt's henchmen at RBNZ crash the economy.
May 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Never forget: NZ Govts for 50 years have bought into an economic management model that relies on keeping a bufferstock of kiwis unemployed & desperate.
Jobs are kept scarce, so that kiwis sell their labour at poverty-wage prices. If unemployment is too low, Govt's henchmen at RBNZ crash the economy.
Jobs are kept scarce, so that kiwis sell their labour at poverty-wage prices. If unemployment is too low, Govt's henchmen at RBNZ crash the economy.
The alt text is perfection.
And yes, that is a bald head with a hairnet and then a hood and then another hairnet.
Something something efficiency metaphor...
And yes, that is a bald head with a hairnet and then a hood and then another hairnet.
Something something efficiency metaphor...
We're meant to take a lecture from a bald man who wears a hairnet on top of a hooded coverall.
#nzpol
#nzpol
May 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The alt text is perfection.
And yes, that is a bald head with a hairnet and then a hood and then another hairnet.
Something something efficiency metaphor...
And yes, that is a bald head with a hairnet and then a hood and then another hairnet.
Something something efficiency metaphor...
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Not to get all Marxist Feminist on you (she says disingenuously as I am totally doing that): all the unpaid household caring labour we do drags down the wages for the external caring labour we do. If you pay nothing for household labour you can justify paying nearly nothing for outsourced care work
May 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Not to get all Marxist Feminist on you (she says disingenuously as I am totally doing that): all the unpaid household caring labour we do drags down the wages for the external caring labour we do. If you pay nothing for household labour you can justify paying nearly nothing for outsourced care work
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Particularly those who were silent about the “defining a woman” bill. This govt wants to define women only to systemically oppress them - if women are considered people first and women second, it’s harder to legally disadvantage them.
Systemic pay inequity was always the next repeal.
#nzpol
Systemic pay inequity was always the next repeal.
#nzpol
They came for Māori, they came for trans and rainbow people, they came for disabled people. All first.
I'm sick of cis women tears from the ones who didn't fight and mobilise when they came for more marginalised folk first.
The pay equity decision was abysmally expected, and is dreadful.
I'm sick of cis women tears from the ones who didn't fight and mobilise when they came for more marginalised folk first.
The pay equity decision was abysmally expected, and is dreadful.
May 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Particularly those who were silent about the “defining a woman” bill. This govt wants to define women only to systemically oppress them - if women are considered people first and women second, it’s harder to legally disadvantage them.
Systemic pay inequity was always the next repeal.
#nzpol
Systemic pay inequity was always the next repeal.
#nzpol
May 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Vote be buggered. We no longer have the time OR the money!
We need to have a general strike & force the Gov. Gen. to call a snap election.
It should've been done months ago.
Now is the time or we'll end up with the same living conditions as UK/ US. The 'haves' are fine, the 'have-nots' are fucked!
We need to have a general strike & force the Gov. Gen. to call a snap election.
It should've been done months ago.
Now is the time or we'll end up with the same living conditions as UK/ US. The 'haves' are fine, the 'have-nots' are fucked!
May 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Vote be buggered. We no longer have the time OR the money!
We need to have a general strike & force the Gov. Gen. to call a snap election.
It should've been done months ago.
Now is the time or we'll end up with the same living conditions as UK/ US. The 'haves' are fine, the 'have-nots' are fucked!
We need to have a general strike & force the Gov. Gen. to call a snap election.
It should've been done months ago.
Now is the time or we'll end up with the same living conditions as UK/ US. The 'haves' are fine, the 'have-nots' are fucked!
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I'm going to keep repeating this until the media actually picks up on it.
David Seymour wrote a literal book on how much he dislikes democracy called "Birth of a Boom Saskatchewan's Dawning Golden Age" where a chapter is literally called "Democracy, too much of a good thing" #nzpol
David Seymour wrote a literal book on how much he dislikes democracy called "Birth of a Boom Saskatchewan's Dawning Golden Age" where a chapter is literally called "Democracy, too much of a good thing" #nzpol
Only 75 of 23,000 submissions supported the Regulatory Standards Bill. That will not stop Seymour. #nzpol
Just 0.3% of submitters support David Seymour's regulation law – why he's charging forward anyway
The Act leader believes social media campaigns led to 'totally off-topic' submissions.
www.nzherald.co.nz
May 7, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I'm going to keep repeating this until the media actually picks up on it.
David Seymour wrote a literal book on how much he dislikes democracy called "Birth of a Boom Saskatchewan's Dawning Golden Age" where a chapter is literally called "Democracy, too much of a good thing" #nzpol
David Seymour wrote a literal book on how much he dislikes democracy called "Birth of a Boom Saskatchewan's Dawning Golden Age" where a chapter is literally called "Democracy, too much of a good thing" #nzpol
I'm happy to strike for a many unions as will have me.
A coordinated General Strike is illegal in this country, but a number of unions might happen to want to strike around the same time given the latest news.
May 6, 2025 at 5:53 AM
I'm happy to strike for a many unions as will have me.
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BREAKING
Luxon Government to pass law TONIGHT that legalises killing kiwi www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
#nzpol #WarOnNature
Luxon Government to pass law TONIGHT that legalises killing kiwi www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
#nzpol #WarOnNature
Luxon Government to pass law tonight that legalises killing Kiwi - Greenpeace Aotearoa
The Luxon Government has just introduced a bill into the House that would make it legal to kill protected wildlife. Greenpeace understands the Bill is being rushed through all stages…
www.greenpeace.org
May 6, 2025 at 5:42 AM
BREAKING
Luxon Government to pass law TONIGHT that legalises killing kiwi www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
#nzpol #WarOnNature
Luxon Government to pass law TONIGHT that legalises killing kiwi www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
#nzpol #WarOnNature
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Some huge news for Aotearoa's trans/non-binary community: a new grant has been announced to cover costs of name changes! If you need this, check it out, and if you don't, spread the word!
rainbownzcharitabletrust.org.nz/cpg/
#nz #rainbow
rainbownzcharitabletrust.org.nz/cpg/
#nz #rainbow
Confirmation of Payee Grant – Rainbow New Zealand Charitable Trust
rainbownzcharitabletrust.org.nz
May 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Some huge news for Aotearoa's trans/non-binary community: a new grant has been announced to cover costs of name changes! If you need this, check it out, and if you don't, spread the word!
rainbownzcharitabletrust.org.nz/cpg/
#nz #rainbow
rainbownzcharitabletrust.org.nz/cpg/
#nz #rainbow
#nzpol
#kikorangi
##hopeissayingstop
Dame Cindy Kiro, the Governor-general of NZ, represents the British monarch and has the authority to carry out his constitutional duties.
One of these duties includes having the power to dismiss the prime minister.
Another one is to dissolve parliament. 🧵
#kikorangi
##hopeissayingstop
Dame Cindy Kiro, the Governor-general of NZ, represents the British monarch and has the authority to carry out his constitutional duties.
One of these duties includes having the power to dismiss the prime minister.
Another one is to dissolve parliament. 🧵
May 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
#nzpol
#kikorangi
##hopeissayingstop
Dame Cindy Kiro, the Governor-general of NZ, represents the British monarch and has the authority to carry out his constitutional duties.
One of these duties includes having the power to dismiss the prime minister.
Another one is to dissolve parliament. 🧵
#kikorangi
##hopeissayingstop
Dame Cindy Kiro, the Governor-general of NZ, represents the British monarch and has the authority to carry out his constitutional duties.
One of these duties includes having the power to dismiss the prime minister.
Another one is to dissolve parliament. 🧵
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That moment gave us hope but we can’t rest yet. They’re coming for Te Tiriti in 3 waves.
#ToitūTeTiriti #OneTermGovt #NZPol
Strike 1: The Treaty Principles Bill loud, ugly, and upfront. You see it in the distance.
#ToitūTeTiriti #OneTermGovt #NZPol
Strike 1: The Treaty Principles Bill loud, ugly, and upfront. You see it in the distance.
May 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
That moment gave us hope but we can’t rest yet. They’re coming for Te Tiriti in 3 waves.
#ToitūTeTiriti #OneTermGovt #NZPol
Strike 1: The Treaty Principles Bill loud, ugly, and upfront. You see it in the distance.
#ToitūTeTiriti #OneTermGovt #NZPol
Strike 1: The Treaty Principles Bill loud, ugly, and upfront. You see it in the distance.
🏳️🌈 Petition of Tu Chapman: Stop the gender bill by NZ First
Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.
petitions.parliament.nz
May 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
@maramadavidson.bsky.social @tepaatimaori.bsky.social @benjamin-doyle.bsky.social @chewienz.bsky.social @patbrittenden.bsky.social @davidfarrier.bsky.social @bernardchickey.bsky.social
Please keep paying attention.
Protect rāngtitahi who stand up for justice.
#hopeissayingstop
#kikorangi
#nzpol
Please keep paying attention.
Protect rāngtitahi who stand up for justice.
#hopeissayingstop
#kikorangi
#nzpol
May 2, 2025 at 1:28 AM
@maramadavidson.bsky.social @tepaatimaori.bsky.social @benjamin-doyle.bsky.social @chewienz.bsky.social @patbrittenden.bsky.social @davidfarrier.bsky.social @bernardchickey.bsky.social
Please keep paying attention.
Protect rāngtitahi who stand up for justice.
#hopeissayingstop
#kikorangi
#nzpol
Please keep paying attention.
Protect rāngtitahi who stand up for justice.
#hopeissayingstop
#kikorangi
#nzpol