Amanda Green
@brooklyngreen.bsky.social
Pākehā, tangata tiriti, she/her. Brooklyn migrant in Tāmaki Makaurau. Antizionist jew for a free Palestine. Screenwriter, book nerd, over-caffeinated introvert.
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In 2022, protestors hurled bricks, faeces at police & lit fires. Winston Peters said those protestors just wanted to be "heard" & shook their hands.
This week Peters called the mostly peaceful, law abiding Kiwis outside his home "gutless, spineless, [the] worst" protestors #nzpol
This week Peters called the mostly peaceful, law abiding Kiwis outside his home "gutless, spineless, [the] worst" protestors #nzpol
Faeces thrown at police at Parliament protest
Poo was pelted at officers during an early morning operation today to contain the protest at Parliament.
The 3.30am operation caught the occupiers off guard with attempts to thwart the plan, resulting...
www.rnz.co.nz
October 8, 2025 at 4:56 AM
In 2022, protestors hurled bricks, faeces at police & lit fires. Winston Peters said those protestors just wanted to be "heard" & shook their hands.
This week Peters called the mostly peaceful, law abiding Kiwis outside his home "gutless, spineless, [the] worst" protestors #nzpol
This week Peters called the mostly peaceful, law abiding Kiwis outside his home "gutless, spineless, [the] worst" protestors #nzpol
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Here are a couple of suggested polls for Stuff.
Should our curriculum change process be guided by a small group of ideologically-aligned individuals who aren’t employed by the Ministry of Education?
Should our curriculum be written overseas?
Should we care if democratic process is violated?
Should our curriculum change process be guided by a small group of ideologically-aligned individuals who aren’t employed by the Ministry of Education?
Should our curriculum be written overseas?
Should we care if democratic process is violated?
September 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Here are a couple of suggested polls for Stuff.
Should our curriculum change process be guided by a small group of ideologically-aligned individuals who aren’t employed by the Ministry of Education?
Should our curriculum be written overseas?
Should we care if democratic process is violated?
Should our curriculum change process be guided by a small group of ideologically-aligned individuals who aren’t employed by the Ministry of Education?
Should our curriculum be written overseas?
Should we care if democratic process is violated?
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E te whanau, some have asked how they can complain to the Prime Minister re: David Seymour's conduct. The amazing team at Action Station have put a petition together which I can deliver in due course. Sign away #nzpol
our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/lu...
our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/lu...
Luxon: Uphold Codes of Conduct - Hold your Government to Account
Responsible leaders welcome advice from experts and when they are creating laws and policies. They know good decision making means planning for the long term, considering diverse points of view ...
our.actionstation.org.nz
June 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
E te whanau, some have asked how they can complain to the Prime Minister re: David Seymour's conduct. The amazing team at Action Station have put a petition together which I can deliver in due course. Sign away #nzpol
our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/lu...
our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/lu...
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Media Release: Rights Aotearoa Demands Immediate Action Over RNZ's Unconscionable Misrepresentation of Deceased Trans Youth
www.rightsaotearoa.nz/media-releas...
www.rightsaotearoa.nz/media-releas...
Media Release: Rights Aotearoa Demands Immediate Action Over RNZ's Unconscionable Misrepresentation of Deceased Trans Youth
Radio New Zealand has published one of the most ethically bankrupt pieces of journalism in its history, systematically erasing the identity of a deceased transgender youth to advance an anti-trans age...
www.rightsaotearoa.nz
June 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Media Release: Rights Aotearoa Demands Immediate Action Over RNZ's Unconscionable Misrepresentation of Deceased Trans Youth
www.rightsaotearoa.nz/media-releas...
www.rightsaotearoa.nz/media-releas...
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👀 at reviews complaining that Jacinda Ardern’s book is “not written for a New Zealand audience.” Your girl is allowed to leave & make bank. It’s all a bit dysfunctional wanting her to write for a country that allowed such vicious animosity to go unchecked, for so long. DARVO adjacent in fact.
June 9, 2025 at 6:03 AM
👀 at reviews complaining that Jacinda Ardern’s book is “not written for a New Zealand audience.” Your girl is allowed to leave & make bank. It’s all a bit dysfunctional wanting her to write for a country that allowed such vicious animosity to go unchecked, for so long. DARVO adjacent in fact.
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Channelled these posts into something longer, linking to the work of black feminist women and highlighting how Brooke and Nicola are performing white womanhood while simultaneously suppressing legitimate resistance to their oppressive acts:
open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...
open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...
May 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Channelled these posts into something longer, linking to the work of black feminist women and highlighting how Brooke and Nicola are performing white womanhood while simultaneously suppressing legitimate resistance to their oppressive acts:
open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...
open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...
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Mahmoud Khalil’s letter from detention to his newborn son:
“Deen, my heart aches that I could not hold you in my arms and hear your first cry, that I could not unfurl your clenched fists or change your first diaper. I am sorry that I was not there to hold your mother’s hand […].”
Heartbreaking.
“Deen, my heart aches that I could not hold you in my arms and hear your first cry, that I could not unfurl your clenched fists or change your first diaper. I am sorry that I was not there to hold your mother’s hand […].”
Heartbreaking.
To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil
Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Mahmoud Khalil’s letter from detention to his newborn son:
“Deen, my heart aches that I could not hold you in my arms and hear your first cry, that I could not unfurl your clenched fists or change your first diaper. I am sorry that I was not there to hold your mother’s hand […].”
Heartbreaking.
“Deen, my heart aches that I could not hold you in my arms and hear your first cry, that I could not unfurl your clenched fists or change your first diaper. I am sorry that I was not there to hold your mother’s hand […].”
Heartbreaking.
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Some excellent fact checking here:
"Seymour does not want diverse thinking and inclusion in decision making as it will create barriers for the operations of the corporates and multinationals he supports."
localbodies-bsprout.blogspot.com/2025/04/fact...
"Seymour does not want diverse thinking and inclusion in decision making as it will create barriers for the operations of the corporates and multinationals he supports."
localbodies-bsprout.blogspot.com/2025/04/fact...
FACT CHECKING DAVID SEYMOUR
I was interested in David Seymour's public presentation of the Justice Select Committee's report after the submissions to the Treaty Princi...
localbodies-bsprout.blogspot.com
April 6, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Some excellent fact checking here:
"Seymour does not want diverse thinking and inclusion in decision making as it will create barriers for the operations of the corporates and multinationals he supports."
localbodies-bsprout.blogspot.com/2025/04/fact...
"Seymour does not want diverse thinking and inclusion in decision making as it will create barriers for the operations of the corporates and multinationals he supports."
localbodies-bsprout.blogspot.com/2025/04/fact...
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This is just to say
I have shot
out of the old timey
circus cannon
David Seymour
and which
you were probably
wanting
to do yourself
Forgive me
he was so annoying
so bouncy
and so racist
I have shot
out of the old timey
circus cannon
David Seymour
and which
you were probably
wanting
to do yourself
Forgive me
he was so annoying
so bouncy
and so racist
April 5, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This is just to say
I have shot
out of the old timey
circus cannon
David Seymour
and which
you were probably
wanting
to do yourself
Forgive me
he was so annoying
so bouncy
and so racist
I have shot
out of the old timey
circus cannon
David Seymour
and which
you were probably
wanting
to do yourself
Forgive me
he was so annoying
so bouncy
and so racist
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In New Zealand currently, this is 180,000 people.
100,000 people marched on Hīkoi mo te Tiriti.
300,000 people submitted in opposition to TPB.
100,000 people marched on Hīkoi mo te Tiriti.
300,000 people submitted in opposition to TPB.
April 6, 2025 at 3:40 AM
In New Zealand currently, this is 180,000 people.
100,000 people marched on Hīkoi mo te Tiriti.
300,000 people submitted in opposition to TPB.
100,000 people marched on Hīkoi mo te Tiriti.
300,000 people submitted in opposition to TPB.
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This is outrageous 😤! Why are there no Gynecology & Obstetrics specialist in Whakatāne Hospital AND why are birthing ppl reimbursed for travel for care but ppl who choose #abortion are not reimbursed for travel? #nzpol #abortionishealthcare #SimeonBrown #Luxon #antiabortion #antichoice #alranz
April 3, 2025 at 8:09 AM
This is outrageous 😤! Why are there no Gynecology & Obstetrics specialist in Whakatāne Hospital AND why are birthing ppl reimbursed for travel for care but ppl who choose #abortion are not reimbursed for travel? #nzpol #abortionishealthcare #SimeonBrown #Luxon #antiabortion #antichoice #alranz
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"It is totally unsurprising that a young working-class Māori woman from Tokoroa would have a different experience of the police than the middle-class Pākehā landowners who make up the vast majority of our political-media class." www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
The debate about Māori and police we should be having
OPINION: After a week of sensationalised faux outrage, Tamatha Paul is right to stand by her comments.
www.thepress.co.nz
April 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
"It is totally unsurprising that a young working-class Māori woman from Tokoroa would have a different experience of the police than the middle-class Pākehā landowners who make up the vast majority of our political-media class." www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
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John Campbell shows empathy for rangatahi in prison, says facts & gets accolades; a young brown woman MP does the same & is subjected to a deranged media circus. Todd Muller's breakdown gets the kid-glove treatment; Golriz is still being hunted like prey. If only this phenomenon... had a NAME??
March 31, 2025 at 7:02 AM
John Campbell shows empathy for rangatahi in prison, says facts & gets accolades; a young brown woman MP does the same & is subjected to a deranged media circus. Todd Muller's breakdown gets the kid-glove treatment; Golriz is still being hunted like prey. If only this phenomenon... had a NAME??
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“The curriculum should reflect the range of values and knowledge of the society it serves. Our English medium schooling system, which almost exclusively teaches the New Zealand Curriculum, is what educationalist Ann Milne calls a “white space”. #nzpol
Ideology is pushing Māori knowledge out of the curriculum | E-Tangata
“Elizabeth Rata often equates the inclusion of iwi, hapū and whānau knowledge and values into teaching with an emptying out of academic knowledge. She has been instrumental in shaping the new English ...
e-tangata.co.nz
March 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
“The curriculum should reflect the range of values and knowledge of the society it serves. Our English medium schooling system, which almost exclusively teaches the New Zealand Curriculum, is what educationalist Ann Milne calls a “white space”. #nzpol
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The students of Waitākere College have started this petition for the reinstatement of the original school lunches programme. (You know, the locally-made, fresh, nutritious and tasty one that was delivered on time.) Please sign the petition and share this post. petitions.parliament.nz/f4fff921-4e5...
March 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM
The students of Waitākere College have started this petition for the reinstatement of the original school lunches programme. (You know, the locally-made, fresh, nutritious and tasty one that was delivered on time.) Please sign the petition and share this post. petitions.parliament.nz/f4fff921-4e5...
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Sooo many reasons for anger, for so many people in so many places right now.
But listening to this amazing wahine leaves me feeling hope ❤️
#MayaAngelou
#HeItiTeKupu
#HeTaokaMariaAnō
But listening to this amazing wahine leaves me feeling hope ❤️
#MayaAngelou
#HeItiTeKupu
#HeTaokaMariaAnō
March 14, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Sooo many reasons for anger, for so many people in so many places right now.
But listening to this amazing wahine leaves me feeling hope ❤️
#MayaAngelou
#HeItiTeKupu
#HeTaokaMariaAnō
But listening to this amazing wahine leaves me feeling hope ❤️
#MayaAngelou
#HeItiTeKupu
#HeTaokaMariaAnō
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This, in a single paragraph, is why the global far right had such a deep hatred of Jacinda Ardern.
And why it was imperative she be taken down whatever the cost.
The rest is history.
Sigh.
And why it was imperative she be taken down whatever the cost.
The rest is history.
Sigh.
March 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
This, in a single paragraph, is why the global far right had such a deep hatred of Jacinda Ardern.
And why it was imperative she be taken down whatever the cost.
The rest is history.
Sigh.
And why it was imperative she be taken down whatever the cost.
The rest is history.
Sigh.
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#NZPol Anne Salmond is a taonga.
Prebble is yet another stupid old arrogant white racist.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/06/a...
Prebble is yet another stupid old arrogant white racist.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/06/a...
Anne Salmond: To lecture us on Te Tiriti, you must first be able to read it
Opinion: What does it say about our country that politicians and ex-politicians are instructing New Zealanders on a document on which they are literally illiterate
newsroom.co.nz
March 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
#NZPol Anne Salmond is a taonga.
Prebble is yet another stupid old arrogant white racist.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/06/a...
Prebble is yet another stupid old arrogant white racist.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/06/a...
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The cynicism. The caucasity. Turning up to Waitangi when you’ve been told not to. Speaking. Being miked up and being recorded. Because you are so convinced even if Māori don’t want to hear ur hateful shit, someone will want to, later on.
February 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The cynicism. The caucasity. Turning up to Waitangi when you’ve been told not to. Speaking. Being miked up and being recorded. Because you are so convinced even if Māori don’t want to hear ur hateful shit, someone will want to, later on.
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In government, it is very easy to break stuff.
Building things is much harder.
Building things that work over time, harder still.
Building things is much harder.
Building things that work over time, harder still.
February 3, 2025 at 8:05 AM
In government, it is very easy to break stuff.
Building things is much harder.
Building things that work over time, harder still.
Building things is much harder.
Building things that work over time, harder still.
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We are launching a free collection of resistance poetry and art at Waitangi: “Fighting Words for Despairing Times”. If you want a copy to be emailed to you on Waitangi Day DM me your email address and spread it wide and far x
February 3, 2025 at 1:27 AM
We are launching a free collection of resistance poetry and art at Waitangi: “Fighting Words for Despairing Times”. If you want a copy to be emailed to you on Waitangi Day DM me your email address and spread it wide and far x