A simple way to honour Efeso Collins today would be to read his maiden speech. He gave it last week. As he says in it, E le tu fa'amauga se tagata. Vale Fa’anānā Efeso Collins
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Ka nui te pōuri. E te rangatira, e moe.
E rere nei te aroha ki te whānau pani. Devastating news this morning.

Green MP Efeso Collins dies after collapsing at Auckland charity event

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AUCKLAND, NZ! Kia Ora! I’ll be in town July 17th and am hoping to book a little theatre (30-?) to offset the costs of travel! Is YOUR Blackbox theatre space available? Thanks for any help! TMB here or email [email protected]!

A belated congrats to Office Dog's US debut release. SPIEL is out everywhere and it's been my soundtrack for most of '23. officedog.bandcamp.com/album/spiel

PP had a lump removed, which turned out to be mammary gland cancer.
Please help us cover the surgery fee while we decide what our next step is going to be 😭
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🧵1/ The document leaked today confirms that the government's intention here is not to define the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi but to erase them. I am a lecturer in Te Tiriti o Waitangi, here is why I think that...

'The first genocide in history where its victims are broadcasting their own destruction in real time in the desperate, so far vain hope that the world might do something.'

Blinne Ni Ghralaigh at the ICJ in the Hague

New 🎨🖌️ for office dog ahead of their US debut release. youtu.be/fad4IVaeR0o?si…

a new zealand artist is asked to create posters for a pearl jam tour. her payment? her own posters: webworm.co/p/pearljam

tony leung singing california dreamin' from chungking express ost

Sad news out of New Zealand. The new government, which is more conservative than previous governments, announced that it will make a priority to ban transgender people from all publicly funded women's sports.

A reminder that anti-trans panic is global.

This is so fucking beautiful

Brian Cox reads If I Must Die, by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer.

Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike.

This was the last poem he published.

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John Campbell scathing of the “mean” & “narrow, limp vision of our future” coalition deals … says “deeply regressive” plans for Māori show the government’s “heart of darkness”

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An incredible archive here of nearly 18,000 posters:
palestineposterproject.org

New Work: US tabloid poster for Office Dog. (side B)

New for Repulsive Woman. Stream The Even Hand ep: repulsivewoman.bandcamp.com/album/the-even…

Today is the 20th anniversary of the Directors Label DVD series. They have been out of print and hard to find for years, but luckily they can now be found in entirety on Archive:

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