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Sue Bradford, Nice Lady, Shame About the Politics, Part 4

By the mid ’90s, Sue Bradford was firmly committed to a new project. This was “People’s Network”, the culmination of her earlier “Building Our Own…

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Admissibility of Evidence

Keith Ng of On Point has posted an excellent interview with a lawyer on the admissibility of prior convictions or evidence of past wrongdoing in…

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Red Rapporteur, Rodolfo, Releases Racial Report

UN Rapporteur, Rodolfo Stavenhagen has released his report on the state of indigenous (Maori) people in NZ. According to the Green Party’s FrogBlog, “Helen Clark…

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I Believe You Too, Louise

I think by now most of us know about the suppressed evidence in the Louise Nicholas rape trial. Yesterday a group of Wellington women distributed…

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World Social Forum-Socialist/Muslim Love Fest

Excerpts from Green Left Weekly April 5th 2006 It had been touch and go for this six-day World Social Forum, postponed from January because of…

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Socialist/Muslim Co-operation

From Green Left Weekly, 5th April 2006 The fourth Cairo Conference took place on March 23-26 under the theme “With the resistance in Palestine and…

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Who’s Saving the Snails?

According to Scoop 14 March 2006 Twenty-two members of the Green Party, walked into Happy Valley for the weekend to show their support to members…

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Spies and Conflict at Happy Valley

According to today’s Sunday Star-Times State-owned coal company Solid Energy has admitted hiring private investigators to spy on environmental activists protesting against a proposed West…

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Rodbo!

From Rodney’s Blog Remember the Herald’s Rambo Hide story? It fuelled a lot of fury about a politician being photographed holding a gun—at a gun…

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Texas FBI’s Terrorist Watch List

In a guest lecture at the University of Texas School of Law on March 8, FBI Supervisory Senior Resident Agent G Charles Rasner listed Indymedia,…

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Aussie Communist "Peace" Activists Honoured

From the Communist Party of Australia’s “The Guardian” 29 March, 2006 Communist Party of Australia President Hannah Middleton and Central Committee member Denis Doherty have…

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Bring Back "Patterns Based Evidence"

This is an issue that has long bugged me. I have no legal training so I’d appreciate any comments from lawyers or law students who…

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Maoists on the March in India

Excerpts from a Reuters article By Simon Denyer 30.3.06 Rattled by a wave of Maoist attacks that have left hundreds dead, officials from 13 Indian…

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How I Discovered Liberty

I attended Rangiora High School from 1971 to 1975. In 1972 I was over the moon when the Kirk Labour government came to power. By…

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Venezuela and Vietnam Strengthen Ties

From Green Left WeeklySocialist Vietnam and Venezuela, led by socialist President Hugo Chavez, have agreed to build a “strategic relationship” and to bring their economic…

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