Posted on May 13, 2008 by Ari
For those of you who don’t follow politics closely, the Green Party1 released their party list recently. Because party members vote directly for their party list, it’s been nowhere near as secretive as is usually the case for other parties.
Worth noting is that five of the first eight (there will be a minimum of four [...]
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Posted on May 13, 2008 by Ari
Idiot/Savant over at No Right Turn has an excellent piece on the fact that police have ignored the recommendation that they include guidelines on power abuse and other sexual misconduct in their Police Code.
Shame on the police- writing something like this into their code is an extraordinarily easy commitment to meet, and could have wide [...]
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Posted on May 13, 2008 by Ari
One of the most frustrating things for me to explain as a feminist and queer rights advocate (and occassional opponent of racism, although as a white male geek I am pretty out of touch on this one, even if one of my family members is in a relationship with a Maori woman) is that injustice [...]
Filed under: Feminism, Language, Masculism, New Zealand, Opinion, Queer, Race, Sexuality, United States | Tagged: allies, convergence, labels | 2 Comments »
