Nick Young

The Wildcat Anarchist Group presented its submission on the China-NZ free trade agreement to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Select Committee today as an intepretive dance.
After a brief dance depicting trying to fly with one wing, fast footwork, a strangled worker and a collapsed economy, the group’s representative answered several questions from the committee.
The [...]

What pray tell is this?

An influential union of muscular enterprises and entrepreneurs, the Standover Group is committed to furthering what is in the best interest of the most important section of New Zealand society - big business. The Standover Group

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU on Vimeo … unbelievable.

From http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=1918
“No Right Turn crunched some numbers and it turns out CAFCA’s right. According to Rio Tinto’s own figures, shutting the Tiwai smelter would actually benefit New Zealand to the tune of $26 million a year by allowing us to shut the inefficient coal-burning Huntly power station and reduce our carbon emission liabilities.”
Source - No [...]

This is unbelievable. The aluminium smelter in Southland uses a huge amount of electricity, indeed a huge percentage of NZ’s total electricity consumption and would therefore be faced with some additional costs under the Govt’s polluter pays Emissions Trading Scheme. Fair enough I would have thought but the boys at Rio Tinto have [...]

Spotted this on Campbell Live tonight. The Wire is a new site that collects blogs from a bunch of interesting New Zealanders.
The Wire is a place for people to visit and read about the lives of interesting New Zealanders. The Wire represents a wide array of New Zealanders, from different industries and cultures, who [...]

Last weekend CNN lead with a big story about James Buck, a graduate student in journalism from the University of California-Berkeley who was arrested last month in Mahalla, Egypt while covering an anti-government protest. Thinking quickly, James was able to send a one-word Twitter update: “Arrested.” His followers in Egypt and back in the US [...]