Nonviolent Civil Disobedience: The Gandhian Influence on Climate Activists
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported in October last year that at the time, humans had 12 years to curb global greenhouse gas emissions to prevent the climate and ecological catastrophe the Earth is currently plummeting towards. This grave...
Transgender Woman Complains Against Beauticians Who Refused to Wax Her Crotch
In recent weeks, the Victorian Government has reintroduced a bill to Parliament which would make it easier for people to change the gender recorded on their birth certificate to male, female or any other gender descriptor of their choice. The...
Occupy Sydney on the Extinction Rebellion: The Lessons Learnt
Tuesday saw Extinction Rebellion (XR) protesters taking to the Brisbane streets with the aim of causing peaceful disruption to bring about societal change, so that a global climate catastrophe can be averted. And over 70 rebels were arrested, as they...
The Ihumātao Occupation: In Protection of Māori Land
The more than three-year-long occupation at Ihumātao in Māngere, south Auckland, has come to a head over recent weeks, with police numbers stepped up at the Ōtuataua Stonefields Historic Reserve, where the local Māori protectors of the area are camped....
Investigation Into Alleged War Crimes by Australian Soldiers Commences
The recent AFP raids were conducted as a result of a complaint by the Department of Defence about the leaking of documents which contain harrowing accounts of alleged war crimes perpetrated against civilians by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan. The former...
“It Is Now Time for Civil Disobedience”: How the Rebellion Plans to Bring About Change
The human race has until the end of next year to initiate changes that will allow for a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, so that global temperatures don’t exceed a 1.5 degree rise by the end of the...
‘Gender Neutral’ Language – Progress or a Step Too Far?
Earlier this week, Berkley Council in California made the decision to replace words within its municipal code with ‘gender-neutral’ language. It has altered dozens of masculine and feminine pronouns, replacing “he” and “she” with “they” and “them” in an effort...
Legalise Drugs to Reduce Violent Crime: An Interview With LEAP’s Greg Denham
One of the unintended consequences of the war on drugs listed in the 2011 Global Commission on Drug Policy report is “the growth of a ‘huge criminal black market’, financed by the risk-escalated profits of supplying international demand for illicit...
Zapatista Indigenous Autonomous Zones Threatened by Militarisation
A group of leading intellectuals from around the globe have penned an open letter calling out the Mexican government’s increased militarisation in the south-eastern state of Chiapas, as they’re concerned deployed troops could turn against the Zapatista Army of National...
West Papuans Have United to Reclaim Their Nation
The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) announced last week that the three main West Papuan military factions have united under the one single command. And the newly-formed West Papua Army is now operating under its political leadership. The...
