Wellington Queers the Night!

At least 200 people congregated in Waitangi Park, Wellington, and marched on Friday the 11th of May, 2012, as part of the second annual Queer the Night march against homophobia and transphobia. Why march? Here’s some of the reasons from the leaflet created and distributed by the Queer Avengers: “In 2011, after a series of […]

Protest Report: Whose Port? Our Port!

“There must be over five thousand people here!” – that’s the text I got from Gerry Cotterell, a TEU member I’d arranged to meet today, and he was right. We came in our thousands to show our support for striking Maritime Union members. Firefighters, teachers, public servants, supermarket workers: the sea of banners and flags […]