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Sunday, 1st March Conrad Ryan from ' Against Equality ' Against Equality is an online archive, publishing, and arts collective focused on critiquing mainstream gay and lesbian politics. Those politics have become so mainstream that in Auckland this year uniformed police and prison officers marched at the Pride Parade - there is no pride in that equality, just as there is no pride in the institutions of police and prison. Instead of wanting equality in that world, Against Equality seeks to build connections with other queer movements across the globe for a truly radical social and economic justice movement. Against Equality challenge the equality rhetoric and the demand for inclusion in the institution of marriage and other state institutions such as the military and the prison industrial complex . Come and have a chat with Ryan, discuss queer revolution - not mere inclusion! Afternoon tea provided! Sunday 1st March at 19 Tory St - 3.30pm As well as the Wellington meetings, ot...

Sunday, 1st March Conrad Ryan from ' Against Equality ' Against Equality is an online archive, publishing, and arts collective focused on critiquing mainstream gay and lesbian politics. Those politics have become so mainstream that in Auckland this year uniformed police and prison officers marched at the Pride Parade - there is no pride in that equality, just as there is no pride in the institutions of police and prison. Instead of wanting equality in that world, Against Equality seeks to build connections with other queer movements across the globe for a truly radical social and economic justice movement. Against Equality challenge the equality rhetoric and the demand for inclusion in the institution of marriage and other state institutions such as the military and the prison industrial complex . Come and have a chat with Ryan, discuss queer revolution - not mere inclusion! Afternoon tea provided! Sunday 1st March at 19 Tory St - 3.30pm As well as the Wellington meetin...

The  Freedom  Shop  Collective  invites  you  to  another  discussion of strategy and issues for the activist left.   With the upcoming centenary of the Gallipoli massacre, the government’s whitewashing of both history and the present is  in  full  force.  Key  recently  attacked  the  left  for  failing  to stand  up  for  human  rights  by  not  supporting  the deployment  of  NZ  troops  to  the  Middle  East.  How  can  we counter  the  glorification  and  normalization  of  past,  present and future wars? When: 7pm, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 Where: 17 Tory Street, Wellington (formerly 19 Tory St) What:  War & Peace - Then & Now   We are inviting speakers from a variety  of  left  groups  to  give  a  short...

The  Freedom  Shop  Collective  invites  you  to  another  discussion of strategy and issues for the activist left.   With the upcoming centenary of the Gallipoli massacre, the government’s whitewashing of both history and the present is  in  full  force.  Key  recently  attacked  the  left  for  failing  to stand  up  for  human  rights  by  not  supporting  the deployment  of  NZ  troops  to  the  Middle  East.  How  can  we counter  the  glorification  and  normalization  of  past,  present and future wars? When: 7pm, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 Where: 17 Tory Street, Wellington (formerly 19 Tory St) What:  War & Peace - Then & Now   We are inviting speakers from a variety  of  left  groups  to  give  a  sho...

In late February, early March Ryan Conrad from Against Equality will be visiting the country. Currently events are planned in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin. Details of events are on Aotearoa Indymedia . If you would like him to visit your town, send us an email and we will see what can be arranged. Against Equality Against Equality (AE) is an online archive, publishing, and arts collective focused on critiquing mainstream gay and lesbian politics. AE are "committed to dislodging the centrality of equality rhetoric and challenging the demand for inclusion in the institution of marriage, the US military, and the prison industrial complex via hate crimes legislation." In March 2014 many of the resources and pamphlets were put together into one book - Against Equality . Ryan has described it as " the culmination of many years of collective work that challenges the celebratory discourse around gay marriage, gays in the military, and LGBTQ inclusive hate crime legislati...