JTFP interviews AHNZ
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Join Jackson Fowler Podcast speaks to Anarchist History of New Zealand about the project to look at our history through a non-statist lens. References made to past and future AHNZ topics and the methods employed in figuring out what is, and has, been going on in this country. — Ref. 1944: No serotonin for you, […]
Read more..January 6, 2022
1915: Automobile Associations
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
It was not The State that started marking New Zealand roads with distances and names but free people voluntarily. In 1915 the Automobile Associations of Auckland and Canterbury were hard at work. Government just came along later, took over, and take credit for work already done. As per usual. “Motorists are deeply indebted to the […]
Read more..January 5, 2022
1979: Kaikoura UFO
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
On New Year’s Day, 1979, Safe Air hosted a Australian reporter on one of their cargo flights from Wellington to Christchurch. TV station, Melbourne’s Channel 0, had heard about unidentified lights above Kaikoura air space for the preceding weeks and wanted the story covered. The ride-along was a success in terms of experiencing the unexplained […]
Read more..January 4, 2022
1990: Who Are We
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Imagine a New Year where Anglo-Zelandians and Polynesian-Zelandians responded to and connected to a love of their country. So much so that patriotism and values were an appropriate package to sell us financial services. Such a new year was 1991. We are fortunate to be able to replay this video history from director/narrator Len Potts […]
Read more..January 2, 2022
2020: Millennial Fetal Contentment
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Heroic Generation archetypes thrive in structured environments; They love having clear rules laid out so they can follow them. Instructions are to be followed without questions and with clear consequences. They thrive on duties and obligations, rewards and punishments and countdown timers. They are stressed by environments requiring them to be self-starting independent individuals. Heroic […]
Read more..December 30, 2021
“Fuck White Supremacy”
By NZB3
It’s always got to be anti-women’s-violence or anti-gender-based-violence or anti-child-violence. Why can’t we just be anti-violence? The implication is that identitarian categories that don’t have International Days of Activism named after them are OK to do violence upon. “Yesterday in Parliament, we all wore orange to raise awareness of the 16 days of worldwide activism […]
Read more..December 29, 2021
1853: Oamaru Ferry Theory
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Oamaru had been a wasteland until Hugh Robison and his brother built and lived in a muster’s raupo/flax/sod hut in 1853. Here they created a sheep station called the Oamaru Run. The North Otago settlement became a thriving town thanks to its port that served pastoralists and the great Otago Gold Rush. By the mid-1880s […]
Read more..December 28, 2021
Don’t Look Up
By NZB3
New release: ‘Don’t Look Up’ now on Netflix. Yes, The Guardian review is right that director Adam McKay goes on a self-indulgent smug Victimhood Culture parade. That probably resonates with a certain set such as the Hollywood cast acting the movie or, one would have thought, The Guardian. Not so much with the old Conformity […]
Read more..December 28, 2021
1917: Even if it takes all the men
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This 1917 Christmas card from is a very important history marker for the New Zealand of that time. It’s a card for a member of the Expeditionary Force sent away to fight in the Great War. Someone “in the fight” who it is hoped God will protect and bring home alive. The woman sender, Molly, […]
Read more..December 26, 2021
Matrix 4
By NZB3
I don’t do spoiler warnings. That was your spoiler warning. The Matrix Resurrections (2021) has just been released which prompts a question as to which way the director would take it. Often the route in these situations is to create a nostalgic mosaic resembling the bottled lightning of the first installment. So many songs and […]
Read more..December 26, 2021
1930: Government Making Our Pants Explode
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
In 1930 New Zealand’s Prime Minister George Forbes visited Britain and met United Kingdom Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald (image left.) But only one of these men had a plan unfolding to cause the trousers of their farming community to spontaneously explode. That was our George. John Deem, Director of the Fields Division of the Department of Agriculture in the Forbes Government, […]
Read more..December 24, 2021
Cracker
By NZB3
Professor Jackie Buell of Ohio State University is in hot water for using phrase ‘Jewing Down’ in virtual lecture. Apparently it’s a colloquial term for trying to bargain down the sales price in a retail environment and that was the topic of Buell’s lecture. How dare she implicitly attack Jews that way? But she says […]
Read more..December 23, 2021
