Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Category: Issues

  • Inspiration for the day: Killer Mike and Bernie Sanders

    A great late-night YouTube find: Killer Mike of Run The Jewels talks to Bernie Sanders about politics, social justice, inequality. The six-parter starts here: My favourite quote, from part 2:…

  • No shit: money alleviates poverty

    It’s understandable why we’ve generally accepted the rightwing line that “you can’t just throw money at the problem” of poverty. It seems far too simple: people do not have enough…

  • AFFCO, t-shirts, and the “jobs jobs jobs” mantra

    Talley’s AFFCO have literally stood down five people from going to work wearing union t-shirts: AFFCO said the t-shirts, with the slogan ‘Jobs that count’ on the front and ‘Meat…

  • Women of #nzpol: on the #nzflag challenger

    The women-of-#nzpol Twitter roundup is brought to you in the interests of amplifying women’s voices in the political debate and also because: Well, that was disappointing. Not surprising, just … disappointing.…

  • NZ’s top quotes of 2015

    Here we go again. Massey University is running a poll on the NZ Quote of the Year and the list of finalists is … well … Or as Holly Walker…