Tag: history
A reminder of what is possible in community empowerment – ‘survival pending revolution’
This book launch speech was delivered today for Ponsonby People’s Union: At the Frontline of Community Activism in the 1970s, by Roger Fowler, whānau...
The story of the journalist on the Rainbow Warrior’s last voyage, David Robie
In April 2025, several of the Greenpeace crew visited Matauri Bay, Northland, the final resting place of the original flagship, the Rainbow Warrior. This...
50 years after the ‘fall’ of Saigon – from triumph to Trump
Part Three of a three-part Solidarity series.
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
30 April 1975. Saigon Fell, Vietnam Rose. The story of Vietnam after the US fled...
The fall of Saigon 1975 – The Quiet Mutiny and US army falls apart
Part Two of the three-part Solidarity’s Vietnam War series: The folly of imperial war
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Vietnam is a lesson we should have...
The fall of Saigon 1975: Fifty years of repeating what was forgotten
Part one of a three-part Solidarity series: On the courage to remember
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
The first demonstration I ever went on was at the...
New Zealand’s humanity – does it include all of us, or only for some?
COMMENTARY: By Katrina Mitchell-Kouttab
“Wherever Palestinians have control is barbaric.” These were the words from New Zealand’s Chief Human Rights Commissioner Stephen Rainbow.
During a meeting...