Militarism

On May 5, the Netherlands celebrates Liberation Day, or Bevrijdingsdag. The day marks the end of the occupation of the Netherlands by Nazi Germany in 1945. This year though, the Netherlands’ Free West Papua Campaign is encouraging a redirection of attention on Liberation Day toward West Papua, by organising a week of awareness raising for West […]

New Lest We Forget flags and ANZAC military and poppy propaganda have sprung up around Lambton Quay and Courtenay Place for this year’s ANZAC campaigns. I think we should change the “L” in Lest to a “B” in that old slogan: make it Best We Forget. Not because we shouldn’t remember World War One – on the contrary – but because

This is a press release that was sent to media on Thursday, 4 February 2016. Images of the banner and its production have been added, as well as images of the previous night’s protest at the war memorial. On Thursday 4 February, an art intervention will take place inside Te Papa. An 8 metre square banner

This article was first published in Salient, September 27, 2015. * The current refugee crisis has many times been framed as the “worst humanitarian crisis since WWII”. It seems this framing functions to counteract numbness in the West, much like the viral sharing of that gut-wrenching photograph of Aylan, the three-year-old boy taken from this