Simon Bridges should take note of what a real commitment to freedom of speech looks like. David Seymour has now joined the ranks of other Free Speech advocates by getting his speech rudely interrupted by protestors during his Freedom of Speech tour. Admittedly they were not up to the disruptive
Patrick Corish Co-ordinator Free Speech Coalition On Friday, Massey University put out a media statement about a so-called “controversial” group “Speak Up For Women” which is using a Massey campus to host an event later in the year. You may recognise the Speak Up for Women name. Their spokeswoman Ani
Jordan Williams Free Speech Coalition It is sombre to write this, but late yesterday afternoon the Court’s judgement in our case against Regional Facilities Auckland (a subsidiary of Auckland Council) and Phil Goff landed in our email inbox. There’s nothing positive to highlight in the Judge’s decision.
Warning Contains New Zealand’s Hatey-est Hate-word TRIGGER WARNING! Excuse my levity, my wife is now thousands of miles away and I’ve been playing up; awarding myself a bit more interweb time to devote to the forces of Conservatism and Righteousness (same thing) and was rewarded with sheer delight
Only two weeks ago Canterbury University undertook NOT to censor its students’ comedy revue. “So it was reassuring to read of the university’s refusal to jump to the prune-faced demands that it suppress the irreverence and bad taste mockery that is a time-honoured celebration of student freedom of speech.
Speak Up For Women It’s been a busy few months for Speak Up For Women and by now you may have heard: Meghan Murphy is coming to New Zealand! Speak Up For Women is excited to be hosting Meghan at events in Wellington and Auckland. In Wellington on Wednesday
The e-mail below has been sent out by Massey University ahead of a feminist event to be held on their grounds called Feminism 2020. To their credit, they commit to freedom of speech, but they also smear the feminist group Speak Up 4 Women as “controversial” and spread the fake
It is not radical to say that boys have a penis and girls have a vagina, but media like Stuff persist in saying that it is. Apparently you are a “Radical feminist” if you dare to say that a man in a dress is, well… a man in a dress.
Speech: Donald Trump Addresses the 74th Session of the United Nations – September 24, 2019 In this part of the speech, Trump talks about Socialism and Communism, Free speech, Social Media platforms, Religious freedom, LGBTQ and Women’s rights, abortion and the Second Amendment. Part four starts at 00:25:35
In this weeks episode of ‘Simon Says’ Simon Bridges has described Speaker Trevor Mallard’s recent ruling as an ” a chilling move designed to stop freedom of expression.” “Speaker Trevor Mallard ruled that National Party MPs have until 5 pm today to take down publicly available footage from Parliament that
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It sounds like something from a Hollywood science-fiction dystopia: a corporation forcing its employees to undergo sinister brainwashing in order to submit to its extremist political ideology. But this is not fantasy – this is real. And the left is cheering it on. Qantas wants to purge its staff of bad
As I wrote recently, I don’t care that Justin Trudeau dressed in blackface, any more than I did Megyn Kelly, or that people were offended by tweets from Roseanne Barr or James Gunn. What I do care about, though, are the double-standards of those who demand that the one
Free Speech Coalition Patrick speaks with spokesperson for Speak Up 4 Women, Ani O’Brien, about the Green Party’s treatment of Jill Abigail after the publication of her article in the Green Party’s offical magazine Te Awa. Patrick and Ani discuss the current “cancel culture” currently within left-wing
Facebook has an identity problem. In fact, I would go as far as to say that they are a Trans platform. Why Trans? Well, they claim that they are a Tech Platform but they “identify” as a Publisher. They want to have their cake and eat it too. They want
In the 1980s, it was assumed that the great threat to Western freedoms was the “theocons” of the religious right. To an extent, this was true enough: groups such as the Moral Majority tried to muscle their particular brand of fundamentalist Christianity into everything from government to artistic expression. But,
