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Sean Phelan

@sean-phelan.bsky.social

Teaches media and communication studies at Massey University. New book: Wild Antagonism: How the Far Right Claimed Critique - coming out with Edinburgh University Press in May 2027. .

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Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability@te-ara-paerangi.community · yesterday

I've gotten grumpy thinking about people in the academy whose heads are too far up their own research to notice what's happening around them that threaten their place. Not to mention oblivious to the people and movements working for nothing to keep them doing their thing. Then remembering Siouxsie.

Siouxsie Wiles vs Auckland Uni - paying the price of litigation

OPINION: The long-running, high-profile employment dispute has laid bare the harsh economics of litigation.

thepost.co.nz

Sean Phelan@sean-phelan.bsky.social · yesterday

Another great policy announcement from Greens. Tapping into desires for a vibrant left politics. The sensible centrists in the elite ranks of Labour must be feeling seriously outflanked. Keep generating this kind of energy & perhaps they can get over 20% #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

Greens promise $2 capped fares and free travel for millions

The Greens are promising free travel for children, students and several other groups, with bus and train fares capped at $2 for everyone else.

stuff.co.nz

Sean Phelan@sean-phelan.bsky.social · 4d ago

Giovanni is spot on. I was discussing this in class with students yesterday. The report that RNZ produced about the first 9 months of post-Oct 7 coverage was impossibly shoddy. But ignored by other legacy media. And the 2 RNZ articles on it (including 1 by C. Peacock) were basically press releases

Giovanni Tiso@gtiso.bsky.social · 4d ago

The complaint was rejected but I'm sure they were hoping it would have a chilling effect. Which is doubly ironic, given RNZ's record on Gaza can only be explained by extreme cowardice and fear of backlash. The broadcaster is well and truly pre-chilled.

Stephen Baker@stephenbaker.bsky.social · 4d ago

I signed this. “This is a time when all of us committed to a better future have a responsibility to raise our voices to protect peace, progress and a shared society free from sectarianism.”

Claire Mitchell@clairemitchell.bsky.social · 4d ago

🚨 Open letter from people of Protestant backgrounds concerning the Garvaghy Road 🚨 We feel compelled to speak publicly about what is happening in Portadown 🚨Over the past few hours we have collected over 140 signatures

Sean Phelan@sean-phelan.bsky.social · 4d ago

Seymour & Peters had a bonding moment in communicating their shared antipathy to "the media", because of the inanity of some of the questions. And in the specific instance, they were not wrong. The left block should not leave all the media critique to these guys for the rest of the campaign #nzpol

Sean Phelan@sean-phelan.bsky.social · 4d ago

TEU whānau....we need to keep our 'UniSaver divest from genocide' bargaining demand vivid in the consciousness of our colleagues at the different universities @islates.bsky.social @mohanjdutt.bsky.social @amandathomas.bsky.social @rosieoverell.bsky.social @ojutel.bsky.social

University Workers for Palestine@uwp-aotearoa.bsky.social · 6d ago

CALL TO ACTION - TEU MEMBERS ✊🇵🇸 We need your support to make sure the ethical superannuation claim is a priority during this bargaining period. Contact your local bargaining team now to tell them! Stand with Palestine. Support BDS. Demand that UniSaver divest from genocide.

Sean Phelan@sean-phelan.bsky.social · 6d ago

the arrogance and entitlement of the NZ Labour Party is quite something. If I was working for the Greens, I'd go for them hard. Take the piss out of the hubris....make it clear that you are done with being infantilised by sensible Daddy #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

Hipkins slams Swarbrick for lining up jobs ‘before anyone has even voted’

Later today, the Treasury will reveal how the Government’s books are looking ahead of the election with the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update (PREFU).

stuff.co.nz

Laura McAtackney@lauramca.bsky.social · last wk.

For people of my age (old) and my background (CNR) who grew up in NI during the 90s, Drumcree was the nadir of community relation & differences in our perceptions of ‘rights’. We just could not conceive how a group of snarling, angry men thought their ‘right to march’ surpassed our ‘right to exist’.