Tag: Black Lives Matter
9/11 killed it, but 20 years on global justice movement is...
ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne in Sydney
Since the attacks on the United States by 15 Saudi Arabian Islamic fanatics on 11 September 2001 -- now...
Royal family can’t keep ignoring its colonialist past and racist present
ANALYSIS: By Benjamin T. Jones, CQUniversity Australia
The most explosive element of the Sussexes’ highly anticipated interview with Oprah Winfrey was the claim that someone...
RNZ Mediawatch: Forcing the issue of race at the Herald
By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
The New Zealand Herald recently published a column which criticises its own record on race. Teuila Fuatai explains why...
Indonesia calls for more action against racism as issues persist at...
By Apriza Pinandita in Jakarta
Indonesia has urged the international community to speak up and take decisive action against racial violence at a United Nations...
World’s first post-covid live rugby draws massive crowds in NZ
By RNZ News
New Zealand's first weekend at post-covid alert level 1 drew massive crowds to Super Rugby Aotearoa franchise matches in Auckland and Dunedin...
Thousands throng Auckland for NZ Black Lives Matter protests
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch
Thousands of people took part in the Black Lives Matter protests in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin today.
Auckland's Aotea...
Call for Chinese-Indonesians to support #PapuanLivesMatter
COMMENT: By Evi Mariani in Jakarta
The giant wave of the United States’ #BlackLivesMatter campaign has now swept across Indonesia. A number of groups have...
Bryan Bruce: Why I have run out of words – and...
COMMENT: By Bryan Bruce
Every time I wrote a sentence to describe the slow motion collision of social, economic and political forces that are simultaneously...
In publishing Tom Cotton, The New York Times has made a...
ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller of the University of Melbourne
When a newspaper with the authority of The New York Times chooses to publish a party-political...
Thousands rally across Australia to protest against Indigenous deaths
By RNZ News
Thousands of people were protesting across Australia today to oppose the deaths of Indigenous people in police custody.
It comes as Black Lives...
‘#PapuanLivesMatter’: George Floyd’s death exposes double standards
By Budi Sutrisno in Jakarta
As the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who died while being arrested in the United States, sparks a...
Toxic US politics, a brutal killing and the messengers become the...
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie
Three cartoonists had especially poignant takes on the tragic and toxic political aftermath of martyr George Floyd’s brutal killing...
Police rule out legal action against NZ black solidarity protest organisers
By RNZ News
The organisers of Black Lives Matter protests in several main centres will not be prosecuted.
On Monday, thousands gathered at several events around...
Black Lives Matter dilemma: How to protest in a covid pandemic
ANALYSIS: By Philip Russo of Monash University
The death of African-American man George Floyd at the hands of police has sparked protests across the United...
RSF condemns attacks on US protest journalists fueled by Trump slurs
Pacific Media Watch
Protests in at least 30 cities across the US following the police killing of George Floyd have resulted in violent attacks from...
Thousands march in NZ solidarity rallies with Black Lives Matter
By RNZ News
Thousands of New Zealanders have joined large numbers of Americans in protesting following the killing of Minneapolis man George Floyd.
In Auckland, Aotea...
Riot or resistance? How media frames unrest in Minneapolis will shape...
ANALYSIS: By Danielle K. Kilgo of Indiana University
A teenager held her phone steady enough to capture the final moments of George Perry Floyd’s life...