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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

From a Stuff article on tomorrow's strikes in the public sector. The mood of those against industrial action seems to be annoyance more than anything, but the mood for it seems to be orders of magnitude more resolute. #nzpol

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

So, that new project I've been teasing? I'm pleased to present the Spectre of History Collective! We will be onboarding a few new readers before launching reading sessions in January 2026. Anyone interested in joining or learning more is encouraged to reach out through the email below.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I will also be hosting this in conversation with the rad @rosieoverell.bsky.social at the end of the month! We'll be discussing a wide range of topics orbiting around the core theme of social and political issues raised by/present in the heavy metal subculture.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I will be involved with this & DJing alongside some great local talent. Do come along, as this sale represents one of the last words of the Black Star Books collective which was foundational for me and many others in discovering radically left-wing politics in #Ōtepoti. #dunedin #nzpol

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

This one's largely for @historyiswhat.bsky.social's interest, a 1992 issue of Aotearoa anarchist periodical The State Adversary taking up the cause of the *now* (33 years later) recently released Leonard Peltier. No idea if anything else came of this, but an interesting footnote nonetheless.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

My only contribution to the current #nzpol discourse is this photo of an anarchist demonstration at Jenny Shipley's house when she was the minister for social welfare in 1992. It even involved light property damage in the form of a torn flag. Last I checked, Jenny Shipley is fine.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Rob Muldoon was in a production of the Rocky Horror Show in 1986, and briefly presented the cult late night Sunday Horrors slot on TV2 as Count Robula.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I need my non-Kiwi people to know how deep the "explorers from (insert) reached Aotearoa before (insert)" rabbithole goes. This book posits that among many others, Phoenician explorers reached Aotearoa 3000 years ago. This guy has published multiple books.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

This was a comment under an insta post by Chris Luxon, which comprised of a (partially?) ai generated video of the PM speaking Mandarin on an otherwise unremarkable subject. I'm in some respect glad these freaks are terminally online, because the forces arranged against it are woefully unprepared.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

The apocalypse came for radical preacher Thomas Müntzer 500 years ago today, as his imprisonment for his role as a theological leader of the German peasantry amidst a year of revolutionary religious tumult ended with his execution on 27th May 1525.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

A good friend is giving this presentation on the 25th, he's much smarter than me so I would recommend getting along to it! Probably the only electrician in the country with a keen interest in the German Peasant's War.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Pay equity rally in Ōtepoti|Dunedin right now. Several hundreds in attendance, The Exchange is full. Most notable local unions in attendance. As are Labour and the Greens. For left spotters, I've noted the Otago Socialist Society, International Socialists, and IBT. Light rain, undeterred. #nzpol

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Pretty big crowd here, maybe 500+ I reckon, still growing too #nzpol

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

People starting to gather in Ōtepoti for a trans rights rally, called in response to the NZ First binary sex bill. I'll be playing court photographer today, possible writeup soon.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Moved into my new office today. I officially start tomorrow (at which point I'll also be lugging a pile of old periodicals over).

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

After some thought, Notes South From Nowhere is going to undergo some major changes soon. These include a big update to the overall structure, folding the archive and blog into one website, splitting the feed such that individual posts can be organised better, and the addition of more material.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Perhaps fittingly, it is as an insult that anarchism first gets uttered in a New Zealand paper. Specifically Assemblyman Jacques Clément-Thomas (a republican leaning former military man) accusing the popular republican leader Armand Barbès of being an anarchist during a scuffle in the Assembly.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Prince Metternich, an Austrian diplomat who by the time of this particular uprising had been chancellor for 25 years, had been responsible for overseeing the suppression of Italian and Polish aspirations for nationhood and a republic. His letter frets at a vast nationalist conspiracy in Poland.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Where socialism first appears more as a curiosity, communism first appears (fittingly) as a specter. In extensive coverage of the abortive Wielkopolska uprising in 1846, The Nelson Examiner reproduces a letter by none other than arch-conservative architect of the post-Napoleonic order - Metternich.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

With that in mind, it's surprising that the first reference to socialism appears as early as August 1842 in the pages of the Gazette. It had run a story on the Bristol blasphemy trial of freethinker and atheist publisher Charles Southwell, back in the UK.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

A newsletter, a magazine, a newspaper, a journal - these all are part of an intellectual and political life worth living. Archives are merely part of the care to preserve that life. We want not for Palestinians to survive, but to live. Improving our capacity to fight so that they may do so is vital.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

That permanence gives weight to both domestic coverage and specific demands. That newsletter, now digitised, has an added meaning which will long exceed the fleeting nature of the blog comments and server messages of the late-1990s or the endless social media posts of today.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I've been thinking about Nettalk and FETC not for East Timor, but for Palestine (among other places). FETC was one among a thriving medley of international solidarity campaigns and groups. That still exists, albeit with different groups and causes, but the media landscape it once produced does not.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The publication I've been thinking about recently is a newsletter published in the late-'90s to early-'00s called Nettalk, which became affiliated with the Free East Timor Coalition after its founding at a Rotorua conference on 14th September 1997.

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I haven't been promoting the archive much in the last year, but I've been thinking about it recently and specifically one of the newsletters held on it. I figure this as good a reason as any to introduce it and discuss part of why these projects are important. This is the Nowhere Ephemera Archive.

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