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Sophie Jerram

@scrjerram.bsky.social
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Curator, advocate of collectivity; tangata tiriti. Research Fellow with fascination for disaster preparation and spatial commoning. Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand criticalsignals.nz

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Sophie Jerram @scrjerram.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social has the world situation summed up here. youtu.be/aK2nLNiFEAQ We are suffering the curses of big boys in the sandpit fantasising they know the future. Like Prophecy @carissaveliz.bsky.social, this book reminds us that the Future is UNWRITTEN.
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How modern fascism works | End Times Fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
YouTube video by Naomi Klein
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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Govt can’t cloak its assault on independent research as a commercial jocks-v-unprofitable nerds culture war when targets include the ultimate commercial jock research institute.
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Decades of building industry research at risk
The future of our world-respected building research association is looking shaky with a government move to cut the dedicated levy that funds it.
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Sophie Jerram @scrjerram.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sign the petition: Press Pause On New AI Data Centres action.greens.org.nz/pause_ai_dat...
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Press Pause On New AI Data Centres
The Green Party is calling for a one-year pause on the construction of new AI data centres, so we have time to develop clear rules to make sure that the needs of people and planet are put first.
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Sophie Jerram @scrjerram.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Citizens’ Advice Bureaux are awesome community infrastructure please sign to keep in Wellington: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...
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Restore Funding for Wellington’s Citizens Advice Bureau
These cuts will hit hardest for: • people struggling with the rising cost of living; • workers facing redundancy or employment issues; • tenants dealing with housing insecurity; • migrants and former ...
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#FreePalestine 🇵🇸 I support Macklemore. What he said, needed to be heard. Stop this genocide.
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Steph Matuku @stephm1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Look what showed up today! I read Terri's Māori scifi thriller at an early draft stage and it was the BEST early draft I have ever read. I was super jealous tbh 😅😭 And here it is, and it's glorious. The cover! The concept! I weep anew with mingled delight and envy. Launching soon! #booksky
The Valley of Unlikely Acquaintances by Terri Te Tau, book cover showing a waterfall and trees.The inner cover with reviews by worthy literary people which I can't write out now, but just know that they are GLOWING.The synopsis which is of a Māori scifi time slip thriller
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Sophie Jerram @scrjerram.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
this week @criticalsignals.nz has amazing speakers on Ditching Big Tech with Rebel Tech Alliance (met through @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and @thenerve.news) Wellington: Thursday criticalsignals.nz/programme/et...
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Ethical Tech with Rebel Tech Alliance
Rebel Tech Alliance was formed in early 2025 by Patrick Leavy and a friend to stop Big Tech spying on people and monetising personal data. They do that by educating about the dangers of Big Tech and …
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New Zealand is following Trumpism back to the dark ages under the Luxon government. All mention of climate change and fossil fuels have been omitted from the new science and social science school curriculums. newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/14/c...
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Climate change omitted from new science and social science curriculums
The Ministry of Education drops all mentions of climate change and fossil fuels from new school curriculums, sparking alarm from an academic and educator
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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 14/08/2026
"If you aren't building your own bank robbing robot, you're going to be left behind in the new economy."
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Sophie Jerram @scrjerram.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The choices being made for us as more data centres are consented is “Intelligence” over a liveable planet. We need to ditch intelligence for wisdom. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States
Amazon's planned data center for Pecos County, Texas would come with a gas plant capable of emitting 33 million tons of CO2 every year.
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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
He didn’t change. They did.
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The Citizens @the-citizens.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
💥 NEW: Millions face hosepipe bans as government pushes ahead with data centre boom From @mc00.bsky.social ✍️ citizensreunited.substack.com/p/the-eye-07...
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The Eye 07: Millions face hosepipe bans as government pushes ahead with data centre boom
As England runs dry, campaigners tell The Citizens why government's AI ambitions are putting our shared resources at risk
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Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Really appreciate @foxmeyer.bsky.social's quick turn-around on this, amidst calls for clearer campaign ad regulation. National's new attack campaign says Labour’s tax plan doesn’t "add up", but numbers used in the AI-generated website don’t make any sense. newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/11/n...
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National uses nonsensical AI website to attack Labour’s tax policy
National’s new website uses AI-generated currency and graphics to persuade voters to trust its economic guidance
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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 11/08/2026
Our 2026 programme is off to an incredible start! Tonight we're calling in 📣 our wāhine & non-binary whānau to workshop alternatives to increasingly unsafe tech giants. What's the Bluesky for Youtube? For Slack? Let's share what we know! Tickets and info here: criticalsignals.nz/programme/de...
Event poster with workshop title "Detangling Yourself from Big Tech: A workshop for wāhine and non-binary whānau, with Bianca Grizhar", and event details: 11 August, 5.30pm - 7.00pm, 113 Taranaki St. Logo at bottom connects to Critical Signals at the website criticalsignals.nz
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Sophie Jerram @scrjerram.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/st...
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Stop the Climate Amendment Bill!
This is important because climate change is the most serious and important issue facing humankind. We have a rapidly closing window of opportunity to prevent catastrophic damage to the natural world ...
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Stephen Cox - "funny, raunchy, romantic, satisfyingly twisted" @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Australia willing to throw the world's creatives under a bus for data centres. I'm going to ask my publishers to withdraw sales in Australia if they do, and I'll do the same for my self pub books (or raise price to £250 if I can't)
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Sophie Jerram @scrjerram.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Australian activism just got way savvier than ours. Where is our resistance kiwi media peeps? youtu.be/mBW9QCVDSjY?...
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Honest Government Ad | Palantir
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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Sophie Jerram @scrjerram.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... vital reading
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AI is devoid of meaning and humanity. That’s why its vapid voice suits this political moment | Nesrine Malik
For ease and speed, we are degrading our ability to connect and to organise our societies. We must assert our trust in humans over machines, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Sophie Jerram @scrjerram.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
In the 36 seconds I just spent reading this, 152 humans were born, 72 died, 1,051,714 questions were asked of AI (not people), and 43,881 tons of CO₂ entered the sky. sinceyouarrived.world?t=36&utm_sou...
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Since You Arrived
In the 36 seconds I just spent here, the world did all of this. A memento mori for the internet age.
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do it for Divine @divine.video · 24/04/2026
Right now, platforms decide: 👀 What content you see 👥 Who sees your posts ❌ What happens to your content if they shut down On Divine, you decide: ✅ Which algorithm you use 🗳️ How your community is governed 🔓 You own your content, forever
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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 20/04/2026
📘 New Publication! We’re pleased to share "The Politics of Land and Value: Case Studies from Across the Globe" by Mi Shih and Kathe Newman, with support from the #USFSeminarSeriesAwards. 🔗 Link: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10…
Book launch announcement for 'The Politics of Land and Value' featuring global case studies on land politics.Cover of 'The Politics of Land and Value' book by editors Mi Shih and Kathe Newman. Blurb: This book investigates the treatment of land as a source of money in global urban processes. Probing land development at moments of value creation, capture, negotiation, contestation, and transformation, it sheds light on how and why value practices matter in transforming the politics of the status quo so that the social life of land may thrive.
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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 20/04/2026
(1/6) Critical Signals is a lab for collective and creative resilience - a gathering place for people who believe communities can build their own futures. Here's some exciting news! We are kicking off again in August 2026 and want to hear your voices in the shaping of this year's programme ✨
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Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
. Hardyesque What’s that at the window, hitting against the windowpane? The weather, Maureen, I hate it. Weather and war. Those twain. Then what? Then more and more of the same. And later on, more rain, Maureen. More rain. .
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revolution.social Podcast @revolution.social · 12/03/2026
Jim Louderback, editor of Inside the Creator Economy, & former CEO of @vidcon.bsky.social, joins @rabble.nz to discuss the evolution of the creator economy. In this episode: 📝 The rise of digital celebrities 🧬 Gen Z + niche communities 🤖 AI & the future of creators youtu.be/gLd9QjypNTY
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What Creators Can Do & AI Can’t (with Jim Louderback)
YouTube video by revolution.social with @rabble
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James McConnachie @jamesmcconnachie.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
looking forward to my 10,000th share of PLR on this one
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
NEW: Is this the broligarchy’s first world war? AI, like war & rape, is a hyper-masculine fantasy of God-like power, a myth at the dark heart of what we’re seeing play out in the Gulf. This war hasn’t replaced the Epstein scandal. It is the Epstein scandal. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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The Broligarchy's First World War?
AI-guided weapons, two out-of-control authoritarians, no legal authority and a toxic mess of masculinity: welcome to the manosphere's first major conflict
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Sophie Jerram @scrjerram.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
UK's public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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Sophie Jerram @scrjerram.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
@gregoryalanisakov.bsky.social ka pai e hoa! Fab event in Pōneke.
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Emily @emilywrites.co.nz · 07/01/2026
I'm on Bluesky! Apparently it is not always terrible here! But what the government is up to is terrible so I made a round up of all the upcoming bills you can submit on #nzpol #kikorangi www.emilywrites.co.nz/ok/
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OK FINE WHAT THE F DO I HAVE TO DO?!
We talked about how last year was The Year of Revolt - I'm hoping this year will be the Year of Being Horny on Main. But that seems less likely with every new day and we're only on day bloody six. I m...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
What do these companies have in common? -Cigna -Comcast -General Mills -Allstate -Marriott -Hilton -Walmart -Amazon -Microsoft -Meta All promised after January 6, 2021 to stop funding lawmakers who tried to overturn the 2020 election. And all have broken that promise.
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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
The NZ (AtlasNetwork ) Government’s 59 policy changes that are destroying the country’s climate change response & putting NZ, the World & human survival at risk #nzpol thestandard.nz/the-governme...
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The Government’s 59 policy changes that are destroying the country’s climate response
Count them and weep.
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Sophie Jerram @scrjerram.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Coster was neither remorseful nor credible on Q&A yesterday.
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Sophie Jerram @scrjerram.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Standards, pls!: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/de...
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Demand Accountability for Disinformation in Public Discourse
Peters’ recent comments misrepresented the facts surrounding athletes Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting and the broader debate on gender and sports. His assertions, based on misleading information and lack...
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Te Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Join us to launch a new book of poetry by the incredible Tusiata Avia. 🔹 Saturday 15 November, 5pm 🔹 Space Academy 🔹 371 St Asaph Street, Christchurch 🔹 All welcome! Books will be for sale with thanks to Scorpio Books, and kai and refreshments will be provided. www.facebook.com/share/16ZAvv...
On a pale blue background, black text reads 'Join us for the launch of Giving Birth to My Father. Saturday 15 November, 5pm. Space Academy, Christchurch.' There is a photo of the book cover and the logos for Scorpio Books and Te Herenga Waka University Press.
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Happy Labour Day Aotearoa. #nzpol
Yellow text over a black and white drawing of a scene from the Christmas Carol reads: UNIONS-
BECAUSE THE ODDS OF 3
GHOSTS VISITING YOUR BOSS TO MAKE HIM DO THE RIGHT THING ARE VERY SLIM..•
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Lawyers for Climate Action has accused the Government of breaching international law by knowingly setting a target inconsistent with the global warming goal. And NZ’s Climate minister admits the new methane target may breach global 1.5C goal #nzpol #climatechange
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Climate minister admits new target may breach global 1.5C goal
Climate Minister Simon Watts admitted the Government's new methane target may not be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5C.
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Sophie Jerram @scrjerram.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
@rkpriestley.bsky.social
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Sophie Jerram @scrjerram.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Join us in calling on the government to immediately halt all progress on the amendments to the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act. our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/op...
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Oppose the Amendments to the Marine and Coastal Area Act
Join us in calling on the government to immediately halt all progress on the amendments to the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act.
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Nature Climate Change @natclimate.nature.com · 09/10/2025
Chief Editor Bronwyn is heading to @adaptationfutures.bsky.social next week. She is looking forward to hearing all the latest research and meeting researchers across this space Get in touch if you would like to schedule a meeting
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Sophie Jerram @scrjerram.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Well it seems relocation is alresdy happening in Aotearoa-- @adaptationfutures.bsky.social ... #Westport township - now planning to relocate. A hugely moving story of brave leadership. Where was Central Govt in this? MIA according to the panel.
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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
And so it begins! #NZPol 1/2
NZ First joins Labour and the Greens in raising alarm over Gene Tech Bill
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Sophie Jerram @scrjerram.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
"I challenge you to choose life over short term gain." Minister Talia also challenges Western science data ownership - and copyright. "We need to own our own data." @adaptationfutures.bsky.social
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Sophie Jerram @scrjerram.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
"It's no longer policy and preference but a legal obligation for States to protect their people. Policy now needs to catch up with law."
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Sophie Jerram @scrjerram.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
heading to @adaptationfutures.bsky.social conference in Otautahi - Christchurch today - will aim to report in on Internet Infratructure with @brainboxinstitute.bsky.social in mind!
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Sophie Jerram @scrjerram.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Some great news for journalism in UK and English-reading world. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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The free press fights back...
Introducing the Nerve. From the wreckage of my old newspaper, comes a new all-women, journalist-owned, independent publication. Join us!
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Sophie Jerram @scrjerram.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
@criticalsignals.nz tonight the link to the event Refreshing collectivism was set to the wrong date - pls come along tonight! events.humanitix.com/copy-of-refr...
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Copy of Refreshing collectivism
Get tickets on Humanitix - Copy of Refreshing collectivism. Critical Signals, 115 Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand. Tuesday 23rd September 2025. Find event information.
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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 22/09/2025
“Behind a miles-long gray wall in the central Mexico town of Colón, a Microsoft data center portends the future for other data centers in the country. Unable to plug into the energy grid, it ran on gas-powered generators for at least part of the year.” Cool. Cool cool cool.
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Countries are struggling to meet the rising energy demands of data centers
Mexico's lagging energy grid is forcing companies, including Microsoft, to use generators.
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Sophie Jerram @scrjerram.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
our last talk for 2025 at @criticalsignals.nz tomorrow Tuesday will be done in a fishbowl format. Shd be fun... come all Wellingtonians! criticalsignals.nz/programme/re...
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Refreshing Collectivism
Critical Signals explores practical and visionary responses to an era of collapses.
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Sophie Jerram @scrjerram.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Laurie is still as authentic and responsive as she was when she entered politics 6 years ago. Love us a wahine toa politician with INTEGRITY.
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Sophie Jerram @scrjerram.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
criticalsignals.nz/programme/bu... @ira.bailey.nz who leads the kai sovereignty thread of @criticalsignals.nz is speaking tonight in Wellington city about healthy local food being accessible and economic for growers. All welcome at 115 Taranaki st.
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Coshop: Supporting Community-led Food Systems
Critical Signals explores practical and visionary responses to an era of collapses.
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