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Sonja Mitchell

@sonjamitchell.bsky.social

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Workers' rights are human rights. Tangata Tiriti and Ngāti Toa. She/her. Love time with nature, loved ones, books, arts, and radical community building. Kei te rohe nei o Ngāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha, me ngā hapū katoa o Arai te Uru au e noho ana.

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Sonja Mitchell @sonjamitchell.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Good article titled 'Where is NZ's long Covid plan?', in today's Otago Daily Times

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Sonja Mitchell @sonjamitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Another rally at Alverston Ave in Port Chalmers this Sunday at 12.30pm, aimed at stopping the impending sale of this public housing land. All supporters welcome. If you can, bring some choicely worded placards.

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Sonja Mitchell @sonjamitchell.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

A card reading 'Happy Mother's Day. To all you women, mothers, and child free alike! Thank you for selflessly giving up fair pay and for sacrificing your families, your welfare, your security, and your retirement, to save our budget. You are the best!' With an image of Nicola Wolillis and Luxon clapping and Brook Van Velden beeping like a little bot.

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Sonja Mitchell @sonjamitchell.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Photos from the Gender Pay Equity rally in Dunedin yesterday, courtesy of Jill Bowie

Crowd with a giant sign of a Handmaid giving the middle finger

Crowd scene with a mix of flags and banners

Women holding signs. One reads 'Pay equity. Let's value contributions, not just chest hair' and 'I'd explain pay equity again but mansplaining is fully funded!!!'

People holding signs that read 'Homecare and support are under-funded, undervalued, and under-paid', 'Her work counts' and 'WTAF'

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Sonja Mitchell @sonjamitchell.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Palestine rally in Ōtepoti Dunedin yesterday. It was one of those stunning, sunny, crisp Autumn days. For the first bit we marched in silence, then we marched chanting, calling for Palestine to be free. It was a lovely bunch of people, and I found the whole experience of being there so moving.

Image of a large crowd of people marching near the Regent theatre in the Octagan

Large crowd with Palestinian flags sets off from the Museum Reserve

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Sonja Mitchell @sonjamitchell.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Reb Fountain in Ōtepoti Dunedin went absolutely off last night, mesmerising, stunning, hard-hitting.

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Sonja Mitchell @sonjamitchell.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Just wanting to give a big ups to Ōtautahi Chch. So many great places to walk and cycle! Attached is a pic from the Activists' walk, and of just a couple of the many, many beautiful street art. Have loved my visit here, and it was fab fun meeting some of the ōtautahi Bluesky folk at Poms last night.

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Sonja Mitchell @sonjamitchell.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Had a lovely time yesterday with my parents Judy and Dave at the musical Come From Away. It was stupendously good, moving, funny, and uplifting, about how a small community in Gander, Newfoundland cared for people on flights grounded and stranded by the 911 attacks. It's playing in Ōtautahi Chch.

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Sonja Mitchell @sonjamitchell.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Wise words from writer and activist Arundhati Roy

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Sonja Mitchell @sonjamitchell.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Standing in solidarity with and as a member of our vibrant Ōtepoti Dunedin takatāpui/queer community. My outfit just isn't quite as fabulous!

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Sonja Mitchell @sonjamitchell.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Making syrup from the many hundreds of rosehips that my best friend and beautiful poet Rhian Gallagher gathered while she was camping in McKenzie country. I probably need a blender but cutting them up is quite restful. For anyone who hasn't tried rosehip syrup, it is sweet scented bliss.

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Sonja Mitchell @sonjamitchell.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Thanks to my hoa for sharing this fine image with me. It shows how many people submitted in opposition to the Treaty Principles Bill (aka David Seymour's and Act's shameless attempt to re-write and distort our history). Together, Tāngata Whenua and Tāngata Tiriti, we kicked ass. Toitū te Tiriti.

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Sonja Mitchell @sonjamitchell.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Just saw this plastered to a wall on my way home. Thought others might find it uplifting too.

Picture of a person waving a Palestinian flag and, along with a sun and flowers, breaking through a fence. The quote in the poster, from Assata Shakur, says 'Where there is oppression, there will be resistance'.

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Sonja Mitchell @sonjamitchell.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Enjoyed a night of Drag fabulousness at Yours, Dunedin on Sat night. If you haven't yet been to or heard of Yours, visit or check it out online, abd support if you can. They are a worker owned cafe/venue in Ōtepoti/Dunedin for radical action, music and cooperation. They are ground breaking.

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