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October 29, 2021 Email to Local Councillors calling for them to stand for free speech

Email to Local Councillors calling for them to stand for free speech

Good morning,   History reveals that freedoms taken for granted are freedoms lost.   Given your important work in local government, and the influence you have in your region, I wanted to write to intr...

October 21, 2021 Free Speech Union Council Position Paper on Covid-19 response measures

Free Speech Union Council Position Paper on Covid-19 response measures

Free Speech Union Council Position Paper: Free Speech and COVID-19 Response Restrictions   The New Zealand Free Speech Union is a registered trade union with a mission to fight for, protect, and expan...

October 19, 2021 Why comedy is so often in the crosshairs

Why comedy is so often in the crosshairs

“You can’t joke about that”. This was the response I got from a local commissioner to what remains my dream project — a comedy show based in a South Auckland instant loans company. The chap was dead...

September 22, 2021 Free Speech Union Newsletter

Free Speech Union Newsletter

Dear Supporter, Welcome to this week's free speech update. NZME receives over 1000 emails re Speak Up For Women advertisements More than a thousand of our supporters took the time to write to NZME re...

September 4, 2021 “Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.” — Mahatma Gandhi

Two years ago in Christchurch, New Zealand was subjected to an horrific act of extreme violence, in the name of ideology. Yesterday, another terrorist attack was carried out, this time in Auckland. Bo...

September 1, 2021 Mr Hunt, you don’t speak for me

Mr Hunt, you don’t speak for me

Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt’s op-ed yesterday defending the government's proposed hate speech laws is thoroughly predictable after a month of terrible comms that failed to convin...