Warm and Toasty: The story of Solid Energy’s sleepless nights. Hannah Newport shares her thoughts on Happy Valley in the South Island. “Ok, so we all like a nice toasty fire in the winter - “put your feet up dear, there’s a good lass”. But that’s no reason to go around killing native animals, now… is it?”

Petitions have been a tool for change for a very long time. This article looks at the basics of petitions: What are they? How to write them, effective ways to use them, and the rules of petitioning.. This article also looks at how the internet can be used for petitioning.

By Cameron Walker, Auckland
‘Globalisation’, ‘free trade’, ‘neo-liberalism’ (call it what you will - the economic policies supported by global institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank) have been protested about and opposed by tens of millions of people around the globe. Why are so many people so angry?

By Andrew Colgan, Auckland
Reflections on the Council for World Mission (CWM) Global Youth Convention (GYC), Johannesburg, South Africa, June 2004

By Cameron Walker. I like writing about how I feel about issues which affect our lives. I’ve taken part in protests to express my feelings. As yet I haven’t been arrested, beaten, tortured or killed. In some nations however, people suffer terrible consequences for exercising the simple freedoms we take for granted in New Zealand.