Activism
Otaki Summer Camp
Otaki Summer Camp - a three day event for folk aged 17 to 30 - set in a river valley at the foot of the Tararua Ranges. Organiser Kimberly Collins is in the Wellington Studio to tell us more. Audio
Lucy Lawless: 'I’m more of an activist than an artist'
Lucy Lawless is outspoken. She talks art, activism, sexual misconduct in Hollywood, the Hobbit Law and what she wants her legacy to be, with RNZ Concert's Zoe George.
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What makes an effective environmental protest ?
Graeme Wynn is an expert on environmental activism, he talks to Kathryn Ryan about the best ways to make your voice heard. Audio
Aaargh Icelanders ready to be governed by pirates?
Iceland's Pirate Party, founded by activists and hackers four years ago, is on course to either win or finish a close second in tomorrow's general election. Audio
From Slacktivism to Activism - how social media is changing our lives
Russell Brown talks with Laura O'Connell Rapira, Toby Morris, Steve Abel and Sina Brown-Davis about how online awareness can be transformed in to action which changes society. Audio
Summer of Love
Sister Corita's Summer of Love is coming to City Gallery. Described as a "Joyous Revolutionary" the Roman Catholic nun captured the civil rights movement, protests against the Vietnam War and condemns… Audio
Bunny McDiarmid - Life and Influences
Bunny McDiarmid is the outgoing head of Greenpeace New Zealand. Her life as an environmental activist began in earnest with her joining the crew of the anti-nuclear protest ship The Fri in the early… Audio
Playing Favourites with Marianne Elliott
La Directora at Mexican restaurant La Boca Loca, and National Director of ActionStation, who wrote about her experiences working for the UN in Afghanistan in the 2012 memoir, Zen Under Fire, and… Audio
Rochelle Rees - When your boyfriend is a spy
Rochelle Rees is a computer programmer and sometimes animal rights activist who discovered her then boyfriend was a police spy in 2008. Seven years on, she reflects on the betrayal of trust and the… Audio
Tame Iti and Birgit Krippner - Cross-cultural Collaboration
Tuhoe painter Tame Iti and Austrian photographer Birgit Krippner are exhibiting their art together in a new exhibition at Wellington's Suite gallery. Tame Iti will show paintings and sculpture… Audio
Seattle community activist Craig Thompson
Near downtown Seattle, a prosperous American city, home of Boeing and Microsoft, there is an encampment of homeless people in a strip of forest known as The Jungle. The homeless have gathered there… Audio
How to get people off their screens and onto the streets to make social change happen
Russell Brown talks about activism online and on the streets with Marianne Elliott, Nicky Hager, Matthew Hooton and Laura O'Connell Rapira. Audio
Neptune's Navy
Lisa Thompson takes a tour of the Sea Shepherd vessel The Sam Simon, as its crew prepare for protest action in the Southern Ocean this summer. Audio
Interview: Arrested Development | WOMAD 2014
'Speech' of afrocentric hip hop outfit Arrested Development talks to Trevor Reekie about the Atlanta Georgia group's place in the hip hop landscape. Audio
Interview: Makana | WOMAD 2014
Kirsten Johnstone talks to Makana, a Hawaiian slack-key guitarist who is regarded as the greatest living player of the style, having learnt from the masters of the previous generation. Audio
Stella Young on comedy, and disability activism
Stella Young is a comedian, disability activist, and the Editor of ABC's Ramp Up website - the online space for news, discussion and opinion about disability in Australia. Since then she has been… Audio
Ideas: Young activists speak out
A few weeks back we heard from three of the country's youngest politicians, and this week we're speaking to three young people who are no less passionate about bringing about change through political… Audio
Malala Yousafzai - Nobel Peace Prize nominee
Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head at point blank range a year ago as she travelled home on a school bus in Pakistan. The Nobel peace prize nominee shares her story of survival and what drives her… Audio
Feature Guest - Mike Lerner
Filmmaker Mike Lerner spent six months with members of the Russian feminist art collective, Pussy Riot as they fought charges of hooliganism and religious hatred for their performance of a "punk… Audio
Ideas for 19 August 2012 - Non-Violent Resistance
Jeremy Rose speaks with professor Norman Finkelstein and looks at the activism in the resistance of Mahatma Ghandi. Closer to home, Jeremy speaks with Rachel Buchanan about Parihaka and, perhaps, the… Audio