Aaliyah Zionov and Emilie RāketeAaliyah Zionov and Emilie Rākete

Aaliyah Zionov is a Tāmaki Makaurau-based activist, prisoner advocate, and aspiring teacher born in Israel. Emilie Rākete is a prisoner advocate from Tāmaki Makaurau studying the political economy of prisons in Aotearoa. Together, they helped found People Against Prisons Aotearoa in 2015.

A rainbow-painted police car? Give us a break

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Opinion: New Zealand’s LGBTIQ community deserves more than rainbow cars and empty gestures, write Aaliyah Zionov and Emilie Rākete. Last week, the New Zealand Police unveiled the latest in a long series of publicity stunts aimed at courting the LGBTIQ community. To prepare us for their fourth year in a row marching in the Pride … Read more