Protesting With Icelandic Black Magic
How to So you want to make your local Liberal MP’s life just that little bit harder. Don’t we all? But with firebombing their office or throwing caltrops on their…
Finn Trismegistus: Adventure Time and Western Mysticism
I watch Adventure Time, and I’m not ashamed to say it. Currently produced by Cartoon Network, from its premiere in 2010 this animated kids show has quickly drawn a cult…
So You Want to Write to Your MP
It’s pretty hard to feel genuinely engaged with politics. When the major news of the day is the PM maniacally wolfing down a vegetable, or worse yet, one of Bill…
Pelican Presents A Selection of Notable Student Protest Chants
1990s anti-One Nation protesters Hey Hey, Ho Ho Pauline Hanson’s got to go Sexist, racist, anti-gay, right-wing bigots go away Racist, sexist, anti-queer, Liberals are not welcome here Say it…
What Heirisson Island Means in 2015
This is your land, but now you must leave. You are being told by a stranger who is gladly ignorant of your culture and history that you must leave. Worse…
Green vs. Mean: Pelican Does Top Gear
I am not a car person. I want to make that clear before I get into this. I will not, throughout this article, be making use of that secret language…
The Popularist Manifesto (Party for Your Right to Fight)
So you want to change the world. In the words of Joe Strummer, “You gotta give it all you got, or forget it,” and he’d know: their protest song, ‘Rock…
Personal and Political
This year has seen the release of two of the most valorised political films in recent years in Ava Duvernay’s Selma, disturbingly relevant in the America of Mike Brown and…