The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 20th August 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Month: August 2017
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New UMR Poll – National 40%, Labour 37%, Green 8%, NZ First 9%
The rich white male broadcasters of the corporate mainstream media were trying to convince voters this election that it was a sleepwalk to victory for National. To date, every poll over the last month has proven every single one of them wrong.
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NZ’s huge criminal underclass created from political choice
Criminals aren’t born, they’re created. They’re created in response to a combination of factors such as socioeconomic status (poverty) and class (social marginalisation and exclusion), family dysfunction, illiteracy, unemployment, substance abuse and mental ill-health. And they’re created by punitive laws, ‘penal populism’ leading to policies ‘strong on law and order’, unconscious bias in the police force, and subsequent distortions in remand terms and conditions, sentencing and incarceration.
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It’s A Question Of Values, My Friends: What The Greens Must Do To Survive
New Zealand needs the Greens in Parliament. Not to turn New Zealand into a “thriving green economy” filled with “booming businesses”, but to remind us, at every possible opportunity, that “people are more important than progress”, and that a better world is possible.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 19th August 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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LATEST ROY MORGAN POLL: National 42.5% Labour 32.5% Green 9% NZ First 11.5%
The latest Roy Morgan Poll backs up the trend for Labour to grow, but not the horrific meltdown of the Greens…
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Migrant workers launch research report on the plight of Filipino dairy workers
migrant workers launch research report on the plight of Filipino dairy workers When: August 19, 1pm onwards Where: FIRST Union conference…
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Quick – Auckland Transport, build another pink cycle way
Auckland Transport is one of the most corrupt bodies in Auckland, and manages to get away with any real public transport obligations by throwing the trainspotters over at Greater Auckland the odd pink cycleway and hipster pet project while doing sweet fuck all for the long suffering working class public transport users.
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The Liberal Agenda – Labour’s 2017 Campaign Launch
WHAT: Labour Party Election Launch
WHERE: Auckland Town Hall
WHEN: 1pm Sunday
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NZ Government taken to Court for hiding war crimes
Let’s just do one thing for the civilians and children butchered by John Key’s war crime, if the ruling comes down and finds us guilty. Key must be stripped of his knighthood.