The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 13th 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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Contrary to a media report, the Coalition for Better Broadcasting does not support Mike Hosking to moderate TVNZ’s leader’s debates. –
Stuff quotes the CBB from a 2014 blog: “So top marks to Mike Hosking for keeping his views to himself”….
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Shouldn’t Radio NZ feel ashamed for its Metiria Turei coverage?
For the first time ever, I had willfully switched off a Radio NZ political programme. Listening to three, privileged, well-paid, middle-class, pakeha professionals pontificating on the sins of a 23 year old young maori woman two decades ago was more than I could stomach.
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Election 2017: No Country For Old Men
How are Bill English and Steven Joyce supposed to defeat a young woman who can set the cold, cold heart of Paddy Gower aflame? How do a couple of guys on the wrong side of 50 fight a social-media phenomenon? Sure, they can say that elections are about policies – not personalities – but, after ten years of relying on John Key’s winning personality, who’s going to believe them?
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E tū embraces Equal Pay week as mental health workers pursue Equal Pay
E tū is urging women to embrace Equal Pay week, as it focusses on winning an Equal Pay deal for…
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E tū court action targets labour hire at LSG SkyChefs
E tū will be in the Employment Court in Auckland on Monday to argue its case on behalf of labour…
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Pike footage raises questions over government’s actions – Labour Party
The Government’s seeming determination to turn a blind eye to new questions about what happened at Pike River Mine is…
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Zionism’s slow demise
The silence from Israeli politicians over settler attacks on the Zionist state’s armed forces is but one aspect of profound historic developments that Israel and its founding ideology now face.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 12th 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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Can we pause and consider what just happened to Metiria back there?
Metiria’s crime was not that she had told the truth about needing to game the draconian neoliberal welfare system, but that she had the audacity to tell her story with her chin up in defiance at the injustice of that system rather than the self-shaming we all demand from anything that is attached to the virgin sacrificing sacredness of ‘taxpayer money’.
In NZ we accept the dignity of the broken, but never the dignity of the resistant.