New Zealand – first to vote, first to march – Women’s Global March
Where better to begin the massive Women’s March Global movement than in the country to first give women the vote?…
Year: 2017
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Families back Pike River Bill – Stand with Pike River
Pike River families are welcoming Andrew Little’s members’ bill to remove any legal barriers to safe re-entry of the Pike…
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Mongrel Mob-Black Power gang war, beggars and why today’s Political Roundup proves inequality is a dead political issue in NZ
Nothing sums up how inncoulated the NZ population are to the debate about inequality than today’s Political Roundup in the NZ Herald by Bryce Edwards.
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BLOGWATCH: Annoying the sad old Standard and weird old Whaleoil in the same week
I’ve managed to annoy the sad old Standard and the weird old Whaleoil in the same week.
I must be doing something right.
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Thank you for showing mercy to Chelsea Manning Mr President, now about Edward Snowden…
It is welcome news that the terrible abuse of heroic whistleblower Chelsea Manning is coming to an end.
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Commutation for Chelsea Manning is a long overdue positive step for human rights – Amnesty International
With less than a week left in his term, President Obama commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning today. Manning had been…
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What Meryl Streep did not say
Yes, imitating a disabled person is a despicable act but if Meryl Streep was truly concerned about compassion, she should have talked about the devastation of war, extrajudicial killing, torture and drone strikes that murder and disable innocent civilians including women and children.
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Myths about inequality mask a medieval tax system
Not content to have the poorest New Zealanders face the biggest tax burdens and corrosive social problems our lowest income communities also face a plague of what can only be described as “parasites on poverty”.
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Isn’t a black market in Tobacco the Government’s fault and when can we have an honest discussion about cigarettes?
I think we should investigate a Vice Tax on the profits of the corporations selling these products. Instead of putting the cost of the product individually upon the end user, the Government should tax a super tax onto the Tobacco Industry.
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Malcolm Evans – Swearing in
Malcolm Evans – Swearing in