The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 15th July 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Year: 2018
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Never mind the wagging tail, the system’s a dog
This week a range of environmental group representatives, fishing company agents, scientists, consultants and international experts gathered in Wellington to review the threats facing Maui and Hector’s dolphins. The meeting was organised by DoC and Fisheries NZ and participants had to agree to Terms of Reference which included a clause saying they wouldn’t talk to the media about the proceedings.
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Urgent appeal: stop the ethnic cleansing of Khan al-Ahmar
Condemnation of Israel’s most recent act of destruction in the Palestinian village of Khan al-Ahmar was expressed on 4 July this year by the European Union and the United Nations. Since the 1950s the Jahalin Bedouin community’s homes, schools and livelihoods have been under constant threat by the Israel. As one villager, Tahreer Abu Dahouk, a mother of four children all aged under ten years, put it: “we sleep afraid, wake afraid”.
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Nauru, Fiji and Pacific Facebook gags criticised in Asia-Pacific media freedom summit
When Reporters Without Borders chief Christophe Deloire introduced the Paris-based global media watchdog’s Asia-Pacific press freedom defenders – including from Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea – to his overview last week, it was grim listening.
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Did NZ just get trolled by the alt-right?
Since when were we on the Left such intellectual cowards? We, and the progressive liberal democracy we call home, deserve better champions for our values than punch Nazis in the face cheerleaders who celebrate restricting freedom of speech.
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Political Caption Competition
Confused elderly resident Muriel Grim angrily mutters, “I never liked Laila Harre”.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 14th July 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – How Marxists fight Fascism in Aotearoa
Today, capitalism is dying and is thrashing about destroying everything it touches. It deserves to die, but not to take us with it. Fascism is the political response of last resort against the overthrow of capitalism by the working class. It will not give up its fight peacefully, logically, rationally, resorting to undemocratic and illegal actions, wars and genocide.
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American Fissures
Recently, upon arriving in Eugene, Oregon a taxi driver told me a story which sums up America`s incivility today. A prospective customer, with avowed pro-Trump sentiments was about to enter the vehicle. When the driver, part Hispanic but Caucasian looking, gave an opposite view the customer walked away. Avoiding the company of an anti-Trump liberal was well worth the inconvenience of a delayed journey.
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AAAP calls on Housing Minister to protect tenants
Auckland Action Against Poverty has today voiced support for a Plan to Fix Renting and calls on the Housing Minister…