National’s disgusting and despicable fear mongering over medicinal cannabis
The only thing worse than the Greens celebrating this pathetic nothing is National trying to manufacture monsters that simply don’t exist.
Year: 2018
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Wednesday 12th December 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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TWITTER WATCH: Politicising a death
Everyone seems to want to twist the tragic death of this young visitor to our shores into their own ideological frame work.
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MUST READ GUEST BLOG: Vanessa Kururangi – Throwing my weight around
I am a poet/creative writer. I don’t claim to know facts or statistics. This piece is offered purely as a creative response to recent (and historic) events, speaking to how women and girls are forced to navigate the World throughout their lives.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – Bok Tour reflection 2018
Yes, the tour had a profound effect on my life.
Initially I couldn’t give damn about the Tour. I had better things to than traipse around the country looking after rugby players
But defeat of the police at Hamilton was a humiliation felt by the police and I was no exception. I wanted revenge. Therefore, I wanted the Tour to continue so the police could redeem.
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Brothers – the Vigils are anti-male violence, not anti-male and the empathy of a Prime Minister
Jacinda’s apology captured all that guilt and shame and articulated it in a way that was raw and human, we are blessed to have her.
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On Human Rights – Declared, Upheld, And Otherwise
The 10th of December marks the 70th Anniversary of the adoption of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. It’s a pretty interesting document – not least because, if you peruse its contents, it contains an array of “rights” that have largely fallen by the wayside here in modern, neoliberal society.
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Medicinal Cannabis Bill set to pass Parliament; patients celebrate ambivalently
“A lot of us also have mixed feelings at the moment. New Zealand is catching up with the rest of the world, but this new law has only delivered part of what we hoped for,”
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – Why? What’s it to you?
“Well, actually…I like children!”
This is the response African-American novelist and poet Alice Walker gave when she was asked why she wanted to go to Gaza.
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Normalising The Unthinkable
It is the privilege of artists to think the unthinkable and imagine the unimaginable. Which is exactly what so many of them are doing in response to the deepening crisis of anthropogenic global warming.