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Month: May 2019
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 20th May 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Monday 20th May 2019
5: What It’s Like at an Alabama Clinic Still Performing Abortions
4: Saudi Arabia ‘seeks to avert war, ready to respond with force’
3: A VIGILANTE MILITIA DEFENDS AN IMAGINARY BORDER
2: What Does a Post-Roe America Look Like? As Anti-Choice Laws Multiply, Many Already Are Living In It
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Ngaro’s support of “abortion equals Holocaust” views needs scrutiny – Jami Lee-Ross
Botany MP Jami-Lee Ross says Alfred Ngaro’s support for a group comparing abortion to the Holocaust needs scrutiny. On Saturday…
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Waatea News Column: I will continue writing about the state taking children until something meaningful has occurred
If you have the privilege of a platform, you must endeavour to use that platform for good. I have written previous columns about the extraordinary abuse of power by the state when they take children into their ‘care’.
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Fear of the State vs Omnipotent big data inter-agency mass surveillance: Will $320m for family & sexual violence actually do anything?
…it’s good that there will be a promotional advertising campaign calling on behaviour change and support for the men who cause this violence, but my suspicion is that once people in harms way realise calling the Police triggers inter-agency backlash then those in danger will stop calling Police.
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If we are quite finished with patting ourselves on the back for a fairly meaningless call in Paris to restrict free speech could we get back to housing and homelessness?
While Grant Robertson and James Shaw continue to promise our corporate overlords that a Labour led Government will maintain National’s old austerity budget, those children living on the streets are the most obvious amputation of the politics of kindness.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 19th May 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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The fantasy world of Alfred Ngaro
Whatever Ngaro may offer the country as a conservative Christian leader it won’t be compassion, tolerance, justice or truth. Instead it will be a conservative straitjacket of bigotry, arrogance and injustice.
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MEDIA STATEMENT: Nicky Steven’s whanau grieve for family of yet another victim of poor mental health services
North Shore mental health unit death – yet another time where the family is ignored and disaster strikes North Shore’s…