The Daily Blog Open Mic – 3rd June 2022

Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.

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Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.

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  1. The new variants are already in our communities does this mean those that came here with it did not isolate this is not good enough.

  2. Julian Assange – latest informed comment from Binoy Kampmark (Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He currently lectures at RMIT University.)
    https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2206/S00004/new-brooms-old-stories-the-australian-labor-party-and-julian-assange.htm
    Guy Rundle insists on “some form of official representation” to the US to end extradition efforts which would see Assange charged under the Espionage Act of 1917. “It should also make representation to the UK government to refuse extradition immediately, and release Assange.”
    Rundle is also correct to note that Labor’s form on Assange is pure in its rottenness. Given the chance – as in 2018 and 2019 – it has generously exploited security leaks used by journalist Annika Smethurst to attack the proposed expansion of surveillance powers.
    Stuart Rees, founder of the Sydney Peace Foundation, senses a new form of politics “in the air.” Citing Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s remarks that there could be no future without generosity and forgiveness, he sees any intervention to free Assange as “a next step towards recovery of national self-respect.” The only thing for Albanese to do: get on the phone to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to cancel the extradition.

    Despite the changing of the guard in Canberra, it should not be forgotten that it was a Labor government, led by the country’s first female prime minister, Julia Gilliard, who accused Assange of illegality in publishing US State Department cables in 2010. Gillard, impetuously and inaccurately, tried to impress her US counterparts in tarring and feathering WikiLeaks. “Let’s not try and put any glosses over this,” she stated in December that year. “It would not happen, information would not be on WikiLeaks if there had not been an illegal act undertaken.”
    All zealous and afire with premature purpose, Gillard sent in the Australian Federal Police to investigate the matter, hoping that it would “provide the government with some advice about potential criminal conduct of the individual involved.” The priority here was identifying any Australian laws that might have been broken, since she did not feel up to the task. …

  3. https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2206/S00076/housing-crisis-no-time-to-be-selling-public-housing-stock-monte-cecilia-housing-trust-ceo-bernie-smith-says.htm
    Friday, 3 June 2022, 6:41 pm
    Press Release: Monte Cecilia Housing Trust
    Monte Cecilia Housing Trust CEO Bernie Smith says Government plans to sell up to 270ha of Auckland public and state house land to private developers risks worsening the plight of tens of thousands of New Zealand families trapped in transitional housing.

    Monte Cecilia Housing Trust is a non-profit organisation that provides transitional and community housing to about 2000 families each year in the South and West Auckland areas.

    “It’s a sad indictment of our country that even as 25-30,000 people are trapped living in temporary and transitional housing, the government is selling state houses to private developers,” Bernie says. “I understand they are selling it to fund long-term intensification plans, but this worsens the current problem, which is already at crisis levels, in the hopes of catching up later. The impact will be felt for generations in Health, Education and Justice outcomes.”

  4. Today the 4th of June marks the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre of peaceful protesters. In China any mention of this infamous massacre has been scrubbed from the internet. and all commemorations of this event have been expressly forbidden. Except in Hong Kong, that is until now. For the last two years commemoration of the Tiananmen Square massacre of peaceful protesters by the Chinese Authorities have been restricted by the Hong Kong police as a Covid-19 control measure. Today all commemoration of the Tiananmen Massacre have been explicitly banned by the Hong Kong police for “Social Order” reasons.
    All around the world state violence and mass murder and genocide of civilian populations is becoming normalised, around the world, Syria, Yemen, Myanmar, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Palestine, Ukraine,.
    Repressive regimes are on the rise and spreading their influence and power, ands silencing the voices exposing and documenting their crimes sometimes by murder, as in the case of Shireen Abu Akleh, sometimes by spreading fake narratives and lies to whitewash and hide their crimes

    But sometimes the truth gets out.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/27/massacre-in-tadamon-how-two-academics-hunted-down-a-syrian-war-criminal

    Fight the darkness!

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