This photo, taken by my cameraman yesterday,(thanks Conan) speaks to the reason that many of the us, who filled the length and breadth of Queen Street from top to bottom yesterday,were there.
We want to leave the world a better place for our children and our children’s children than we found it – and our current government is making decisions that are going to make things worse , not better, for the generations to come.
By the time the little boy in this photo reaches my age it will be 2100.
I ‘m sure I don’t have to tell you, but we clearly have to impress on Shane Jones, that burning coal to create electricity isn’t going to make life better for those who come after us. That Nature is more valuable than gold. That the increasing frequency of extreme weather events couple with rising sea levels will have catastrophic effects on our coastal towns and cities.
And yet, we have a Fast Track Bill currently before parliament that will give three Cabinet Ministers unbridled power to exploit large tracts of New Zealand in the name of what they choose to call progress, but which we recognise as greed.
Legislation, of this sort, that denies proper consultation, poses a clear and present danger to our democracy .Which is why was so uplifting to realise, from yesterday’s turnout, that there many, many thousands of us, throughout our nation, prepared to say clearly to this National/Act/NZFirst Coalition – you do not speak for me. You do not do this in my name.
Kia kaha
Photo credit Conan Fitzpatrick.
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I’m pretty sure that unfortunately, these protests will be like water off a ducks back to Shane Jones. He only cares about ordinary people in so far as he can get enough of them to vote for him to win elections. Which he can probably do by attacking Maori these days. The rest of us can all fuck off.
The second mistake was having Bishop, a former tobacco company employee, as one of the three. It’s hard to trust somebody with this sort of work record.
I too are concerned for the future of our grand kids .Dr Pork does not care as he will be gone with in 10 years along with his geriatric two faced leader .NZ first will die with then so the sooner they depart the better for everyone .The buffon and the skin head gang leader should vanish before then too along with the rest of the gang of 2023 .
There was a record net migration loss of 52,500 New Zealand citizens in the year ended March 2024, according to provisional estimates by Stats NZ.
“Based on the latest estimates available, just over half of these migrant departures went to Australia,” says population indicators manager Tehseen Islam.
“This is the first time the annual net migration loss of New Zealand citizens has exceeded 50,000. That equates to 1000 more New Zealand citizens departing long-term than arriving long-term each week,” Islam says.
You get the government you voted for NZ, enjoy. The fortunate get to leave this terrible corrupt government behind.
And yet, we have a Fast Track Bill currently before parliament that will give three Cabinet Ministers unbridled power to exploit large tracts of New Zealand in the name of what they choose to call progress, but which we recognise as greed.
I think that the word greed is used too much. It can be received as used by people who haven’t got anything and envious, pretty useless and a burden on ‘society’ wanting what the others have, though they have worked hard, got the skills, attitudes and active brains that are being looked for by the shakers and movers. In other words talking about greed to those who have ‘got on’ is for whining losers . To make any impact on the ‘successful’ and who majorly are self-centred, there has to be another choice of word/s beyond ‘greed’.
The three ministers with dictator-type, communistic powers! over the mass of society, are promoting their activity by ideas of progress, which echo those of communism, and stupidity which follows from a great belief in ‘the giant leap forward’ and the visions of long-term plans. There is a lack of rational questioning as to outcomes and the possibility that the plan could go wrong, and lacking practical thought that there is far too much hope and money invested in it. It is the only way – TINA all over again. Stoopid – but easily led people can be turned to accept stupid negative routes once received as gospel.
So good to see Dharleen Tana there leading the charge as a proud Green Party resistance fighter!!
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/new-zealands-health-sector-is-in-crisis-but-how-do-we-fix-it-the-front-page/CPP4Z2XS6BEPFCUUHOA5OZU5DM/
This government is “insane”
Nice placard at the March4Nature event–“Fast Track my Land Back!”
Left unity and a reinvigorated class left central labour organisation are prerequisites for sending these junior authoritarians packing asap. CTU needs to organise regional delegates & members meetings including non members, families and community to get things moving.
Te Pāti Māori has given good leadership so far, but the rest of the working class need to join in. The ideological struggle is very important as Groundswell and the right grabbing the narrative on 3 Waters showed. Three Waters has been trashed…but precarious local water, sewage systems and boil water notices continue. What a win for the right there…crumbling infrastructure must still be replaced.
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