The Daily Blog Open Mic – 22nd June 2025

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

The Editor doesn’t moderate this blog,  3 volunteers do, they are very lenient to provide you a free speech space but if it’s just deranged abuse or putting words in bloggers mouths to have a pointless argument, we don’t bother publishing.

All in all, TDB gives punters a very, very, very wide space to comment in but we won’t bother with out right lies or gleeful malice. We leave that to the Herald comment section.

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3 COMMENTS

  1. Further on the Gordon Wilson (who*) apartments in Wellington – which our Naliban plan to tear down as we have no need to retain anything from our past and fix it.
    They have your money and your vote to back up their spending – you funkheads.
    https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/06/17/the-daily-blog-open-mic-17th-june-2025/#comment-934264

    Other opinions.
    https://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=171617
    Gordon goneburger? from Nemo June 21, 2025 20 comments
    They are exquisite in their design – good basic European planning with bedroom/s upstairs and kitchen / living downstairs. They would be be re-created as the perfect mature student flat. I could see a whole bunch of PhD students living there or visiting staff, leaving the Halls of Residence (or whatever they are called) to the baby students just there for a year. No drinking, no shenanigans, no worries, and some good PR for once.
    Burgers are awful. But giant slabs of cheese are much nicer. Let’s ditch the Bishop Burger and instead try and persuade the University to do something good for once, and restore some heritage. New Zealand’s second best Modernist building, Massey House, has been saved and restored, beautifully, going by the latest photos. Let’s do the same for the GWF.

    *https://wellingtoncityheritage.org.nz/buildings/151-300/299-gordon-wilson-flats-320-the-terrace
    The Gordon Wilson Flats have architectural value as a good representative example of 1950s Modernist high density social housing, that though common internationally, is relatively rare in New Zealand.
    The flats are associated with the social policy of the government of the day and were an endeavour to solve a chronic housing shortage. They were the last of the high-rise tower-block social housing developments designed by the Ministry of Works & Development. The flats are also associated with economic recovery in the 1950s which led to a boom in the building industry.
    The flats were designed by Government Architect Gordon Wilson, who died while the flats were nearing completion. It is for this reason they were named in his honour.

    Note – bad- Ministry of Works!! Old fashioned in neoliberaland.

  2. From Kia Ora Gaza;

    Egyptian crackdown on blockade busters but Kiwi activists vow to ‘defeat genocide’

    https://kiaoragaza.wordpress.com/2025/06/20/egyptian-crackdown-on-gaza-blockade-busters-but-kiwi-activists-vow-to-defeat-genocide/

    It begins with calling out the genocide deniers in our country. 

    support Amnesty New Zealand’s campaign to get the government of New Zealand to officially reconise that genocide is being committed in Gaza.

    Call on our opposition MPs to put a members bill calling on parliament to vote to officially recognise that genocide is being committed in Gaza. Let the government MPs who deny the genocide stand up in parliamnet and say it.

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