You are one of the most talented New Zealanders on the planet right now. Your music is incredible, your performance is amazing and your politics have always been an inspiration.
What you do matters to many.
Which is why so many will beg you not to play in Israel in June of next year.
2017 has been a year of swollen lies and political scandals. What was most concerning wasn’t that we didn’t have media who could unearth these outrageous abuses of power, but that we didn’t have a media who could spend the time to focus on them.
The middle class aspiration to make money out of property has erased their egalitarian values and it changes the political landscape. The new Government have to adapt to this reality and promote policy that helps those who aren’t property speculators because they won’t ever vote for Labour.
…a change of Government is not enough and we have a long, long, long way to go. But please continue with the Secret Santa bragging.
New Zealand’s first couple (is that what we call them?) have plans for a well deserved summer holiday, but I also think they need to re-invent a famous Labour Party tradition.
Self-assisted suicide – which is what we are really discussing here, not the far more sterilised ‘euthanasia’, will become a means to a neoliberal end in NZ.
If you are serious about changing welfare in NZ Carmel, then end the punitive debt and crushing punishment that is dealt out to those on Welfare. The bullshit need for the disabled to send in letters annually for disabilities that can’t be ‘cured’. The penalty interest rates put on welfare overpayments, the culture of fear that alienates and the staff who refuse to inform beneficiaries of what their actual rights and entitlements are.
The current Green Party are locked into middle class identity politics and middle class environmentalism while Labour are too frightened to use the power of the State to intervene well beyond the timid measures currently being proposed.
I never believed it would happen – I agree with Heather du-Plessis Allan?!?
Her latest column is right.
Kinda.
We have Police and Intelligence Agencies stepping well outside the law and not getting punished for it.