GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Lettuce eat!
Some of the workers in Miro Unit grow vegetables in the prison garden for the local Womens Refuge .
However , the Refuge office has closed for the holidays and the lettuces are going to seed .
Author: The Daily Blog
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Maori solidarity with Chinese Migrant workers struggle
Ngati Whatua leader Parata Hawke makes the links between those struggling against a racist capitalist system.
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Foundry workers out in the cold – E Tu
Workers employed by MFL Ltd (formerly Masport Foundry) in Auckland returned from their holiday this week to find they had…
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Summer Contributions Drive
Brothers and sisters, Comrades, it’s that time of year again when we pass the hat around so we can pay the bills over summer – if you want to support independent blogs who have done so much to counter the right wing bias of the mainstream media, then we need your support.
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Hold The Phone! For The First Time, OIO Does Something About One Of CAFCA’s “Good Character” Complaints
No acknowledgement of CAFCA’s role and the OIO hasn’t bothered to tell us but we’ll take the credit and chalk it up as a first. More please. The whole subject of “good character” is one that needs to be front and centre in the Government’s stage 2 review of the Overseas Investment Act, which is being undertaken this year.
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SPCA’s 1080 position will lead to cruel deaths and extinctions – Forest and Bird
Forest & Bird says the SPCA’s statement calling for 1080 to be banned shows a naïve failure to understand how…
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Freezing MP wages was the right thing to do
When we have so many Kiwis struggling to make ends meet on low wages and benefits, the idea of agreeing to politicians automatically gaining a 3% pay rise was wrong.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Is there a fairer way to trade ?
Yesterday the JusTrade.nz, site was launched. It builds on a two-day hui held in late October, convened by Auckland Law Professor Jane Kelsey, which debated what an alternative 21st Century progressive trade strategy for our counrty could look like.
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Political Caption Competition
The new National Party math curriculum was criticised from day 1.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 10th January 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.