The Daily Blog Open Mic – Wednesday 12th December 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Author: The Daily Blog
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MUST READ GUEST BLOG: Vanessa Kururangi – Throwing my weight around
I am a poet/creative writer. I don’t claim to know facts or statistics. This piece is offered purely as a creative response to recent (and historic) events, speaking to how women and girls are forced to navigate the World throughout their lives.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – Bok Tour reflection 2018
Yes, the tour had a profound effect on my life.
Initially I couldn’t give damn about the Tour. I had better things to than traipse around the country looking after rugby players
But defeat of the police at Hamilton was a humiliation felt by the police and I was no exception. I wanted revenge. Therefore, I wanted the Tour to continue so the police could redeem.
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Medicinal Cannabis Bill set to pass Parliament; patients celebrate ambivalently
“A lot of us also have mixed feelings at the moment. New Zealand is catching up with the rest of the world, but this new law has only delivered part of what we hoped for,”
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – Why? What’s it to you?
“Well, actually…I like children!”
This is the response African-American novelist and poet Alice Walker gave when she was asked why she wanted to go to Gaza.
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Normalising The Unthinkable
It is the privilege of artists to think the unthinkable and imagine the unimaginable. Which is exactly what so many of them are doing in response to the deepening crisis of anthropogenic global warming.
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Consumer NZ calls out chicken meat producers – SAFE demands they cease misleading New Zealanders.
SAFE is demanding the chicken meat industry stops misleading people, after Consumer NZ calls out Tegel, Ingham and Pams chicken…
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Māori and Pasifika children twice as likely to face food deprivation, report. – Auckland Action Against Poverty
The Child Poverty Monitor 2018 released today shows one in five kids are facing food deprivation. The report also highlights…
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Inadequate incomes and high cost housing to blame for rise in food poverty – Child Poverty Action Group
The latest Child Poverty Monitor released today by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner reveals alarming facts about children suffering…
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Child poverty report a call for urgent welfare reform – Auckland Action Against Poverty
The Child Poverty Monitor 2018 report points out one in five kids are living without access to food. People on…