One Day Out with Green Team #5
As part of my contribution to the Green party election campaign, I joined the Green’s Billboard Team #5. Our team was assigned to the Rimutaka Electorate – and it was an eventful day…
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 20th August 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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NZ’s huge criminal underclass created from political choice
Criminals aren’t born, they’re created. They’re created in response to a combination of factors such as socioeconomic status (poverty) and class (social marginalisation and exclusion), family dysfunction, illiteracy, unemployment, substance abuse and mental ill-health. And they’re created by punitive laws, ‘penal populism’ leading to policies ‘strong on law and order’, unconscious bias in the police force, and subsequent distortions in remand terms and conditions, sentencing and incarceration.
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It’s A Question Of Values, My Friends: What The Greens Must Do To Survive
New Zealand needs the Greens in Parliament. Not to turn New Zealand into a “thriving green economy” filled with “booming businesses”, but to remind us, at every possible opportunity, that “people are more important than progress”, and that a better world is possible.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 19th August 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Migrant workers launch research report on the plight of Filipino dairy workers
migrant workers launch research report on the plight of Filipino dairy workers When: August 19, 1pm onwards Where: FIRST Union conference…
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The Liberal Agenda – Labour’s 2017 Campaign Launch
WHAT: Labour Party Election Launch
WHERE: Auckland Town Hall
WHEN: 1pm Sunday
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The Liberal Agenda – ARTWEEK AUCKLAND 2017
An artistic explosion will engulf Auckland from October 7- 15 with Artweek Auckland; a 10-day festival showcasing and celebrating the…
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NZ Government Fails! No Answers over Injustices at Ihumātao – Save Our Unique Landscape
The New Zealand Government delegation to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racism and Discrimination in Geneva yesterday failed…
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Social Housing Minister stifles debate on critical issues – State Housing Action
Social Housing Minister Amy Adams is refusing all requests to front up and justify the National government’s plan to sell…