The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 11th April 2017
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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Government’s “Ministry of Oil” charges Greenpeace NZ head, Russel Norman
Greenpeace NZ executive director Russel Norman has been charged under the Crown Minerals Act along with two others for their…
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Justspeak calls on the Government to adopt Waitangi Tribunal recommendations and address structural racism in the justice system
JustSpeak supports the Waitangi Tribunal report released today recommending the Government to take steps to address the systemic racism in…
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Drug law reform needed to end Māori over-incarceration, says Drug Foundation
The government must urgently act to end the persistent failure by the criminal justice system to address disproportionate Māori reoffending…
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Auckland Council pulls funding from oil, gas and coal companies – 350 Aotearoa
350 Aotearoa is delighted that Auckland Council voted this morning to withdraw all investments in companies that produce and extract…
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400 homeless families a night in motels as Nats fail on housing – Labour Party
New figures show that 400 Kiwi families a night are being put in motels by the government because there isn’t…
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New Rules on the Global Economy
The government’s attempts to revive the Trade Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) have, as predicted, failed. Instead, the government is now putting its faith in negotiating numerous Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). It’s more of the same, ignoring the lessons from the TPPA debacle.
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Trumpwatch: One minute closer to midnight on the Doomsday Clock
Despite a previous poison gas attack in Ghouta, Syria in 2013 – for which the Assad regime was implicated, but not proven – there is little actual firm evidence that the Syrian government was responsible for the gassing at Khan Sheikhoun on 7 April.
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Why Bill English is wrong to support Trump’s air strike on Syria
The rapidity with which Bill English fell in behind Trump’s unilateral strike on Syria shows how little the NZ government values the UN Security Council, despite just having completed two years on it. New Zealand sidelined the Security Council and supported a US strike contravening the UN Charter. Article 51 of the Charter allows one nation to strike another only in “self-defence”. America wasn’t being attacked by Syria.
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – Martin Luther King, We Need You Today!
In April 1967, FIFTY YEARS AGO, Dr Martin Luther King spoke at the Riverside Church in Manhattan, NYC, warning of the moral failure of a country addicted to war.