The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 23rd March 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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Oil conference delayed by hours after protesters blockade doors – The People’s Climate Rally
Taranaki locals and people from across Aotearoa, New Zealand peacefully disrupted New Zealand’s annual Petroleum Conference from dawn this morning…
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Amnesty International responds to ‘Hit & Run’ release
Following the release of Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson’s book ‘Hit & Run’, Grant Bayldon Executive Director of Amnesty International…
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NZDF Response To Book
The New Zealand Defence Force stands by the statement it made dated 20 April 2011. As the 2011 statement says,…
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No Pride in Prisons to present submission on ‘racist’ Oranga Tamariki Bill
On Wednesday, 22nd of March, members of No Pride in Prisons will present a submission at parliament on the Children,…
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Press release from Nicky Hager
Author and investigative journalist Nicky Hager and war correspondent Jon Stephenson have teamed up, in a book released today, to…
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Q+A with Nicky Hager on war crime allegations
Q+A with Nicky Hager on war crime allegations
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NZ’s first Anti Racism campaign reaches more than 2m people – Human Rights Commission
The Human Rights Commission’s That’s Us anti-racism campaign has reached almost 2 million people (1.9 million) and engaged with more…
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New Zealand’s First “Revenge Raid” – Surafend, Palestine, 1918
The shocking events described by Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson in Hit and Run: The New Zealand SAS in Afghanistan and the Meaning of Honour are not without precedent in the history of New Zealand’s military engagements overseas. In the tiny Palestinian village of Surafend, in the final days of 1918, New Zealand troops participated in what was indisputably a serious war crime. The parallels with the SAS “Revenge Raid” of August 2010 are striking.
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Political Caption Competition
Look, I would feed all these hungry poor people but according to Trump that’s socialism and a waste of resources which we could spend on new stealth bombers. I don’t make the rules, take it up with management