Budget 2020 state housing rebuild deeply disappointing
The budget announcement that the government will deliver 6000 additional public houses (and 2000 transitional houses) over the next four to five years is deeply disappointing
John Minto
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“We have put them on ice” – the climate crisis, child poverty, mental wellbeing & lifting Maori/Pacific incomes
Once again the most helplessly exposed of our citizens – those locked in generational deprivation in a land of plenty – have been sent to the back of the queue.
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Join the online protest rally with Gaza for Nakba Day
Media representatives are invited to the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa’s second online rally with Gaza this Sunday evening at 7.00pm NZ time.
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How crazy are these warmongers? Cancel RIMPAC 2020
We must join hands with people from around the Pacific and around the world to tell our governments to stop this dangerous behaviour.
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How can we prise corporate hands from the throat of our democracy?
Prising corporate hands from the throat of our democracy is more important than ever. The public mood does not favour going back to “business as usual” after the pandemic where we all work hard to increase the wealth of the one percent. But any break from “business as usual” will be extremely difficult because our main political parties are heavily reliant on corporate donations to fund their election campaigns.
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Denis Goldberg – fighting apartheid in South Africa and Israel – lessons from the front line
Last week the world lost one of the heroes of the South African anti-apartheid struggle when 87-year-old Denis Goldberg died.
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“Open letter to the Prime Minister – will the need for election campaign funding be allowed to direct the post Covid 19 government spend?”
We are deeply concerned at government proposals to spend the bulk of our post-Covid 19 investment on large infrastructure projects to match corporate priorities.
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Lessons from the first fortnight of lockdown
The most important lessons from the first two weeks of lockdown:
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Distress call from Gaza – New Zealand government must speak out urgently!
The Palestine Solidarity network Aotearoa has renewed its urgent appeal to the government to act in the face of a distress call issued from Gaza’s Ministry of Health to the world to provide laboratory testing materials for Coronaviruus which will run out this evening (today NZ time) at Gaza’s central laboratory.
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Crisis capitalism is on the move and it’s not going to be pretty
Big business is dead keen to get us all back to “business as usual” in quick time with the government priority to put the corporate sector first. We must resist this, not only for our own personal and community health, but also because there is no intention to shift from a business as usual agenda.