Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
I will fight tirelessly to get cannabis reform in this nation not just because prohibition is a failure, not just because locking people up doesn’t work, not just because it provides economic progress, but because I also believe we as a people need desperately to get stoned.
If Labour in Opposition had announced something this empty, the mainstream media would be destroying them and screaming ‘Labour are not ready for Government’, yet National pull this stunt and the crickets are chirping.
Family First are the far right Christian pressure group who are currently running campaigns against the Cannabis referendum. Previously they were all about the legal right to beat the fear of God into children, now they are the moral custodians trying to kill off the cannabis debate.
Screw writing new donations laws, or enforcing the joke ones we have now – they don’t work! We need public funding of political parties NOW to stop those with wealth from influencing our policy!
This is a terrifying indictment on public education in this country.
As the father of a daughter, I would be outraged if after choosing to wear shorts or pants my daughter had to see the bloody counsellor for a discussion on what anyone else thinks!
The question isn’t can Bernie beat Trump, he can and will, the question is will the corporate interests who control the Democrats allow Bernie to be the candidate?
We all want justice for this little boy, we all need to know that the person or persons who conducted such violence are punished and removed from the possibility of doing this again. To feel otherwise would be not human.
BUT.
We must temper such anger with a deep respect for civil rights.
We all have righteous grievance with the pitiful gains made under this Government, but they are made against the backdrop of nearly a decade of underfunding. They deserve a second term to try and implement the transformational change promised, but that second term is going to be bitterly fought and won.