An open letter to Lorde
Dear Lorde, your decision will make a difference. Please stand on the side of justice.
In the wise words of Desmond Tutu: “If you are neutral in situation of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor”.
Donna Miles
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Why Trump’s misnaming of the Persian Gulf has angered Iranians
It was not the decision to decertify the Iran’s nuclear deal that has left most ordinary Iranians incensed but the US President’s misnaming of the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf. Many Iranians have taken to the social media to express their rage and disappointment at the President’s failure to refer to the Persian Gulf by its proper name.
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Gareth Morgan’s TOP: My Hopes and Doubts
Although I remain interested in TOP’s policies and hopeful about their prospects in the upcoming general election, I am not without my doubts.
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Child Poverty: Facebook Post Shows The Nats Don’t Care
Maybe, the real problem is that privileged Young Nats have bought into the myth of meritocracy, believing that they own their successes and, by extension, the poor should own their failures.
This cruel point of view completely disregards the cognitive ability and the circumstances that people are born into and the fact that most children born poor will remain poor and most people born rich will remain rich.
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Squatting statute of the Environment Minister Nick Smith is protest art at its best
Seven years on, Environment Canterbury (Ecan) is yet to return to full democracy but surely its chief executive Bill Bayfield can at least pretend democracy matters by not rejecting an artistic expression of a legitimate protest.
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White Wednesdays: an emerging resistance of Iranian women against the compulsory hijab
A new campaign designed to challenge the compulsory hijab law in Iran is encouraging women to show their support by wearing white headscarves in public every Wednesday.
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Iran’s democracy is a sham but here is why I voted in the Presidential Election
My friend and I cast our votes for the Iranian Presidential Election in Christchurch last Friday knowing full well the election was effectively rigged in advance by unelected clerics who had decided who could and couldn’t run.
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Commission gets it right by declining NZME/Fairfax merger
This week New Zealand Commerce Commission released its final decision to refuse the proposed merger of two of the countries biggest newspaper networks: NZME and Fairfax. This is a decision worth celebrating, as the proposed merger would have seriously weakened an already diluted quality of news and diversity of voices in New Zealand media.
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How to sabotage bad politicking
Appealing to the voters’ emotions, rather than their heads, is exactly what is wrong with politics today. Just think John Key, Brexit and Trump!
Good politicking is about demonstrating, clearly, how policies are actually going to make meaningful differences to the citizens’ wellbeing.
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In defence of Gareth Morgan’s TOP – a response to Chris Trotter
I think TOP is worth paying attention to and here are my main reasons: