GUEST BLOG: Hone Harawira – Blaming black boys for a white boy massacre
You been watching the media beat-up on the gangs refusing to hand over their guns after the massacre in Christchurch last month? Here’s the real background to the story.
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GUEST BLOG: Maire Leadbeater – Reflecting on Bougainville and ‘Soldiers without Guns’
The new movie ‘Soldiers without Guns’ does a fabulous job of telling the story of New Zealand’s ground-breaking unarmed Truce Monitoring Group 1997-1998. No guns can be a safer and more effective option than the alternative. The movie is a fitting tribute to the courage and the sensitivity of the soldiers who broke down barriers through the medium of indigenous cultural exchanges.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – The mother of a nation speaks like a hollow Tory
Who better to tell us all about why Meghan Markel is not up to the job, or the insufferable difficulty experienced by the impossibly wealthy when finding a suitable multi million dollar rental in Auckland, or even just how Jacinda should fuck off if she wants to.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – 100% support for Post Graduate Students
It was absolutely stupid of National to deprive post graduates of their allowances and thereby robbing many students of the ability to finish these high level but long duration courses.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Priorities eight days after the massacre
The whole of New Zealand was in shock between 15th March and 23rd March.
These eight days were like no other really in recent history, as 50 of us were murdered in cold blood, mowed down in a place of worship and dozens were critically injured, paralysed or maimed.
This included young children.
What better time to ask New Zealanders about the priorities of the government and Business New Zealand saw it’s chance regarding the Capital Gains Tax.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Fighting the theft of our water
Just a note to say thank you to the readers of my page who collectively contributed $1520 yesterday to the campaign to fight the massive Chinese water bottling plant proposed for Otakiri in the Bay Of Plenty.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – Turkey sends example of self respect to NATO States.
These American threats, emanate from the Land of the Free with such banality that few if any, take any notice any more, of the bluster and bullshit emanating from the self-proclaimed World Policeman.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Using Shane as a wedge
A dedicated team of propaganda writers don’t stop just because they have been censured and fined by the broadcasting standards association.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Help the little guys fight the big guys
Creswell NZ sounds like a New Zealand owned company doesn’t it?It’s not. In fact it is owned by Nongfu Spring Co., Ltd a massive Chinese bottling company and last year our Government allowed them to buy the land to build a massive 16,800m2 water bottling mega-plant at Otakiri in the Bay of Plenty .
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – The Very, Very Slow Fix
In the week of the 2011 election TV3 chose to screen my documentary INSIDE CHILD POVERTY. The immediate reaction from right wing commentators was that I was a baised leftist journalist. I was making making a mountain out of a molehill. There was no such thing as “Child Poverty” the term made no sense.