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80 years before the birth of Jesus there was a murder trial in Rome.

You may have heard Paul Goldsmith making claims about the number of jobs created so far from the Provincial Growth fund, not to mention how we need four lane highways up North rather than Maori land development and job creation investment.

After six days of striking and mass mobilizations in the streets, Los Angeles teachers, joined on the picket lines and demonstrations by parents and students, won an important victory: holding the line against further privatization of the public schools.

As we reflect on what the Treaty of 1840 means for New Zealanders today it is worth remembering what this first Treaty actually promised – because over the last 30 years a succession of neoliberal governments have entered international trade treaties willfully ignoring the intent and spirit of our very first New Zealand Treaty .

Is the word “handout” reserved for the Provincial Growth Fund, Maori and Beneficiaries by the NZ Herald, Newstalk ZB and Mike Hosking?

There is an enormous amount of online anger about Don Brash speaking at Waitangi this year. On July 2017, I gave a speech at the very same Rotary Club Don Brash gave his infamous Orewa Speech at. 

This is how we should respond to Brash.

Weeks after New Zealand voted in favour of the United Nations Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, a supposed grand protest against it took place.

No-one can be ignorant of the rapid rise of these two movements. But few will recognise in their spontaneous eruption why they are the beginnings of a social revolution against capital. 

Who owns our freshwater? And who, if anyone,should have the right to sell it ? Two questions we are ignoring at our peril.