GUEST BLOG: Hone Hararwira – Israel doesn’t want you to see this
Whenever a dictatorship says “don’t show this” we have an obligation to show it far and wide …
Guest Blogs & Sponsored Posts
Guest and sponsored opinion pieces published on The Daily Blog, offering diverse perspectives within clear editorial guidelines.
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GUEST BLOG: Philip Patston – The difference between free speech and hate speech
This morning, I saw at least two tweets denouncing the disallowing of conservative rhetoric and hate speech, citing media attention as a reason to turn a blind eye to this kind of right-wing propaganda masked as “free speech”.
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GUEST BLOG: Hone Harawira – AMAZON and THOR!!
Went out last night … and got jumped by AMAZON and THOR!!
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – My cell block at Waikeria
Note I am a 62 year old Low Security Inmate, so it’s illegal to keep me here, but Corrections is getting desperate as it ramps up its retaliation to my High Court “double bunking” challenge.
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GUEST BLOG: Hadley Grace Robinson-Lewis – Interview with Ari
Ari is a resilient, strong, beautiful, intelligent and kind transgender young woman who has faced many adversaries throughout her transition to her preferred gender. Ari has lived an incredible life resulting in a high level of maturity and an authentic view of the world we live in today. I admire Ari’s strength and transparency so I decided to approach her for an interview!
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Domestic violence survivors’ leave attacked as ‘too generous’
We were elected to make change, and we make no apologies for that. After nine years of obscene underfunding of almost every public service and infrastructure in the land, this Government is dedicated to implementing real change, not a shallow con job of change.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Double Bunking leads to more crime, not less
This is from a statement given in his cell by an inmate to a lawyer, who has taken it up with prison management and Ministers . This supposedly occurred over a board game by an inmate who wasn’t taking his anti psychotic medication .
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GUEST BLOG: Tony Stevens – A Healthy Workplace
In New Zealand, across the world, the cultural response to mental health in the workplace is troubling. Broadly there’s been a lot of progress tackling the mental health stigma in recent years, but workplaces have not caught up to the important discussions happening in wider society.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – The Helsinki Deal and the American Empire
There is a lot of confusion about Trump’s behavior in Helsinki. Is he crazy, a traitor, or dupe of Putin? Nah. It’s not that hard. It’s still about the Great Game for Eurasia. Trump is picking a fight with China which is the main economic threat to US imperialism. China has said it will ignore the sanctions on Iran. Trump wants to test the loyalty of Putin to Xi in the hope of weakening the China/Russia bloc. He wants a new deal.
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GUEST BLOG: Mike Lee – Goff’s ‘Toilet Tax’ – Auckland’s ‘winter of discontent’ set to continue
Just one week after the imposition of the council’s regressive fuel tax and a bunch of new targeted rates, came the disclosure in the NZ Herald that mayor Phil Goff has been planning ways to impose a so-called ‘Toilet Tax’ on the ratepayers of Auckland.