GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – ANOTHER CORRECTIONS F… UP THAT COULD HAVE COST LIVES
This was a crazed killer, with nothing to lose loose in a public hospital, with no handcuffs.
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GUEST BLOG: David Macpherson – Mental Health facilities – poor care, avoided responsibility & side-stepped accountability
David Macpherson is TDB’s mental health blogger. He became involved in mental health rights after the mental health system allowed his son to die. He is now a Waikato DHB Member-elect.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – What Corrections aren’t telling the public about Phillip Smith
You will probably recall lifer Phillip Smith escaping to Brazil on 6.11.2014. That escape deeply embarassed Corrections senior management and their minister Sam Lotu – Iga.
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EXCLUSIVE: Whaleoil & Wahhabism — a perfect marriage
Perhaps, if the Muslim community gets its house in order, the Wahhabi sect can be attracted back towards a positive, active Muslim community.
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – The International Monsanto Tribunal
They came from all over the globe: Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, North and South America. Farmers, farm-workers, consumers, indigenous people gathered at The Hague in October of this year to testify at the International Monsanto Tribunal.
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GUEST BLOG: John Stroh – Learning from History and what it really means to “AVOID AMERICA”
It’s a good line, ‘’we should learn from History”, but what if there’s no-one willing or able to help us learn. What if the teachers have been trained by those who would have us cow-tow to American commercial interests and the world’s leading neo-liberal power structures?
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GUEST BLOG: Tina Ngata – New allegations of Police intimidation against Maori and Pacific Women
If ever we needed proof that New Zealand is a racist totalitarian police state – it was handed to us (and delivered by chopper), last Thursday, at Mission Bay Auckland.
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GUEST BLOG: Kelvin Smythe – Worst minister of education ever: fool or abomination?
The question should be: How can we help teachers help children, all children, better? And the answers are nothing like that top-down, bureaucratic rubbish inflicted on schools. And I think Hekia knows that, but you see, her agenda deep down is really to dismantle public education with the children contingent to that and especially the children of the poor.
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GUEST BLOG: Ruby Joy – Open Letter to Pastor Brian about Bishop Brian
I asked you for help a long time ago as a ratty little 13 year old and you put your big strong hand on my small weary one and told me it would be OK, you told me to come back anytime and ask for pastor Brian if I ever needed help.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Another woman left rotting in prison
Anne is in her fifties, a first offender and in jail for drugs. She has been up to the parole board three times and been turned down, because she “hasn’t done programs”.