GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Prison seizes Church for SWAT team
Sunday morning and 11 inmates are off to church ( out of 48 in the unit ), some clutching bibles .
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Aleppo between barbarism and socialism
The military strategy is always to use the masses blood to advance the negotiating strength of this or that bourgeois faction to win the franchise to act as the gendarmes of imperialism. The blood of the Syrian people are bargaining chips for this or that client state.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Macpherson: MENTAL HEALTH – The Emperor is naked and the ‘peasants’ are starting to revolt.
National’s political radar has been noticeably out of synch in a number of high profile areas recently (what Housing Crisis?; what Tax Haven?), and another that is more stealthily creeping up on them is the growing damage that well-publicised calamities in the mental health sector are causing to their well-cultivated image of being on top of health issues.
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GUEST BLOG: Alex Pirie – We Are Not Robots
I am not saying that constructive criticism is not a valuable and important tool when work is not up to standard or when improvement in performance is necessary. However, we are not all the same. We respond to different motivators and triggers.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – More prison suicides & celebrating 60th Birthday inside
I note in recent weeks Prison Directors in Christchurch and Invercargill have acknowledged individual suicides in their prisons after family pressure.
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GUEST BLOG: Danyl Strypey Bruce – Culture is Not Property
There has been a lot of discussion lately here in Ōtepoti about something called “cultural appropriation”. It first came to my attention when a well-meaning friend starting objecting to our plan to have a “Gypsy Party” as part of a local festival, with Eastern European and Arabic influenced music, a performance by our local belly dancer troupe, and decoration to fit the theme.
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GUEST BLOG: Alan Johnson – $1 billion infrastructure fund merely subsidises speculators
John Key’s announcement of his Government’s $1 billion infrastructure investment fund is a brilliant political gesture but as with everything else this Government has done with housing it won’t provide any affordable housing.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Prison Suicide Stats
It’s an alarming statistic and I can well believe it .
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GUEST BLOG: Comrade Dave Brownz – Last Exit before the Revolution
My position on Brexit was that workers should have abstained in a dispute between their bosses over how to make workers pay for their crisis.
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GUEST BLOG: Maire Leadbeater – West Papua: Human rights abuses cannot be hidden
The Indonesian Government has developed strategies for avoiding international criticism over its appalling human rights record in West Papua. One strategy is to keep the outside world out and ensure that approved visitors such as journalists and diplomats are carefully guided and get to meet with the ‘right’ people.