GUEST BLOG: Martin and Lois Griffiths – ARREST THAT CLOWN!
April 17 was Palestinian Prisoners day.
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GUEST BLOG: IAG/STATE INSURANCE WINS 2015 ROGER AWARD Serco Second; Bunnings Third
The six finalists for the 2015 Roger Award for the Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand were, in alphabetical order:
Apple
Bunnings
IAG/State Insurance
MediaWorks
Serco
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GUEST BLOG: Alex Pirie – May the Thirst for Social Justice and Equality be the Saving Grace of Humanity
Today many around the world celebrate May Day, International Workers’ Day. In New Zealand we don’t commemorate it officially, we have Labour Day in October to serve this purpose.
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MUST READ GUEST BLOG: Darien Fenton – A chilling move from New Zealand’s most notorious company?
Social media has become a means of workers talking to each other and organising around their issues and disputes, but…
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GUEST BLOG: Comrade Dave Brownz – No Future for Capitalist Work
The impact of automation was predicted by Karl Marx around the time Aotearoa was being invaded by people with horses and carts.
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GUEST BLOG: Ruby Joy – A place to belong
I grew up in church and consider myself to be a Christian yet finding a church that resembles anything I…
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GUEST BLOG: Vanessa Kururangi – There was an Old Woman who lived in a Shoebox, and other State Home stories…
There are good people here in Merivale. People who are resilient and proud and all embracing. They take you as you come and expect nothing in return besides the acceptance of who they are – loyal, passionate, and intimately connected to their community. I move amongst these people. I have come to know them well and they bring colour and light to my World.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Macpherson – Health Minister auditions for Nero role while mental health services collapse around him….
The call for an “urgent nationwide enquiry into mental health services” by Green Party Health spokesperson Kevin Hague comes 13 months after the death of our son, Nicky Stevens, while in the ‘care’ of Waikato DHB – and 20 years after the second Mason Report into NZ’s antiquated mental health services.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – sewage floods NZ prison
The computer room got flooded with sewage overnight from the toilets , so no education classes. Ditto for the indoor recreation area, passage to the outdoor recreation area, outside the kitchen serving hatch, laundry room and PCO Phil Cullen’s office
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GUEST BLOG: Comrade Dave Brownz – Dr Marx on the myth of “fair shares”
The global rich have been caught with their blind trusts exposed and this is supposed to tell us something, but what?