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Last Thursday, Auckland CBDs tarmac roads swelled under the heat and weight of mass protest, roaming blockades and restless collective energy. An estimated 20,000 took to the streets in opposition to the signing of the TPPA.
In past centuries when a country coveted anothers’ resources, and wanted to subjugate that country’s interests to its own, it might have used, or threatened to use force. That is what wars were all about.
So where does one begin with a first stab at becoming a leftie political blogger in the current local and…
“ this is nothing unusual Arthur. This is cronyism and is rife and if you are connected , you will get ‘favourable’ treatment”.
Q+A with activist Josie Butler
It’s no surprise to Marxists that the TPPA ‘Treaty’ is a fraud. It signifies the continuation of the NZ’s colonial history from the first Treaty signed in 1840, the original fraud.
Something that anyone who knows me, and who knows anything about my politics, no doubt finds surprising is the fact that I am opposed to the controversial TPPA.
It’s ironic then that aggressively controlling funding has become such an entrenched and consistent way for this Government, John Key’s Government, to silence dissent in the NGO and academic sectors.
Tourettes is one of NZs best poets
Politicians, journalists and commentators who cannot understand why the TPPA marks the end of bipartisan support for similar international commerce agreements have missed the crucial point.