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Why Opponents of the TPPA Should Peacefully Blockade on Feb. 4th

Despite a clear majority of the New Zealand public being opposed to the TPPA, John Key is set to sign the trade deal in Auckland on the 4th of February at SkyCity casino. This is an outrage, and a challenge.

Last week my flatmates friend was involved in a serious domestic violence incident, so serious that that she was assaulted with a rock, chased and then hit by a car which crushed her against a large tree causing serious injuries to her legs requiring hospital treatment.

Since I began renting in 1995, average rents have doubled in most parts of the country, and tripled in the most in-demand areas of Tamaki Makaurau, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, and so on. This has been accompanied by massive increases in the cost of electricity, telecommunications, water charges in some areas, and other costs associated with running a modern household.

There is a big debate, including on TDB, on the bias of the corporate media, and the need for an independent media to correct this bias. Marxists have long debated the role of media in capitalist society, so what do they have to add on top of the usual corporate blah blah and radical alternative arguments?

Young and mostly male, the New Lynn homeless are a visible part part of the bigger tragedy of high youth unemployment. If you are under 25 you are twice as likely to be out of a job. If you are young, brown and male, make that at least four times.

West Papua has been under a brutal occupation by Indonesia for over fifty years. This article tries to explain why this is, and why so few people know about it. In order to understand why, we must understand the lies of the media, and of our educational system.

The campaign against the TPPA is gearing up for opposition to the planned signing of the TPPA in Auckland on 4th February. It’s time to stand up and be counted.

Last week I sent this email (see below, in quotes) to the news directors of Radio NZ programs: Morning Report, Nine-to-Noon, Kim Hill and also to several MPs. I am not surprised to receive no reply from anyone.

The institutionalised lying, the organization for cheating, and in this case, the endemic bullying – it’s the system stupid.