Dr Liz Gordon: Get those prisons reformed!
There has been a lot of media over the past week focussed on the need to improve the prisons. I must say that I have been disturbed by Kelvin Davis’ ‘blame the victim’ stance.
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If the strategy is counting on human nature as your barrier to stopping the spread of the pandemic you are doomed to fail.
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Political Caption Competition
Th quick red dragon jumps over the lazy white kiwi.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday – 1st March 2021
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Aucklanders Know What To Do To Beat COVID-19, Mayor Goff Says
Another cased of COVID-19 in the community was not the news anyone wanted to hear on a Saturday evening, Mayor…
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Waatea News Column: Kelvin Davis has another terrible day at the office
I am honestly not sure who is advising Minister Kelvin Davis, but his surprising decision this week to attack People Against Prisons Aotearoa (PAPA) and refer their pamphlets calling on prison reform to the Police for supposedly inciting the prison riot at Waikeria prison is such a desperately wrong footed move one is left wondering what on earth he thinks he’s doing.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday – 28th February 2021
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Biden starts bombing – welcome back the American Military Industrial Complex
It’s the America we love, it’s the America we know.
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Free Speech Coalition files complaint against AT Employee
The Free Speech Coalition has laid a complaint against AT’s Senior Communications Interface Advisor, John Nottage, for his defamatory, and…