In Chile, Catalonia, Hong Kong and Lebanon and beyond, and across the western world, millions of citizens have increasingly taken to the streets to protest racist policies and policing, inequality, draconian laws, punitive fare / cost-of-living increases and environmental catastrophe that are the manifestations of the pathologies of our times.
National Party Climate Change Spokesperson – Scott Simpson
Leader of TOP – Geoff Simmons
School Strike 4 Climate Auckland coordinator – Luke Wijohn
Magic Talk Host – Peter Williams
Yesterday was Labour Day – the Public Holiday set aside to celebrate the rights of workers and in particular the right to an 8 hour working day.The great irony is that like many New Zealanders I am working today because I’m a contractor and not an employee with rights to holiday pay.
You heard the President, he wants a bucket of KFC now!
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Labour Day became a national holiday in New Zealand in 1899. It was to commemorate and celebrate the rise of worker powers and how the earliest Pakeha settlers coming to New Zealand fought to create a fair balance of power between the boss and the worker.
Oh! how that song takes me back to the 1960s, when my friend’s parents used to include me in their holidays, due to my own family’s catastrophic breakdown. On our drive down to West Wittering (I am not making this up) we would sing our hearts out in the car.
That look you have as you are struggling to hide that you have been bitten by the Zombie virus as it pumps through your veins.
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As part of her defence for giving Pan Pac a free ride for 3 years to buy up to 20,000 hectares of NZ land Minister Sage was reported by RNZ as saying ” Pan Pac had been in New Zealand since the 1970s, was a large exporter of quality timber and needed to secure its wood supply.” also” They’ve got a long standing reputation in New Zealand.”