The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 21st March 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Most Recent Blogs
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Sellman v Slater No 7 [2019] NZHC 467
The High Court awards almost $25,000 of costs to three medical professionals for succeeding in interlocutory applications in their defamation…
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The SIS & GCSB combined budget for last year was $230m – how come they didn’t see a white supremacist plotting an atrocity?
I’m sick of hearing ‘he wasn’t on our radar’ the fucking radar wasn’t switched on!
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Public meeting in Christchurch this Sunday, about public media and social media.
What’s going on with media in New Zealand?
Is Facebook out of control?
Can social media be a public service? -
Political Caption Competition
If this is how redneck Australians respond to an egg, how will they freak out when they hear about books?
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Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: This week – The horror of the atrocity in Christchurch
Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: This week – The horror of the atrocity in Christchurch
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Wednesday 20th March 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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On the trial, on the failure of our intelligence agencies & on the blame game
Wanting to censor the trial or hide his words is a natural response but we are being tested globally and our justice system is strong and our values deeper than his sophistry of hate. We have nothing to fear standing in the light and dragging him into it. In fact, it’s our obligation to do so.
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This is not us
Stories of Muslim women being yelled at to go back to their countries continue to emerge. Posts online of people yelling at ‘dark-skinned’ individuals cheering at this despicable act of last week surface. And this is just the outward manifestation of the racism in NZ. It has been insidious for years. The term unconscious bias is the nice, polite way to describe the way in which the brain reacts to difference. And in the main, difference is the colour of your skin and gender. That difference is picked up by the eye immediately and it feeds that information directly to the brain. Then judgements are made about who is in, and who is out.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 19th March 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.