Dear young people of New Zealand – strike, strike and strike again!
Bless you young people for shaming us.
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School Climate Strike: The biggest challenge is to make democracy work
I am encouraging my son to miss a day at school because learning how to goad politicians and corporations to act is a very useful education in itself and possibly the only effective method to fight the climate change.
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Unions Wellington: students on strike are fighting for all of us
The Wellington Local Affiliates Council of the New Zealand trade union movement offers its full support to school students walking…
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Youth union movement supports School Strike 4 Climate
Stand Up, New Zealand’s youth union movement, supports the School Strike 4 Climate taking place on Friday 15 March and…
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MUST READ: Listening To Kate Raworth On Nine To Noon
It is a tragedy that in the eighteen months this government has been in office there’s been so little evidence of the renegade economics made popular by writers like Raworth. The Finance Minister, Grant Robertson, schooled by his mentor – the former Finance Minister, Sir Michael Cullen – is a ploddingly orthodox economic manager. The economic settings he has chosen to steer by, being virtually identical to those the previous National Government chose to steer by, will inevitably deliver New Zealand to a very similar destination.
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Political Caption Competition
When you ask a question you contribute to
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 15th 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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Donna Awatere Huata dismantles Duncan Garner’s climate denial on The AM Show
Since the student strike against climate change apathy was announced, Duncan Garner and his sidekicks have been shitting on the students and writing them off as a joke.
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James Shaw assaulted in public – a sudden political chill on a Summer day
…let’s hope this is some dreadful random violence by a disturbed person as opposed to a targeted political attack – the former is depressing, the latter terrifying.
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By Other Means
When the US Government warned the rest of the world that, when it comes to securing regime change in Venezuela, “nothing is off the table”, most observers assumed it was talking about some form of military intervention. (An impression encouraged by a video-clip of National Security Advisor John Bolton’s hand-scrawled aide memoire “5,000 troops”.)