Pike footage raises questions over government’s actions – Labour Party
The Government’s seeming determination to turn a blind eye to new questions about what happened at Pike River Mine is…
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Zionism’s slow demise
The silence from Israeli politicians over settler attacks on the Zionist state’s armed forces is but one aspect of profound historic developments that Israel and its founding ideology now face.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 12th August 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Can we pause and consider what just happened to Metiria back there?
Metiria’s crime was not that she had told the truth about needing to game the draconian neoliberal welfare system, but that she had the audacity to tell her story with her chin up in defiance at the injustice of that system rather than the self-shaming we all demand from anything that is attached to the virgin sacrificing sacredness of ‘taxpayer money’.
In NZ we accept the dignity of the broken, but never the dignity of the resistant.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 11th August 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Pike families: “We need answers!”
New video shown tonight show the urgent need to recover the drift and secure evidence and remains say Pike RIver…
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Solution to rent rises lies in building houses and stopping speculators – Labour Party
The spread of rental increases from the big cities to the surrounding regions shows why we need to get on…
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E tū: Government lacks support for pay equity bill
E tū says the government will face strong opposition to its Employment (Pay Equity and Equal Pay) Bill which had…
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The hypocrisy, vindictiveness and viciousness of the far right against Metiria was stunning
The hypocrisy, vindictiveness and viciousness of the far right was stunning if not surprising. They think they own the poor, that those on a benefit must account to them, and they cannot tolerate the poor retaining any dignity. And that is why they pounced so hard on Metiria.
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A vile media pack forced Metiria out
I’m utterly dismayed that Metiria Turei has been forced out of the co-leadership of the Greens by a vile media pack determined to seize the opportunity of Metiria’s personal struggle to drive down the Greens.