The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 23rd July 2017
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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Can we all pause and appreciate the counter productive madness of synthetic cannabis?
These 7 deaths in one month from synthetic cannabis is a failure of social policy. We either decide to have an adult discussion about drugs or we continue with the bullshit denial that is killing and maiming so many.
Wake up NZ.
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National Party Voters: An electorate or a cult? Understanding the viciousness spat at Metiria
As a small country, we have mistaken NZ as an equal country where people can freely move up through the social strata. I would suggest to you that statistic of 70% of National voters not knowing anyone unemployed actually shows that we are a highly segregated culture.
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Sins Of Admission – critiquing John Armstrong’s attack on Metiria
Metiria is guilty of a crime – but not the one John Armstrong rails against. Her transgression was to break ranks with the socio-political formation that has kept Richardson’s and Shipley’s welfare cuts bleeding and raw for more than quarter-of-a-century.
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A Political Review of Constant Radical – the Life and Times of Sue Bradford
Global politics is in a state of change. Old orthodoxies are breaking down, and new projects are rising to challenge the status quo. These challenges come from both the left and right. While NZ hasn’t felt the same rupture as we have seen with Jeremy Corbyn, Bernie Sanders or Podemos in Spain, the global resurgence of left-wing politics is echoing here as well.
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Political Caption Competition
Family First conference hosts surprise guest
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 22nd July 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Press Release by Kim Dotcom
You all know that, five years ago, the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) broke the law and secretly intercepted my…
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21st July is Robin Williams Birthday – let’s always remember this
The 21st of July is Robin Williams Birthday. He died on August 2011 and there isn’t a week that passes where…
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Schools before tunnel – Greg O’Connor
“While having lanes in the Ngauranga Gorge closed for several hours this week was inconvenient, and highlighted the need for…