The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 20th February 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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GUEST BLOG: Paul (the bloke The Standard banned for 3 years) – Fake news
Do the mainstream media think we’ve forgotten the fake news about the Kuwaiti girl Nayirah who claimed to have seen Iraqi soldiers taking babies out of incubators during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait? You know, when they repeated the lies of Bush Senior get the US population to accept the invasion of Iraq.
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GUEST BLOG: Alex Birchall – Identity Politics is a Class Politics
Around the world, but very prominently in New Zealand, the turn away from class politics to identity politics as the principal organisational form of the Left occurred just as the social democratic compromise was undone and inequality began to rise again. Unlike class politics, which unites workers of all colours, genders, and sexualities to oppose capitalism, identity politics was not able to deal with this reconsolidation of power by the capitalist and new financial elite.
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GUEST BLOG: Tina Ngata – A Crook By Any Other Name: Celebrating Cook
Well there goes another February 14th. Evenings of whimsical sighs, chinking champagne glasses, and adoring compliments across the Pacific as indigenous folks send their thanks out to the Hawaiian cousins that took care of business, and finally put an end to the diseased, kidnapping, murderous, thieving invader called Captain James Cook.
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ALRANZ Poll Shows NZ is Pro-Choice
A majority of New Zealanders support abortion on request, proving our outdated laws need urgent reform, ALRANZ Abortion Rights Aotearoa…
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E tū: WINZ breaching privacy laws with WINZ vetting rules
E tū, the union for security guards, says WINZ may be breaching privacy laws with its new screening process for…
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Journalism as it plays out on the ‘real’ human rights frontlines
The inaugural Pogau Award for courage in journalism: “Every year this award will always remind us about the human rights abuses never addressed in Indonesia since the 1965 massacre.”
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Must see TV: Al Jazeera’s “Up Front”
. . On Al Jazeera’s current affairs programme, “Up Front“; New York University history professor and expert on fascism Ruth…
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The People’s Commission into Public Broadcasting? Only if you define ‘the People’ as self interested lobby groups
If this was a serious attempt to look at what has gone wrong in NZ Broadcasting and wasn’t just some lobby group dressed up as the ‘concerns of the People’ trying to fund their own blogs you would have Dr Wayne Hope, Brian Edwards, Mihingarangi Forbes, Dr Peter Thompson, Dr David Robbie, Dr Gavin Ellis and the brilliant Dr Merja Myllylahti involved.
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Green Party Members Special: Ranking the top 20 Green Party candidates
If you are a Green Party Member, this 2017 candidate party list selection is the most important thing you can do to make NZ a better place. Make your selections and get the list returned asap.