The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 27th October 2016
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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So why are the NZ Police taking a sudden interest in Euthanasia campaigners?
Targeting Euthanasia campaigners is a training exercise as our Police State starts flexing its new found muscles.
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Board Games: Can Phil Goff really make Auckland Transport “accountable”?
PHIL GOFF has declined to reappoint Councillors Mike Lee and Christine Fletcher to Auckland Transport’s (AT) Board of Directors. Auckland’s new mayor is unconvinced that councillor directors are the solution to the city’s Council Controlled Organisations’ (CCOs) alleged unaccountability.
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Calling time on Trojan horse treaties
If you’re concerned about the TPPA, there is even worse to come. TiSA is a new trade deal that would leave citizens powerless to set the rules about what big multinational corporations can do in our communities and workplaces.
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Beware automatic cost cuts that harm children, says CPAG
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) says it comes has no surprise that Government’s books show a much bigger surplus –…
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City of Peace to Host War Games
The naval training exercises are nothing more than a chance for the boys to show each other their toys. There is an inherent dishonesty and double standard when we can, as a nation, simultaneously celebrate war and bemoan the death and suffering that result from it.
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Will Black Friday haunt Wall St in 2016?
Apple collapsing almost 2.5% in extended trading post their uninspiring results at a time when the stock market is looking to burst is grim on the eve of Black Friday.
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GUEST BLOG: Ben Peterson – Governments cant organise workers, only unions can
2016 has been another year of decreasing membership for the Union movement in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Many Unionists will blame this on an anti-worker government. It is true that the Key is government has had a pro-business agenda. But to focus on government as the defining challenge of the union movement can be unhelpful
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GUEST BLOG: Dr David Small – NZ Spy Agencies – Holding Them To Account 3 part Special – Part 3
The NZ Intelligence and Security Bill is the culmination of twenty years of increases in the powers of NZ’s spy agencies. It gives them everything they could hope for. The Bill radically broadens the focus of the SIS and the GCSB so they can run operations on almost anything. It allows them to do literally anything to advance on operation or to cover it up. It allows them to co-opt anybody else into an operation. And it grants immunity from prosecution to everyone involved.
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Pastry House workers to strike over low-ball pay offer – E tū’
Workers at Pastry House in Manukau City are taking strike action over a mean pay offer as well as a…