In the Interests of Democracy – AUSA + The Daily Blog presents the ‘Anti-Debate’ – 7pm Monday 26th
The mainstream media continue to allow 3 white men plus 1 woman represent the entire vision for Auckland City.
Most Recent Blogs
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AUSA hosts ‘Anti-Debate’ for excluded mayoral candidates
Auckland University Students’ Association (AUSA) is providing a platform for some of the less well known candidates for the Auckland Mayoralty to get their ideas heard.
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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Friday 9th September 2016
5: Obama administration offered $115bn in weapons to Saudi Arabia: report
4: Hillary Clinton’s National Security Advisors Are a “Who’s Who” of the Warfare State
3: Turkey suspends 11,000 teachers for suspected PKK links
2: Dakota Access Pipeline Co. Attacks Native Americans with Dogs & Pepper Spray
1: One in Ten Young Aboriginal Men Rate Their Happiness at Zero -
Political Caption Competition
The new Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
“The Corporate Military Industrial Neoliberal Warlord I presume”?
“The Corrupt Gangster State KGB sadist I believe”? -
The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 9th September 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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The new laws to make protestors terrorists
The speed with which the National Party have conned the sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind to just hand over their civil rights is truly astonishing.
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Waitakere Licensing Trust could regulate cannabis like alcohol
New Zealand’s Liquor Licensing Trusts are a hangover from the days of prohibition and the temperance movement but provide a possible template for cannabis law reform.
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EXCLUSIVE: Jane Kelsey – Why you must rally against the TPPA this Saturday
Rallies for Democracy that will be held around this country on Saturday 10th September, which link the TPPA to climate action, te Tiriti o Waitangi, social justice and workers’ rights, are the latest manifestation of that disquiet.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Macpherson – There’s a fair bit of money to be made in mental health (or how the system is designed to defeat the ‘little people’)….
As the various lawyers and other legal types have jostled over the preliminaries ahead of the inquest into our son’s death while in the care of Waikato DHB 18 months ago, I’ve reflected on what a lucrative business mental health can be – for some.
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Why leaving Chlöe Swarbrick out of the Mayoralty debates robs media of any credibility
If all RNZ and The Nation can muster is a regurgitation of vested interests from a bunch of candidates whose positions are well entrenched, then what’s the point of doing the debates in the first place?