The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday – 28th June 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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Student loans are contributing to growing inequality – Tertiary Education Union
Tertiary Education Union
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Top 10 percent of households have half of total net worth – Statistics NZ
Household net worth The average New Zealand household was worth $289,000 in the year to June 2015, Statistics New Zealand…
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NZ’s shocking level of child rape – Stop Demand
Call on Government and Children’s Commissioner to prioritise child rape. Stop Demand Foundation, which calls for action to stop sexual…
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Park-up in Wellington – People speaking against the scourge of homelessness
Wellington, NZ, 26 June – It was a cold and stormy rainy night… No, really, it was – cold, wet, and miserable. The kind of night that a growing number of homeless people – including families – are having to put up with regularly in once-egalitarian Aotearoa-New Zealand.
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John Key – we will not be held to ransom!
When news of the kidnapping of Australians and a New Zealand citizen in Nigeria hit our headlines, our esteemed Dear Leader’s response was unequivocal;
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The Brexit Vote: The Painful Price of Inequality
My Facebook home page is awash with post-Brexit expressions of disbelief and horror. So many people appear aghast at the stupidity of the Britons who voted for a possible mass economic suicide.
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – Controlling Water, Controlling Life
All water supplies are controlled by the Israelis, including West Bank mountain aquifer water which by international law should be a Palestinian resource. Practising ‘hydrological apartheid’ , control of water is used as weapon to drive Palestinians off the land, and if not to another country then into squeezed isolated miserable ‘bantustans’.
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Cannabis conversation at the Auckland Town Hall 7pm Monday June 27th
Cannabis is always in the news and it seems like we’ve been talking about cannabis law reform forever – to the point where the most interesting thing about cannabis is why the law wasn’t changed years ago.
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