The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 19th January 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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GUEST BLOG: Comrade Dave Brownz – Mediating Marx
There is a big debate, including on TDB, on the bias of the corporate media, and the need for an independent media to correct this bias. Marxists have long debated the role of media in capitalist society, so what do they have to add on top of the usual corporate blah blah and radical alternative arguments?
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GUEST BLOG: David Cunliffe – In a land of plenty
Young and mostly male, the New Lynn homeless are a visible part part of the bigger tragedy of high youth unemployment. If you are under 25 you are twice as likely to be out of a job. If you are young, brown and male, make that at least four times.
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Third Term Temptations
In 2016 Labour is in its third term of opposition, and it’s easy to imagine how desperately its caucus is looking for a way out. The party is heading into its hundredth year without a charismatic leader, shorn of just about all of the policies it campaigned on in the 2011 and 2014 elections; and as close to broke as any major party should ever be.
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GUEST BLOG: Douglas Renwick – An explanation of the atrocities in West Papua with a broad context
West Papua has been under a brutal occupation by Indonesia for over fifty years. This article tries to explain why this is, and why so few people know about it. In order to understand why, we must understand the lies of the media, and of our educational system.
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We’ve Got A Schlong Way To Go With How We Talk About Women In Politics
How shameful for a 68 year old human female to have to go to the bathroom once in awhile.
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Government stealthily returning to failed market approach to health – ASMS
“The Government appears to be sidling back to a market-drive approach to the provision of public hospital services,” says Ian…
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GUEST BLOG: Barry Coates – Whose rules rule? Democracy vs TPPA
The campaign against the TPPA is gearing up for opposition to the planned signing of the TPPA in Auckland on 4th February. It’s time to stand up and be counted.
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GUEST BLOG: Kevin Hester – Public seminar to discuss Copout 21 and the threat of Methane
Renowned climate scientist and ominously, Nuclear Power advocate ( watch this space for John Key advocating nuclear) James E Hansen described Cop21( Copout21) as “a Fraud” .
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Police take a year to disclose secret search of activists’ home
The use of this provision against political activists does sound alarm bells.