This weeks Waatea news column – New Maori Land legislation another means of telling Maori what to do with their land
This weeks Waatea news column – New Maori Land legislation another means of telling Maori what to do with their land
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This weeks Waatea news column – 2015 Top 3 Maori MPs
This weeks Waatea news column – 2015 Top 3 Maori MPs
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The Daily Blog Open Mic Friday 1st January 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Tony Veitch fractured his partner’s spine in four places but still thinks he is the “victim”
In Aotearoa we don’t just give rich white men like Tony a “get out of free jail card” when they beat women over sustained periods of time and break their bones, we celebrate them.
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Don’t believe the hype – we can take more refugees
I’ve had a gutsful of the biased media reports that tell us these refugees will only promulgate Muslim ideals, become an economic burden and in the Pacific instance, shouldn’t be here anyway because they’re here illegally.
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NEWSTALK ZB REVIEW: Climate change is without question a defining crisis but so is compassion
I was surfing through radio stations on my cellphone a couple of weeks ago while sitting on the bus and I heard the words “climate change refugee.” I stopped on the station from which these words rang out which unfortunately happened to be radio talkback station RadioZB.
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Sorry, it was a busy day
Race is never a focal issue for white, middle class and privileged groups because society is built on their accepted norms and traditions
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Now we got bad blood: being poor in a rich world
Our most vulnerable people are not being protected by their own government, nor even having their voices elevated by the vast majority of media tycoons such as Mike or journalists, who are meant to be truth speakers in times of universal deceit.
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In the playground of the rich, wealth flaunting is a sport
In a country where there is an abundance of money and resources to go around, an elite selfish and callous few are refusing to share. For a few to prosper many must suffer.
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On the “Radical Self-Love” Movement: Beware of “positive attitude” advocates
Radical self-love gurus do not tend to promote or even really engage in discussions on privilege or the disadvantages people are born into; that shit would undermine the cause of “changing yourself, not the system.”