The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 24th 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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How do hungry kids afford education?
According to the NZ Herald, parents are paying a record high amount for school donations, with costs for public secondary schools amounting to $3139 a year and $2047 for primary.
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The Orange Caesar: How Trump becomes the next President of the United States
Trump’s populism is so great because he is talking to those insecurities in a way none of the other candidates would dare to if they wanted a serious shot at winning over independents post winning the Republican nomination.
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2015 hottest year on record – the Planet didn’t get the Green Party memo on the success of Paris Climate Change Conference?
TDB will live stream an alternative Climate Change Conference on 14th February to begin that conversation.
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Dear NZ Police – about the TPPA 4th February protest
Which side are you on boys?
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Arresting students at the border – how to mix racism, classism, sexism, neoliberal social engineering & intergenerational theft all into one
Education is for the people, and our society prospers from an educated population. 30 years of neoliberalism has transformed it into a privileged class made impotent by user pays culture.
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Modern Life : The Best of Times and the Worst of Times
2016, modern life. It’s a ‘Tale of Two Cities’. It’s ‘the best of times, and the worst of times’, a time of plenty for some, in a post-Dickensian dystopia, a Mad Maxian eco-apocalypse.
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EXCLUSIVE: An open invitation from Professor Jane Kelsey
Now is the time to get out there and be visible in your opposition. WE NEED YOU THERE TO FILL THE TOWN HALL and show the government and corporate beneficiaries we don’t want a bar of their TPPA!
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GUEST BLOG: Ruby – behind a headline
Last week my flatmates friend was involved in a serious domestic violence incident, so serious that that she was assaulted with a rock, chased and then hit by a car which crushed her against a large tree causing serious injuries to her legs requiring hospital treatment.
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GUEST BLOG: Daniel Strypey Bruce – Basic Standards for Rental Housing is Win-Win
Since I began renting in 1995, average rents have doubled in most parts of the country, and tripled in the most in-demand areas of Tamaki Makaurau, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, and so on. This has been accompanied by massive increases in the cost of electricity, telecommunications, water charges in some areas, and other costs associated with running a modern household.