Life in Lock Down: Day 27 – and it’s been a shit day.
April 21: Day 27 of living in lock-down…
Setting the Agenda
Political analysis and commentary shaping the progressive debate in Aotearoa New Zealand, focused on power, policy, and accountability.
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MUST READ: NZ Military Getting Ready To Aid The Civil Power
IT WAS EASY to miss amidst the information overload of Lockdown at Level 4. A curiously thin news story, published by Stuff on 15 April, concerning “a routine military exercise” in South Auckland.
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Life in Lock Down: Day 26
April 20: Day 26 of living in lock-down…
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It’s 420 Day! How to celebrate cannabis safety under lockdown
Whatever you do for 420 today, stay safe in your bubble and may it be filled with pungent vapour.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Equity, education and economic recovery
In building the post Covid-19 world, we should reject all of these modes, but take the best from some of them. I think the three main themes need to be economic equity, a nation-building state and education.
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Life in Lock Down: Day 24 & 25
April 18: Day 24 of living in lock-down…
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Urgent action needed to raise and individualise benefits – first step to a basic income for all
I propose that for at least the next six months we should give all unemployed, sickness, invalid and sole parent beneficiaries a tax-free benefit equal to the net national superannuation rate for a single person – $425 a week with a tax on all other income of 39%. I will explain where I got this idea and how it will work a bit later.
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7pm tonight NZ’s first on-line protest – End the blockade of Gaza
The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa is organising New Zealand’s first on-line protest – complete with speakers, placards and even some chants – this Sunday at 7pm.
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How the ‘chief covidiot’ has blocked world health unity with WHO freeze
Pushed into the background by the relentless sad statistics and pandemic doomsday stories around the globe are some other stories in the Pacific that normally struggle to get an airing in mainstream media.
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MUST READ: What is to become of our housing post Covid-19?
Amidst such speculation two things are certain to me – our Government is spending up a storm and capitalism will prevail. These two certainties suggest to me a number of implications which might guide us in where we might be in a year or two from now.