Life in Lock Down: Day 10
April 4: Day 10 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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A time for new values?
As with the myth about economic growth being a rising tide that lifts all ships, it’s also not true that the falling tide effects all workers equally. Some of the CEOs on multi-million-dollar salaries who were paid – and failed- to anticipate business disruption, face a cut to their incomes, but workers lose their whole livelihoods.
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Confronting the lie that what needs to be done can’t be done
For 150 years, capitalism has always been a system that breeds inequality, racism, war, oppression and exploitation. That’s enough for me to want to end this system. Recent decades have revealed the fact that this system is also incapable of coexisting with the needs of the planet itself as a consequence of global warming and climate change.
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Crisis capitalism is on the move and it’s not going to be pretty
Big business is dead keen to get us all back to “business as usual” in quick time with the government priority to put the corporate sector first. We must resist this, not only for our own personal and community health, but also because there is no intention to shift from a business as usual agenda.
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Life in Lock Down: Day 9
April 3: Day 9 of living in lock-down…
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REDUNDANCY RIGHTS FOR ALL WORKERS NOW!
Over the years, Unite Union has fought for better redundancy terms for our workers at Skycity.
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Youth-adjacent leadership
We’re just over a week into our national lockdown in what continues to be some of the most historic developments of our time.
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New Zealand’s Government Must Save New Zealand’s Media
I’M NOT SURE, after today, if we’re going to come through this global pandemic in one piece.
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Outsiders
If 9 percent of the population refuses to comply with the lockdown’s rules, then the rest of us are not about to be released from it anytime soon. Indeed, it’s difficult to see how the Government’s strategy of eliminating Covid-19 can possibly succeed if close to a tenth of the population intends to withhold their co-operation.
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Life in Lock Down: Day 7
April 1: Day seven of living in lock-down…