Hit the streets this coming weekend!
Get out this week to a protest around the country against our government attacks on Palestine, Te Tiriti, the environment and democracy.
The new government has sided squarely with US/Israel by refusing to condemn Israel’s industrial-scale slaughter of Palestinians, refusing to join South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice, joining in the US bombing of Yemen (which has acted to stop the genocide in Gaza), designating Hamas a terrorist organisation, refusing to grant humanitarian visas to Palestinians with family here, refusing to suspend and investigate Rakon’s exports of parts to US made guided missiles which are used in the killing fields of Gaza, maintaining its suspension of funding to UNRWA rather than bringing it forward and doubling it.
The attacks on Te Tiriti have been cynical and racist. The government has disrupted the process of decolonisation with attacks on Māori language and its usage for government services for example and well as flirting with legislation to remove Te Tiriti from legislation and insisting on Pākeha-dominated referendums before Māori wards can be established by local bodies. Democracy means everyone should be at the table and democracy is seriously weakened when Māori cannot be represented as of right in local bodies. We are not back in the 19th century for heaven’s sake.
The attacks on the environment are front and centre with the fast-track bill spearheaded by the likes of Shane Jones – enough said.
The attacks on democracy are inherent in the post- election negotiations whereby a multitude of awful, nasty, corporate-first polices have been introduced through the coalition negotiations without being presented to the public before they voted. These are polices paid for in corporate donations to political parties the antithesis of democracy.
The credibility of this is undermined by including the cause célèbre. Perhaps stick to NZ issues.
Wrong wrong wrong.
We did it for Vietnam
We did it for South Africa
And WE WILL DO IT FOR EVERYTHING THAT SUCKS ABOUT THIS CALLOUS SOULLESS GOVT WE HAVE TODAY.
I will be working producing your daily bread but support everything above.
What did “we” do that mattered $0.02?
Hilarious. Actually, for we New Zealanders, the control of our country by us, not international zionists, not international bankers, and whatever intersection may exist between the two, is quite important.
You’d know this if you were from here.
Don’t get it. How is calling for a halt of the production gaza bomb parts being produced in Mt Wellington not a NZ issue? How is opposing NZ troops finding targets(people) to bomb in Yemen not a NZ issue?
I didn’t know we made parts for weapons and am highly skeptical but perhaps you are correct. As for Yemen, that’s not anywhere near Gaza.
This is a joint action.
PSNA have been having rallies every single Saturday for eight months at this place and at this time. And it is important that this continues, but as the 8th is also the date for the other action around primarily the fast track bill we have joined forces. I doubt whether anyone who goes on the Palestine rallies across the country think that the fast track bill is a great idea.
I doubt any right wingers think the fast track is a good idea. Your lot will just do it next time you’re in.
FPS Stop replying to the trolls. It takes your time and ours reading even glancing at them, and space on the blog that should go to individual thought about how to improve situations. We need merely to be aware of the wasps so they get limited, so you and I don’t get stung.
A nuisance but there are important issues to think about. The ones they put forward are generally mendacious and unhelpful. Either they don’t understand and never will or else they are two-faced subverts.