Mike Treen leaves NZ for Gaza Flotilla
Mike Treen – National Director of Unite Union Auckland speaks before departing to join the 2018 Gaza Freedom Flotilla
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UN critics join global outrage over Duterte’s Rappler ‘free press’ attack
Media freedom advocates claim that the Philippines is facing its worst free expression and security crisis since the Marcos dictatorship, with The New York Times denouncing the “ruthlessness” and “viciousness” of President Rodrigo Duterte’s disdain for democracy in his bid to close the critical Rappler.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Statement of abuse for Kelvin Davis
This is your prison system now and the violence and abuse used against me is an affront to basic decency.
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An open letter to Lorde
Dear Lorde, your decision will make a difference. Please stand on the side of justice.
In the wise words of Desmond Tutu: “If you are neutral in situation of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor”.
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EXCLUSIVE: Daily Blog Prisoner Rights Blogger in his own words being choked unconscious by Prison Staff
…The Daily Blog is calling upon the Minister to investigate how our blogger came to be beaten unconscious and forced into a transfer while he is making valid complaints agains the staff who are abusing him.
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GUEST BLOG: Dr Liz Gordon – Time for new strategies for women’s equality
I can remember many years ago being told my one of my senior academic colleagues that I should not be so impatient for women’s equality – that it would come, but probably take about 25 years. Well, 25 years has been and gone and progress have been sporadic and regression all too common. In particular, men are still mostly in charge of things. In the private sector and the state, most CEOs are men, most board chairs are men and most of the voices heard are males.
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GUEST BLOG: Lachlan Forsyth – Why The Syrian Conflict Is Ours To Care About
How to comprehend the brutal conflict that has enveloped Syria for almost seven years?
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – An Israeli Interpretation of the Battle of Beersheva
How dramatic, how exciting! A carefully researched , authentic re-enactment by the Australian and New Zealand descendents of the Light Horse Brigade whose brave cavalry charge lead to the defeat of the Ottomans at the Battle of Beersheva fought on 31 October 1917. Note the horses, the uniforms, the flags!
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Update on my case against the NZ Police with the Human Rights Review Tribunal
It has become obvious to me from the outset that this entire process to hold the NZ Police to account for breaching my privacy and civil rights is made to be as difficult and impossible as possible so that people complaining give up rather than hold them to account.
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – BACK TO SCHOOL , NOT FOR EVERYONE!
Jubbet Adh-Dhib is a small Palestinian village in the West Bank. To get to school, children have had to walk several kilometres, on muddy rough trails. Moreover, they have often been harrassed, sometimes violently, by Israeli soldiers and ‘settlers’