Facebook suppressing Willie Jackson’s post on Maori and youth voter suppression
…Facebook needs to explain why they are suppressing this post about voter suppression.
New Zealand Politics
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – URGENT: Maori and youth voters being abused by Electoral Commission staff – KNOW YOUR VOTING RIGHTS!
In 2017, I will not tolerate any attempt to rob Maori or young people of their right to vote because of a incompetence and ignorance at our electoral booths.
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BREAKING: ELECTORAL COMMISSION UNDERMINING OF MAORI RIGHTS – COMPLAINTS NATIONWIDE
Only a week into early voting, complaints have been laid with the Electoral Commission about misinformation being provided to Maori…
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Who are the biggest snowflakes? Gun owners, Landlords or Farmers?
Who are the real snowflakes? Who are the people in NZ who are in such denial about their impact on the rest of us that they desperately need safe spaces because they’ll scream micro aggression if confronted with their behaviour?
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The unbelievable Saudi Sheep Bribe should disqualify National from Government
Saudi Arabia crucifies human beings – just think about that for a second. Do we really want a free trade deal with a country that crucifies human beings? To be told that we not only are attempting to in fact cut a free trade deal with a country that whips women for being raped, we fucking well spent $11.5 million trying to bribe these buggers to get that trade deal!
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Jacinda Ardern – Setting the record straight on National’s tax scaremongering
Jacinda Ardern – Setting the record straight on National’s tax scaremongering
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BREAKING: New Roy Morgan Poll – Nats 40% (down 2.5), Labour 39.5 (up 7), Greens 9, NZF 6 (down 5.5)
Somewhere Matthew Hooton, Ben Thomas, David Farrar, Michelle Boag, Cameron Slater, Simon Lusk and Jordan Williams are all silently rocking and sobbing in a group pity hug.
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VOTE!
IF, ON ELECTION NIGHT 2017, you end up staring at the numbers in horrified disbelief. If National proves the people at Reid Research are the best pollsters in the business. If the Jacinda Train runs out of puff several percentage-points short of being able to form a government. If the Greens: the dear, earnest, tree-hugging Greens; fall below the 5 percent MMP threshold. If, after all these calamities, you’re casting about in your anger and your grief for an explanation, then reclaim from the back of your mind this crucial piece of information from Elections New Zealand.
As at 15 September, just over a week out from Election Day, “nearly 20,000 fewer young people under 30 [have] registered compared with 2014”.
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Little chance of system change, but change in government is a good place to start
For those of us who also want a more fundamental change than just rearranging the parliamentary seating order, and minor changes by degrees, in some ways, hope competes with despair. I’d like to take a vote on neo-liberalism itself but it’s not even on the agenda.
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What is happening to our Politics? Youth have become a class and Jacinda is its champion
…what van Beynen has stumbled upon in his tour is a basic truth from the generational backlash of the 30 year neoliberal experiment.
‘Youth’ is no longer an age. It is a class.