TWITTER WATCH: Jan Logie strikes back & why she’s still wrong
…seeing as Jan has taken the time to respond, it would be wrong not to reciprocate.
New Zealand Politics
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MUST READ: How to end race and class inequalities destroying working people’s lives
We have to take a long, hard look at why the system has failed Maori despite three decades of progress in certain areas. There has been a significant growth in professional and middle-class layers amongst Maori which is a good thing. There has been an expansion in Maori-run businesses and assets under Maori control that deliver services directly to Maori people.
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The Long March From The Bottom To The Top.
Real left-wingers, today, emulating the real left-wingers of the 1980s, would require those advocating top-down revolution to first obtain a bottom-up mandate.
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7 Day Lockdown Political Winners & Losers
And so the mighty City State of Auckland has been struck down again to Level 3 because someone wasn’t following the rules. This rule breaching has unleashed a cacophony of judgement and fury that makes John Banks TalkBack seem progressive.
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On Cultural Communication Amidst The Current Covid Cluster Management
I have seen a few comments about the place concerning Case M etc. – asking if maybe the Government didn’t do enough to communicate with the person (and family) in question in culturally relevant ways or a language he could understand.
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Auckland is lucky to have Efeso Collins leadership & vision during Covid
In times of crisis, leadership is tempered.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Get those prisons reformed!
There has been a lot of media over the past week focussed on the need to improve the prisons. I must say that I have been disturbed by Kelvin Davis’ ‘blame the victim’ stance.
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Bluewashing at the Edge of Extinction, at the End of the World.
Climate change bites, we’re in a mass extinction event, the pandemic changes the way the world works but the maxim of capitalism to socialise costs and privatise profits continues to hold true. We’re in the stage of the macroeconomic cycle where state intervention follows, sustains and mitigates the effects of neoliberalism.
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Lords Of The Lies
The Chair of the NZ Media Council has praised the Australian government for standing up to Facebook’s attempt to blackmail Aussies into letting it post their media’s news content for free, but which it has now agreed to pay for.
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GUEST BLOG: Patrick John O’Dea – Ardern Falters
If the strategy is counting on human nature as your barrier to stopping the spread of the pandemic you are doomed to fail.