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.
New Zealand Politics
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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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MEDIA WATCH: 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.
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Waatea News Column: Kelvin Davis has another terrible day at the office
I am honestly not sure who is advising Minister Kelvin Davis, but his surprising decision this week to attack People Against Prisons Aotearoa (PAPA) and refer their pamphlets calling on prison reform to the Police for supposedly inciting the prison riot at Waikeria prison is such a desperately wrong footed move one is left wondering what on earth he thinks he’s doing.
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Labour & Greens continue to push for sexual violence law that will criminalise men and uses vacuum cleaners to make their point
Labour and the Greens continue to quietly ram through law changes while you aren’t noticing that will gerrymander the current sexual violence laws to ensure anyone accused gets found guilty as part of Labour & the Greens woke mantra as law policy.