GUEST BLOG: Josie Butler – Why I threw the dildo at Steven Joyce
Q+A with activist Josie Butler
Q+A with activist Josie Butler
It’s no surprise to Marxists that the TPPA ‘Treaty’ is a fraud. It signifies the continuation of the NZ’s colonial history from the first Treaty signed in 1840, the original fraud.
Something that anyone who knows me, and who knows anything about my politics, no doubt finds surprising is the fact that I am opposed to the controversial TPPA.
It’s ironic then that aggressively controlling funding has become such an entrenched and consistent way for this Government, John Key’s Government, to silence dissent in the NGO and academic sectors.
Politicians, journalists and commentators who cannot understand why the TPPA marks the end of bipartisan support for similar international commerce agreements have missed the crucial point.
Treaty of Waitangi or Cheaty White Hangi?
There are few people who deserve a dildo to the face, the smug mug of Steven Joyce is one of them.
SOME TRIBUTES FIRST, then an apology
The huge turn out has spooked the Prime Minister from attending Waitangi Day. To try and rob NZers of our sovereignty 2 days before Waitangi and then refusing to turn up because you’re too frightened by the reaction is gutless and cowardly.
If protecting our national sovereignty and defending our democracy become the battle-cries of the 2017 General Election, then the entire neoliberal project will be threatened.