“Now the work of movements begins”: government corruption, media bias, youth voting and the role of revolutionaries
I am so tired of the dirty politics of the National government, aren’t you?
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Manukau East – the next Coalition in action
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of opening Voice Up – a youth forum run by young people in Otara. I had been asked as Chair of the Local Board to set the scene, encouraging young people to take part in the democratic process by casting a vote.
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Cameron Slater: Zionist and political pundit
As New Zealanders begin to learn the full extent of Slater’s corruptions, smear campaigns and how much he and his Whale Oil blog have influenced elections in the last six years, he is being paid, as I type this, to also pedal Israeli propaganda.
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Show me what democracy looks like: 6 activists for Palestine #Occupy the NZ Super Fund Office
At around 12pm yesterday Nadia Filistin, who has been a major organiser in the Auckland protests against Israel’s ongoing assaults in Gaza over the last 6 weeks which has killed over 1900 Palestinians and injured thousands, updated her Facebook status with this…
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Why chanting “fuck John Key” is a battle cry not profanity and how the Occupy Movement helped shape the Internet Party
From the bottom of my heart fuck John Key and his selfish, misogynistic, rape minimising, war mongering government that only cares for the rich, disregards the voices of young people and has no compassion for the working poor or those suffering under the poverty line.
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Why Hillary Clinton is not ‘a beacon of female empowerment’
Clinton is being held up by many social commentators as some kind of vision of ‘female empowerment’ – after all, she has smashed glass ceiling after glass ceiling, and she is a proud self-declared feminist. Hell, maybe she is even a ‘feminist icon’.
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There is a war being waged on NZ men… at least according to this Facebook page
Men’s masculinity is under attack in New Zealand and four people, one of whom is a woman (it always to do something about it. Sound your battle cries:
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Murray McCully must go: sign the petition to demand his resignation
Governmental incompetency allowed for a diplomat to slip away under the guise of diplomatic immunity, this is a classic example of our state system and how it views sexual crimes.
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Appointing King Kapisi – squeezing the real stories
The mainstream media is squeezing the real story. And the real story is that the Left are showing the much-needed signs of a force to be seriously reckoned with.
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The PI vote and political stunts
The mainstream media got quite excited a couple of weeks ago when a number of Pasifika church leaders were photographed at the Manurewa markets wearing blue, Key-people t-shirts.