TDB SPECIAL: 1 year out from 2017 election – the Political Parties
With just 12 months until the 2017 election, where are we at and where will we be going into the 2017 election?
With just 12 months until the 2017 election, where are we at and where will we be going into the 2017 election?
The desire to shut down people and demand they be silent is a pretty dangerous way to delegitimise a Democracy. When people feel they have no voice, they vote like they did in Brexit and with Trump.
Perhaps, if the Muslim community gets its house in order, the Wahhabi sect can be attracted back towards a positive, active Muslim community.
People who are economically hurting and feeling excluded didn’t care about the facts and the legitimate news sources, they were overloaded on information and selected the candidate who didn’t make them feel belittled.
Who are the National Party protecting and how far up the chain of command did that abuse occur?
They came from all over the globe: Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, North and South America. Farmers, farm-workers, consumers, indigenous people gathered at The Hague in October of this year to testify at the International Monsanto Tribunal.
It’s a good line, ‘’we should learn from History”, but what if there’s no-one willing or able to help us learn. What if the teachers have been trained by those who would have us cow-tow to American commercial interests and the world’s leading neo-liberal power structures?
We have a climate denier like Trump in the White House just as the latest research shows us that Arctic sea ice is collapsing when it should be building…
Citizens across each of the 12 countries in the TPPA built a strong movement against the excesses of corporate rights represented by the TPPA, as we have done twice before in defeating these proposals in the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (1998) and in the World Trade Organisation (1999 and 2003).
Don Brash Hobson’s Pledge Meeting 22-11-16