Open mike 03/11/09
Topics of interest, announcements, general discussion. The usual rules apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Over to you…
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Open mike 02/11/09
Topics of interest, announcements, general discussion. The usual rules apply. Over to you…
The horror of low wages
The Unite Halloween-themed $15 minimum wage march went well yesterday. Looks like there were a fair number of people there. Pity there’s no […]
CTU Alternative Economic Strategy
If you watched the media coverage of last week’s Council of Trade Unions conference you’ll have walked away thinking it was about John […]
$15 min wage march tonight
The Campaign for a Living Wage will be taking to the streets of Auckland’s CBD tonight to demand a minimum wage of 15 […]
Sue Bradford’s valedictory
Some highlights from Sue Bradford’s valedictory speech. We’ll link to the full version once the Greens get it up. Update: Frogblog has a […]
Everyone else is doing it so why can’t we?
Turns out our media aren’t the only ones who, rather than providing analysis and information, act as little more than amplifiers for the […]
Signs of Labour Weekend
Spotted in a shop window. Says it all really about what this weekend is for.
The invisible hand gets frisky
Reminder: Drinking Liberally – Auckland
Drinking Liberally is returning to the London Bar for a session with Greenpeace Executive Director Bunny McDiarmid. When: 7pm WEDNESDAY 21 October Where: […]
DL Wellington – Celia Wade-Brown
Wellington’s Drinking Liberally speaker is Celia Wade-Brown. Celia is a sitting Green member of the Wellington City Council, and one of the first announced […]
Hospital workers protest National’s wage freeze
Hundreds of hospitals workers from all over the country took protest action against National’s wage freeze today. Here’s a photo from the picket […]
Super-city debate friday
The debate will feature an outstanding lineup of: Darren Hughes MP, Cr Cathy Casey, Bevan Woodward, Jonathan Hunt, Jacinda Ardern MP and Cr […]
Drinking Liberally – Auckland
Drinking Liberally is returning to the London Bar for a session with Greenpeace Executive Director Bunny McDiarmid. When: 7pm WEDNESDAY 21 October Where: […]
Photos from the Auckland bus driver lockout
Some photos from the Auckland bus driver lockout. The drivers showed up to the depots today to demonstrate they were willing to work, […]
Climatic catastrophe lolz
hat-tip Sam Vilain in comments
Bus drivers solidarity picket – Wgtn
There’s a solidarity picket tomorrow outside Infratil’s HQ in Wellington to support the locked out Auckland bus drivers. If you’ve got a moment […]
School support staff fight National’s pay freeze
From the NZEI. Great to see the low paid mobilise so effectively.
Sabbath lolz
Johnnie’s Boys
subversifpoet sent us this song about our corrupt government:
Support Open Country/Telecom workers
If you’re in Wellington this Friday you might want to pop along to a quiz night fundraiser that Finsec and the NDU are […]
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
‘If it happened in Zimbabwe, we would call it corruption’
Trev on the money laundering bill. Has a go at a certain Bill who has been laundering a lot of our money. Very […]
Clown-in-chief
A hilarious send up of Key that pretty much everyone would have missed because it aired on Nightline on Friday.
Yo John, I’m happy for you and imma let you finish…
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Drinking Liberally Wellington and Dunedin
**Wellington** Today – September 24, 2009, from 5.30pm. The Southern Cross Abel Smith Street Phil Saxby on drug law reform *Dunedin** Tuesday September […]
Farmers Weekly on Open Country
Reader sent in this cartoon from the latest NZ Farmers Weekly. Things have got to be bad for Open Country when even the […]
Drinking Liberally – Auckland (again)
In the second part of our double header for Drinking Liberally this month we’ve got director of Rethinking Crime & Punishment Kim Workman […]
Lyndon on ACT
Found this gem at Fighting Talk. Lyndon Hood examines the act of leaking. Lyndon Hood: Act Doesn’t Feel Climate Heat Click to enlarge […]
Photos from the Bridgeman lockout
Some photos from the picketline at Bridgeman Concrete in East Tamaki, where workers have been locked out indefinitely unless they submit to a […]
DL Auckland: The Republic
Drinking Liberally is on again in Auckland this Wednesday, with guest speaker Lewis Holden of the Republican Movement of Aotearoa New Zealand speaking […]
Telecom solidarity fundraiser
Socialist Aotearoa have organised a Telecom solidarity fundraiser on Friday night. Not for $7m man Paul Reynolds, but for the lines engineers his […]
Classic Moreu
10-20% Pure New Zealand
Drinking Liberally Wgtn – Thursday
Drinking Liberally is taking place again in Wellington this Thursday with guest David Shearer. He’ll be talking about his experiences overseas and on […]
