OK, having criticised Peter Dunne this morning, I’m now obliged to give him some credit for something he’s done this afternoon.
The UF leader is calling for a multi-party agreement on increasing Overseas Development Assistance (ODA, AKA ‘foreign aid’). NZPA reports:
Mr Dunne said it was time for New Zealand to put its money where […]
US moviemaker Robert Greenwald’s expose Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices seems to have caused quite a stir - see here and here for some examples.
The movie explores the effect that ‘big box’ retailers have on small communities, something that New Zealand has seen with the spread of The Warehouse into New Zealand’s […]
The graffiti tribute to Rod above is apparently on the Evans Pass road down south. If you have seen any other out-there-in-the-world memorials, feel free to send pics to frogblog@greens.org.nz and I’ll post them up.
It is a matter of public record, but nevertheless its good to see that the Dom Post is today giving Peter Dunne’s support for the tobacco industry a good work out. The article (offline) reads as follows:
Anti-smoke lobby given assurance on Dunne role
ANTI-SMOKING groups have won a Government assurance that United Future leader […]
So here we are on Buy Nothing Day, but you’re finding the consumption urge is just too much to resist.
If you really need to scratch that itch today, remember that, as Rod reminded us all a week or so before he died, shopping is a political act.
So a good place to start is hippyshopper.com, […]