Flaneuse, urbanist, community, te taiao. No progress without peace ☮️ Projects for pedestrians - contact me
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RT @displacedint: Gender apartheid under Taliban rule is forcing Afghan households to flee in search of what every family deserves: safety,…
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The Electoral Commission says 5) National’s decision to cut the right for people to vote without pre-enrolment won’t make the vote count any quicker and will see 55,000 lose their electorate vote (and many more unable to vote at all). thepost.co.nz/politics/36101…
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What happens when a government uses schools to erase a civilisation?
For Tibetan children today, that is not a hypothetical. It is daily reality.
One million children. Mandarin-only schools. A culture being taught out of existence.
#Tibet #TibetanRights #TibetanResilience
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1 million Tibetan children placed in Mandarin-only boarding schools. Tibetan language schools shut down. A 2025 law now makes it official.
#Beijing is rewriting Tibetan identity through the classroom. The world needs to respond.
#Tibet #TibetanCulture #HumanRights #UNESCO
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And he would have had to #walk to the bus stop fanciful!
Simeon Brown described Labour’s capped bus fares as fanciful.
My #cartoon today #NZpol #Transport #CostOfLiving
ALT Cartoon. Title: “Transport Me” Image shows a bus at a bus stop, a person waiting to get on, and the person in front of her, who is Simeon Brown, is saying, “Is this one of Labour’s flights of fancy?” And the bus driver says, “No, mate, it’s a bus. Now are you getting on board? People have places to go”
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Jun 10
New Zealand is consistently ranked one of the safest countries
The Global Peace Index rates countries 1(safe) to 5(v dangerous). NZ
averaged 1.254 from 2010 to 2026
2026 is our worst ever result: 1.343. but still very safe & 2nd overall, as other countries' safety also worsened
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RT @domesticanimal: Crying wolf about extreme weather?
My #cartoon today #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather
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A government can build walls around a nation.
It cannot build walls around memory.
Every Tibetan child who learns their language in secret is an act of resistance.
Your culture is not a relic. It is a weapon. Use it.
#TibetanResilience
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Jun 7
Honestly, if billionaires started competing over who could plant the most trees, house the most homeless people, and remove the most pollution from the Earth. It will really be amazing
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Jun 4
#NZ has 12 regions divided into 72 councils for 5.3 million of us - seems like about right for local representation. Fix local government funding and lets see how that goes - hand over the GST on rates, rate central government property for starters
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21 Feb 2025
This is the best summary of the current geopolitical situation I have seen. Sir Alex Younger was head of MI6 between 2014 and 2020. Really worth watching.
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Ted Lieu on camera:
"The Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped children."
A sitting congressman said this on the record.
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Jun 1
Car driver kills #pedestrian #Waikanae barely makes a headline, serious crash unit apparently investigated, any action taken??
Sad that we treat a life so casually
wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=18…
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8 Oct 2024
Our Prime Minister has no portfolios and yet never seems to have the time to get ahead of what's happening within his government.
Here's a thread of the many times Christopher Luxon has claimed he's been unaware of his coalition government controversies 🧵
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A regime that invaded Tibet, reduced monasteries to rubble, abducted the Panchen Lama, jailed monks and nuns, and punished Tibetans simply for keeping a photo of His Holiness the Dalai Lama now wants to control the future of Tibetan Buddhism itself. The CCP cannot manufacture spiritual legitimacy through occupation, fear, and political force.
The recognition of the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation is a sacred matter of Tibetan Buddhist tradition and belongs to the Tibetan people alone, not to an authoritarian state determined to erase Tibet’s identity.
#FreeTibet #DalaiLama #Tibet #CCP #ReligiousFreedom #HumanRights #Buddhism
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May 28
I have been deregistered from voting and just had to re enroll.
This is no joke.
You all need to check that you are enrolled immediately.
vote.nz/
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May 29
#NZ Government using Parliamentary Budget urgency to debate non-urgent legislation like the Regulatory Systems (Internal Affairs) Amendment Bill - rats and mice small changes - disregard for, and messing, with due process. Time to go
ALT Parliament sticker for admittance to debating chamber gallery
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No nation can progress while half its population is locked out of classrooms. Afghanistan deserves better.
#RecogniseGenderApartheid
#ACrimeAgainstHumanity
#LetAfghanGirlsLearn
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The Move-On Orders legislation must be scrapped, as the Government is trying to criminalise the homelessness that they created through implementing neoliberal austerity policies that restrict housing access. The homeless should receive help, not handcuffs. newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/25/mo…
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