only on here to yell at rail companies and the health secretary. Opinions my own, but we can share them if you like. Black Lives Matter. Let’s end homelessness.
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For a week now, I have been on the Greek island of Lesvos with @Bootvlucht to provide medical care to refugees living in the camp there. The work this organisation does is vital, filling a huge gap in services to help maintain health and dignity.
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Together with 650+ @RefugeeTogether orgs, we call for a fair, compassionate and effective asylum system, that welcomes people who have had to flee unimaginable horrors, not one that punishes them.
This includes ending the nasty rhetoric that demonises people seeking asylum.
"Obviously I'd like it to come down completely, I'm not going to put a false number on it," Keir Starmer says
@ChrisMasonBBC asks Labour's leader what success would look like from him pledge to tackle small boat crossings
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Good to see some reporting in NZ that isn't doing NZ exceptionalism about this issue. Much of the far right policy framework is imported wholesale from the US and UK. It's important to understand what the results of that have been.
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Biden finally opening his rotten mouth to call for a ceasefire after US citizens were killed in a war he funded and with weapons he helped the assailants to purchase. Those deaths were predictable and preventable, you just didn't care for the herald of 30,000 dead Palestinians.
The propaganda branch of the UK government is still looking to hire a half decent graphic designer
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We saw this same reaction when Ukrainian refugees arrived in the Calais Jungle. How could they be left to endure such awful conditions?! There was horror & outrage that have never been raised on the same scale for all the other refugees stuck there for years.
White. Supremacy.
This attack on World Central Kitchen workers was vile, but we can’t act like it is the first slaughter of aid workers in Palestine. Reports of medics under fire have been coming out of Palestine for YEARS.
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MSF is horrified that Al-Shifa hospital is in ruins after a 14-day long operation by Israeli forces in and around the facility. Gaza’s largest hospital is now out of service. Given the extent of the destruction, people in the north are left with even fewer healthcare options.
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David Seymour doesn’t think part-time workers (primarily women) and students deserve a fair wage.
It’s also nonsense - there are plenty of people on the minimum wage who are the sole or main earner in their household.
ACT's David Seymour defends reduced minimum wage increase as Govt cash boost kicks in
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It is giving misogyny.
This is an attack on already disadvantaged workers, but shit like this also disproportionately disadvantages women and contributes to the gender pay gap.
Even if none of those things happen, this means a decrease in one persons pension contributions. Less to put away in savings. Accepting these things in favour of having a partner who “can provide” is what has kept women poor and powerless for LARGE CHUNKS OF HISTORY.
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A week since news broke of U.K. funded illegal pushbacks in the Channel. No government accountability, not even a squeak of concern about us commissioning & funding actions designed to harm & kill people refused visa access.
If you are, however, a pakeha feeling a bit put out by this, and you wonder where the “NZ European friendly spaces” are, don’t worry! Auckland has a Costco now, I’m pretty sure there will be an Ikea soon, and there are at least NINE Nando’s places nationwide 👍
