I didn’t write this…it was written by Bomber Bradbury of The Daily Blog: but it expresses exactly my present feelings.
He
asks the question: Is it time for a new mass civil disobedience movement to
create momentum against the National Party of NZ?
Answer: Yes.
This Government and their mainstream media enablers
continue to govern because of an unholy alliance between crony corporate
welfare benefactors, property bubble seduced middle classes and the
negative egalitarian anti-intellectual sleepy hobbits who uncritically view the
world with vacant aspiration.
A plague on all their investment properties.
The poor, Maori, Environmentalists, Gen X and Y are
all being destroyed by John Key and his Government.
Do we allow the poor to continue living as tenants
in their own nation?
Do we shrug at the 305 000 kids in poverty?
Do we accept the draconian way in which
welfare is being limited so the Government can manufacture a surplus while
they borrow billions in tax cuts for the rich?
Do we accept a do nothing approach to global
warming when the planet is on track for a dangerous and catastrophic
climate change?
Do we accept a generational theft on a level never
seen before in politics as Gen Y and X continue to be drowned in debt while
other generations get subsidised from cradle to grave?
Do we accept a system that continues to prejudice
Maori?
Do we accept the poor and sick to be lower class
citizens?
Do we accept a corrupt global economics set to once
again meltdown?
Do we accept a Government spying on its own
citizens for America?
Do we accept allowing our Government to be usurped
by transnational corporations via a Forced Trade deal like the TPPA?
I say no more.
Progressive change in this country has only ever
occurred when people are prepared to step up and fight. Our political
‘opposition’ is full of people wanting to work with John Key – I say that
you can’t work with anyone who abuses political power in the manner John Key
and his mass surveillance state have established.
You can’t work with a Government who colludes with
the Secret Intelligence Services to smear political opponents.
You can’t work with a Government that manipulates
and lies in conjunction with far right hate bloggers.
You can’t work with a Government hell bent on
silencing critical voices in the media.
You can’t work with a Government that hates Unions
and the poor with the passion they do.
All you can do is resist and fight.
I think no department highlights the Governments
contempt for us as citizens better than WINZ. This department cuts off the poor
from welfare by raising thresholds, they terrify and bully beneficiaries and
they are the sharp end of policy aimed at punishing the poor.
So how can we fight back when almost the entire
political spectrum of opposition wants to work with Key?
We fight on our own.
Imagine if throughout the country at different
times, spontaneously, environmentalists, beneficiaries, the poor, Gen X and Y
and Maori all converged on WINZ Offices throughout NZ and occupied outside
them. That every cell group organise and then take to social media with
#occupyWINZ. That we call for a real benefit to live on, that we call for
serious momentum on climate change, affordable houses and jobs with dignity.
That we occupy the outside of as many WINZ Offices as we can for as long as we
can and start shutting them down. That we take a stand and use social media to
promote the protests.
Share this post around, pass it to friends – if all
those NZers being impacted negatively by this Government made a stand, they
couldn’t keep pretending there are no issues? What do you have to lose if you
are Maori other than a system that is biased against you? What do you have to
lose if you are Gen X or Y other than that debt cycle that locks you out of
home ownership. What do you have to lose if you are a beneficiary who is
already being traumatised by WINZ? What do you have to lose as an
environmentalist other than forcing the Government to listen?
The more people join and start occupying their own
local WINZ Office, the bigger the movement becomes.
The reality is that this Government won’t do a
damned thing and the media will remain deaf dumb and blind unless we are
prepared to fight.
Turning up with tents, sleeping bags and occupying
outside the local WINZ office handing out information to beneficiaries on how
the Government is hurting them and updating your protest action on social media
could cause a momentum to force change. Shutting down WINZ Offices until
they start looking after the poor rather than bully and punish them would force
the Government to address the real concerns of those on the bottom of society,
and while we have their attention allow us to take them to task for
intergenerational theft and climate change denial.
Bernard Hickey makes the case for an uprising here…
Only in 2029 would the enormity of what happened to
the nation’s finances in the previous 30 years have dawned on voters in their
30s, 40s and 50s.
Only 49 per cent of those aged 18-29 voted in 2014.
By 2029, that proportion will be much higher. When they look back over those
decades of political decisions leading up to 2029, what will they see?
They will have seen a raft of policies stretching
from the 1980s onwards that repeatedly blocked the building of new houses and
infrastructure, particularly public transport.
They will have seen the dismantling of free
tertiary education by a generation that benefited from it. They will have seen
the results of a superannuation set-up that loaded the costs on to the workers
of 2015-2030, not on the retirees.
That’s because contributions to Super were turned
off in 2009 and not turned back on until 2023. That will have cost more than
$121b by 2029.
Superannuation spending will have risen from $9.9b
this year to $23.4b by 2029, and Treasury is forecasting a rise to $100b by
2060. That’s on top of a surge in health costs as the population aged and got
fatter.
By 2029, taxpaying voters in their 30, 40s and 50s
will be facing massive pressures on public finances, potentially forcing tax
increases and cuts in social spending without changes to the pension and health
settings.
It will be too late to extend the retirement age by
then, but there will be a big push to means test superannuation and health
spending for the aged.
The unfair link of Super to wages, rather than
price inflation, will be revisited.
There will be talk of widening taxes on capital and
land to hoover up some of the wealth those retirees held in property.
The inevitable results of climate change will be
clear for all to see.
…we could wait until 2029 or
we could start fighting now". Martyn Bradbury ends here:
Please share this message...check out the WINZ offices nearest you and consider making a plan of action...it is time to stop talking and doing...
Here is a list of every street address of every WINZ Office
in NZ.
Dargaville
Street address:
68-72 Normanby Street
Kaikohe Community Link
Street address:
7 Memorial Avenue
Kaitaia Community Link
Street address:
Shops 1, 2 + 3
34-36 Commerce St
Kamo Community Link
Street Address
424 Kamo Road
Whangarei
Kawakawa Community Link
Street address:
62 Gillies Street
Kerikeri
Street address:
Keri Centre
Fairway Drive
Onerahi
Street address:
Shop 6, Onerahi Mall
116 Onerahi Road
Whangarei Community Link
Street address:
Walton Plaza
3-5 Albert Street
Albany Community Link
Street address:
44 Corinthian Drive
Avondale Community Link
Street address:
44-48 Rosebank Road
Birkenhead Community Link
Street address:
87 Birkenhead Avenue
Browns Bay
Street address:
97 Clyde Road
Clendon
Street address:
Clendon Shopping Centre
Corner Palmers Road and Roscommon Road
Glenfield
Street address:
1 Peach Road
Glenmall Community Link
Street address:
20 Oates Road
Grey Lynn Community Link
Street address:
562 Richmond Road
Helensville
Street address:
34-38 Commercial Road
Highland Park Community Link
Street address:
491 Pakuranga Road
Hunters Corner Community Link
Street address:
139 Great South Road
Mangere Community Link
Street address:
93 Mascot Avenue
Manukau Community Link
Street address:
18 Amersham Way
Manukau City
Manurewa Community Link
Street address:
12 Selwyn Road
Mount Albert Community Link
Street address:
Shop 2 and 3
945a New North Road
Mount Eden Community Link
Street address:
191 – 193 Dominion Rd
New Lynn Community Link
Street address:
5-9 Hugh Brown Drive
Onehunga Community Link
Street address:
201-211 Onehunga Mall
Orewa
Street address:
27 Florence Ave
Orewa
Otahuhu Community Link
Street address:
4 Fairburn Road
Otara
Street address:
52-60 Lovegrove Crescent
Papakura Community Link
Street address:
20-22 Queen Street
Papatoetoe Community Link
Street address:
17 Shirley Road
Pukekohe Community Link
Street address:
9 – 11 Tobin Street
Queen Street Community Link
Street address:
Level 3
450 Queen Street
Takapuna
Street address:
519 Lake Road
Tamaki Community Link
Street address:
Unit 1
40 – 42 Mayfair Place
Glen Innes
Auckland 1072
Three Kings Community Link
Street address:
Three Kings Plaza 536
Mt Albert Road
Waiheke Island Community Link
Street address:
Shop 1
116 Ocean View Road
Oneroa
Waitakere Community Link
Street address:
36-44 Sel Peacock Drive
Waitakere
Waitakere Outreach Community Link
Street address:
4 Pioneer Street
Henderson
Waiuku Community Link
Street address:
57B Queen Street
Warkworth Community Link
Street address:
Winscombe Mall
37 Queen Street
Westgate Community Link
Street address:
22-24 Cabernet Crescent
Westgate
Auckland 0614
Cambridge
Street address:
69 Duke Street
Dinsdale Community Link
Street address:
Shop 14
Dinsdale Shopping Centre
Five Cross Roads Community Link
Street address:
3 Fifth Avenue
Glenview
Street address:
Glenview Shopping Centre
Ohaupo Road
Hamilton Central Community Link
Street address:
317 Victoria Street
Hamilton East Community Link
Street address:
126 Grey Street
Hamilton Outreach
Street address:
468 Anglesea Street
Hamilton
Huntly Community Link
Street address:
160 Main Street
Matamata Community Link
Street address:
78 Arawa Street
Morrinsville
Street address:
239 Thames Street
Ngaruawahia Community Link
Street address:
Corner Newcastle and Gallileo Street
Paeroa Community Link
Street address:
Corner Te Aroha and Rotokohu Roads
Te Awamutu Community Link
Street address:
105 Sloane Street
Thames Community Link
Street address:
646 Pollen Street
Waihi Community Link
8am – 5.00pm daily except Wed 9.30am – 5.00pm
Street address:
16 Seddon Street
Greerton
Street address:
53 Courtney Road
Gate Pa
Kawerau
Street address:
Tarawera Mall
Plunket Street
Mt. Maunganui
Street address:
9 Owens Place
Bayfair
Murupara
Street address:
41 Pine Drive
Opotiki
Street address:
93 Church Street
Rotorua Community Link
Street address:
Ground floor
1207 Pukuatua Street
Rotorua 3010
Taupo Community Link (Heartlands)
Street address:
77 Heuheu Street
Tauranga
Street address:
Corner Durham Street and Springs Street
Te Puke
Street address:
99 Jellicoe Street
Tokoroa Community Link
Street address:
8-10 Torphin Crescent
Turangi Community Link
Street address:
Ohuanga Road
Whakatane Community Link
Street address:
24 Pyne Street
Flaxmere Community Link
Street address:
8 Swansea Road
Gisborne
Street address:
Tangata Rite Building
Lowe Street
Hastings Community Link
Street address:
506 Eastbourne Street West
Hastings 4122
Kaiti
Street address:
Kaiti Mall
Wainui Road
Napier
Street address:
Working age clients – Ground Floor,
Vautier House, corner Dalton and Vautier Street
Ruatoria
Street address:
32 Barry Avenue
Taradale Community Link
Street address:
15 Lee Road
Waipukurau
Street address:
1 Marlborough Street
Wairoa Community Link
Street address:
236 Marine Parade
Hawera Community Link
Street address:
Unit 1, 15 Union Street
Marton
Street address:
238-248 Broadway
New Plymouth Community Link
Street address:
Duncan Dovico House
Gill Street
Stratford
Street address:
65-67 Miranda Street
Stratford 4332
Taihape
Street address:
58 Tui Street
Taumarunui
Street address:
Meredith House
Marae Street
Te Kuiti Community Link
Street address:
45 Taupiri Street
Waitara
Street address:
25 Queen Street
Whanganui
Street address:
133 Wicksteed Street
Whanganui 4500
Dannevirke Community Link
Street address:
79 High Street
Feilding Community Link
Street address:
110-114 Manchester Street
Foxton
Street address:
Corner Wharf and Main Streets
Horowhenua Community Link
Street address:
Corner Salisbury & Durham Streets
Kapiti Coastlands
Street address:
Coastlands Shopping Complex
Rimu Road
Paraparaumu
Otaki
Street address:
84 Mill Street
Palmerston North Main Street
Street address:
521 Main Street
Wairarapa / Masterton Community Link
Street address:
49-51 Lincoln Road
Johnsonville
Street address:
33-39 Johnsonville Road
Kilbirnie Community Link
Street address:
32-34 Bay Road
Lower Hutt / Lower Hutt Super
Street address:
317-327 High Street
Naenae Community Link
Street address:
2 Vogel Street
Newtown Community Link
Street address:
94-96 Riddiford Street
Porirua Community Link
Street address:
4 Lydney Place
Upper Hutt / Upper Hutt Super
Street address:
162-164 Main Street
Wainuiomata Community Link
Street address:
Shop 6, The Mall
Wellington / Wellington Super
Street address:
Ground Floor
Freemason House
195 Willis Street
Wellington
Blenheim Community Link
Street address:
Riverview House
3 Alfred Street
Greymouth Community Link
Street address:
112-116 Mackay Street
Greymouth 7805
Hokitika
Street address:
Heartlands Centre
49 Tancred Street
Hokitika 7810
Kaikoura
Street address:
Heartlands Centre
Unit 3
78 Beach Road
Motueka Community Link
Street address:
236 High Street
Moteuka 7120
Nelson City
Street address:
Level 1, 22 Bridge Street
Nelson 7010
Richmond Community Link
Street address:
275-279 Queen Street
Richmond 7020
Stoke Community Link
Street address:
Central Mall
Corner Songer Road and Main Road Stoke
Takaka
Street and Postal address:
Heartlands Centre
65B Commercial Street
Westport
Street address:
50-52 Russell Street
Hornby
Street address:
25 Shands Road
Hornby
Kaiapoi Community Link
Street address:
Unit 9
The Crossings
77 Hilton Street
Linwood Community Link
Street address:
154 Aldwins Road
Linwood
New Brighton
Street Address
26 Beresford Street
New Brighton
Papanui
Street address:
7 Winston Avenue
Rangiora
Street address:
4 High
Street
Riccarton / Riccarton Super
Street
address:
76-78 Riccarton Road
Shirley
Street
address:
203-205 Hills Road
Shirley
Sydenham
Street
Address:
39 Durham Street
Sydenham
Alexandra
Street
address:
57 Tarbert Street
Balclutha
Street
address:
Corner George Street and Charlotte Street
