Paula Bennett May Day Challenge

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Paula Bennett's Strange Panel

Paula Bennett's Strange Panel 

Hows  this for pushing workfare?
http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2010/04/20/campbell-paula-bennett%E2%80%99s-strange-welfare-panel/

 

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Check on MSN NZ Money for a hand Feeling the financial pinch?

Whanau Ora? Empowerment or Privatisation?

Will  Whanau Ora  empower  families to get their needs met by  bringing  services directly  to them , as Tariana Turia says it will; or is it just another move towards privatisation of social services  on National's part?

For the view of John Minto (who works for Unite) visit

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1004/S00111.htm

Why Paula? May 1st, Piha Surf Club 10 am

We'll be attending Paula Bennett's Community Meeting at Piha Surf Club on May 1st-May Day- at 10 am, to ask her why she 's attacking beneficiaries and why she wants to take the control of the Waitakere Ranges out of local hands . More info later, or contact the Secretary keithhend@gmail.com

Scoop Link: Mining the land and undermining the children

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00303.htm
Mining the land and undermining the children
Monday, 29 March 2010, 1:55 pm
Column: Anne Else

Letter from Elsewhere - By Anne
Else Mining the land and undermining the
children
What do conservation estates and
domestic purposes beneficiaries have in common? Both of them
look after the country’s most valuable assets. But you
wouldn’t know it from the way John Key and his government
have been acting lately.
In the latest Sunday Star
Times (28 March), Rod Oram lambasts the government for
“failing to seek a robust, long-term solution” to the
mining versus conservation issue â€" one which would ensure
that “the economy and environment, treated well, can
enhance each other”. Instead, he says, “tthe government
has failed utterly to be strategic. Instead it is trying to
get by being simply tactical.”
[....]

Structural adjustment a major cause of poverty?

A member sent us in this link. What do you think? What causes poverty?


http://www.globalissues.org/article/3/structural-adjustment-a-major-cause-of-poverty

May Day - Workers Day! Party for a Living Wage

facebook Janet Bogle 1:59am Apr 14th May Day - Workers Day! Party for a Living Wage To janetrobin.union@blogger.com   It would be good if the May Day celebraters would get out on the streets in the morning as well alongside the anti mining protestors. We need a living income for all-waged and unwaged! We need living benefits now and to stop the cuts on benefits! Janet has shared a link to an event with you. To view the event or to reply to the message, follow this link: http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=1182019755&k=Z5M5Y653P2TF6BD1QKYYTSYVSTIB4Z5FWPEUG&oid=1391361936769 If you do not wish to receive this type of email from Facebook in the future, please click here to unsubscribe. Facebook's offices are located at 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304.

March against Mining New Zealand

facebook Janet Bogle 1:52am Apr 14th March against Mining New Zealand To janetrobin.union@blogger.com   On May Day : Unite the Fight against this rotten government- Unite for workers and beneficiaries rights , No to the super city, and stop mining. Janet has shared a link with you. To view it or to reply to the message, follow this link: http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=1182019755&k=Z5M5Y653P2TF6BD1QKYYTSYVSTIB4Z5FWPAWA&oid=1316893837441 If you do not wish to receive this type of email from Facebook in the future, please click here to unsubscribe. Facebook's offices are located at 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304.

Welfare reforms discriminatory | http://www.facebook.com/l/fb256;Stuff.co.nz

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Susan St John: Govt's sums on welfare savings don't quite add up - Politics - NZ Herald News

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A member writes about the hardships of being a beneficiary

WE all apreciate what you guys are doing on our behalf. At the moment we are struggling to keep roofs over our heads and our kids out of the justice and mental health system. What makes us all so ultimatly fearful is that the logistics of being on a low income means that it takes us 4 times as long to do what "normal" people do every day, just to survive the increasing burden of beurocracy to maintain an income. Working poor, a group that will increase under Paula Bennet do not have the luxury of affording fast food, housekeepers, or transport, and often telephones. Food parcels are often inaccessible due to lack of transport. Even bus fares become unaffordable in many cases, money for multiple meetings, appointments, and comply with a host beurocratic demands to even receive what we get now. This is possibly the most underrated and difficult aspect of Paula Bennet's proposed regime. Her proposals threaten to increase this demand as well as expecting usually sick, disabled or parents and otherwise impaired people to comply with 15 hours work a week on top of this. I was shocked to see people still in pajamas waiting for some considerable times at New Lynn WINZ office.


The person I was supporting has 3 children, 2 of whom are under school age, and unable to drive. To get to a WINZ review appointment at 9am they gave her 48hours notice, and the paperwork arrived by courier at 5pm the preceeding day. To get to the appointment she had to arrange safe supervision for her children, leave the house at 7am with her children to get to a sitter, and walk to the office from Green Bay.

More often than is admitted because of the imposed complexity of the administartive regime staff do not have a whole lot of incentive to be fair as opposed to being expedient. The situation often demands that to be safe a support person is needed to accompany people to even reletivly insignificant WINZ, CYFS, or Justice department meetings to ensure that people are not taken advantage of. These people are not readily available in the community.This is time consuming and often happens at least once or twice a week, sometimes more. This comes at a time when 3 major support organisations, 1 being in existence for 100 years, have had their funding slashed or in most cases removed altogether.

I predict a whole lot more teen pregnancies, drug addiction, especially meth, and alcohol problems and less relinquishment of smoking habits,violence and property crime and increase in mental ill health as a result of increased stress from having an already inadequate income slashed as punishment for not obtaining those jobs that must only exist in Paula Bennet's imagination.