If a homeless person is using the library because they have nowhere else to go, and they aren’t bothering anyone, they should be allowed to use that public service like everyone else.
Libraries are one of the last public spaces where people can exist without being expected to buy something. Access to warmth, safety, washrooms, internet, knowledge, and human connection shouldn’t depend on whether you have an address.
Being homeless is not a crime. Existing in public while poor should not be treated like one either. Full Stop 🛑
In all seriousness, watching one guy have a gay guy panic attack while the other gleefully shoves cheesy pasta into his mouth represents my only two modes in a way I have never seen represented in media until now.
Insane.
Community gardens are nice but there's no way to justify one stopping local iwi from building 500 homes on treaty settlement land in central Auckland!
https://t.co/DZJyfGPeGj
Shane Jones entered parliament following a career as a Māori Studies lecturer, in the Māori secretariat for the Enviro Ministry & Dept of PM & Cab, advising on Treaty Settlements & member of the Waitangi Fisheries Commission. Now he’s complaining about people saying ‘Aotearoa’.
Read this carefully:
“Last year, New Zealand taxpayers forked out more money for the ongoing clean-up of a single mine site’s acid drainage in waterways, than the entire coal mining sector brought in through royalties”
https://t.co/dpmp58XITX