The teaser trailer for Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens has landed: I love Star Wars. It has been a minor obsession since I saw Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope in the Waiouru movie theatre. My Mum was the projectionist and we used to ride there on her nifty fifty. The… Read More Fear and loathing of the black stormtrooper in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk who died in 1968, was a prolific writer focusing on social justice, spirituality and pacifism. His letter to Jim Forest is epistle replete with compassion, solace and encouragement. For all of us who walk alongside the suffering, the poor and the oppressed, it is a reminder to focus our efforts… Read More Thomas Merton: Letter to a Young Peacemaker
It’s been a bad news week so far. The Ferguson Grand Jury has decided that Darren Wilson, the US policeman who shot an unarmed black youth, Michael Brown, will not stand trial for that shooting. This has led to two nights of community protests that have been caricatured as ‘riots’ and ‘looting’ by mainstream media,… Read More Ferguson, the SIS, IS & Kōhanga Reo: signs of an incoming storm for the 1%
Paora Maxwell’s interview on Mediawatch (starts at 15.40) this week was a solid piece of key phrases and deflection. He doesn’t strike the listener as a person who has all that much to contribute; conflicts of interest aside, I was left wondering what he had that so swayed the board of Māori Television. However, despite his best… Read More Paora Maxwell is here to neuter Māori Television
“The implications of a clear finding by the Tribunal that tāngata whenua did not give up sovereignty is that that the basis on which Parliament, government agencies and local government refuse to consider arrangements that share sovereignty has become very tenuous indeed.”… Read More So yeah, that thing you say about us signing over sovereignty… Stage 1, Te Paparahi o te Raki inquiry
During 2012 I was part of a cohort of community, organisational and business leaders doing monthly blocks with Leadership NZ. From all over the country, we met in different locations throughout Aotearoa New Zealand to learn about, debate and explore the significant issues for the future of our country and the range of leadership styles, abilities… Read More A letter to my friends from Leadership NZ: being the leader I need to be, not want to be
To continue the annus horribilus that is 2014, the at least 35 young men who called themselves the Roastbusters and sexually assaulted and raped at least 110 young women were not charged after a three year investigation because of lack of evidence. The positive Police spin as to the thoroughness of their investigation did nothing to quell the… Read More Controlling men
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