Posts by Rosemary McDonald
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Speaker: Why we need to stop talking…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
What do You think it means?
SHG?
As "an interested literate politically-aware correspondent", help me out here....
Being cryptic is all very well...but I thought the thread was about communication of ideas...
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Speaker: Why we need to stop talking…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
That was sourced from here...https://www.hrc.co.nz/news/ever-wondered-what-privilege/
I uncharacteristically did one of those rather moronic "test your real age quizzes a few weeks ago.
I was doing ok until the "do you have financial worries?" and "are you caring for a family member with health and disability issues?"...gone...ten years off my lifespan.
I guess that's an example of inequality.
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Speaker: Why we need to stop talking…, in reply to SHG,
Easier to explain...
How about we generate a Kiwi version of this?
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Speaker: Why we need to stop talking…, in reply to SHG,
You haven’t yet told me why I should care about it. What sort of inequality?
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Hard News: About Campbell Live, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
You'd think, after that, the lassie would keep her head down.
Or, is any attention better than none?
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http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2015/08/03/table-talk-5-tppa-or-not-tppa/
With Mapp saying
Of course there are the usual opponents; those activists, actors, academics, and writers who seem instinctively opposed to all free trade deals, as yet another element of the neo-liberal paradigm. They are the New Zealand’s equivalents of the Syriza Party of Greece. Voters only turn to such parties in extremis, and even then it usually proves to be a costly mistake.
here...http://pundit.co.nz/content/tpp-the-true-cost-of-negotiations
The above livestreamed event should be compulsive viewing.
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Speaker: Why we need to stop talking…, in reply to Sacha,
Sorry! :)
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Speaker: Why we need to stop talking…, in reply to SHG,
And yet the National government is presently polling higher than it was the month after the election that brought it to power:
Indeed...a mystery.
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Speaker: Why we need to stop talking…, in reply to Sacha,
got any suggestions for “approach for the next ten to twenty years” vs “plan for next 3 years”?
Why not ask a really hard question, Sacha?
You said....
insisting on smart thinking and competent governance rather than expensive polling and mystical foreign advisors......The results for all current and future New Zealanders are more important than any individual’s ego.
Chuck the polls...go and talk to people...out there, on the street, at the checkout at Pak n Spend, waiting at the hospital for your loved one to come out of surgery. On the beach, wharf, in the pub watching the rugby. Talk to New Zealand.
People are sick to fucking death of this current 'government'...they see it for what it is.
But often, other than grimacing and making retching noise when You Know Who is getting air time(again), they do not have the language to describe what is so wrong.
Because, although 'intellectuals' abound, your average Kiwi has neither the time nor the patience for that...just give us the facts, explain the history, suggest solutions we can envisage working. Be fair, be honest. Kiwis are over bullshit. We have had truckloads of the stuff shoved at us...we know what it looks and smells like...we will switch off if we see more coming.
So...in the next three years we need an Opposition that puts the dismay of the people into real language. Verbalizes, without hyperbole, the deep fear that is out there that things have gone very very wrong.
The TPPA campaign has done this to a much greater extent than I thought...because the spokespeople for the campaign have been 'framing' appropriately? Prof Kelsey has done an incredible job of conveying the urgency of the situation(with grace and dignity in the face of extreme provocation!)...and the dreaded 'polls' would indicate that the general population has gone from ignorance to anti in a remarkably short time.
So, something worked....identify what.
'Cos so often we focus on what doesn't work...rather than what does.
In the long term...groom the kids to take control. Baby boomers with consciences need to confess our sins..."this is where we went wrong guys, this is what we should have done, how can we help put it right?" We should be in the front line of activism while they plan. We should be the ones getting tasered. The world is theirs...we don't really have any right to lay claim to what we stood by and allowed to become so messed up. Remind the Young People, respectfully, when it looks like they are heading down the same path that got us here.
That's my tuppence worth.
(I have three Young People of my own. They are bright, and intelligent, and hard working and have well developed social consciences. I have hope.)
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Speaker: Why we need to stop talking…, in reply to SHG,
Yep...rather sad that.
Some of us were begging for a worthwhile recipient for our vote.
I had hopes for 'cut the crap' Little, but I fear he is being groomed and finessed.
The centre right left will prevail.