Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Weirder yet, in reply to Danielle,
You don’t think the context makes any difference, I think it makes some difference. I would note that the senior member of the marginalised group has endorsed Baldock’s characterisation of events. But it’s written now and I’m happy to be disagreed with.
Edit: That still sounds snippy, and it’s not meant to. But my perspective is that this was something that happened within a private group, it sounds dickish, it reflects poorly on Dotcom, but I’m not going to be outraged and angry on their behalf if they’re not. Even Aaron says he’d work for Dotcom again.
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Hard News: Weirder yet, in reply to Danielle,
It’s usually pretty easy to work out that as a white dude you should not play a game that involves racial slurs with members of a marginalised group. It doesn’t need to be with hindsight. If you’re a thoughtful human being you can probably work it out ahead of time. It also doesn’t matter who started the game. I think this “they started it so it’s not so bad that he joined in” approach to the issue is… a bit weird in itself, actually.
I wrote the post as carefully as I could in the time I had available. There were a number of tricky elements to it, including what it was appropriate to share of the private knowledge I had of RockEnrol (getting a massive bum steer on Neil Baldock didn’t help either, and I’ve had to do my best to make that good).
With people on Twitter declaring it was all Dotcom’s idea, that he was a definitely a white supremacist, etc, I did think it was useful to establish exactly the context in which it happened.
I’m sorry I didn’t write it exactly as you would have, but after being abused on Twitter last night, I’m actually really over this.
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Access: Autism, ABA and being a bad mother, in reply to debunk,
I give up my brief encounter with Public Address..
If you're going to flounce like that when gently asked to tread more carefully, perhaps that's for the best.
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here’s the statement from #RockEnrol ..
—The Truth behind the Youth Voter Drive” by Laura O’Connell-Rapira
There has been a lot of talk about using gigs and music as an incentive to get more young people voting in this years’ General Election. It all started when Tom Scott of Home Brew took to Facebook with a call to action for promoters and musicians to organise a gig on the same day, at the same time around the country where the only requirement for entry was you had to enrol to vote.
Within 24 hours, Scott had 17 promoters put their hands up to get their hands dirty. An email thread ensued, a Loomio group was set up, meetings were had, networking was done and just as the ‘Rock the Vote’ inspired initiative began to take shape: this happened.
“Although we would have liked to release our strategy and plans for people powered parties and politics closer to the time our website was due to launch, we may as well leverage the publicity and make it public now. The campaign is called #RockEnrol and we will launch as a crowdfunding campaign on June 1st and then a web platform on June 15th.” says Laura O’Connell-Rapira, the RockEnrol Campaign Director.
RockEnrol is set to be a crowdfuelled and collaborative experiential marketing campaign designed to build and activate political power for young people in Aotearoa NZ. The campaign is non-partisan, youth-led and is comprised of three major phases: get the youth enrolled, get the youth informed, get the youth voting (details here). RockEnrol will host its first Open Evening in Auckland on Saturday 24th May on Karangahape Road.
So where does the music come in? ‘40 Days of #RockEnrol’ is a series of events and parties that will take place around the country from July 1st – August 9th. The only prerequisite to attend a RockEnrol event is the participant has to pledge to vote for any political party in the 2014 General Election on the RockEnrol website.
“Pending confirmations, but so far it looks like we’ll be lucky enough to see free performances from Homebrew, Optimus Gryme, Third3ye, Chronophonium, Tiki Taane and more this Winter as long as you’re enrolled and pledge.”
“As far as I am aware, the Internet Party will be working with a group of NZ musicians and doing a tour in July to try and rally support. This is a separate initiative from ours, and that’s totally fine. We are not the first, nor are we the only campaign to come up with idea to work with people from the creative industries or leverage popular culture to engage more people in what can often be bureaucratic and boring. Rock The Vote has been around for more than 30 years.”
RockEnrol is a non-partisan effort dedicated to building the political power of young people in this country by identifying issues that are important to young voters, engaging youth in the electoral process by making it easy and relevant, urging politicians to pay attention to issues that matter to young voters and ultimately, getting out the youth vote. RockEnrol is driven largely by Our Place Events and Generation Zero, among others.
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Update: it does appear the Dotcom camp is considering some sort of youth voter drive.
And the non-Dotcom (Notcom?) youth vote people are going to give me an announcement/statement this afternoon, explaining what they're doing, which is quite impressive.
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Today on Aaron’s Facebook:
Well this part of my story was actually going to be Part 3 of my 8 part account of working for Kim’s Dot. But as i sit here getting Part 2 into shape Part 3 made the Paper! And now the truth i was going to speak out about AMAZINGLY has been substantiated by KIM DOT COM and his little n……ers themselves. WAKEY WAKEY Aotearoa this is the ‘guy’ that currently has the potential to run our country if we let it happen and……………THIS CANNOT HAPPEN………… PLEASE……… FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING YOU BELIEVE IN AND CARE ABOUT……………………………….WAKE UP.
Then Brad Kora chipped in:
fuck it was all good. I dont give a shit what people think bout mine and Lawts situation is with the bro Kim…As long as their mouths dont stain us(me and Lawts) in the media process. Ill come at yah hard and fast.
And Aaron replied:
There is no fucken way any of this will touch my brothers kora. We are working muso guys that have the right to take money for a service we provide that is actually priceless. If Kim rang me up right now and said ‘hey my mick come play for me’ I’d say to him sweet and then proceed to charge quadruple what I did last time and then I’d turn up to work and precede to make his music more bearable and consumable for everyone else the best that I can !
So, make of it all what you will …
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Hard News: A law gone awry, in reply to Shulgin,
DOSAGE : 100 – 250 mg, orally
DURATION : 2 – 4 hrs
I'm not entirely sure this is the thread for experience reports. But what are you actually talking about here?
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Hard News: What rules are these?, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Couldn't have put it better, Craig.
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Access: Autism, ABA and being a bad mother, in reply to debunk,
I spent an hour or so with the now famous “autistic” animal production researcher Temple Grandin in the early 1980s talking together about handling yards for livestock, and did not find anything particularly “autistic” about her behaviour or demeanour either.
Perhaps you should read what she has written about herself. And tread carefully here, debunk, please. This is not a thread to clatter about making pronouncements. We know of what we speak.
I am, however, most envious of you having met Temple Grandin.
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Chaz, I deleted one of your messages. I don’t want this thread to be the source of a campaign. Contact Runting via his Facebook page if you like, but maybe don’t drum it up here.