GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – What to do about Radio New Zealand?
A station that gets 35 million in taxpayers funding now not only doesn’t have one Maori presenter in prime time but it doesn’t have any Maori news.
A station that gets 35 million in taxpayers funding now not only doesn’t have one Maori presenter in prime time but it doesn’t have any Maori news.
When it was poor brown kids, Muddle Nu Zilind screamed it was the parents fault. Now it’s the white middle classes, notice how quiet those voices have become.
Last week the Labour party had a future of work conference. …what it did bring however was some politically brave ideas and a voyage into some unknown territory. Labours scrip writer went a little Sci-Fi and presented something seldom seen in politics. Imagination.
I think 30 years of rampant neoliberal consumerism has created an ocean of wage slaves who buy sparkly things in sterile malls to numb the hollowness of a culture that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Day 2 of Labour’s impressive Future of Work Conference saw impassioned argument and debate. It was as if the days previous intellectual juggernauts cleared the way for the Left to begin a dialogue in earnest.
Not until bosses give back their profits to the generations of workers they stole them from will any redistribution of income be more than a subsidy to the bosses.
WHITE/OTHER is an exploration of identity. It blows apart the re-presentation of Asianness and attempts to fix it back together in a sticky, overflowing mess.
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