Posts by Hilary Stace
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On a more positive note, great to see the articulate James Brown and the Brown house on Attitude this morning.
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More injustice from the case has now been revealed. Michael and Arie were banned from seeing each other. This is Michael quoted on Facebook:
"We had a non association order straight away when Arie first got out of prison [11 days after their arrest] and from the time it was dropped it would have been nearly three months of not seeing each other.
It was very hard emotionally. I spent 6 weeks in prison for trying to get my partner out of a very unstable building that could of collapsed at anytime. I was punched in the back of my head by a female police officer and i was dragged out of the building like an animal and spat on like trash.
It has been so hard for me that I now need counselling or to see a psychologist - very depressed - and still to this day I hardly even see Arie, because we lost everything: our house, my cats, and our dignity after we were thrown in jail. Arie now lives on the other side of town till we move to Invercargill."Note that they can't move to Invercargill until they win their respective court cases, which are endlessly delayed.
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No charges for Sunday programme. I'm keeping this thread updated till there is some resolution for Arie, and also for archival purposes.
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Meanwhile in NZ the dollar drops below 80 US cents and there is a 5.0 earthquake near Taupo. Makes it all a bit hard to concentrate.
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Penny Red suggests people help with #riotcleanup. Maybe that is how the community will win.
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24 year old Penny Red blogs from inside it all. Seems quite wise.
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Michael Moore blames the current mess on Ronald Reagan.
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Hard News: An open thread while I'm down…, in reply to Greville Whittle,
Playcentre helped keep my family sane and together at a time of particular stress a couple of decades ago. It was around that time that a certain Minister of Education, Phil Goff, recognised its important role and brought it into the same funding regime system as other ECE providers, meaning we no longer had to spend all our time fundraising.
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Those of you who emailed or wrote to the ministers get a mention in this latest report of the case that will not go away.
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Hard News: An open thread while I'm down…, in reply to Kate Hannah,
Yes Rufus (Anthony) Rogers. Was an MP 1972-5. Died aged about 95 in 2009. His brother Mick (real name Denis) was the first Vice Chancellor of Waikato I think. The family was among those who had been working on the idea of a local university for a while.