Posts by Angela Hart
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Even if we crowd funded a bunch of journalists to fact check and correct the lies and spin being constantly put out, the avenues available to us for disseminating the facts are limited, easily overlooked and easy for power to ignore.
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Hard News: Garbage in, garbage out, in reply to Andre,
yup, that's a large part of the problem, the msm repeating lies without checks or corrections, so your average person's understanding is skewed. JK's mantras were and are very effective because they are repeated over and over without challenge, and many people accept them as truth without question.
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Hard News: LATE: The Age of Slacktivism, in reply to Sacha,
It's true that if there's something to photograph, it's much more likely to get into the news than online activism alone is. For instance, the handful of women who chained themselves to the central police station railings were widely reported while the ActionStation petition on the same issue got much less attention. It's the nature of our current media.
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Hard News: LATE: The Age of Slacktivism, in reply to Rowan Crawford,
Thanks Rowan, that's worth knowing about.
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Or recorded for later online access for those of us who cannot be available at that time?
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Access: Some aspects of New Zealand’s…, in reply to Sacha,
Perhaps this is a discussion to pursue another time. The fact is that sometimes we work against each other and that is unhelpful, it demeans all of us.
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Access: Some aspects of New Zealand’s…, in reply to Sacha,
What assumption Sacha?
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Access: Some aspects of New Zealand’s…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
and further to that, eugenics occurring in practice with some families visiting from Australia in order to sterilise children, which remains permissible in this country.
However, population changes mean that this treatment of the disabled community as "other" has become far more difficult. If we were more unified, a quarter of the population would be difficult to ignore- or mistreat, and we cannot be hidden or silenced easily.
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This is the sort of problem we have with our fragmented system
http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/10689206/Family-seeks-support-providing-for-disabled-son
If this child's condition was the result of an accident, the family would have the vehicle fully funded by ACC, and the mother would not be risking her own health because of needing to lift him.