Kewakawa, New Zealand I’d seen a positive review of Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass by Darren McGarvey, so I put it on my list for vacation reading. My interest was particularly piqued because he was focusing on Glasgow, Scotland, where our organizing is making strong progress, and I had recently spent time …
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Making “Welfare” a Curse Word, No Matter How Many Benefit
Kawakawa, New Zealand Many years ago, we organized tens of thousands of people to demand welfare “rights,” but amazingly to me, the right has managed to usurp a fundamental entitlement by promoting welfare “wrongs.” The New York Times had a depressing piece on how this tide turned based on an examination of recent work done …
Deforestation, New Zealand Style
Ahipara, New Zealand Family vacations are wonderful things. I idealize them perhaps. After four days in Auckland and Ahipara in the “far north” of the country where we are traveling, I rated not only the trip, but the family interactions in the A+ range. In organizations there’s something called “founder’s syndrome” which speaks to many …