Posts by Hilary Stace
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Just to note - in her originals the poems, particularly the haiku, were mostly centred rather than justified left. Spaces also important as in the one on the Haiku Walkway.
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Hard News: The next four years, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
More information about the power of Cambridge Analytics
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-our-likes-helped-trump-winI hope the left can out data them somehow.
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Access: Help needed! Deciphering the…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
Looking forward to talking to him. That's my electorate.
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As predicted the Dakota pipeline is back on the agenda. I think this will remain in the news for a long time as an international focus on the vital issues of climate change and indigenous rights. Unlikely to ever be finished and functioning though. I also think the so-called 'markets' will bounce around as they consider whether they like Trump's policies or not.
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Hard News: Taking the stage in Mount Albert, in reply to Ben Austin,
Door knocking is definitely still done, as well as ringing and street corner meetings. Talking to real people about their issues is still very important for winning elections at the local level. Grant Robertson has always had a large team (of mainly young people) helping him do these things and so did Justin Lester in his mayoral campaign last year.
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to Alfie,
Hopefully more to come on this topic this year, helped by some great investigative journalists.
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Trump seems to have released some uncontrollable forces. The world needs to develop a coherent response, but I'm not sure how this will happen. It will probably start with individuals and communities and hopefully in some innovative ways.
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This is what I think will happen in the next four years.
Trump will continue to do some shocking things but will eventually get bored when he realises the role involves real work and responsibility. But that doesn't matter because the real damage is going to come from his appointees who have no understanding of public governance and instead have strong right wing individualist agendas to privatise anything and syphon off public funds to corporates. The denial and knowledge of climate change is particularly scary.
So the remains of public education or health will be attacked and other areas like environmental initiatives destroyed. Many of those who voted for Trump will be the worst affected, such as the miners who can no longer get coverage for mining related diseases. All those new jobs will be a myth.
There will be big battles over things like the Dakota Access Pipeline when the Trump admin forces it through overturning Obama's edict.
But there will also be huge local and worldwide resistance, and the development of new community-led initiatives in all sorts of areas. The governance of the US will gradually disintegrate and the gaps between groups and regions in the US will grow wider.
But the media/public/analytical focus will not be on the Republicans but on the Democrats for letting it all happen. You can see this happening already, and this is depressing as it helps destroy the mechanism for overthrowing Trump.
But maybe there are some young charismatic leaders still growing up who will help transform things into a healthy new society, eventually.
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Thanks for the knitting pattern reference, Emma. After reading that I went and bought some wool and knitting needles and am doing my first knitting in about 20 years. You don't forget how to. There is a great sense of solidarity knowing you are part of a women's world wide knitting/craft resistance.
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Access: National Standards and the…, in reply to mark taslov,
Sad. I doubt many, or any, of them will sit in silence, however.