christine thacker

@MaoriMind @Phoenix01941608 @etangata That's right. Still needs to be honoured.

@Phoenix01941608 @imallears @etangata Te Tiriti hasn't come to fruition yet.

“It’s this belief — ‘I am a good person and therefore incapable of wrongdoing’ — that makes institutional racism almost impossible to combat. The reality is we are all capable of perpetuating harm against one group of people or another.” — Tīhema Baker e-tangata.co.nz/arts/putting-p…

Some favorite films… La règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game)/ Jean Renoir, dir. (1939) “The awful thing about life is this: Everybody has their reasons.”

Noam Chomsky Defines What It Means to Be a Truly Educated Person openculture.com/2016/04/noam-c… via @openculture

@AndrewPaulWood also a bit 'onward Christian soldiers'

Jesus! It looks like something straight out of the Soviet Union!

@AndrewPaulWood They could put less energy into all those surveys which always come up with the same conclusion that people in the creative industries don't earn much.

Contemplating doing a piece on how to make Creative New Zealand fit for purpose. Hit me up with your ideas how to save CNZ

Each year, millions of animals endure appalling, long journeys by land and sea, simply to be slaughtered or fattened on arrival. On Ban Live Exports: International Awareness Day, I’m calling for this cruel trade to end. #BanLiveExports ciwf.org.uk/our-campaigns/…

@jamespeshaw Why not a capital-gains tax rather than a wealth tax. Insane house-price increases have many average or low-income people with a home worth a million. When it's turned into cash, then tax it

The Green Party's Ending Poverty Together plan: ✅Income Guarantee of $385 for ALL ✅First 10k of income tax-free ✅$385 p/w for students & ppl out of work (plus family top ups) ✅80% of income guaranteed if unable to work Paid for w/ 🤝Wealth tax 🤝Trust tax 🤝33% corporate tax

@EvedeCastro @hamish_keith Thank you. Good to know.

were there any arts honours?

Eight ways to make your clothes last longer bbc.com/culture/articl… via @BBC_Culture

Hal was a terrifying movie character. We were warned in 1968!

Lindis saga a damning indictment on regional council failures newsroom.co.nz/lindis-saga-da…

Frank Auerbach: Twenty Self-Portraits review – savage, compassionate and pineapple-like theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Our Medical Liberties laphamsquarterly.org/freedom/our-me…

East Coast farmland crumbles after carbon group takes over newsroom.co.nz/east-coast-far… This carbon trade-off scheme is a shocking rort

@rosielanners Coca Cola and Nestle want all their consumers to remain undernourished and confused.

Every financial interaction now feels like a riddle where you have to find out why it costs that much. Just bought a Diet Coke and a cereal bar in pret and they charged me 4.15. I’m sitting here staring into space like a WW1 veteran wondering what happened to me

@radionz Seems to have already cut the bus supply. So many bus arrival times for the Outer Link followed by a C for cancelled on the electronic board by the bus stop. Fix it Mr Brown

Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown wants to cancel 1000 buses per day and slash arts, culture and local board funding to reduce a fiscal hole of nearly $300 million. Chlöe Swarbrick says Aucklanders are facing the most significant council budget in living memory. rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Artist of the moment...Janet Sobel galaxyofart.wordpress.com/2020/01/19/art…