Feathers for Whanau Ora
— some thoughts on family violence and community well-being
The paper reflects on family violence and the critical role that citizens, families, neighbours and friends play in creating community well-being.
I would argue that when it comes to “community”, we have also slowly been losing our abilities to fly. Today, we live largely in a market and consumer culture which is a predator to our citizenship, and it delivers its own forgetting.
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What's Broken is the We
— some thoughts on creativity for the common good (2013)
The paper reflects on creativity and social entrepreneurship, and the work of Community Taranaki – a citizen-based approach to community development and the regeneration of our community sector.
Getting smarter about the process of creativity is fundamentally important to building the resilience of and regenerating our communities. In world that is telling us that “it’s just business” and we are on our own, that it’s every man or woman for themselves ... we need to unleash and sustain the creativity of “We”.
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digital restoration of slide-show documentary (30 mins) of the history of Parihaka with script and narration by vivian Hutchinson and Matarena Marjorei Rau.
An inspiring story of the Parihaka prophets Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kakahi and their struggle for peace and non-violence in the face of war, oppressive colonisation and the theft of land.
(This 2013 digital restoration was commissioned by Kuia Matarena's family to commemorate the 100th anniversary of her birth in 1913.)
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This resource is a collection that brings together photographs, video clips, poetry, newspaper articles and brochures relating to the Matakite Maori Land March. It has been curated to give you a sense of what it was like to be on this unique month-long journey of protest and awakening as it travelled from Te Hapua on the tip of Northland, to Parliament Grounds in Wellington. photographs by Christian Heinegg
newspaper articles from City News & brochures by vivian Hutchinson
poems by Hone Tuwhare
newspaper articles from New Zealand Herald by Stephanie Gray
various other newspaper clippings and photographs
video clips from documentaries about Whina Cooper and the Land Marchhttp://tinyurl.com/matakite1975
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— some thoughts on economics as if people and the earth mattered
( Waitakere 2011)
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