Who Was Paolo Freire?
Paulo Freire was one of the most influential educators of the 20th century. Born in 1921 in Recife Brazil, Freire attended University there and became…
What’s Bloody Loudon on About?
Why are you devoting large amounts of column space to a leftist school in Tennessee, when there are so many burning issues in NZ? Because…
Rosa Parks, Highlander’s Most Famous Student
When Rosa Parks died last year, the whole world re-heard the story of the woman who sparked the US “Civil Rights” movement. This is the…
Communists at Highlander
The Highlander Folk School was constantly under attack for its alleged communist affiliations, teachings and personnel. The attacks were of course entirely justified. The famous…
Highlander’s Founder; Myles Horton
Excerpts from an adapted obituary, New York Times January 1990 Myles Horton was born in 1905, in Savannah, Tennessee. He entered Cumberland College in Tennessee…
Highlander’s History
Here are excerpts on the history of the Highlander School from their website. “Highlander was created in 1932 by Myles Horton and Don West in…
The Highlander School
The Highlander Reasearch and Education Center is an iconic institution of the American Left According to their website The Highlander Center is a residential popular…
Please Bear With Me
Please bear with me. The next series of posts may seem a bit obscure. It’ll all make sense in the end.
Sue Bradford, Nice Lady, Shame About the Politics, Part 4
By the mid ’90s, Sue Bradford was firmly committed to a new project. This was “People’s Network”, the culmination of her earlier “Building Our Own…
Admissibility of Evidence
Keith Ng of On Point has posted an excellent interview with a lawyer on the admissibility of prior convictions or evidence of past wrongdoing in…
Red Rapporteur, Rodolfo, Releases Racial Report
UN Rapporteur, Rodolfo Stavenhagen has released his report on the state of indigenous (Maori) people in NZ. According to the Green Party’s FrogBlog, “Helen Clark…
I Believe You Too, Louise
I think by now most of us know about the suppressed evidence in the Louise Nicholas rape trial. Yesterday a group of Wellington women distributed…
World Social Forum-Socialist/Muslim Love Fest
Excerpts from Green Left Weekly April 5th 2006 It had been touch and go for this six-day World Social Forum, postponed from January because of…
Socialist/Muslim Co-operation
From Green Left Weekly, 5th April 2006 The fourth Cairo Conference took place on March 23-26 under the theme “With the resistance in Palestine and…
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