vivian Hutchinson
@vivian-nz.bsky.social
a writer, learner and gatherer based in Taranaki, Aotearoa New Zealand www.taranaki.gen.nz/vivian
30 Days to Parliament Grounds. A compilation of the national events, resources, stories and conversations surrounding the 50th Anniversary of the 1975 Māori Land March. An online diary from Te Hapua in the Far North to Parliament Grounds in Wellington.
www.taranaki.gen.nz/matakite30days
www.taranaki.gen.nz/matakite30days
October 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
30 Days to Parliament Grounds. A compilation of the national events, resources, stories and conversations surrounding the 50th Anniversary of the 1975 Māori Land March. An online diary from Te Hapua in the Far North to Parliament Grounds in Wellington.
www.taranaki.gen.nz/matakite30days
www.taranaki.gen.nz/matakite30days
The land march that reshaped a nation.
by Chris Tobin, The Press
Weekend feature article yesterday published in the Stuff network of daily newspapers.
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by Chris Tobin, The Press
Weekend feature article yesterday published in the Stuff network of daily newspapers.
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September 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The land march that reshaped a nation.
by Chris Tobin, The Press
Weekend feature article yesterday published in the Stuff network of daily newspapers.
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www.waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
by Chris Tobin, The Press
Weekend feature article yesterday published in the Stuff network of daily newspapers.
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www.waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
Reposted by vivian Hutchinson
The Gaza Famine is the world’s famine. A preventable, predictable famine.
Enough. Ceasefire. Open all crossings, north and south. Let us get food in, unimpeded and at massive scale.
Enough. Ceasefire. Open all crossings, north and south. Let us get food in, unimpeded and at massive scale.
August 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The Gaza Famine is the world’s famine. A preventable, predictable famine.
Enough. Ceasefire. Open all crossings, north and south. Let us get food in, unimpeded and at massive scale.
Enough. Ceasefire. Open all crossings, north and south. Let us get food in, unimpeded and at massive scale.
The paradox of unemployment is that we are surrounded by an abundance of good work to do. www.taranaki.gen.nz/mtfjobs25
Community Taranaki
25 Years of Mayors and Jobs by vivian Hutchinson
www.taranaki.gen.nz
July 11, 2025 at 7:03 AM
The paradox of unemployment is that we are surrounded by an abundance of good work to do. www.taranaki.gen.nz/mtfjobs25
A couple of decades before Timothée Chalamet got to channel Bob Dylan in his Complete Unknown biopic … that was Bruce Springsteen’s job.
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The Times They Are A-Changin' (Bob Dylan Tribute) - Bruce Springsteen - 1997 Kennedy Center Honors
YouTube video by The Kennedy Center Honors
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May 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
A couple of decades before Timothée Chalamet got to channel Bob Dylan in his Complete Unknown biopic … that was Bruce Springsteen’s job.
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There for the grace, I offer my hand ... 20 years after Welcome Home. Dave Dobbyn at the RNZ Studios.
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Dave Dobbyn - Full Performance (Live at RNZ)
YouTube video by RNZ Music
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May 16, 2025 at 12:39 AM
There for the grace, I offer my hand ... 20 years after Welcome Home. Dave Dobbyn at the RNZ Studios.
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Calling out these dangerous times ...
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Land of Hope and Dreams
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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May 15, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Calling out these dangerous times ...
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Carole Cadwalladr: Coups are like concrete. when they stop moving, they set. It’s already later than we think.
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This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
YouTube video by TED
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April 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Carole Cadwalladr: Coups are like concrete. when they stop moving, they set. It’s already later than we think.
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youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE
Moral ambition is the will to make the world a wildly better place.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
No, you’re not fine just the way you are: time to quit your pointless job, become morally ambitious and change the world
Most working people can be put into one of three categories, from idealistic yet unambitious to greedy and immoral. But there is another option …
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April 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Moral ambition is the will to make the world a wildly better place.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
and Bernie Sanders last night at Coachella
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My Message to Coachella.
YouTube video by Bernie Sanders
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April 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
and Bernie Sanders last night at Coachella
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Joan Baez is at 3hrs15mins. Neil Young is there too. The AOC and Sanders speeches at the end of this video are spot on for this moment. www.youtube.com/live/61aaIYM...
FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY WITH BERNIE AND AOC: LOS ANGELES
YouTube video by Bernie Sanders
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April 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Joan Baez is at 3hrs15mins. Neil Young is there too. The AOC and Sanders speeches at the end of this video are spot on for this moment. www.youtube.com/live/61aaIYM...
a wwonderful cross-generational response to an extraordinary dangerous time in America, with events that will end up affecting us all.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Bernie Sanders rally in LA draws thousands to protest Trump: ‘We can’t just let this happen’
US Vermont senator’s tour with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been drawing record-breaking crowds since February
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 12:29 AM
a wwonderful cross-generational response to an extraordinary dangerous time in America, with events that will end up affecting us all.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This book has brought me — an old activist and atheist — back to wonder, even to reverence, at a whole new level.
www.textpublishing.com.au/books/carbon-the-book-of-life
www.textpublishing.com.au/books/carbon-the-book-of-life
March 24, 2025 at 5:02 AM
This book has brought me — an old activist and atheist — back to wonder, even to reverence, at a whole new level.
www.textpublishing.com.au/books/carbon-the-book-of-life
www.textpublishing.com.au/books/carbon-the-book-of-life
Aunty Marj (Matarena Marjorie Raumati Rau Kupa MBE)
15 March 1913 - 27 December 2010
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15 March 1913 - 27 December 2010
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March 14, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Aunty Marj (Matarena Marjorie Raumati Rau Kupa MBE)
15 March 1913 - 27 December 2010
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15 March 1913 - 27 December 2010
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The war on “woke” is a war on language itself, and a war on our capacity and willingness to express the ideas and commitments of a “fair go”.
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Moana Maniapoto
Some of my fave kupu are in this list. Oh look…Native Americans & Indigenous communities are no more. Equity & equality. Climate crisis & clean energy. Implicit and unconscious bias. Anything to do...
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March 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM
The war on “woke” is a war on language itself, and a war on our capacity and willingness to express the ideas and commitments of a “fair go”.
www.facebook.com/544368728/po...
www.facebook.com/544368728/po...
There are many years when I’ve looked up from my writing desk in the middle of March and thought: It’s quiet out there. I’ve been completely oblivious to the fact that it is Taranaki Anniversary.
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The Anniversaries of our Amnesia | E-Tangata
“I’m starting to understand that amnesia may well be one of the main organising principles of colonisation. A selective forgetting is an important part of how power maintains its privileges.” — vivian...
e-tangata.co.nz
March 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
There are many years when I’ve looked up from my writing desk in the middle of March and thought: It’s quiet out there. I’ve been completely oblivious to the fact that it is Taranaki Anniversary.
e-tangata.co.nz/history/the-...
e-tangata.co.nz/history/the-...
Seeing the Matrix: Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa on the present moment.
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Jon Stewart & Maria Ressa On the US’s Authoritarian Slide | The Weekly Show
YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
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March 7, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Seeing the Matrix: Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa on the present moment.
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An actual and effective form of resistance will involve a cultural project up and down American life.
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ESSAY: The weekend the "Free World" died
In the Oval Office fiasco, a country revealed
the.ink
March 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
An actual and effective form of resistance will involve a cultural project up and down American life.
the.ink/p/essay-the-...
the.ink/p/essay-the-...
sunflowers for Ukraine
March 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
sunflowers for Ukraine
60 Minutes overview of events of the last week: “Walking away from the Ukraine will be the greatest geopolitical mistake that the US has made since World War II.“
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War in Ukraine takes perilous turn after Zelenskyy, Trump Oval Office argument
YouTube video by 60 Minutes
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March 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
60 Minutes overview of events of the last week: “Walking away from the Ukraine will be the greatest geopolitical mistake that the US has made since World War II.“
youtu.be/NE6VxNXo_Zg
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George Monbiot on the possibility/probability of systemic collapse ... while the ultra rich “migrate to their New Zealand bunkers”.
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There are many ways Trump could trigger a global collapse. Here’s how to survive if that happens | George Monbiot
It could be wildfires, a pandemic or a financial crisis. The super-rich will flee to their bunkers – the rest of us will have to fend for ourselves, writes columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
February 19, 2025 at 4:37 AM
George Monbiot on the possibility/probability of systemic collapse ... while the ultra rich “migrate to their New Zealand bunkers”.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
is water wading at Back Beach.
February 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
is water wading at Back Beach.
REVEALED: Trump & Elon Musk's BRUTAL Secret
YouTube video by Double Down News
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February 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Carole Cadwalladr: “The fact is the front pages look like it’s business as normal when it’s anything but.”
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IT IS A COUP
This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.
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February 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Carole Cadwalladr: “The fact is the front pages look like it’s business as normal when it’s anything but.”
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