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Guest essays on Aotearoa NZ cultural
life here and abroad:
 IMAGINATION
| Kimberley Powell 15.10.04 In
sub-mission and denial the larger part of society flounders behind
square walls and gray barriers, their marionette strings tied to
the fingers of dominating robots whose own lemming lives ‘trojan’
along an assembly line of oblivion... Yet, against the staid attitudes
of the lemmings, fight the creative leaders of the future who march
onwards beyond forfeit and defeat towards their destinies... more>
DON'T
GET CAUGHT IN THE FEAR | Brendan Sweetman, 15.10.04 Americans
have lost [a sense of] who they are. America is a society rather
than a tradition. When you take the traditional aspects out of the
society as America is, you lose togetherness for the right cause.
Please don't get me wrong, we do have love and togetherness here
in this country, but it has derived from a space of knowing who
we are away from tradition, rather than the foundation being tradition...
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 ANZAC
DAY IN LONDON | Scott
Boswell 30.4.04 When
the band started to play Maori Battalion I could feel the aroha
swell up within me for the old boys who had done so much to ensure
we would remain free. However, I think I put a bit too much kaha
in to the bit "...for God, for King and for Country, Aue, Ake,
Ake, Kia Kaha eeee"... more>
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